At about 8 a.m. PDT Friday, Firefox crossed the billion-download threshold…
Month: July 2009
Handset-maker HTC gets pinched by Apple iPhone; expects revenue to fall this year
Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp. said it now expects its revenue to fall this year…
Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0.1
Apple has just released iPhone OS 3.0.1 via iTunes…
FCC honcho: iPhone probe to focus on markets without service
U.S. regulators probing wireless- phone contracts will focus on markets where Apple Inc.’s iPhone…
Steve Ballmer calls Apple’s Mac market share growth a ‘rounding error’
Speaking to a group of market analysts this week, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer…
12 must-own games for Apple iPhone, iPod touch
Apple gaming has come a long way in a short time, and estimates suggest there are over 13,000 games…
Microsoft’s Office 2008 for Mac SP2 kills cross-platform file compatibility
Various sources, including Microsoft, indicate that PC created Open XML formated…
With 6.6 million Apple TV units sold by year end, whither Apple TV 3.0?
Piper Jaffray expects Apple to have sold 6.6 million Apple TV units by the end of 2009…
Apple to release iPhone OS update that corrects SMS security issue on Saturday
Apple is set to release a software patch to address a recently described security…
Beleaguered Microsoft in decline; Windows-maker the digital equivalent of General Motors
There were two interesting Windows-related news stories last week…
Tests of smartphone voice call abilities show Apple’s iPhone is ‘star of the show’
Testing specialists Broadband Testing have turned their attention to what remains…
Analyst: Apple on track to sell 6.8 million iPhones this quarter
In a note to clients issued Wednesday morning, Kaufman Bros.’s Shaw Wu reported on some interesting trends…
Optus: Apple iPhone gaining strong traction in the enterprise
Optus has released the IP Index, its annual survey of corporate use of all forms of IP communications…
Nintendo reports Q1 profit down 66 percent; warns of increased competition from Apple iPhone
Nintendo Co Ltd. reported a 66 percent fall in quarterly operating profit on slowing demand..
Beleaguered Sprint continues to hemorrhage subscribers; Palm Pre fails to staunch bleeding
In announcing its second-quarter financial results, Sprint Nextel said it suffered a net loss of 257,000 customers…
In a roomful of Macs, Ballmer promises ‘really amazing’ non-Apple PC hardware coming this Christmas
So what does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer do when he faces a room of press and financial analysts toting a bunch of Macs?
Palm-backer Roger McNamee: So, how would you like your crow?
If there was a foot-in-the-mouth award given every year, no one else would need to apply this year…
Foxconn suicide over 4G iPhone prototype spotlights China counterfeiting
“One week after the apparent suicide of a Chinese factory worker accused of stealing…
CEA: Neither Apple nor CEO Steve Jobs to attend CES 2010 conference
Despite what you may have read in the Wall Street Journal Thursday, Apple isn’t…
AT&T: iPhone OS 3.0 prompts increase in Wi-Fi connections
AT&T saw nearly 15 million users connect to its Wi-Fi network last quarter…
Microsoft’s Zune fiasco faces steep sales declines; analyst says pull the plug
Microsoft Corp.’s quarterly earnings report last week featured a number of grim statistics…
Apple’s ‘MacBook touch’ or ‘iTablet’ could run both Mac and iPhone apps
It seems very likely that Apple will be introducing a new OS X machine sometime between now…
Apple debuts 2TB Time Capsule wireless hard drive
Time Capsule, a wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard…
Ooh, big scary ‘Mac flaw’ could let hackers get scrambled data
A Mac security expert has uncovered a technique that hackers could use to take control…
iPhone SMS bug to be attacked at Black Hat
Apple has less than a day left to patch a bug…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs invited to keynote CES 2010 in January; no response given so far
Gary Shapiro is chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association…
TMZ posts iPhone photo of Apple CEO Steve Jobs taken today
TMZ obtained this photo of Apple CEO Steve Jobs leaving company headquarters…
Microsoft prescribes permanent ‘diet’ amid sales slump
Microsoft Corp., coping with its first annual sales drop, will make frugality a new way of life…
Apple releases MobileMe iDisk app for iPhone and iPod touch
Apple has released their free MobileMe iDisk app which users can use to view and share files…
Analyst estimates Apple’s 32GB iPhone 3GS margin near 60 percent
Analyst Turley Muller, on his blog Financial Alchemist, said that with the carrier subsidies…
Apple’s MacBook Air doomed?
The Apple Blog’s Charles Jade thinks the MacBook Air is on the bubble…
Microsoft to open first two retail stores in Mission Viejo, California and Scottsdale, Arizona
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it is planning to open its first two retail stores…
Apple hints at OS X on PCs?
Did you hear the one about the Dell Mini Netbooks that run Mac OS X? You didn’t?
UK’s Advertising Standards Authority: Apple has right to say apps are ‘Only On The iPhone’
An Apple Inc. TV ad in the UK demonstrated a range of applications for the Apple iPhone…
Apple patent application reveals ‘stunning’ iPhone nano design
A belated US Patent via an Australian filing mysteriously surfaced this month revealing…
Pink Visual shoots first porno on Apple iPhone 3GS
Adult video company, Pink Visual, has found a way to get porn onto the iPhone despite…
Eye-Fi debuts Eye-Fi Geo Apple Mac-exclusive wireless Memory Card With Unlimited Geotagging
Eye-Fi Inc. today unveiled the Eye-Fi Geo card, a new wireless SD memory card exclusive…
Microsoft and Yahoo ink 10-year search partnership deal
Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday…
William Shatner and Greenpeace leave HP reminders, including ‘Hazardous Products’ painted on roof
Greenpeace activists climbed to the top of HP’s global headquarters in Palo Alto California today…
Would-be ‘Mac cloner’ Psystar’s Texas lawyer vows to battle Apple with ‘guns blazin’
Would-be “Mac cloner” Psystar has issued a statement on their website…
Creative unveils ‘Zii Egg’ iPod touch killer
Creative today unveiled the Zii Egg. The device is in its stock form a competitor to the iPod touch…
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 release imminent?
Apple seeded Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Build 9L30 to developers last night…