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by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Sources claim the real reason talks have not gone well to this point is because of differences the companies have over revenue sharing.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Apple's learning fairly quickly that Europe is a very different place, espeically when it comes to mobile phones.
by Robert X. Cringely, PBS
I don't think AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson's statement was by accident and I don't think he is out of touch with reality. I think, instead, he was sending a $1 billion message to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
What I believe is troubling the relationship between AT&T and Apple is the upcoming auction for 700-MHz wireless spectrum and AT&T's discovery that — as I have predicted for weeks — Apple will be joining Google in bidding. AT&T thought its five-year "exclusive" iPhone agreement with Apple woul dhave precluded such a bid, but that just shows how poorly Randall Stephenson understood Steve Jobs. Steve always hurts his friends to see how much they really love him, so AT&T probably should have expected this kind of corporate body blow.
by Matt Asay, CNET News.com
by Evan Rudowski: Web Transplant
It almost make me feel nostalgic for Dell — a company that was just as uncool as I am, but which would at least send somebody geeky to my premises to fix my computer, leving me in continued, uninterrupted operation.
by MacNN
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Some photographs require lots of efforts from the photographer. Some require lots of luck. And then some that require both.
Presenting: 20 photographs taken at the exact right angle.
by Neale Monks, TidBITS
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
As the saying goes, the time for Bill Gates to stop and pick up an one-dollar bill on the floor is worth much more than that one-dollar bill.
What if, instead of a one-dollar bill, it's a bunch of interns on their first day of work to contribute to the Microsoft Empire?
:-)
by Stephen Wellman, InformationWeek
The writing is on the wall. The future iPhone should be 3G, run outside applications, work on both CDMA and GSM networks, and be fully unlocked.
by Tim Beyers, Motley Fool
Jobs' Apple has been a hit machine. More Beatles than Bangles. More U2 than Ugly Kid Joe. For more than three decades, Apple has oozed innovation — except, of course, in the years when the maestro was away.
by Oliver Rist, PC Magazine
Leopard is the new Vista. All the way. And here are five examples.
by Joseph Goldstein, New York Sun
The deadline is approaching for the city to decide whether it will push ahead with its shareholder lawsuit against Apple Inc.
by Crayton Harrison, Bloomberg
Aple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the internet at a faster rate, AT&T INc. chief executive officer Randall Stephenson said.
The device will operate on third-generation wireless networks, Stephenson said today at a meeting of the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, California.
by [An Error Occurred While Processing This Directive].com
You'll have zero lines anywhere and a strong Apple employee to people ratio of 3:1 (instead of the normal 1:500). And of course, great people-watching.
by Daniel Jacobs, International Business Times
by Adam Ewing, MarketWatch
by John Timmer, Ars Technica
by Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald
by Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld
The Intel Software Development Products have been upgraded to allow Leopard developers to take better advantage of Intel's Penryn chips.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
by Apple
by Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
Google is adding support for Google Gadgets in its Google Desktop for the Mac software.
by AppleInsider
Apple said Wednesday that come the new year it will no longer allow customers to access and run its Boot Camp dual boot solution unless they upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
by BBC News
Staff at the UK's biggest mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, have been caught misleading customers about Apple's popular iPhone handset.
by Leander Kahney, Wired
Apple breaks all the rules of retail, but you can bet Santa's little helpers will bring sacks of cash to Steve Jobs this Christmas.
by The Macalope, CNET News.com
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
by Tim Gideon, PC Magazine
by Christopher Breen, Playlist
I'd still like buttons and getting some of the iPhone's apps stock rather than having to hack them onto the touch would be nice. But were I to be asked to recommend the nearly perfect gift for a loved one who wants to take video on the road, I wouldn't hesitate to suggest a stop at the nearest Apple Store for a gander at the iPod touch.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Adam L. Penenberg, Fast Company
In an age of convergence and simplification, customers are ever more insistent that computers, phones, TV, and music systems work together.
by Jackie Dove, Macworld
by Matt Rosoff, CNET News.com
I'm not saying the labels should automatically do whatever Apple tells them to do, but complaining about the one bright spot in your distribution picture doesn't seem like a particularly smart move.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Brent Schlender, Fortune
The charismatic Apple founder pioneered several industries, made an unrivaled comeback, and established a powerhouse brand, placing him at the top of Fortune's 2007 Power 25 list.
by Jonathan Christopher, Monday By Noon
The software is great, the hardware is great, and the aesthetics are a nice bonus.
