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by Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Speaking to analysts for RBC Capital Markets this week, Apple's vice president of iPod product marketing, Greg Joswiak, said the first software update for his company's iPhone handset is due to arrive shortly.
by Charles Starett, iLounge
by Paul Egan, Detroit News
Eminem's music publisher filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Apple Inc. on Monday, alleging the computer giant violated copyrights by allowing unauthorized downloads of the Detroit rapper's songs onto iPods.
by Macworld UK
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the third most influential business leader of the last 25-years by USA Today. Jobs sits just behind Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (in second place) and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates (in first place).
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Fewer busiensses are now planning to move to Windows Vista than seven months ago, according to a survey by patch management vendor PatchLink Corp., while more said they will either stick with the Windows they have, or turn ot Linux or Mac OS X.
by Molly Wood, CNET Crave
The iPod has always been a one-way sync device. It's always been too hard to maintain separate iTunes libraries, and the root cause is antipiracy. I get that. But it leads to a very un-Apple experience.
by Kirk Hiner, Applelinks
by Franklin Pride, Inside Mac Games
Sheeplings is extremely low value. Even with its low price tag, it simply doesnt last long enough to be worth the money.
by Snappy The Clam
I hope Brent Simmons got a lot of money for selling NetNewsWire to NewsGator, because he's thrown the software's reputation to the wind.
by CBS
According to the New York State Consumer Protection Board, Apple should revamp its customer service policies to make it easier and more affordable for consumers to repair an iPhone.
by InsideMicrosoft
Wait. Apple? Choice? Forget it, I'm just being silly.
by ob.blog
I suspect the poor-implementers have approached the issue from the perspective of the logical, rational, literal geek as opposed to that illogical, irrational, "just make it work" user.
by iPhoneology
by Joe Kissell, TidBITS
Look, it's 2007 and I'm a Mac user; if I can't put my brand new computer to sleep and into its bag in less than 10 seconds, something is seriously wrong.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Apple has posted another update to its Pro Application Support package, bringing it to version 4.0.1. In typical Apple fashion, the description is noticeably vague, but says that it improves "general user interface reliability" of Apple's pro apps.
by David Chartier, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
xTime Project 4.5 for Mac OS X gains better Intel Mac support.
by Ellen Lee and Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle
by Star Tribune
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster is considered one of the country's top analysts on Apple. But not all of his predictions have come true.
by Edward F. Moltzen, CRN Australia
Apple's recent quarterly financial report shows blistering growth, but channel partners are starting to see conflicts grow as well.
by indigirl
I love the Macintosh. It's stable, pretty, easy to use, powerful (UNIX os baby!), compatible with both my non-computer-literate family and my software engineering origins, and has proven itself time and time again to be equal or better than the Microsoft equivalent.
by MacNN
Representing one of the most significant milestones in the race to completely unlock the iPhone, a user has been able to successfully register the device with and make calls on Australia's Telstra network.
by Gizmodo
by Bill O'Brien, InformationWeek
If you've got a Mac, want to make it an entertainment center, and don't want to invest in an Apple TV, here are some TV tuners to check out.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
A fun and decidedly different RTS based in the Star Wars universe, Empire at War is an Intel Mac-only treat for those of us with the Force.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
With security researchers set to reveal details of a critical security flaw in the iPhone at the Black Hat 2007 conference next week, Apple Inc. now has fewer than seven days to patch a critical vulnerability in the product.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple has shipped a software update for Windows ystems, Bonjour for WIndows 1.0.4. The company said the update is recommended for all Bonjour users to improve usability and compatibility with their Windows sytems.
by Deep Jive Interests
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
I'm calling bullshit.
by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen, MacUser
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Business 2.0
Steve Jobs has called Apple TV a "hobby," and for now that's what it seems to be.
by Brian Prince, eWeek
It is only natural that IT organization shiver at the thought of the iPhone endangering their networks, but they will have few options to block its entrance to the enterprise and no resource but to prepare for it, said Andrew Jaquith, an analyst at Yankee Group.
by Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge
by Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by MacNN
by John Martellaro, Mac Observer
The new version adds several requested features, including bookmarks, remotely waking Macs and more.
by Macworld
Audio and video is booming all over the web, with embedded media files bringing rich content to the user with minimal interaction. These tools will help you get the most of your multimedia experience, and maybe even learn something along the way.
by Jeff Foster, Macworld
After Effects CS3 Professional is not just another update, but a major advancement, and unquestionably worth the price of the upgrade. Motion-graphic artists will quickly find the new features and tools indispensable in their daily creative production, and the workflow between After Effects and the rest of the suite has been refined and more thoroughly integrated.
by Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Several Wall Street analysts increased their price targets on shares of Apple Inc. Thursday, following a late-night surge in the gadget makers' stock that saw its valuation surpass that of industry heavyweight Hewlett-Packard.
by Michael Rose, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Dan Knight, Low End Mac
The Mac mini was not a realistic solution to Apple's problem of expanding into the consumer market.
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
SUre, the tech company showed strong revenue growth. But its profit potential is what really matters.
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Translation: Apple is going to shake up its product lineup.
by John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine
That's right. I'm using a Mac, and, surprise, I like it. Deal.
by MacNN
The higher revenue guidance and lower earning sguidance could indicate a new product introduction with lower margins or a high capitalized R&D cost.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
The back-and-forth calls into question just how widespread those initial activation problems were among the iPhone early adopters.
by Michael Wuerthele, Inside Mac Games
Casual games are still games, and as such, need to be fun to play! More work ont he concept, developers! As it stands this game isn't worth the money.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
It seems to be a pretty good time to be a Mac user. And it appears that there are a whole lot more of us today than there were just a few years ago.
by ifoAppleStore
The changes tend to increase the profit that stores report, but also decrease reported revenues as they're spread over a longer period of time.
by Jeffrey Zeldman
My iPhone has made me stop using calendar, contact, and e-mail applications I've used day and night for over a decade, and switch to the free—and in some ways less capable—applications that come bundled with Macintosh OS X.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The highly anticipated iPhone was released on June 29, the next-to-last day of the third quarter. Apple reported 270,000 units sold. That figure is higher than the 146,000 iPhone activations AT&T reported for its quarterly earnings, suggesting that activation delays during the iPhone's weekend may have depressed AT&T's figures.
