Thursday, July 15, 2004
Top Stories
Apple Reports $61 Million Profit
"It was an outstanding quarter — our highest third quarter revenue in eight years."
See Also : The G5 iMac
by MacSlash
During today's Quarter 3 results conference call, Apple announced that the next iMac will have a G5 processor.
See Also : Apple Q3 '04 Financial Conference Call Highlights
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral
See Also : Apple Sales Breakdown
by MacNN
News
Apple Rises Sharply On Earnings Report
Shares of Apple opend up nearly $3 from yesterday's close following Apple's third quarter earnings report yesterday.
EyeTV 1.5 Adds Safari Support, More
The Little Rumor Site That Could
In the absence of big boys like Apple and Microsoft, one of the largest and splahiest booths at Macworld belongs to an unlikely candidate: Spymac, a fast-growing, Mac-oriented community website that began three years ago as a lowly rumor site.
Key Euro Apple Man Quits
Apple's managing director of European operations Joe Gantly is stepping down after six years.
Dottiness Is A Family Affair
"Driving from home to the studio wasted time. That's why we built Dot-Pod. Now we are collaborating and sharing music by iPods across the web."
Macworld Boston: Photo Gallery
Macs Help Turn Photos Into 'Time Capsule Of America'
The session, "How Mac Technology Enabled 25,000 Americans to Capture the Essence of Amercia", at the Macworld Conference and Expo, looked at how Mac technology was used to "turn over one million photographs into a time capsule of American life."
Opinion
Macworld Boston 2004: Brains Over Beauty
Since you don't have the magnificent mother ship on the trade show floor attracting minions from all over the world, you have to go with what's in your control. And that's content.
Why Apple Employees Will Blog In Revolt
My hunch is that Apple will continue to prevent its employees from blogging for the foreseeable future so that it can maintain its mystique. THis approach may work for awhile, but the employees in Cupertino will eventually revolt.
And Like Magic, Barclaycard Works Again On The Mac
Either someone had a programming epiphany some time yesterday, or it was a lot simpler to fix than they'd been making out.
Review
Apple In Tune
The beautifully designed, deceptively simple, digital audio player has redefined the notion of listening to music on the move.
Sidetrack
Sean Bonner: Yes, we know it's a fake.
... of the new No-CARB Diet for 2004?
Wintel
Jaded Users Roll Their Eyes At IE's Latest Security Debacle
The most recent of a spate of Internet Explorer crash and burns is drawing the user reaction, "So, what else is new?"
Service Pack 2: Patching The Unpatchable
Windows XP Service Pack 2 addresses many of the security problems of the past few years. But it can't do much about this year's model.