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
Analysts for ivnestment bank Piper Jaffray spent six hours this past weekend monitoring traffic at mall-based Apple retail stores and found that the shops exerted a gravitational pull on shoppers who came within 25 feet of the entranceways.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Daniel Drew Turner, eWeek
Apple continues to consistently sell more laptops than desktops, even as a major iMac upgrade enabled desktop sales to achieve a temporary parity with mobile models in 2007.
by Tonya Engst, TidBITS
I can't promise that these tips will help you whip out your holiday cards from iPhoto while you bake cookies and realize that Chanukah is way before Christmas this year, but they certainly won't hurt.
by Brian Chen, Macworld
Ever since I bought my first Apple laptop, every power charger I've owned has inexplicably stopped working within one year.
by MacNN
by Zach Nelson, Inc
If you think the iPhone is all about listening to music and taking calls, think again. The device's ability to allow rich web-based business applications to run on your phone has raised the bar and is ushering in the cell phone as the next major computing device.
by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
A U.K. data recovery firm says a manufacturing flaw causes deep gouges in the disk, resulting in permanent data loss.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
The QuickTime vulnerability disclosed in the Windows version of QuickTime last week also affects Mac OS X, Symantec Corp. said today.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
This has been quite a year for Apple, but Steve Jobs' magic wand doesn't always work.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
The problem seems to affect older Macs set-up with a Boot Camp partition for running WIndows.
by Jeff Carlson, Macworld
Updated video-editing app tackles AVCHD, MPEG-2 formats, courts iMovie users.
by Aral Balkan
Why, Apple, did you take a polished, stable operating system (Tige) and release an upgrade that lacks the key ingredients that made people love it?
by THomas Hawk, WebProNews
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Security researchers warn that attack code targeting an unpatched bug in Apple Inc.'s QuickTime has gone public, and added that in-the-wild attacks against systems running Windows XP and Vista are probably not far behind.
by Jon Fortt, Fortune
Greg Joswiak has what you might call a busy job — he's charged with marketing two of Apple's biggest hit products, the iPod and the iPhone. That might sound easy considering the buzz Apple's product announcements generate, but there's more to the job than promotion.
by Rafe Colburn, rc3.org
The Apple's Human Interface Guide doesn't seem to discuss tabbed interfaces at all.
by I Think This World Is Perfect...
Steve - we know we're late to the party, we understand that, but put us down for four lifetime seats on the Apple bandwagon. Mad props and much love.
by Michelle Quinn, Los Angeles Times
By making hundreds of lectures from elite academic institutions available online for free, Apple is reinvigorating the minds of people who have been estranged from the world of ideas.
by Anne Shaw, eFluxMedia
by Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek
by Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
For decades the pursuit of high-quality sound on high-end sound systems drove the recording industry, especially its classical music branch. "Good enough had never been good enough," Mark Katz said. But now, he added, for listeners and even the industry, "good enough is good enough."
by May Wong, Associated Press
Not a cash register is in sight. The electronics on display are all powered up and ready to use. Personal trainers, specialists and newly minted concierges in aqua blue shirts make the Apple Store feel part salon, part internet cafe — just without the espresso.
Over the past year, Apple Inc. has revamped its 201 stores, changing the layout, adding services and increasing its staffing. The "concierge" service that Apple launched last week is only the latest initiative designed to draw more visitors and bolster already record-breaking sales.
by Chris Cadelago, San Francisco Chronicle
by Daniel Eran Dilger, RoughlyDrafted Magazine
Microsoft still has a huge reserve of cash and revenues to throw at its battles. The problem for the company today is that its rivals now do, too.
by Jonathan Seff, Playlist
Although I wasn't planning to spend my days watching videos on my iPhone instead of watching the waves crash into the beach, the plane rides there and back would give me plenty of time to catch up on some unwatched TV show episodes and the like. So I decided to squeeze all I could into its relatively tiny 8GB.
by Pierre Igot, Betalogue
It really is frustrating when Apple's own engineers fail to be careful enough to follow the logic of their own operating system and make sure that they respect the design choices made by other Apple engineers before them.
by AppleInsider
Apple Computer early Friday morning kicked-off the 2007 holiday shopping season with its annual "Black Friday" sale, offering significant discounts on Macs, iPods and accessories.
by Apple Otaku
by Willys eLearning Corner
by Ann Althouse
Ah! I'm so happy with Leopard, which I've just installed in my MacBook, and I can boil my reason for happiness down to one word: Buttons!
