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Month: August 2008

Ousted Apple vet Tim Bucher heading up Dell’s quixotic music ‘strategy’

Friday, August 15, 2008 11:35 am47 Comments

On Nov. 10, 2004, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a strained conversation with Tim Bucher, one of the company’s engineering…

ABC News, Associated Press propagate iPhone FUD

Friday, August 15, 2008 10:47 am57 Comments

Amid increasingly loud complaints about spotty service and reports of potential hardware flaws on the 3G iPhone…

Apple gets huge, free Olympic promotion as super swimmer Michael Phelps sports iPod earbuds

Friday, August 15, 2008 9:16 am51 Comments

here is one clear winner in the Bei-ca-ching advertising and branding sweepstakes…

Qantas to launch iPhone version of website

Friday, August 15, 2008 8:41 am18 Comments

It’s not official, yet, but a little birdy has told us that Qantas today will announce…

Analyst: Voice-based GPS turn-by-turn directions for iPhone coming within three months

Friday, August 15, 2008 8:35 am27 Comments

Apple’s online App Store for the iPhone, with hundreds of programs available so far, has been a big hit…

Netflix suffers biggest outage ever

Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:37 pm30 Comments

“Online DVD rental pioneer Netflix Incon Thursday worked feverishly to fix the most severe outage in its history…

Nomura analyst Richard Windsor and his extraordinary knack for sniffing out Apple iPhone ‘issues’

Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:43 pm26 Comments

Good thing the iPhone was chosen as Time Magazine’s 2007 Invention of the Year, because a growing chorus…

Ex-Apple general counsel Heinen settles backdating case for $2.2 million

Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:19 pm21 Comments

Former Apple Inc. general counsel Nancy Heinen has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle options backdating charges…

PC World doofus blames Apple for lack of DRM-free music in iTunes Store

Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:32 pm52 Comments

iTunes gave us the 99-cent song download, thus paving the way for honest people to buy music…

Lehman Brothers expects Apple to sell 12.1 million iPhone 3G units this year

Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:24 pm17 Comments

An agreement for Best Buy to start selling iPhones will help make already strong estimates for Apple’s device sales…

Apple preps Mac OS X 10.5.5 release

Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:44 am15 Comments

Apple last night pushed out another pre-release build of its upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update…

PC Magazine: ‘Apple’s Crap Store’

Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:45 am76 Comments

Ninety percent of everything is crap, science fiction author Ted Sturgeon once said…

Robosoft ports Feral’s ‘Battlestations Midway’ to Apple Macintosh

Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:13 am8 Comments

Robosoft today announced the release of its latest work in porting: the “Battlestations Midway” game for the Mac…

Analyst: Apple’s App Store for iPhone and iPod touch ‘has certainly changed the game’

Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:03 am21 Comments

Instead of working on her PhD dissertation, Eliza Block spent her summer designing a program that allows iPhone owners…

Software fix on the way for iPhone 3G reception glitches

Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:22 am28 Comments

Complaints over dropped calls and choppy Web connections on Apple’s iPhone 3G have sparked a wave…

Apple premieres movies on iTunes Store in Australia and New Zealand

Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:12 am13 Comments

Apple today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount…

Houston Chronicle: Why your student should take an Apple Mac to college

Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:57 am21 Comments

It’s back-to-school time again. So if you’re about to send your kid off to college with a new computer…

RIM plans iPhone lookalike-not-workalikes; Nokia sputters that iPhone ‘not worthy of discussion’

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:52 pm58 Comments

Apple has launched its new iPhone decisively into BlackBerry’s business market…

Apps that can turn Apple iPhone into an even more helpful travel companion

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:54 pm17 Comments

Downloadable applications from Apple’s iTunes App Store can turn your iPhone into an even more helpful traveling companion…

BBC embraces H.264 and AAC for online video and audio services

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:10 pm33 Comments

The time has come for the BBC to start adopting open standards such as H.264 and AAC…

Does Dell really want back into the MP3 player market?

