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Month: August 2008

Gartner: Apple Mac market share in Australia jumps sharply with 52% unit sales growth

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:19 am18 Comments

Apple’s share of the Australian personal computer market has jumped sharply in the last year…

Follow the Olympics on your Apple iPhone and iPod touch with Fandora’s Box

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:08 am7 Comments

Marvel Apps, LLC has released the first product from the Fandora’s Box franchise, the 2008 Summer Games iPhone and iPod touch app…

10 most absurd iPhone apps – part deux

Monday, August 11, 2008 5:12 pm33 Comments

It’s been just a month since the App Store hit the streets, and the number of applications has skyrocketed…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirms iPhone app ‘kill switch’

Monday, August 11, 2008 4:44 pm61 Comments

Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, has confirmed there is a ‘kill switch’ built into…

Verizon Wireless debuts Visual Voice Mail for $2.99 per month plus trip to store for software update

Monday, August 11, 2008 3:31 pm39 Comments

Verizon Wireless today introduced Visual Voice Mail, which, according to Verizon is “a new application…

NBC online Olympic coverage excludes millions of Apple Mac users

Monday, August 11, 2008 2:45 pm77 Comments

NBC’s online Olympic coverage excludes millions of PowerPC-based Apple Mac users…

Apple Store Chatswood Chase (Australia) Grand Opening photos

Monday, August 11, 2008 2:31 pm3 Comments

MacDailyNews reader Derrick has posted photos from the Grand Opening celebration of Apple Store Chatswood Chase…

Microsoft Windows Blue Screen of Death strikes Olympic opening ceremonies

Monday, August 11, 2008 1:59 pm49 Comments

Well this is just perfect. At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird’s Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax…

Tech pundit asks: What’s the point of Apple’s iPhone?

Monday, August 11, 2008 1:23 pm70 Comments

I have confession to make: I couldn’t give a hoot about the iPhone…

Telegraph-Journal reviews Samsung Instinct: Not in same league as Apple’s iPhone

Monday, August 11, 2008 11:12 am27 Comments

While the Samsung Instinc looks undeniably like the iPhone, the similarities are only on the surface…

Analyst: 3 million iPhone 3G units sold in first month

Monday, August 11, 2008 10:49 am27 Comments

One month after its debut, Apple’s new iPhone has hit the 3 million sold mark…

Enderle: Apple-funded sites already aggressively disparaging Dell’s as-yet unborn MP3 player

Monday, August 11, 2008 10:05 am60 Comments

Last week I thought it would be interesting — given that both the Wall Street Journal and TechNewsWorld had covered…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs: Over 60 million apps downloaded from App Store in first month

Monday, August 11, 2008 9:01 am33 Comments

In the month since Apple opened an online software clearinghouse called the App Store, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs…

Microsoft fishes for exclusive Hollywood content for Zune debacle

Monday, August 11, 2008 8:43 am42 Comments

Microsoft’s Zune is looking to Hollywood to gain an edge on Apple’s iPod…

Apple’s Mac surge has Windows box assemblers quaking in their boots over potential Mac price drops

Sunday, August 10, 2008 12:49 pm75 Comments

More Apples are showing up on teachers’ desks and in classrooms…

Canadian government won’t interfere with incoming SMS charges

Friday, August 8, 2008 6:33 pm45 Comments

Minister of Industry Jim Prentice said Friday the government had no intention of introducing new legislation…

Middlebronfman: First MTV, then Apple, and now ‘Guitar Hero’ and ‘Rock Band’ pay us far too little

Friday, August 8, 2008 4:26 pm87 Comments

Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer: “In December, we began offering DRM free audio downloads on the Amazon MP3…

Credit Suisse: Apple Mac will continue to outgrow overall market for many years to come

Friday, August 8, 2008 3:17 pm31 Comments

Apple is the seventh-largest personal-computer vendor in the world, but is widely regarded as one of the most innovative tech…

KDDI sees growth stunted by SoftBank’s iPhone 3G launch in Japan

Friday, August 8, 2008 2:47 pm24 Comments

“Japanese wireless carrier KDDI has seen its growth stifled in July primarily by the iPhone 3G launch…

iPhone ‘kill switch’ really exists to protect GPS access from unauthorized apps

Friday, August 8, 2008 1:38 pm21 Comments

Yesterday I linked to a story about the discovery by Jonathan Zdziarski of a remote blacklist Apple is maintaining…

‘I Am Rich’ developer sold 8 copies for $999.99 each before Apple censored app

Friday, August 8, 2008 12:14 pmWednesday, December 7, 2022119 Comments

Now that the phone is affordable enough for a wider audience, a new status symbol has emerged…

Report: Microsoft’s Windows Vista ‘security’ rendered completely useless by new ‘unfixable’ exploit

Friday, August 8, 2008 11:33 am90 Comments

This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely…

Fortune Small Business: The best PC for Microsoft Office is Apple Mac

Friday, August 8, 2008 11:15 am34 Comments

How’s this for the ultimate digital-age, small-business irony: Want the best possible environment for Microsoft Office?