by MacNN
by Macworld
You've taken the pictures and done your editing. Now it's time to put your work into action. These tools will help you get your original artwork and designs ready for prime time.
by Antony Bolante, Macworld
Premiere Pro CS3 is a good value, especially compared with the more expensive Avid Xpress. But although its capabilities and price are similar to Final Cut Pro 6's, its features alone won't convert Final Cut Studio's adherents.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
The iPhone vulnerability that could let hackers steal data or commandeer the device also exists in the desktop edition of Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system, the exploit's researchers said today.
by Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal
When it comes to product design, Mr Jobs functions like an exacting editor, challenging hardware engineers and industrial designers to trim unnecessary features that don't add value to a product, says one former Apple executive.
by David Chartier, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
From what we hear, evidence has been found that references to the ARM architecture appear in several of Leopard's standard include files.
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
It also seems we're going to have a long-term discussion over whether it makes sense to have a "mobile web" or take the iPhone trade-off, more effort to use its web (lots of scrolling and pinching), but making the whole web accessible, mobile sites or non-mobile sites. I think what Apple has attempted is noble, but it's not going to work. The screens have limited resolution, and even if they didn't even if they could cram a billion pixels into every square inch, there's the limit of how much detail our eyes can see and how big our hands are.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
The entry-level software offers a realistic simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, oil paint, crayons, chalk, felt pen, a glitter gun and other tools.
by Tim Beyers, Motley Fool
The iPhone's early returns are anything but a snoozer. Wake up, everyone!
by Annalee Newitz, AlterNet
The iPhone is political because it shomehow manages to capture the essence of authoritarianism in its hiny little box. Totally locked down, it runs only preapproved software on a prechosen phone network that is subject to government surveillance.
by Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld
In an attempt to expalin the phenomenon that is Apple and why it has such a loyal following, I thought I would take a look at a company that achieved that haloed status first, by about 80 years. It's one of the few that can claim a similar kind of loyalty among its customers: Harley-Davidson Motorcycles.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
If we can veer off into the Realm of Speculation for just a second (just a little ways away from Dead Wrong in Public Boulevard), I'd be willing wager that we haven't seen new versions of iLife and iWork yet this year because we haven't seen a new version of OS X.
by Michael Gartenberg, JupiterResearch
The first two days mean nothing in the overall life of the product and the overall success of the iPhone won't rest on how well this particular model does.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Dan Gallagher and Rex Crum, MarketWatch
Apple Inc. shares took a hit after AT&T issued what many saw as disappointing activation numbers for Apple's iPhone for the last two days of the second quarter, when the device first went on sale. In addition, a telecommunications analyst issued a report before the opening bell that said demand for the device at retail outlets has seen a "significant decline" in recent days.
by Derek Powazek
How's the camera? Short answer: About average for a cellphone, with some unique issues aroudn color shifts and motion blur. But I'm happy with its 1600x1200px output, and am enjoying finding out what it's good for, and what it's not.
by Charles Starrett, iLounge
by Andy Ihnatko, Macworld
by Scott Moritz, TheStreet.com
People close to the companies tell TheStreet.com that AT&T is paying a bounty of between $150 and $200 per phone — plus $9 a month per phone over the life of the typical two-year customer contract.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Ecamm Network's $10 iPhoneDrive 1.1 brings some of that iPod Disk Mode magic to the iPhone, although not without a few limitations.
by Macworld
Aplications that allow real-time mesaging and file transfers are common these days. But there are still several gems that have slipped under the radar.
by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
It's easy to use, integrates well with many other productivity programs, and lets you export your mind maps in a variety of formats.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Like Apple, iPhone sales only encompassed the last two days of the quarter for AT&T, but the opening numbers give us a taste of things to come for both companies in the next quarter and beyond.
by Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Blog
What does it take to run your own business? Take a look at every single job in your old company, you'll be doing it from now on.
by Leander Kahney, Wired
After almost a month with an iPhone in han, Jobs' words ring true. I simply can't imagine going back to a regular cell phone.
Now, if Apple can just add a Save button.
by Christopher Dawson, ZDNet
Increasing savviness of students as well as the need to cut budgetary corners wherever possible makes non-Windows alternatives much more viable.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet
No matter how much Mac users want to kick and scream about it, hackers are turning their eyes towards Mac OS, and this is going to lead to Mac users having to face more security threats that they currently do.
My guess is that most Mac users do not believe that their Mac is entirely free of vulnerability. But, what's important is that, most believe that Mac has less vulnerablities than Windows, a point that still hasn't really been proven one way or the other.
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet
"We found the true cost to support a single PC in the shop environment to greatly outweigh the minimal difference in hardware/software cost between a Mac and PC with Vista. It is our belief that we achieve a significant savings with this move to Macs on the shop floor, as well as increase system reliability and user satisfaction."
by Brett Burney, Law.com
More folks are getting hooked on Mac computers for a reason and I predict the surge will continue. We haven't seen a decisive blow in the age-old debate between the Mac and Windows camps over which computer is better, but the battle lines are getting fuzzier.
by The Blog From Another Dimension
The writer had to completely fudge the numbers to make Vista looks like it was doing great, when actually it's doing pretty lousy, given the built-in advantages it enjoys.
by Joho The Blog
OS X absoluetly handles some core user functions better than Windows does.
by Bill Thompson, BBC News
What counts as private has to chnage if we're to get the most out of the network.
by Chris Adamson, O'Reilly Mac DeveCenter Blog
I spent a few hours this weekend upgrading a Core Solo Mac Mini to a Core 2 Duo. Here are a few thoughts on the experiences and lessons learned.
by Macworld
Great Mac programs that won't cost you a bundle.
by Lee Sherman, Macworld
by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer
by Gary Allen and Kasper Jade, AppleInsider
Apple's enormous investment in high-profile retail stores continues to pay off, with its five U.S.-based flagship locations combining for 13 percent of the total revenues generated by its U.S. retail sector latest quarter.
by Grant Robertson and David George-Cosh, Globe And Mail
It's a question that's more suited to a graduate philosophy course than a courtroom. But for the past six months, Canadian lawmakers have been wrestling over a vexing problem that has big implications for music lovers and the record industry: What is an iPod?