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Citing a report in the Chinese-language Commercial Times, DigiTimes reveals research from Taiwan's Topology Research which claims Apple will see volume sales climb 30 per cent year-on-year in 2008.
by Robert X. Cringely, PBS
Apple may actually be on the hook for more money than it appears here, but structuring the deal this way allows the company to claim victory.
by Ed Moltzen, CRN
by Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple is running an innovative two-part online advertisement on selected sites.
by Stephen Withers, Hydrapinion
by David Orban
My guess is that my productivity at least doubled. Almost no rebooting, no freezing, no watching the screen until the OS unlocks.
by Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
Mac users who've upgraded their laptops to Apple's new Leopard operating system are reporting a sharp drop off in battery life.
by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis
The shame here is that the engineers obviously made and effort to find algorithms that make the implementation of the silly 'transparent' menu bar idea less painful. That sounds like hours wasted for nothing. Mere damage control. Throwing good thoughts after the bad idea of some manager or art director.
by Cliff Edwards, BusinessWeek
Makers of cases and adapters must hustle when Steve Jobs unveils another new product. Still, the near-$1 billion market makes it worth the stress.
by Agam Shah, IDG News Service
Apple will pay Burst.com $10 million and get access to Burst.com's patent portfolio, with some exceptions.
by Reuters
Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile will allow customers in Germany to buy Apple's iPhone without having to sign a a T-Mobile contract after rival Vodafone obtained a court injunction against it.
by Lisa Parrish, The Great Whatsit
Every friend I know who has made "the switch" has raved about Apple products. "I wish I'd done it sooner," is the mantra. Everything's so easy! There are no viruses! Apple products are beautiful! They'll improve your social life! THey've been known to cure cancer! So, why not make the change?
by Craig Alan Williamson, My First Mac
by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
An attacker exploiting the security flaw could create an e-mail attachment that appears to be, for example, a JPEG image file, but executes malicious code when clicked on, without the warning dialogue that should be present.
by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
by Associated Press
by MacNN
by MacNN
Apple has announced a special sales event planned for this Friday, November 23rd.
by Dan Moren, MacUser
by Stephen Wellman, InformationWeek
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Quay nearly replicates Tiger's folder-in-Dock functionality, but also adds a few often-requested options.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple's latest operating system, Leopard, has been declared a true breed of Unix by The Open Group.
by Bloomberg
Apple won dismissal yesterday of a lawsuit claiming that company directors and managers, including the chief executive, Steven P. Jobs lied to shareholders about the backdating of option awards.
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
Honestly, it's hard to imagine Apple competing with any of these subnotebooks based upon size, weight, and features.
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
by Cleve Nettles, 9 To 5 Mac
by Melvin G. Calimag, ZDNet Asia
by Richard Stiennon, ZDNet.com
by Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph
A quiet revolution has been taking place in homes up and down the country. We're abandoning our sensible desktop computers, our CD players and our chunky smartphones. We've fallen in love with beauty and innovation and glamour, with sun-kissed hippie tech and indulgent design.
We've fallen in love with Apple.
by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen, MacUser
by Sheldon Liber, BloggingStocks
by Victor Agreda, Jr., The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Following is a list of features and specific "cool things" I think you can point out if you are trying to explain to a friend why they should upgrade.
by Harry McCracken, PC Advisor
Leopard's good, here's how to make it great.
by Brent Schlender, Fortune
No doubt the iPhone will improve as time goes on, but it has become apparent that the business of designing, selling, and supporting smartphones is a lot trickier than selling PCs, even for a company as gifted as Apple.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
As things stand today, the "missing" commands can be hidden nearly anywhere, making for a very frsturating user experience.
Simply put, if Apple would do a better job at following its own rules, all users would benefit.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Jeff Carlson, TidBITS
by John C. Welch, Macworld
by Dennis Sellers, Macsimum News
by Richard Martin, CIO Update
Microsoft may be Apple's 800-pound gorilla, but Apple's got something Microsoft wil lnever have: fanatical loyalty. So, in this battle for the hearts and minds of computer users everywhere, who's got the edge? The smart money's on Apple.
by Da Blog
by Patrick Smith, Salon
I despise this commercial so deeply that I need to leave the room every time it comes on. I've worked hard writing articles that provide passengers with an inside look at the difficult logistics of these situations, and in 30 seconds Apple is able to hopelessly mislead millions of viewers, dumbing down the realities of flight delays and presenting airline operations as childish and unprofessional.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
After years of drawing just a dollar in salary, Apple CEO Steve Jobs could be in store for a raise.
