Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced his vice presidential running mate yesterday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin…
Month: August 2008
AP hit piece conjures up old iPod, iPhone ‘woes’
First an iPhone price cut left early buyers feeling foolish, and then came reports that some iPods were spitting sparks…
‘Mac cloner’ Psystar: Apple illegally destroys competition
n a move that could profoundly alter the face of the personal computer market, upstart Mac cloner Psystar…
TinyBooks 6 released; family and small business accounting software for Mac
Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the release of a new version of the Mac…
Comcast officially caps monthly Internet use at 250GB
Comcast Corp., the nation’s second-largest Internet service provider, Thursday said it would set an official limit…
Analyst: Most Canuck iPhone users ‘not yet into the guts’ of what Apple’s device can really deliver
Most of Canada’s iPhone users seem to prefer the multimedia device for talking,…
RUMOR: China Mobile to subsidize Apple iPhone
China Mobile and Apple have decided to rely upon handset subsidies to bring Apple’s iPhone to China…
Juice Pack for iPod touch just as sweet as Juice Pack for iPhone
It’s been a good summer for iPod touch owners. First Apple included the touch right…
Analyst: Apple finally catching up U.S. iPhone 3G supply to demand
After more than six weeks of almost constant iPhone 3G shortages, Apple is finally known…
RUMOR: Apple and AT&T prepping iPhone tethering plan
According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs…
Apple releases Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Mac and Windows
Apple today released the Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Mac and Windows…
Apple iPods aid U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan
The U.S. military went into Iraq with few troops able to speak Arabic. Now they can use their iPods to do the talking for them…
Google reveals Apple App Store-like ‘Android Market’ for Android-based phones
Google today shared early details of “Android Market,” an open content distribution system…
Beleaguered Dell’s earnings plummet 17% as PC box assembler sees slowdown
Dell Inc. said Thursday that its fiscal second-quarter earnings fell 17% from a year ago…
Rogers extends limited-time iPhone prices, revamps data plans
Rogers Communications Inc. is revamping its data rate plans and extending a limited-time offer on the iPhone…
Panic updates Coda to version 1.5; one-window web development for Apple Mac
Panic this week update to Coda, its web development application. According to the company…
College students buying Macs in record numbers
In this back-to-school season, college kids are buying Macs in numbers never seen before…
Bare Bones ships BBEdit 9.0
Bare Bones Software today announced the immediate availability of BBEdit 9.0, an upgrade to…
Sony unveils four ‘Xplod’ Apple iPod-compatible car stereos
Sony has announced four new Xplod (in-dash head units that are able to connect directly to compatible iPod music players…
Why the iPhone 3G sometimes dropped calls and what Apple’s iPhone 2.0.2 fixed
Our source close to AT&T helped illuminate why the update was necessary, what the problem was…
Apple patent application describes ‘MacBook touch’
Apple has been developing interface technology that would allow for a multi-touch handheld with full Mac OS X…
Vimpelcom inks deal with Apple to sell iPhone 3G in Russia
Vimpelcom, Russia’s second-largest mobile phone operator, said on Thursday it had inked a distribution deal with Apple Inc…
Twentieth Century Fox unveils 20 new DIGITAL COPY films; iPod-, iPhone-, Apple TV-ready DVDs
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment offers consumers flexibility with the release of several best-selling DVDs with DIGITAL COPY…
Bloomberg News mistakenly runs Steve Jobs’ obituary
Steve Jobs. The story, marked ‘Hold for release – Do not use’, was sent in error to the news service’s thousands of corporate clients…
Music cartels pull select singles from iTunes Store in attempt to force ‘album’ bundle sales again
iTunes has been the runaway hit of the music business, selling more than five billion song downloads…
Get ready for new Apple iPods, overhauled MacBooks, and refreshed iMacs
With a multinational iPhone 3G launch now successfully under its belt…
iPhone software developers stifled under Apple’s gag order
By creating games and other programs for the iPhone, software developers hoped to find millions of new customers…
Orange denies paying people to line up for Apple iPhone launch in Poland
Newswires have been buzzing with reports that Apple’s 3G iPhones…
CNET writer looks at ‘The colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista’
If you needed any further testament to the colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista…
Report: Apple on verge of opening retail store in Belfast
Electronics giant Apple is on the verge of opening a store in Belfast…
Apple reintroduces iPhone ‘Passcode Lock’ flaw (with workaround)
Apple’s iPhone offers users an optional “Passcode Lock,” which allows users to enter a four-digit passcode to limit access to the device…
Additional testing of Apple iPhone’s 3G antenna again shows completely normal results
Eva Wieselgren, a journalist in Sweden, originally presented the findings of a study by Bluetest earlier…
Windows worm loose on International Space Station; Mac-using astronauts unaffected
Nasa [sic] has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG…
ASA rules iPhone ad ‘misleading’ in UK; says must not be broadcast again
The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the independent body set up by the advertising industry…
Because Windows isn’t good enough: ‘Mac cloner’ Psystar to countersue Apple alleging antitrust
US-based Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit…
Apple iPhone 3Gs now outnumber first-gen iPhones
Some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people’s hands around the world…
Mac adoption in enterprise increases four-fold in less than two years
Apple’s success with consumers has begun to spill over into the enterprise market, with Mac adoption…
New addiction courtesy of Apple’s App Store for iPhone, iPod touch: Appiphilia
For the last few weeks, I’ve been staying up late glued to my screen, and frankly it has been wreaking havoc…
Gartner: Apple Mac grabs 10.4 percent share of U.S. home market
More home users, and a growing number in the small business sphere, are opting to move to Apple’s computers…
North Carolina middle school proposes iPod touch for each student
A Chapel Hill middle school could become the first in the country to give an iPod to every teacher…
More blood on Apple iPhone’s Multi-Touch™ screen: Smartphone & Pocket PC mag becomes iPhone Life
For 11 years, Thaddeus Computing has published a magazine based on Microsoft’s mobile Windows operating system…
French mobile carrier Orange admits to limiting iPhone 3G speed
Orange – Apple’s iPhone carrier partner in France – has admitted artificially limiting the data speed…