Is it a modern day music box that captures songs, or a mindless computer that simply plays them?
by John Schwartz, New York Times
The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that tests its clients' computer security by hacking it, said that they could take control of iPhones through a Wi-Fi connection or by tricking users into going to a web site that contains malicious code. THe hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.
by Scott Hillis, Reuters
Apple Inc. is expected to show a 35 percent surge in quarterly profit this week, but the focus will be on just two days: the last 48 hours of June when its highly anticipated iPHone went on sale.
The iPhone contributed virtually none of the $637 million Apple is forecast to have earned, but investors are eager for the first official word on how many of the combination phone, web browser, media player devices were sold at launch.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Windows Vista's share of online users has increased every month this year, while rival Mac OS X — to which Vista has often been compared — has shown little, if any, growth, a metrics company reports.
Vista's increases have come at the expense of Windows XP and Windows 2000... Windows over total has remained flat.
Despite what the headline say, the real news is probably that nobody is growing at the expense of the other guy.
by Annie Eisenberg, New York Times
Manufacturers are offering a handful of microphone systems that plug snugly into the current crop of video iPods and Nanos, turning them into devices that not only play audio, but record it, too — in stereo.
by John C. Welch, InformationWeek
In reflecting on my two weeks with the iPhone, my objective is to move beyond nattering about its specs or complaining about what it doesn't do, and shed some serious light on security issues, corporate e-mail syncing, iPhone application development, and a bunch of other areas of intest to serious users, both corporate and otherwise.
by David Chrisnall, Informit.com
It is not surprising that Apple has started to do well now that laptop sales are beginning to pass desktop sales; they get an interface that is easy to use with a single-button trackpad for free. The ultimate irony? The latest MacBooks have the first ergonomic mechanism for right-clicking I have found on a trackpad—holding down two fingers on the pad while clicking the button.
I wouldn't say MacBook's popularity is solely because of the single-button trackpad. But I do have to say that, after using multiple Windows-based laptops, from IBM to Dell to Acer, the correct number of mouse buttons on a laptop should be one.
by Andrew Orlowski, The Register
The genius of Apple's startegy for its iPhone is to make a defensive move look like an offensive one.
by Rachel Metz, Associated Press
To try out the online market in this overheated atmosphere, I bought an iPhone and listed it on eBay. This wannabe profiteer lost money.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Canadians who purchase digital music players and removable memory cards should have to pay an extra tax, according to the Copyright Board of Canada. The decision stated that the proposed levy, originally suggested by the Canadian Private Copyright Collective, followed the intent of the country's Copyright Act and Parliament and therefore such a tariff could be enacted.
by James Dempsey, Macworld
Here are a few Creative Suite tips, some old, some new, but all worth knowing, especially if you don't live inside these applications all day.
by Paula Musich, eWeek
One week after discovering a glitch between Apple iPhones and its Cisco-based campus wireless network, Duke University on July 20 finally got to the bottom of the problem that caused periodic outages of the Wi-Fi network.
In a statement released this afternoon, Cisco Systems admitted that the problem was caused by a Cisco glitch.
by Dan Moren, MacUser
by Elise Malmberg, Apple
by MacNN
by New York Post
Sony CEO Howard Stringer said Jobs is the "greedy" one because he wants a world where only he makes money.
Funny, but a lot of people are making a lot of money because of the Macintosh and the iPod — and probably iPhone too. Just because Sony doesn't know how to make money doesn't mean Apple is greedy. Sony can always just pack up and go play somewhere else, can't they? Or can Sony make money without Apple?
by Peter Moon, IDGNow
Wozniak talks about Apple, Steve Jobs and the future robotics.
by David Weiss
I feel like we've lost our identity looking at and comparing ourselves with others. The insecurity and lack of confidence seems to be everywhere. You can see it in the way employees "defend their Microsoft position rather than "jsut tell the story" because it's a good one.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
It may not happen overnight, but trust me, the heyday of Apple hasn't even begun.
by James Galbraith, Macworld
The problem with this multicore strategy is that throwing more processors at a job doesn't always mean that the task will finish faster.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
If you're just looking to get more out of your Apple Remote, Mira offers a good combination of features and ease of use.
by MacMinute
Sonny Software today announced the release of Bookends 10, a Mac-only full-featured bibliography/reference and information management application for professionals and students.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple is struggling to cope with demand for 15-inch MacBook Pros equipped with new environment-friendly's LED backlit displays.
by Ben Ames, Macworld UK
Apple takes 5.6 per cent of US PC market.
by MacNN
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
The beef over news of a worm targeting Macs, and the identity of the research who claimed to have created the malware, took an even stranger turn Wednesday as death threats were allegedly posted to his or her blog, which was then reportedly hacked.
by Oliver Rist, InfoWorld
Windows Mobile may have all the paper advantages — openness, Microsoft app compatibility, a great price, and loads of third-party support — but if users can't rely on it out there in the wild, woolly, and unsupported field, none of that means very much.
by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
It means you can buy an iPhone and activate it using a disposable Cingular SIM. It does not mean that the iPhone has been unlocked in general.
by Joe Hutsko, MSNBC
When I say I'd really like longer life battery, I'm not saying other devices do any better. I'm saying that because the iPhone has proven that it can meet my requirements as a notebook replacement for day or weekend trips. So it's only natural that I'd rather not have to think about whether the battery can make it through the day.
by Danny Gorog, APC Magazine
If you're not impressed with it after you've used it from any perspective (be it engineering, design, or software) than you don't really get what consumer technology is all about.
by Angus Loten, Inc
With iPhone sales already surpassing expectations, smaller accessory makers are feelling pretty good about the future.
by M.B. Taboada, American-Statesman
Apple is expanding its operations in Austin, with plans for a new 80,000-square-foot building at its campus in Northwest Austin, according to real estate sources.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
This device is truly amazing in many, many ways—and yes, equally frustrating in some other ways.
by Greg Miller, Macworld
Designing complex spaces presents too many time-consuming limitations to be practical. But this is a relatively new program: it looks very nice, is easy to learn, and has a great deal of potential.
by Heath McKnight, Creative Mac
by MacMinute
by Emily Turner, The Register
Can you run a business using a MacBook? No, is my answer. My experience with a new MacBook, which turned out to be a complete and utter lemon, and my battle with Apple's derisory customer service nearly sent me bananas, lost me thousand of pounds worth of freelance journalism and consultancy work, and left me with a burn mark on my arm.
by Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror
Dealing with multiple windows is far too difficult, even for sophisticated computer users.
by Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Mac DeveCenter Blog
I managed to go Dockless without any problems.