Apple filed its annual report for its 2007 fiscal year Thursday afternoon, and hinted in a section about executive compensation that Jobs coul dbe in for some real money fairly soon. "Because Mr. Jobs's continued leadership is critical to Apple, the Compensation Committee is considering additional compensation arrangements for him," the company wrote.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Rich Mogull, TidBITS
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Id Software's John Carmack recently openly criticized Apple's attitude toward supporting game developers, and said that he and Steve Jobs have had "a fairly heated argument" over the issue.
From what I have read, it seems that sometimes, you do need a "heated argument" with Steve Jobs in order to sway his opinions.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
According to Apple, Mac OS X 10.5.1 addresses issues with Airport, Back to My Mac, Disk utilities, iCal, Mail, Networking, Printing, Security and Firewall, System and Finder, and Time Machine.
See Also:
10.5.1 Fixes Numerous Leopard Flaws, by Glenn Fleishman, Rich Mogull, TidBITS. One missing fix in this release is a solution for the progressive Wi-Fi performance degradation experienced by some AirPort users.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
With its new Open Format Timeline users can mix and match DV, HDV and AVCHD material in realtime. The application automatically performs the necessary scaling, cropping and frame rate adjustments, according to Apple.
by Bloomberg
Aple Inc. won dismissal Wednesday of a shareholder lawsuit claiming that company officers including chief executive Steve Jobs were overpaid with illegally backdated option awards.
"Without a discernible drop in the stock price there is no basis upon which to establish an injury to shareholders," U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose wrote in dismissing the suit.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple and 22 other major tech firms slammed with patent infringement suit over predictive text.
by Independent.ie
If anyone anywhere can access the internet wherever they are on the planet, then the world is set to change in wholly irrevocable and unforeseeable ways.
In other words, the iPhone is probably going to have a greater impact on civilisation than even television.
by Cade Metz, The Register
Sure, Apple TV is pretty close to useless if wanna watch stuff on your television. But it's a godend to at least one independent filmmaker.
by Robin Harris, ZDNet.com
Flash drives have a real advantage in shock resistance over disks. But the performance is about the same as a disk, the power savings minimal and the cost disadvantage huge.
by Consumerist
Yep, it's another one of those "email Steve Jobs" posts.
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
by Rick LePage, Macworld
by Jackie Dove, Macworld
Under the hood improvements lead to better overall performance and gaming.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by AppleInsider
See Also:
Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music Claims iTunes Is Digital Music Done Right, by Bryan Gardiner, Wired.
Who Else Is Laughing At The Music Industry?, by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com.
by Agam Shah, IDG News Service
by Jeff Porten, TidBITS
FileMaker Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple, and I found myself wishing that Steve Jobs had wandered into their offices, picked up the Bento development team, and shipped them over to the iWork '08 group. Bento could be a spectacular addition to iWork - if only they dropped all the FileMaker terminology, and even some of the functionality, in favor of something that flowed more smoothly.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Conceptually, Bento stands apart from all three iWork apps in a fundamental way: it is not document-based.
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The update includes many improvements and fixes, but it also includes the final version of Safari 3.0, Apple's homegrown web browser that has been in beta for several months.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple outsells Vista with Leopard in Japan in October.
by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Study finds that Apple iPhone users make more mistakes when texting compared to users of phones with hard keys.
by David Long, ZDNet UK
by Cliff Edwards, BusinessWeek
A minimalist redesign, a zippy new OS, and terrific new software make the iMac the all-in-one desktop computer of choice for multimedia lovers.
by The General Theory Of RIAivity
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
The Mac mini is a pretty impressive bit of kit really.
by Bloomberg
Apple's shares rose more than they had in over a year after China Mobile, the world's biggest wireless operator, said it was in talks to sell the iPhone.
See Also:
Apple To GIve Up Revenue Sharing iPhone Deal?, by J. Mark Lytle, Tech.co.uk. China Mobile's huge subscriber base may force Apple's hand.
by Leander Kahney, Wired
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
by Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Blog
Bento diverges from Apple style by showing all its warts in a public beta: a sort of clunky-yet-intriguing interface design, slow, hangs from time to time with the spinny cursor, the disk image look samateurish, etc. All those cherished mistakes that we indie developers recognize because we've made them ourselves.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
The newly unveiled Bento is a lightweight personal database application that, at its core, is about making databases accessible and easy for the casual use—you might call it FileMaker Lite, though that's in no way intended to slight the impressive amount of functionality built in.
Personally, I am disappointed that this is a Mac-only release. A low-cost high-quality database for both Windows and Mac will be very useful for me.