Apple patent app describes iPhone, iPod touch remote access to iTunes libraries

Friday, August 8, 2008 9:23 am20 Comments

A new version of Apple’s iPhone Software could provide iPhone and iPod touch users with access…

Credit Suisse initiates coverage of Apple with ‘outperform’

Friday, August 8, 2008 9:02 am5 Comments

Credit Suisse has initiated coverage of Apple Inc (AAPL) with an “outperform” rating and a $200 price target…

FMTouch brings FileMaker Pro to Apple iPhone, iPod Touch

Friday, August 8, 2008 8:48 am23 Comments

FMWebschool has announced the availability of FMTouch which enables you to deploy FileMaker Pro…

First Google Android-based phone delayed; Android losing support?

Thursday, August 7, 2008 5:37 pm37 Comments

HTC’s first phone based on Google’s Android mobile OS has not only been set back but may be part of a greater shift away…

‘I Am Rich’ application for iPhone, iPod touch disappears from Apple’s App Store

Thursday, August 7, 2008 3:18 pm72 Comments

Apple has spit out a pit in its iTunes App Store, a controversial $999.99…

The Motley Fool’s Beyers: Apple needs to dump exclusive U.S. iPhone contract with AT&T

Thursday, August 7, 2008 1:21 pm68 Comments

Apple must do whatever is necessary to buy off AT&T. Ma Bell is killing the iPhone…

NPD: Macs cost twice as much as Windows PCs on average

Thursday, August 7, 2008 12:00 pm83 Comments

On Tuesday, eWeek’s Joe Wilcox contacted Stephen Baker, NPD’s vice president of industry analysis…

RUMOR: More evidence of Apple ‘iPhone nano’

Thursday, August 7, 2008 11:02 am36 Comments

On August 3, 2006, the UK’s Mail Online claimed that ‘Apple is about to launch a ‘nano’ version of the hugely successful iPhone…

Digital download sales now make up 20% of Warner Music’s total revenue

Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:48 am20 Comments

Warner Music Group Corp.’s fiscal third-quarter net loss narrowed despite continued struggles…

Former Apple employee: Eddy Cue will fix MobileMe

Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:10 am47 Comments

Former Apple employee Chuq Von Rospach is offering insight as to what he thinks happened…

MacPractice assists clients to ePrescribe for free

Thursday, August 7, 2008 8:59 am5 Comments

MacPractice, Inc., the leading Mac practice management and clinical applications company and developer…

Virgin Mobile sold out of Apple iPhone 3G in Australia

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 10:35 pm29 Comments

Australia’s Virgin Mobile is sold out of Apple iPhone 3G units…

Software developers drop prices in Apple’s App Store (updated)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 10:08 pmThursday, July 26, 201854 Comments

Sliding software prices have damped the halo effect many music and software companies expected…

Gartner: Apple iPhone ready for business users – with few caveats

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 6:55 pm20 Comments

Apple Inc.’s iPhone 3G is ready to serve business customers as an alternative to the BlackBerry…

Analyst expects Apple ‘special event’ this September to launch new iPod and MacBook lines

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 3:17 pm30 Comments

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes it’s only a matter of time before Apple reveals plans…

Turner Investment Partners: Apple’s iPhone to play prominent role in future of mobile connectivity

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 3:13 pm11 Comments

Consumers’ desire for mobile connectivity — the ability to access information and digital applications…

Vermonters soon able to buy Apple’s iPhone 3G

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 2:10 pm35 Comments

In a few months, Vermonters will be able to buy Apple’s revolutionary iPhone 3G…

RUMOR: Apple prepping new LED-backlit Cinema Displays

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 2:04 pm36 Comments

Apple is prepping for Cinema Display refreshes for the Macworld San Francisco 2009…

Nike+iPod can help you get in shape

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 12:58 pm9 Comments

Nike+iPod is now compatible with several other workouts such as elliptical machines, stair steppers or stationary bikes…

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