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld
Just how protected is your data when you use the iPhone's wireless features?
by Scotty McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Is this a double standard — bad if it hurts Mac users, but jst fine if it works on Apple's new gizmo?
by Ken Belson, New York Times
With little fanfare, Taiwan companies are playing a big role not only in the production of Apple's latest device but in a wide array of other communications equipment.
by Farhad Manjoo, Salon
Lawmakers and consumer advocates push for rules to block wireless firms from locking gadgets and charging high cancellation fees.
by John O'Brien, The Courier-Mail
After Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative suite is the most important software package on the Mac.
by Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
A Colorado photographer is suing Apple, claiming the company stole one of his images and used it in ads for its iPhone and Apple TV products.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
The anonymous researcher who claims to have crafted a Mac OS X worm said Tuesday that he or she will report his findings to Apple Inc., but added that the Cupertino, Calif. company "has a very long way to go" on security.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple on Tuesday said it is looking into an issue that some users are having with the most recent update to its QuickTime media technology.
After intalling QuickTime 7.2, some users reported having issues with some Code Fragment Manager (CFM) applications including Word, Excel and Entourage, among others.
by Mac Journals
Let's focus the attention on the Dock, the program that you may not like but can't live without, the launcher that Apple claims as superior but really knows is so defective that it will not allow third-party competition for it.
by John Carroll, ZDNet
Apple is proof that you can compete with Microsoft.
by Reuters
Steve Jobs, the father of the iPod, was on Tuesday crowned the undipusted king of the online music revolution by U.S. music magazine Blender, topping a list of the 25 most influential people in web music.
by Steve Gordon, The Register
Since we have seen Universal's leverage against Aple is weak, it will probably never get any money from the iPod or iPhone. But if it sat down with other major labels, the electronics business, and members of congress, it could work out a deal to extend the AHRA.
Of course, easier said than done.
by Peter Cohen, Playlist
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Parallels Desktop 3.0 is currently the best solution for running WIndows, Linux, or any of many other operating systems alongside OS X. Unless you need full 3-D graphics support, or support for some esoteric hardware, Parallels will probably get the job done for you.
by Kasper Jade, AppleInsider
by Shawn Blanc
Although many of us would love to see an ultra portable powerhouse, it's obvious that the 12" PowerBook has been buried in order to leave less clutter in the Macintosh product line.
Or, maybe, the new OS X-based iPod is going to be more like a Macintosh than an iPod?
by Fabrizio Giudici
Since I didn't buy Apple for the griffe, but because I wanted a system that didn't make me waste time or money, you understand why I am seriously disappointed.
by SPI Laboratory
The Apple iPhone's Safari web browser has a special feature that allows the user to dial any phone number displayed on a web page simply by tapping the number. SPI labs has discovered that this feature can be exploited by attackers to perform various attacks.
by John Cox, Network World
18,000 requests per second from iPhones knocking out dozens of access points at Duke University.
by Craig Hockenberry, furbo.org
We've only just begun a journey that will fundamentally change the way we interact with machines. There will be an extended period where touch-based, mouse-based and keyboard-based interfaces will need to coexist.
by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com
by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
Heredis 10.2.3 is a well-designed and versatile genealogy program.
by MacNN
Big Fish Games has released Azada for Mac OS X, a new puzzle game that challenges players to fill in the missing pages of an enchanted book to free the star from his prison.
by MacNN
by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer
by Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld
Imagine being able to find a piece of obscure information on your hard drive quickly instead of having to remember where you saved it, because it's dynamically linked to related bits and pieces that more easily come to mind. That's the idea behind PersonalBrain, a 3-D information visualization and organization application from TheBrain Technologies LP.
by Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville
Even when your iPod is dead, you may find users for it. If you don't want to spend your hard-earned money on repairs, and would rather buy a new iPod—which does make sense in many cases—is it worth simply tossing the old one?
by MacMinute
by Barbara "When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors" Mikkelson, Snopes.com
The presence of electronic devices (such as iPods and cell phones) on one's body can make lightning strike injuries more severe. True.
by Gizmodo
Here's definite proof that Apple made the iPhone the easiest cellphone to use in the planet. Watch a very cute child navigating her way round the jesusPhone with no difficulty whatsoever.
by Kevin Ho, CNET News.com
One of the joys of the iPhone is its camera.
by Sumner Lemon, Computerworld
Serious private key blocking one path, but the work will continue.
by Michael Gartenberg, Computerworld
The Mac of today is not the Mac of old. The benefits outweigh the hassles.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
There are worse things than greasy fingers.
by Bija Gutoff, Apple
"Apple and Shake have been absolutely crucial to this project from the beginning."
by Elena Malykhina, InformationWeek
Despite the closed design of Apple's smartphone, application and service options grow.
by David Chartier, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Looks to me that many people are (rightly) expecting the iPod in the iPhone to behave like a "real" iPod — but it's not.
by Brian Tanaka, TidBITS
OfficeTime will benefit anyone who tracks time spent on multiple activities.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
The simple truth is that the iPhone user experience doesn't just blow away the experience of other companies' cell phones — it blows away the experience of Apple's own iPods.
by Edward C Baig, USA Today
Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their deices, a survey out Friday says, and Apple and AT&T are luring customers from rivals as a result.
by MacNN
by MacNN
by Mike Schramm, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Everybody's favorite anonymous Mac commentator might be a little closer to becoming not-soanonymous.