See Also:
First Look: FileMaker's Bento Database For Leopard, by MacNN.
by Charles Starrett, iLounge
by Stephen Wellman, InformationWeek
What does Android promise? It promises easier-to-use mobile applications on a lot of cell phones. Doesn't that promise sound a lot like Microsoft's promise with Windows?
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Some MacBook Pro users who upgraded to the Leopard operating system are reporting that their notebooks' keyboards and trackpads have gone on the fritz, according to Apple Inc. support forums. THe only apparent solution: Reboot the machine.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Associated Press
Singapore's third-largest telecommunications company MobileOne Ltd, or M1, is looking at overseas acquisition targets as its domestic market is already saturated, its chief executive Neil Montefiore said.
In addition, M1 is in discussions with Apple Inc. to bring the iPhone to Asia, Montefiore said.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
When the iPod touch was first released the seemingly arbitrary lack of event editing on the device disappointed a number of reviewers and iPod touch owners. Apple has apparently responded to this criticism.
by Associated Press
China Mobile Ltd. is in talks with Apple Inc. about bringing the iPhone to China, but no agreement has been reached yet, the telecom's chief executive said Tuesday.
See Also:
Does China Mobile Want The iPhone?, by Douglas McIntyre, Blogging Stocks.
by Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine
Although substance and performance are still critical to tech products, aesthetics no longer take a back seat to them. We give you seven devices that marry form and function.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Triston Mcintype, writing in Tech.Blorge.com on the leaked wishlist of the next version of Windows: If Microsoft were to adopt all the recommendations made in this form, they'd have... well, they'd have OS X or Linux.
Glad to see the Macintosh operating system being competitive again.
by ZDNet UK
by Jesse David Hollington, iLounge
by Sun BabelFish Blog
by Esther J. Cepeda, Chicaco Sun-Times
iPod can be sports geek's all-encompassing radio and TV, putting everything from talking heads to fantasy football in your pocket.
by Elizabeth Montabano, IDG News Service
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Kev
Probably the most common question asked about IB 3 is: how do you subclass something?
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek
Mac OS X, and Apple's development paradigm, is the anti-Linux. And it's Steve Jobs' big accomplishment that Apple has built a better (I should actually say "more successful") Linux than Linux Torvalds has ever been able to do.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
If you look at the successful platforms, most of them were completely open to anyone who wanted to make products for them.
by John Naughton, The Guardian
If you're a techie, you can log into the iPhone using a terminal, and when you do, you see a proper Unix machine. And at that point you begin to see the device in a new light. You also begin to ask some hard questions about the mobile phone business. And about Apple.
by Mr. Teachout, Wall Street Journal
Why do I settle for inferior sound quality? Partly because of the near-miraculous convenience of MP3s, which not only can be stored and retrieved with the greatest of ease but are equally easy to purchase over the web via services like Apple's iTunes. But I have another reason, one that I share with millions of other iPod users: I'm middle-aged.
by Iain S Bruce, Sunday Herald
Apple simply ecels at connecting existing technologies with mainstream consumers.
by Jeff Carlson, Seattle Times
Lots of other improvements and changes abound in Leopard, some practical, some obscure. After running Leopard full time, I want to share some of the little things I've discoverd that I'm either taking advantage of almost daily or that are simply cool.
by Stephen Fry, The Guardian
Beauty. Charm. Delight. Excitement. Ooh. Aah. Wow! Let me at it.
by Shan Ross, Scotsman.com
They huddled under umbrellas, wrapped in sleeping bags through a stormy November night — just to be at the front of the queue to get a new mobile phone costing £269.
by Sara Driscoll, eWeek
by MacNN
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
Having proven that its technology is patentable, Microlinc LLC has filed suit against ten large coputing firms claimng patent infringement through use of PCI Express bus.
by Ahruman's Webthing
by Peter Kim, Macworld
Logic Studio is extremely effective at providing an extensive tool kit and then getting out of your creative way. The streamlined, fewer clicks-to-music philosophy throughout, combined with more precise tools for audio editing and surround, make this a landmark release.
by MacNN
by Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch
Either that, or Apple is throwing out red herrings.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
EVE Online is an MMOG of a very different color, and if you're looking for a game with incredibly deep and challenging game play, this is it. EVE Online makes World of Warcraft look like Minesweeper.
by Rick Curran and Ilene Hoffman, MacNN
Sandvox is an exciting web page creation software with plenty of features, designed to help you create a site with no previous experience.
by Barbara Krasnoff, InformationWeek
by Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg
Chief executive officer Steve Jobs jumpstarted optimism about the power of the iPhone, the $399 web-surfing mobile device he introduced in June, to generate a steady flow of cash. Analysts are revaluing the stock because each sale brings Apple a cut of monthly wireless service fees from AT&T Inc., and sales of the phone are recognized over 24 months.
by Dow Jones
After France Telecom SA's Organe brand and Apple made a meal out of unveiling Ornge as the chosen distributor in France, doubt lingers over just how much exclusivity Orange will have over the sought-after handset, due to French consumer law.
