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Month: October 2008

AskMen.com’s Top 49 Most Influential Men: Steve Jobs #2, Jon Ive #23 (Obama #1, McCain #10)

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:27 pm27 Comments

With over 200,000 votes cast in AskMen.com’s 49 Most Influential Men poll, the top 10…

Houston Chronicle: Glossy LED-backlit display is a strength of Apple’s new MacBook Pro

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:30 am28 Comments

The new MacBook Pro is slightly thinner than its predecessor, but as soon as you touch it…

Microsoft to buy BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:35 am29 Comments

The plunge in Research In Motion’s share price has fueled speculation that the maker of smartphones is vulnerable…

Apple’s next magic trick: Teach computer buyers to stop wasting their money on junky PCs

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:13 am22 Comments

Americans are hooked on underpowered, bargain-bin PCs, the sort that putter around on the Internet, choke on high-definition video, and struggle…

Reminder: Apple to announce fiscal Q4 08 financial results today at 5pm ET

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:30 am13 Comments

A reminder: Apple is scheduled to announce the results of the company’s fiscal fourth quarter…

iMac bound? NVIDIA debuts new GeForce 9-Series desktop GPUs; 5x more performance, one-half the size

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:44 pm21 Comments

NVIDIA’s engineering team was given a challenge: deliver a desktop GPU which integrates full system I/O and…

Apple iPhone continues to exceed AT&T’s expectations

Monday, October 20, 2008 5:03 pm23 Comments

It’s almost time for telecommunications giant AT&T to deliver its third-quarter results to investors..

Piper Jaffray estimates Apple Mac sales of up to 2.8 million units; maintains $250 price target

Monday, October 20, 2008 4:44 pm14 Comments

With just one day to go before Apple announces the results of its fourth fiscal quarter, market research firm NPD…

Ripit brings simplicity to Mac DVD ripping app

Monday, October 20, 2008 3:59 pm31 Comments

With the introduction of Core Animation in Leopard, Mac applications have taken a leap to the next level…

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to offer FireWire over Ethernet?

Monday, October 20, 2008 3:21 pm66 Comments

Since Apple announced the new MacBook last week sans FireWire, there’s been a backlash from…

Active Storage debuts new storage solution for Apple Mac users

Monday, October 20, 2008 3:10 pm4 Comments

Active Storage, Inc. today unveiled the Active Storage XRAID high-availability RAID system for Apple Mac users providing up to 16TB…

How Apple might weather the financial storm

Monday, October 20, 2008 2:12 pm12 Comments

Violent waves are tossing about the world’s largest financial institutions like toys made of balsa…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Pro: You’ll fall in love

Monday, October 20, 2008 1:15 pm43 Comments

As of last week’s special launch event, Apple has finally answered the call for an updated MacBook Pro…

Apple’s 1G iPod touch vs. 2G iPod touch

Monday, October 20, 2008 12:27 pm19 Comments

There are a slew of tweaks and additions which are either unmentioned by Apple or just don’t become apparent until you actually play with the device…

New hard-hitting Apple ads go straight for Microsoft’s jugular (with video)

Monday, October 20, 2008 11:20 am42 Comments

The new Apple ‘Bean Counter’ ad goes straight for the Microsoft jugular, no messing about at all…

Houston Chronicle reviews Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook: sturdy, glossy, and alluring

Monday, October 20, 2008 11:06 am18 Comments

Last week, Apple “unveiled its new MacBook and MacBook Pro models. I bought…

Wall Street expects strong results from Apple; analysts more focused on next quarter’s guidance

Monday, October 20, 2008 9:43 am5 Comments

When Apple Inc. reports quarterly results Tuesday, investors will be looking for new clues about the health of consumer spending…

Apple’s financial results due Tuesday; could calm recession worries

Monday, October 20, 2008 9:18 am4 Comments

Apple is set to announce its fiscal fourth quarter results for the quarter on Tuesday…

Apple, Psystar agree to dispute resolution process

Monday, October 20, 2008 9:06 am15 Comments

Apple and Psystar have agreed to pursue a mediated settlement to their legal dispute over Psystar’s Open Computers…

Online petition asks Apple to add FireWire port to MacBook

Monday, October 20, 2008 8:53 am103 Comments

We pledge to purchase a new MacBook or MacBook Air if you, the inventor of FireWire technology, would be so kind to bring back FireWire ports to those products…