by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer
Apple's market cap is currently at $116.77 billion, up from $45 billion this time last year. The company has already passed Dell and Oracle's market caps, and financial analyst Georges Yared is predicting that it will blow psat IBM and Intel, at $145 and $161 respectively, within the next 18 months.
by Gregory Ng, iPhone Matters
by Michael Rose, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by MacMinute
by MacMinute
by Farhad Manjoo, Salon
All the problems that I have with the phone — even its lock to AT&T — are likely not long for this world. Apple or the hackers will clean them up, and maybe soon, too.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Both Apple and Microsoft have revealed possible future directions their respective music players by filing for patents that will allow the devices to share music wirelessly, but in different ways.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
While the stories about the iPhone's battery evaporating in two years are simply wrong, the fact is that sooner or later the iPhone's battery will die. But it won't be evaporating in a puff of smoke anytime soon.
by Dan Frakes, Playlist
In my opinion, any good media player must have a few essential physical controls. And these buttons must be usable by feel.
by David Weiss
If you are on a phone call, and turn on your iPod music, everyone on the call can hear your music!
by Gizmodo
You know the reports of people saying their iPhones don't charge up all the way? Turns out that's actually a UI bug and not a bug with the iPhone's battery.
by Peter Judge, Techworld.com
A complex remote-control work-around has achieved what every geek wants: running Skype on an iPhone.
by David Pogue, New York Times
by William Porter, Macworld
THe product is moving in the direction that power users have been hoping for, and in the long run, this is going to benefit everybody who uss the application.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
The mini Mail window offers a quick way to keep track of new email messages (or, more accurately, unread messages.)
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
CPUS is considered to be one of the (if not the) best Unix printing solutions, and has been helping beef up OS X's printing capabilities since Apple began licensing the code in 2002. And now, after a few years of successful CUPS use and integration, Apple is investing even more in the system.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by MacNN
by MacNN
by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer
Apple is fairly well insulated from the change thanks to its practice of signing multi-quarter contracts for the memory used in the iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and iPhone, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
by Munir Kotadia, Silicon.com
The Mac's resilient platfom, its advanced automatic software update tools and the apparent lack of attention from malware authors means Apple users are far safer from attack than users of Windows.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
Apple's multi-year iPhone contrct with AT&T has become the poster child for the ills of the cellphone industry in a US House committee debate, with Verizon also casting its own doubts on the device.
by Erica Taub, New York Times
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
by Linda A. Johnson, Associated Press
Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes.
by Bill Tancer, Time
Why would a rational well phone-equipped person consider dropping a perfectly good device and pluning down $599 (because a 4 gig model is out of the question if an 8 gig model is available) for a new phone? With analysts estimating over 500,000 phones sold just last weekend, perhaps search term data could help us figure out why we've gone iPhone crazy.
by Andy McCue, Silicon.com
"We are feeling the pinch of the aggressive revenue targets of Microsoft. We are asking ourselves, 'are they fit for our business?'."
by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
While some odd data-entry options make the program less than perfect, iFamily for Tiger is an excellent program for collecting and managing your family history.
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Support for full-screen viewing in QuickTime Player.
by MacNN
Vision Effects has begun shipping the third edition of Shade/Shape, a program that converts 2D illusstrations and animations into 3D models, complete with lighting, reflection and bump-maps.
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
The rise of online sales and the ability to buy products straight from Apple via your local Apple Store has hurt many Apple resellers, but a good number are hanging in there and finding new ways to sell Apple products.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Three critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player that could let hackers infect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems, were patched yesterday by Adobe Systems Inc.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
In the hope that I might bring a measure of balance to the Apple accolades — and thus, perhaps, fend off the wors of the blow-back when the media inevitably tires of Apple — I'd like to offer a few lessons learned over the years.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
GameTap has released a Mac client for its catalogue of 500 classic titles.
by Farhad Manjoo, Salon
The coding geniuses who are taking apart Appel's hot device say they're within a few days of making it work with cell networks beyond AT&T.
by Associated Press
Shares of Apple Inc. hit a new all-time trading high Tuesday after an analyst speculated that the company would come out with a less expensive, smaller iPhone later this year.
Yet investors also were being cautioned Tuesday by a separate — more sobering — report from a different analyst at the same securities firm, saying he could not confirm his colleague's assumptions. He told his clients in a report that a low-end phone from Apple was unlikely in the near term.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
There have been some talks about a "nano-based" iPod — which I totally don't understand. What do "nano-based" mean?
In fact, the current iPhone is "nano-based", if we are talking about the storage technology inside the pod. The words that reporters are searching for, I think, is "smaller-sized". Of course, that doesn't sound as sexy.
But, of course, the iPhone is really nothing like an iPod. Steve Jobs has even said that he is treating the iPhone business as a separate business from the iPod business. To assume the iPhone product line will mirror the iPod product line is possibly a very wrong assumption to make.
by John Siracusa, Macworld
The only effective transition strategy may be to retain Jobs in spirit while converting the organization to a more democratic structure. Let the management mantra be "What Would Steve Do?"
Democratic sturcutre? I'm not sure what that means, but if this is management by consensus, I don't think it will work. Ownership of ideas is important.
by Christopher Breen, Playlist
No! Who woulda thunk it!?
JP Morgan Retracts. Now Says "No" To Near Term "Nano" iPhone, by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
Unless the existing iPhone fails miserably in the marketplace, the question is not whether cheaper iPhones will be delivered by Apple in the future. The question is when will Apple deliver.
by MacMinute
by Jeffry Bartash and Rex Crum, MarketWatch
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple could grab as much as 10 per cent of US smartphone market by the end of the year, according to the analysts at Strategy Analystics.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
FileMaker today announced the immediate availability of FileMaker Pro 9, an all-new version of its award-winning database software for WIndows and Mac OS.
Improvements focus on the needs of both end users and FileMaker developers, with a focus on database sharing, reporting and automation.
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
I can't recommend the iPhone. A professonal or business user who buys into iPhone will be buying a smartphone or PDA to replace it before their contract is out. Lust lasts only so long.
by Jcaqui Cheng, Clint Ecker, Ken Fisher, Ars Technica
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by AppleInsider
A surprise appearance by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs in London this week is leading to speculation that Apple may be on the verge of inking a deal with at least one European iPhone carrier.