The situation threatens to scupper Apple's fiercely defended business model of distributing the iPhone through one operator exclusively. It could also gnaw at iPhone revenue for France Telecom and Apple while potentially benefitting other operators and phone phone distributors.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple met just partial success in persuading court to declare Burst.com's iPod patents invalid.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Jon Fortt, Fortune
Jobs has thrived by owning the user experience - but rivals hope he's going too far.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by Brad Reed, Network World
Despite what skeptical industry analysts and leery CIOs may say, a new poll shows that a large majority of iPhone fans want to use their favorite device for work and play.
by James Galbraith, Macworld
Graphics, frontside bus team with processor bump to speed up laptops.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
What works—and what doesn't—with Leopard's organizational feature.
by MacNN
The latest release of the internet traffic montioring and management utility introduces predefined "smart rule suggestions" to help less experienced users choose a reasonable action for each connection query.
by John Daavettila, Michigan Daily
It's understandable to want to be fully connected with the computer - the future! - but we need to stop when it becomes impractical.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Nova Media application returns SMS support to Leopard.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Lisa Vaas, eWeek
The Mac's first Trojan won't be its last: Security researchers at F-Secure have found that the gang behind the malware has been churning out slightly modified versions to evade anti-malware detection.
by GIles Turnbull, Telegraph
An elaborate array of virtual chastity belts is supposed to keep the iPhone pure. But, that is just a red rag to a geek.
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by MacNN
by Farhad Manjoo, Salon
Let's put to rest the myth that an Apple computer will set you back more than a Windows PC. In fact, it'll cost you less.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
I'm going to take a look at some of the first tools for tweaking Leopard's interface. If you're one of the people who isn't completely thrilled with the new look, it's possible to make Leopard's apperance not only bearable, but perhaps even enjoyable.
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld
Leopard has a new remote access feature—here's how it works.
by Michael Rose, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Apple released a seed of the update, 9B13, to developers this afternoon, which contained a hefty number of bug fixes.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Mike Mihalik, an ombudsman and former vice president of engineering at LaCie Ltd., criticized Apple's testing before the company launched its new Leopard operating system. "The two tech notes that it's released clarify what Apple should have done as part of the normal release," said Mihalik, referring to a pair of recent support ducocuments that address problems users have reported with the backup tool. Instead he said, it was as if Apple "Said 'oops, we forgot to chck that."
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Scot Finnie, Computerworld
Leopard is a very welcome upgrade after the almost two and a half years since Tiger debuted. Apple made the best of that development time. For starters, it didn't fix what wasn't broken. It listened to constructive criticism. It heavily refined OS X and made its bundled apps more powerful, its user interface more usable and the overall package more useful.
by Jonathan Richards, The Times
See Also:
The Lowdown On The iPhone, by Anna Pickard, The Guardian.
by Ogle Earth
by Bruce Temkin, Customer Experience Matters
This was the best technical service experience that I've ever personally had with a computer manufacturer.
by Peter Boysen
The long and short of it, technology is incredibly useful, especially in Leopard. But make sure you know who is at the other end of the computer.
by David Garrison, Youth Ministry Exchange
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Why Apple isn't solely responsible for its recent missteps.
Apple do take responsiblity with everything it shipped inside a Macintosh, from the Intel chip to the Wi-Fi card. Apple do take responsibility with everything it shipped inside the Leopard DVD, from the transparent menu bar to the Apache web server. Likewise, the blame on all these crippling of features in the iPhone (and iPod touch, too) lies squarely on Apple. It may be understandable why Apple made certain decisions, but it cannot be the case Apple doesn't take on the full responsiblity for something it ships and sells.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
EVE Online is superficially a space trading, exploration and combat game in which players pilot spacecraft and travel from solar system to solar system. But the single, persistent online universe that all players share and the player-run economy add some twists to EVE to make it a very deep and somewhat daunting experience for new players, even those with experience in other MMOGs.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Tom Karpik, a computer science student at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, says he has identified a bug in Leopard that can cause you to lose data if problems occur while moving files between two different storage volumes, such as two different hard drives.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc. has addressed some of the problems Leopard users have reported with Time Machine, including stalled and invisible backups, with several support documents.