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:20 pm52 Comments

The portable music player market keeps expanding, even as Apple’s iPod increases its dominance…

Apple to celebrate Grand Opening of Apple Store Altamonte in Florida on August 16

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:40 pm49 Comments

Apple will be celebrating the Grand Opening of their latest retail store, Apple Store Altamonte in Altamonte Springs, Florida…

Infineon: no comment on alleged Apple iPhone 3G chipset problems

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:29 pm20 Comments

Infineon Technologies AG, Europe’s second-largest maker of semiconductors, declined to comment…

Apple now worth more than Google

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:56 pm51 Comments

Apple Inc. recently passed Google in market value…

StarPlayer app promises to bring Sirius, XM to Apple iPhone

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:47 pm16 Comments

Sirius and XM have had their fair share of iPhone-related applications and buzz…

Piper Jaffray analyst conservatively expects Apple to sell 4.47 million iPhones this quarter

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:01 am24 Comments

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has upped his estimate of the number of iPhones he expects Apple…

Aussie telco source blames Apple secrecy for iPhone 3G reception issues

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:30 am22 Comments

iPhone 3G users in Australia and around the world are suffering from slow internet speeds and poor reception because…

More blood on Apple iTunes Store’s play button: Starz pulls plug on ‘Vongo’

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:48 am18 Comments

Starz Entertainment, owned by Liberty Entertainment, has closed down its anemic online movie service Vongo…

Firefighters battle 3-alarm blaze at Apple HQ in Cupertino

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:18 am77 Comments

According to reports, Santa Clara Countyfirefighters have put out a blaze that burned for more than three hours…

HSBC considers dumping RIM BlackBerry devices for up to 300,000 Apple iPhones

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:01 am49 Comments

Global banking giant HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and adopting Apple’s iPhone as its standard staff mobile device…

Best Buy to sell Apple iPhone 3G starting September 7 across the U.S.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:40 am22 Comments

Best Buy Co., Inc. announced today that it will carry Apple’s revolutionary iPhone 3G at Best Buy…

DataCase app turns iPhone and iPod touch into wireless drives

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:41 pm10 Comments

With a multitude of applications now available from the App Store, few stand out…

Microsoft updates Office 2004 and Office 2008 for Mac

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:36 pm27 Comments

Microsoft today released Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.1 Update and Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update…

Developers unhappy with Google’s Android

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:43 pm40 Comments

For a long time, Google has led a largely blissful existence, fostering a widespread perception…

MAXON releases Cinema 4D R11 with full 64-bit Mac OS X support

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:24 pm13 Comments

MAXON Computer today unveiled CINEMA 4D Release 11 (R11), the next generation of its highly acclaimed 3D animation software suite…

Increased popularity of Macs and iPhones may attract hackers

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:42 pm138 Comments

A report by Agence Presse-France from this year’s DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas…

Autodesk announces Maya 2009 slated for October 2008 release

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:25 pm18 Comments

At SIGGRAPH 2008, Autodesk, Inc. announced Autodesk Maya 2009 3D animation and visual effects software, in celebration of the software’s 10-year anniversary…

Microsoft: Buy a Mac, get 30% off Office 2008 for Mac

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:48 am36 Comments

Microsoft is offering “students” up to 30% off Office 2008 for Mac with the purchase of any Mac…

New Mexico school system begins rolling out 2,375 Apple MacBooks to students and teachers

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:07 am18 Comments

Hundreds of middle school students and their parents crowded into Piedra Vista High School on Monday…

Warning: Phishing scam targeting Apple MobileMe users

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:16 am22 Comments

An e-mail purporting to be from Apple alerting users to a billing problem is, in fact, a phishing scam…

Analyst: New Apple MacBook, iPod touch to debut in September

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:02 am29 Comments

Apple is likely to announce a redesigned iPod touch and slimmer MacBooks at an event in September…

MSNBC: ‘Mojave Experiment’ shows how bad things have gotten for Microsoft

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:37 am55 Comments

This is how bad things have gotten for Microsoft Corp.: The software behemoth has a virtual monopoly…

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