Or maybe Jobs is simply there to hear some great music?
by Blackfriars' Marketing
by Nate Mook, BetaNews
Apple's response to redesigning the web for mobile devices? Don't.
by MacNN
by MacNN
Several hackers claim to have successfully accessed a full interactive shell on Apple's iPhone, which could enable technically-oriented users to make modifications or changes to the software installed on the phone.
by Gary Adcock, Macworld
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
Speaking to clients in a research note Monday, investment research firm Piper Jaffray said it believes Apple will soon introduce a new breed of video iPods based around the same technologies used in the iPhone handset.
Aren't new iPods traditionally unveiled before the Christmas buyng season?
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Representative of the 1394 Trade Association Richard Davies said: "We disagree with the InStat report, and see good growth for FireWire deployment both now and in future."
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
by SwitchBlog
I can play out a scenario where Bill Gates says, "but we have all of this developer support", to which the obvious reply is, "it doesn't matter."
by Rob O'Neill Auckland, Computerworld
Is it time to venture that Apple's failure of the 1990s had nothing whatsoever to do with whether its products were proprietary or "open"? Its problems were that it was making lousy products and was innovating in the wrong places.
by Erratic Wisdom
Or how it is possible to fall in love with a machine.
by Michelle Quinn, Los Angeles Times
Fueled by caffeine and curiosity, more than 300 laptop-wielding tech geeks filled a borrowed office this weekend to unlock the mysteries of Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
The enthusiasts planned the weekend gathering, which they called iPhoneDevCamp. They spent the weekend trying to make the iPhone bend to their will, to do things they wanted it to do and some things that Apple might prefer it didn't.
by Jodi Avery MacLean, Durham Region
Canadians will have to wait even longer than Americans for an iPhone.
by Rich Schapiro, New York Daily News
A day after Stephen Zoegall spent $550 on the iPhone he had been salivating over, he experienced its awesome power.
by Richard Siklos, Internationa Herald Tribune
The music industry has a tempestuous relationship with Jobs, more respect-resent than love-hate.
by Rex Baldazo, TechRepublic
I don't want to sound like a Luddite, I do think competition and innovation in the software world is a good thing. It's just such a headache personally to have to deal with yet another platform. I gues I'm getting too old to deal with a new round of the browser wars.
by Mike Musgrove, Washington Post
Yes, Apple's digital-music revolution has extended to the swimmong pool, thanks to devices like this waterproof contraption, called an Otterbox, I've been trying out this summer.
by Robert Scoble, Scobleizer
Where's the Apple employees?
by Steven Levy, Newsweek
People hate their cell phones, Steve Jobs said, in attempting to explain the iPhone anticipation.
And if you have never have any emotions about your cellphones before, you will now start hating it, no thanks to Apple's great commercials.
by Gizmodo
Paicfic Catch, the commercial's featured restaurant, was forced to add Calamari to their menu.
by Stephen Hutcheon, Sydney Morning Herald
Many gadget fans living outside the US are not prepared to wait — even though it means their expensive toy may not operate as its maker intended it.
by Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times
Apple said it could deliver a phone as elegant and superb as the iPod. And it did.
by Roughly Drafted
If the iPhone is a success, it will not only establish Apple as a mobile maker, but also extinguish any hope for proprietary web streamng technologies, proprietary codec use for audio and video distribution, and Adobe's proprietary mobile middleware.
by Richard Wray, The Guardian
Apple is understood to be demanding that its European mobile phone partners hand over a significant proportion of revenues generated by the iPhone and restrict the content that users can access.
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
The music-playing fucntion in the iPhone is flashy and colorful, but confusing. It's as if Apple hired a movie studio to design the user interface. They don't respect the mudane aspects of making a tool work for the user, and getting out oof our way.
by Brent Simmons, Inessential.com
I have a theory that I haven't heard yet: Flash wasn't included because it crashes so much.
by Rogue Amoeba
It seems to me that there is a solution and it's one we've seen before, from Apple even - frameworks.
by Peter Cohen, Playlist
The U.S. iTunes Store now features Next Big Thing, a group of albums from emerging artists priced at either $5.99 or $6.99. Many are available as iTunes Plus songs, Apple's non-DRM-encrypted format.
by Dori Smith, Macworld
If you don't own any web development programs yet and are looking to start hand-coding web sites, Coda is a good first step. Otherwise, wait for subsequent versions before tossing out programs like BBEdit and TextMate.
by Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
How brilliant, and troubling, of Jobs and Co. to sneak a billboard so intrusively into trippy visual art being watched by people quite possibly in a vulnerable state to marketing.
by Lionel Laurent, Forbes
With the iPone's European debut still months away, investors aren't diving in just yet.
by MacMinute
by Michelle Slatalla, New York Times
When I took my iPhone out of the box on Friday to prove to my children that we were the first family on the block with one, I had a glimpse of what life will be like after I'm dead and they're fighting over my jewelry.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Christopher Breen, Playlist
Universal and the other majors have had their day of unlimited power and influence, but that day is coming to an end. The question that remains is how they will deal with this inevitable future.
by Michael O McCracken
"Email client" isn't just a single app category, and it's about time someone realized it.
by Ryan Block, Engadget
Cupertino's getting all Picasso on us with the "Good artists copy, great artists steal" stuff, time and time again knocking off other artists' and creative companies' work in its own products and advertising.
by The Economist
Apple accomplishes a marketing feat to be envied and studied.
by Katie Hafner, New York Times
Across the nation, people looking to make a quick and easy profit bought one, two or as many phones as they could by recruiting friends to stand in line with them. But now they are finding that the iPhone is much more like a Harry Potter book than a hard-to-find Wii video game machine: a great thing to be one of the first to own, but not high in resale value because supply is not constrained.
by Dave Caolo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer
Nisus Writer Pro expands on the capabilities of Nisus Writer Express with several new features including table of contents, indexing, and bookmarks.
by Dan Pourhadi, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Type "helll", and the keyboard software will recommend "he'll".
by Brent Simmons, Inessential.com
by Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
by Nic Fildes, Independent
O2 is on the verge of wrapping up a deal to exclusively sell the Apple iPhone in the UK with a view to launching the iPod-based handset by Christmas.