Macintosh users, however, are still packing Apple's support forums with complaints about the backup and restore software.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple has released the Darwin source code behind its Leopard operating system to developers.
by Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
The message from Cupertino is loud and clear - Enjoy the iPod touch Apple's way, or take a hike. After years of telling us about how Microsoft locks consumers into one-size-fits-all products, applications and services, Apple then does exactly the same thing.
by Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle
Some folks just can't help themselves — they have to be first in line for the latest and greatest. The allure of the newest shiny object is too much for them.
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
Many of the technologies in Leopard Server are enterprise-worthy.
by Mike Schramm, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
MYOB"s FirstEdge 3 is a best-of-class small-business accounting application that gives you excellent features at a great price.
by Dan Moren, MacUser
by Apple
by Marc Hedlund, O'Reilly Radar
It's remarkable to see Apple once again in the position of selling a whole-stack platform (software and hardware, at least — network sold separately), competing with a broad coalition of commodity hardware companies using a common software platform.
by Alice Z. Cuneo, Advertising Age
Outgunned 8-to-1 in share by the unstoppable iPod, Microsoft is overturning its marketing strategy for Zune — and will rely more on traditional media to go after the white blight.
Good luck.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Innovative software that lets users control several Macs using a single mouse and keyboard has been released.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
O2 has stepped up its data plan for iPhone owners - offering truly unlimited data downloads, the company revealed this wekend.
Was Apple working behind the scenes to get this changed?
by Michael DeAgonia, Ryan Faas, Ken Mingis and Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
Now that we've used Apple's new OS for a week, what do we like and what falls short?
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
by Jeffrey Selingo, Washington Post
Now that Apple has amassed courses via podcasts from schools around the country, the offerings are uneven. But you can't beat the price.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
The slip — the first since July — may be due to sales slowing after the company wrapped up its annual back-to-school promotion in mid-September. The stagnation of Mac market share may also be connected to the release of Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, On Oct 26, as some buyers postponed purchases until after Leopard's launch to ensure machines had the new operating system preinstaled.
by Tom Jowitt, Techworld.com
A U.K. data recovery organization has warned Apple Macbook users that they risk potential data loss due to a design flaw on certain hard drives.
"The read/write heads are detaching from the arm and ploughing deep gouges into the magnetic platter," explained U.K. firm's managing director Duncan Clarke. "Apple are being utterly irresponsible and should launch a product recall."
by Gizmodo
by Mike Davidson
In configuring this MacBook at the online Apple Store, it struck me how much Appel still charges for RAM, and gets away with.
by Jillian Cohan, Wichita Eagle
Here and elsewhere, teachers are using iPods to strengthen kids' English and foreign-language skills and to help them design their own lessons by downloading podcasts or videos to supplement their coursework.
by Juliet Macur, New York Times
Headphones are discouraged or banned at marathons, causing a rift with recreational runners who use them.
by Dave Lieber, Star-Telegram
If you buy an iPhone from AT&T Wireless, remove it from the box and it doesn't work, you can't go back to the store and exchange it for another.
by David Smith, Guardian
After years of near religious devotion to Apple and its high priest, chief executive Steve Jobs, there are signs of a revolt in the blogosphere.
by T3
The biggest modification is on the inside and is something that will have nerdgeeks sprinting to online forums in a message-posting furore. We can reveal that the UK iPHone is, in fact, installed with firmware version 1.1.2. As well as more keyboard character sets, the updated firmware will haveaddressed security issues and minor bus: Great for news overall stability, but it is likely to cause yet another uproar in Apple's loyal fanbase, as Apple is sure to have closed up the security loopholes which allowed people to hack the iPhone to run their own software.
by David Berlind, ZDNet
If Apple is using credit card numbers for the purpose of tracking (as seems to be the case here), Apple might not only be in violation of PCI DSS< it could also be breaking some laws (some of which are based on PCI DSS) as well as breaching the terms of its agreements with card issuers and credit card companies such as Visa, MasterCard, and American express.