RUMOR: Apple soon to release updated iMacs with DisplayPort and more

Monday, October 20, 2008 8:37 am32 Comments

Assuming last minute snags are avoided, the coming weeks should bring new iMacs, rounding out Apple’s 2008 hardware…

Apple blasts Microsoft, Windows Vista in two new ‘Get a Mac’ ads (with video)

Sunday, October 19, 2008 7:45 pm82 Comments

Apple has begun airing two new “Get a Mac” TV commercials on U.S television networks that each blast…

Intego: Beware bogus ‘MacGuard’ security software scam

Friday, October 17, 2008 5:52 pm41 Comments

There’s a new trend out there designed to scam computer users: web sites that sell bogus software…

Apple to report results on Tuesday amidst mounting economic concerns

Friday, October 17, 2008 5:20 pm24 Comments

Investors are waiting to see just how much the global economic slowdown has hurt Apple Inc…

iLounge reviews new 13-inch MacBook: Apple got it so, so right

Friday, October 17, 2008 4:39 pm47 Comments

We don’t write much about Macs at iLounge, but I wanted to make an exception today to pat Apple…

Apple MacBook’s lack of FireWire shouldn’t be considered a deal-breaker

Friday, October 17, 2008 3:45 pm148 Comments

The absence of FireWire ports is certainly an inconvenience for some users. But it shouldn’t be considered a deal-breaker…

DisplayPort: Apple throws weight behind emerging display standard

Friday, October 17, 2008 2:21 pm52 Comments

Apple didn’t just introduce new laptops Tuesday; it also introduced a new term to the vocabulary of Mac users…

Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard to feature massively rewritten Cocoa Finder

Friday, October 17, 2008 1:38 pm34 Comments

Apple next-generation Snow Leopard operating system will introduce a massive re-write of the Mac OS X Finder…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly responds to Mac user’s outrage over new MacBook’s missing FireWire

Friday, October 17, 2008 12:02 pm87 Comments

In one of his characteristically terse email replies, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has reportedly…

Controversy brews: iBeer app developer sues Carling over iPint virtual beer app for Apple iPhone

Friday, October 17, 2008 11:24 am24 Comments

Aa software developer who makes a ‘virtual beer’ application for the iPhone announced he is suing…

CNET: Hands-on with Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Pro

Friday, October 17, 2008 10:28 am57 Comments

When Apple announced its new notebooks on Tuesday, it said the new machines would be…

Microsoft CEO Ballmer says Windows 7 is Vista, just ‘a lot better’

Friday, October 17, 2008 9:41 am69 Comments

Windows 7 will be like Windows Vista, but more so, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer said yesterday…

BallBound and Cypress Golf announce iPhone Tee Times reservation app

Friday, October 17, 2008 8:55 am5 Comments

Todd McGregor, media contact of BallBound is excited to announce that iPhone mobile users…

Apple releases Migration and DVD/CD Sharing Update

Friday, October 17, 2008 8:42 am12 Comments

Apple has released Migration and DVD/CD Sharing Update which is recommended for all users…

Call of Duty 4 for Mac 1.7 patch released

Friday, October 17, 2008 8:34 am3 Comments

Aspyr Media has released a free patch for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for Mac….

How will Apple deal with ‘worst economic crisis since the Great Depression?’

Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:12 pm55 Comments

Intel Corp. the world’s largest chip maker, seems ready for an economic slowdown, with consumers…

T-Mobile G1 Google Android phone: Difficult, confusing, brick-like vs. Apple’s superior iPhone

Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:57 pm29 Comments

I wouldn’t trade my iPhone for a G1. Not by a long shot…

Some Mac users rage over new MacBook’s missing FireWire

Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:45 pm157 Comments

Apple Inc. customers, unhappy that the company dropped FireWire from its newest notebooks…

Morningstar StockInvestor: Buy high-quality, low-risk Apple (AAPL)

Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:29 pm4 Comments

Paul Larson, editor of the Morningstar StockInvestor newsletter, says that the market volatility investors…

Unibody: Apple new 15-inch MacBook Pro and 13-inch MacBook completely disassembled

Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:33 pm18 Comments

iFixit has published two excellent dissections for Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro…

Top 10 things you might not know about Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook

Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:23 pm31 Comments

Dan Warne reports for APC Magazine, “We’ve had one of the new MacBooks for 24 hours and have discovered…

Steve Jobs preparing to leave Apple?

Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:00 pm73 Comments

“Steve Jobs is leaving Apple. Not tomorrow, but probably very soon. That’s why he started…

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