It is understood that T-Mobile, Germany's largest operator, will sell the iPhone exclusively in Germany, while Orange, France's largest mobile phone company, has won the race to sell the handset in France. The iPhone is due to launch across those territories in November.
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
Scientists are reverse engineering the galaxy. So why is it illegal to reverse engineer a DVD player or the iPhone?
by Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post
With the iPhone, Apple has crafted an extraordinary piece of wireless art. But phones aren't art alone; they're also tools that we customize and use as we see fit. The combination of elegance and open-ended utility makes APple's computers a pelasure to use; the iPhone needs more of the latter.
by Robert Graham, Errata Security
The thing that interests us most is that we think the iPhone is inherently more secure than competing smartphones.
by Maija Palmer, Financial Times
Mobile operators have invested heavily in their own music services, and may be reluctant to promote Apple's rival iTunes service.
by Consumerist
If you recall, Michael was pissed because Apple denied his warranty repair, saying there was liquid damage. Michael denied spilling any liquid, and made a video of himself smashing his Macbook with a sledgehammer.
by David Chartier, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Michael Tiemann, CNET News.com
Apple and AT&T are demanding customers reveal SSNs to activate their iPhones. That should be the lead of every technology and business article written this week.
by Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing
by David Weiss
What's amazing to me about the iPhone experience is how much time Apple spent, not on the end states, but the transitions through and to the end states.
by Rachel Rosmarin, Forbes
The iPhone and its product-lie descendents offer a glimpse of what's to come—a world of small, elegant machines allowing users to take true, full-featured internet access with them anywhere.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
The world's largest major record label last night released a statement on the matter, telling Macworld UK: "Universal Music Group has decided not to renew its long-term agreement for Apple's iTunes service. Universal Music Group will now market its music to iTunes in an 'at will' capacity, as it does with its other retail partners."
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Steve Jobs may not have reinvented the mobile phone, but he has re-invented the way mobile phones are sold.
by David Pogue, The Missing Manuals
So here's what you can do, all in one motion: 1. Touch the ".?123" key, but don't lift your finger as the punctuation layout appears. 2. Slide your finger a half-inch onto the period or comma key, and release.
by Robert L. Mitchell, Computerworld
by Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg
Apple Inc. ran out of iPhones at more than half its stores less than a week after introducing the combination iPod music player and handset in the U.S.
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Alliances with AT&T and Universal Music Group underscore the benefits and pitfalls of forging close ties with the maker of the iPod and iPhone.
by James Duncan Davidson
by One Digital Life
by Cara Christiansen, KTUU.com
The news of a telecom acquisition between AT&T and Cellular One will sound like sweet iTunes to Mac enthusiasts since Alaskans were left out of the deal until an announcement Friday by AT&T.
by Brian Braiker, Newsweek
What would happen if the world's largest music corporation didn't renew its contract with Apple Inc.?
by Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com
CNET News.com doesn't know who FSJ is. But we do know what he thinks. On Monday, just days after Jobs' huge public relations effort build around the launch of the iPhone went off mainly as planned, FSJ sat down for an open-ended instant-message conversation with News.com.
by Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired
by Hackszine.com
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
iPhone Safari is not the same as Safari 3, which many people were thinking was the case. It's not the same as Safari 2, either, since the version of Safari on the iPone was apparently forked somewhere in between.
by Tony Bojorquez, Macworld
The amount of control it provides over the auction-listing process will especially appeal to more-experienced eBay sellers.
by Dave Caolo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Tomorrow is Independence Day in the US, which we celebrate by drinking alcohol, eating outdoors, and blowing things up (in that order). Here's how you can get your Mac in on the fun.
by Ellen Lee, San Francisco Chronicle
Apple Inc. denied reports Monday that record label Universal Music Group did not plan to renew its contract to sell songs on its online iTunes Store.
"We re still negotiating with Universal," Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said. "Their music is still on iTunes and their not re-signing is just not true."
by Andrew Orlowski, The Register
Universal Music Group has responded to yesterday's report in the New York Times by declaring that it will continue to supply its catalog to Apple's iTunes store. It'll just do so on new terms, far more flexible than it previously enjoyed.
by MacMinute
by Dan Goodin, The Register
Less than 72 hours after the iPhone's introduction, researchers have reported at least one flaw that could allow an attacker some level of control over the device, while other hackers have uncovered passwords hiding in Apple software that could prove key in gaining root access, they said.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
On my Tero, there are six hardware buttons that can be used regardless of which program you're running. On the iPhone, there's just one (the Home button). While this keeps the design clean and reduces the learning curve, it definitely leads to (tap... tap... tap...) mre work to accomplsh certain things.
More gesture shortcuts, handwriting recognitions, and even voice recognition: Apple needs to keep innovating, adding new stuff, while maintaining a super easy-to-use iPhone.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Photos, a built-in camera, and YouTube access augment mobile phone's offerings.
by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
I found that your activated iPhone is a lot more flexible and powerful than AT&T and Apple admit.
by Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge
With iPhone, Apple — a company with considerable consumer electronics and computer experience but no track record in cell phones — has come out of the gate with a product htat is all but stunning cosmetically and functionally.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
This first iPhone is an impressively polished product, with none of the haphazardness that we've come to associate with anything 1.0.
by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
iPhone users across the U.S. was complaining Monday that AT&T Inc.'s wireless data network was down.
by Duncan Riley
I've still got a lot to learn but so far no error messages, no validation messages, no continual prompts asking me if I want to do that: not having to deal with this alone is worth its weight in gold.
by Reuters
by Louis Hau, Forbes
The move means that Universal will treat Apple like pretty much any other retailer it does business with, marking a first step in restoring some balance in the relationship between Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and the struggling recording industry.
by iPhone FAQ
Using iPhone's email picture function, you can still get your photos over to your friends' phones by emailing it to their phone.
by Craig Hockenberry, furbo.org
Even though we don't have an iPhone SDK, we can begin this difficult process of rethinking our designs. And in many cases, HTML and Javascript can be used to prototype these redesigns.
by Steve Rose, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
by Gizmodo
If you were forced into buying iPhone accessories you don't want, go ahead and return them to the store where you bought them.
by Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Complaints about the speed of the network that Apple's new iPhone connects to points to the need for a new broadband wireless network in the U.S., said a businessman proposing one.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
A last minute bid by Apple Inc. to acquire the iPhone.com domain ahead of the gadget's launch on Friday is reported to have netted its previous registrant a seven-digital sum.