My educated guess is that Apple's practices have kicked off a shitstorm of an inquisition in the credit card industry that has lawyers on both sides poring through the PCI DSS documentation, merchant contracts, and state/federal laws and that this isn't the last we will hear of this.
by Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
by Rob Beschizza, Wired
by MacNN
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
If you're just getting into this method of organizing ideas, you may find the graphics options overwhelming. But the ability to create templates is a boon for those who use mind maps regularly, and if you take the time to discover all thep rogram's graphical options, you can make a template that is perfect for your style.
by Jonathan M. Gittlin, Ars Technica
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
It's not just us — technology-design obsessed consumers — who would benefit from at least one company stepping up and competing against Apple on Apple's own ground. Apple would too, in that competition would push them to do even better, and act as a preventative against hubris.
by Seth Porges, Popular Mechanics
If Bluetooth makes so much sense and would make your experience so much better, why doesn't your iPod have Bluetooth? The answer is simple economics.
by Elsa Wenzel, CNET News.com
How well does Leopard work for blind users?
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Updates issued yesterday by Apple Inc. did not fully solve lockup problems for some iMacs, and in some cases made the screen-freezing worse, Mac owners reported today.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Leopard's firewall is confusing, inconsistent, switched off by default and incompatible with some applications, a security researcher said Friday after analyzing the new security tool.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
Buying Adobe and then hobbling the part of the business that brings in two-thirds to three-quarters of its revenue is a very bad business idea, and terrible way to squander Apple's hard-earned cash stockpile.
by MacNN
by Mike Schramm, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Most Leopard users seem satisfied. But there have been a fair amount of complaints from those who were first down the road to Leopard.
Count me among the satisfied. Yes, I have to choose a different desktop picture because of the stupid translucent menu bar. The computer did kernel-panic-ed on me once after, apparently, losing wireless network connection. But, overall, I'm satisfied.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Another day, another patent infringement lawsuit. This time, Canada-based Wi_LAN has filed two suits against 22 total companies that it alleges hve infringed on its patents relating to WiFi and power consumption in DSL products.
by Michael DeAgonia, Computerworld
Revamped core technologies make coding easier, more exciting for software developers.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
Spotlight in Leopard is what Spotlight in Tiger should have been but wasn't.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Lev Grossman, Time
The thing is hard to type on. It's too slow. It's too big. It doesn't have instant messaging. It's too expensive. (Or, no, wait, it's too cheap!) It doesn't support my work e-mail. It's locked to AT&T. Steve Jobs secretly hates puppies. And—all together now—we're sick of hearing about it! Yes, there's been a lot of hype written about the iPhone, and a lot of guff too. So much so that it seems weird to add more, after Danny Fanboy and Bobby McBlogger have had their day. But when the day is over, Apple's iPhone is still the best thing invented this year. Why? Five reasons.
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
With more money on hand than it's ever had, the question is: What exactly will Apple do with that pile?
It's easier to predict what the company won't do. If analysts agree on anything, it is that the company will not be making any major acquisitions. It's simply not in Apple's DNA.
by Pyile
Time machine has made a copy in your time machine backup that Mac OS X will cheerfully launch without a warning.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Apple discreetly slipped out an update to the MacBook line overnight, which now sports Intel's MA X3100. This also means that the MacBook processor has been bumped to match the Santa Rosa architecture in the MacBook Pro.
See Also:
Apple Updates MacBook, MacBook Pro, by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld. Apple has also added new build-to-order options for the pro-level MacBook Pro.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Blog
Dismissing a modal sheet in an application causes Spaces to awkwardly zoom that application's space back into vision.
by Rob Griffiths and James Galbraith, Macworld
Terminal, X11, and Disk Utility may not be the stuff of headlines, but there are enough significant changes here to radically affect how you interact with Mac OS X.
by Harry McCracken, Slate
How Leopard demolishes Vista.
by Michael Gartenberg, Computerworld
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
In a notable about-face, Apple has changed its stance with regard to allowing Mac OS X Server to be run inside a virtual machine, much as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion make it possible to run Windows and other PC-based operating systems on a Mac.
by Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald
What will it mean for us when the iPhone finally gets here.
See Also:
Australia's Telstra In iPhone Talks With Apple, by Andrew Harrision, MarketWatch.
by Jettison Canopy
A few weeks ago with the release of Pixelmator, I dashed off a few first impressions comparing it to Acorn, a new contender in the Mac OS X image editing softscape. Since those first impressions, I have been giving a lot of thought to this, and other graphic and image processing applications have come to my attention. So here's the scoop.
by Rebecca Armstrong, Independent
The new software update for the iPod classic has left many users at their wits' end.
by Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Intego, a Mac security software company, issued an alert Wednesday warning Mac users of the OSX.RSPlug.A malware, which it describes as a Trojan horse.
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