First Cisco. Must Apple choose the iPhone name?
by Reihan Salam, Slate
Inside the mind of an Apple obsessive.
by Bloombger News, International Herald Tribune
Several analysts said Monday that Apple had sold significantly more iPhone in the United States than they expected over the weekend, suggesting the company would reach its goal of making mobile phones as profitable as its computers and the iPod.
by Gearlog
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by John Martellaro, Mac Observer
Square Box Systems announced on Monday the immediate availability of CatDV 6.0, a major upgrade to its video logging and media asset software for Mac OS X and Windows.
by MacNN
Obviously, this does not include the cost of creating that wonderful software that powers the great experience.
by Dave Caolo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A new one will cost you $79US.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Tagged as "Audio Update 2007-001," the 660KB download targets all Intel-powered Macs, said Apple. "[This] addresses an issue with version 1.0 of the Mac OS X 10.4.10 Update in which a 'popping' sound might be heard with some external spekers on Intel-based Macs."
by Elsa Wenzel, CNET News.com
Adobe is shipping the final two editios of its Creative Suite 3 today, rounding off the first updates to its digital design software ince a merger with Macromedia les than two years ago.
by A Whole Lotta Nothing
The thing that really knocked my socks off was Safari.
by Gizmodo
by Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service
Now that Apple's iPhone is finally on sale, the race is on to see who can unlock it.
Unlocking the iPhone will enable the handset to be used with any cellular provider with a GSM or EDGE network, not just AT&T's networ. That's an attractive proposition for users who already have a cellular contract with another carrier, or users outside the U.S. who can't wait to get their hands on Apple's new handset.
by Tom Krazit, CNET Crave
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster released a report Sunday night estimating that Apple sold about 500,000 units from 6 p.m. Friday through the close of business Sunday.
by Corey Spring, Newsvine
Many of the iPhone auctions weren't sellling, slightly over half came and went without a single bidder.
by Ken Fisher, Ars Technica
Commercial video download sites like CinemaNow and the iTunes Store will soon have the option of allowing customers to burn copies of downoaded movies to DVDs that will playback in standard DVD players, thanks to an amendment recently approved by the DVD Copy Control Association.
And all along, I've wondered why Apple (and many others) didn't pay attention to the VCD format, which is big in Asia, and many, if not all, DVD players can play VCD too.
by Ethan Smith and Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal
Highlighting ongoing tension between the music industry and Apple Inc., Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group is set to notify the Cupertino, Calif. company that it is not renewing a long term contract to sell digital music downloads through the increasingly powerful iTunes Store, according to people familiar with the situation.
Instead, Universal, which is the world's largest music company by market share, expects to go to a short-term sales agreement.
See Also:
Apple Faces Rebellion Over iTunes: Universal Won't Renew Contract, by Jeff Leeds, New York Times.
Steve Jobs Vs. Universal, by Jerry Del Colliano, Inside Music Media. Here's the theory I think is most likely. Consumers steal more music.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
How the iPhone is like Apple's music player — and how it isn't.
by Martin Fackler, New York Times
Now that analysts and industry executives are getting their first good look at the iPhone, many are concerned that Asian manufacturers may have underestimated the Apple threat.
Many people — manufacturers and consumers alike — didn't realize that a lot of the iPod magic is in the software. Software that exists on the iPod itself and, more important, the piece of software called iTunes. But the iPhone, well, it's not difficult ot realise that software plays a very important role. (Nevertheless, many may still miss out on the importance of iTunes, even for the iPhone.) And that's why iPhone imitators in Asia will probably have a harder time than iPod imitators, because software development hasn't really been a strong point for a lot of these Asian manufacturers.
by Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press
AT&T Inc. said Sunday that situation has improved. "We are working on any issues on an individual basis with customers who were impacted," said Michael Coe, a spokesman for AT&T.
by Ryan Block, Engadget
by Kasper Jade, AppleInsider
Looks like you'll encounter problems activating your iPhone if you've moved to a different ZIP code than your existing mobile phone number... Looks like your mobile phone's DRM is worse than iTunes'. :-)
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
The trick is to add a <meta> element to the page.
by Nilay Patel, Engadget
While it looks like a buch of third-party headphones are out, most iPod accessories seem to work, although the iPhone isn't exactly happy about it — it pops up a warning and offers to put itself in airplane mode so you don't hose your speakers with GSM signal noise.
See Also:
Apple Creates iPhone-Specific Trailers Site
by David Chartier, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Clicking this icon appears to take the user to an iPod-like app, where the trailer begins to buffer, and all movie controls are available.
by Gizmodo
by Adam Bryant, New York Times
These days, new can seem so yesterday. What matters is what's next.
by Ken Fisher, Ars Technica
Only Steve Jobs could get people to wait in line for something that, well, you didn't need to wait in line for.
by Ken Mingis, Computerworld
by Jason Kottke
Looks like it's the plastic sheath around the headphone plug that's the problem.
See Also:
Apple Wants You To Buy Their Headphones For iPhone, by Smooth Harold.
by Gizmodo
by Dave Caolo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
For us, "slow and deliberate" is the name of the game.
by Dave Caolo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Lev Grossman, Time
Steve Jobs has said, repeatedly, that this is the best iPod that Apple has ever made, and it is. It's also the best phone that anybody has ever made.
by Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com
So I admit it: I bought an iPhone. That was the easy part. But I should have realized that if the customer service whizzes at AT&T could find a way to mar what was otherwise a perfectly pleasant experience, they would.
by Eric Butterfield, PC World
PC World manhandles the new Apple phone to see how much abuse it can take. Conclusion: There's no need to coddle this sexy little device.
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