| Creative Comes After Apple's Shuffle with Zen Stone |  | Attack of the clones...
It looks like Apple’s Shuffle has made enough waves to start being replicated by Apple’s competitors. Creative has just introduced their own version of the small media player, calling it the ‘Zen Stone’. Very similar to the second generation Shuffle in both size and functionality, t ... [read more >>] | | Date: 04 May 2007, 16:04 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Patent for Multiple Dashboards |  | Looks like something out of Leopard...
It looks like one thing we will be definitely seeing in Leopard is multiple Dashboards. No less than five Apple patents were published recently by the US Patent & Trademark Office, of which, the one entitled ‘Multiple Dashboards’ gives us a pretty clear idea on what we can expec ... [read more >>] | | Date: 04 May 2007, 15:08 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Greenpeace Thinks It Made Apple Greener |  | But Apple was always green...
It seems that some organizations simply have no shame. After several reports that singled out Apple as not being 'green' enough, Greenpeace is now patting itself and its fans on the back, practically claiming credit for Apple’s efforts.
The Greenpeace reports that made ... [read more >>] | | Date: 04 May 2007, 14:36 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple and Full Sail Initiate ‘Project LaunchBox’ |  | Students get a veritable portable studio...
Apple has partnered with Full Sail Real World Education to announce "Project LaunchBox," first-of-its-kind campus-wide program that enables Full Sail students with the powerful technology they need to create music, film, games, animation and design.
The LaunchBox Project ... [read more >>] | | Date: 03 May 2007, 14:05 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| A Greener Apple |  | Jobs talks about Apple and the environment...
Apple’s secrecy is so well known that it is no longer just a curiosity but a fact about the company, a fact that everyone that works or buys from Apple is aware of. However, it looks like all things change sooner or later, and Apple is slowly starting to trim the curtain around the ... [read more >>] | | Date: 03 May 2007, 13:15 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Revamps Apple Store Services |  | ProCare overhaul, new One to One and Personal Shopping services...
Apple’s retail stores have long been an integral part of the Apple experience and a major driving force in the sales of both Macs and iPods. But, despite the success of the Apple Stores, the Cupertino company is not resting on its laurels, instead adjusting certain retail services, ... [read more >>] | | Date: 03 May 2007, 12:30 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| iPhone Could Have A Bigger Market Share Than Microsoft |  | Would be embarrassing for Microsoft...
When it comes to how successful the iPhone is going to be, there is no middle ground. There are many opinions but they expect it to be either a massive success or a complete flop. While only the sales numbers will bring final and irrefutable proof, several surveys expect it to do ... [read more >>] | | Date: 02 May 2007, 17:36 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Steve Jobs Keynote to Start WWDC |  | One more thing...
Apple has officially announced that Steve Jobs will be kicking off this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference with a keynote address beginning at 10:00am on Monday, June 11, 2007 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Undoubtedly, the focus of the keynote will be Leopard, especially co ... [read more >>] | | Date: 02 May 2007, 16:41 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Sued Again |  | Over the iTunes Store interface...
Apple keeps getting slapped with lawsuit after lawsuit, and they seem to be getting more and more flamboyant by the day. The latest one claims that the iTunes Store, and everything it touches, infringes on a smaller firm’s patents.
Filed on April 24th in the Texas court division, ... [read more >>] | | Date: 02 May 2007, 15:37 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Rolls Out The Security Updates |  | QuickTime Java Exploit plugged in record time...
Despite many people saying that Apple doesn’t take security as seriously as it should, Apple continues to deliver security updates in a very timely manner, closing up holes before exploits for them can be found out in the wild. On Tuesday, Apple released Security Update 2007-004 v1. ... [read more >>] | | Date: 02 May 2007, 15:07 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| European Space Agency Launches Apple iPod Playlist Competition |  | Ground Control To Major Tom...
When iPods are used in competitions, it’s usually as a prize. However, the European Space Agency is doing things the other way around, and launching a competition for the creation of a 10-song iPod playlist to be used by International Space Station astronauts.
The ESA is asking ... [read more >>] | | Date: 26 April 2007, 17:43 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple to Add Song Lyrics to iTunes Store |  | This is long overdue...
Last summer, Gracenote secured the rights to distribute lyrics from nearly 100 music publishers, including BMG Music Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, and dozens of prominent independent publishers. ... [read more >>] | | Date: 26 April 2007, 16:59 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Reports Amazing Second Quarter Results |  | Better than even the most optimistic of expectations...
Although Apple was expected to have a good quarter, nobody was expecting their results to be this good. The company’s financial results for its fiscal 2007 second quarter were nothing short of amazing, especially considering all the factors that should have been slowing them down.
... [read more >>] | | Date: 26 April 2007, 16:24 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Former Apple CFO Anderson Points Finger at Steve Jobs |  | Is something going to hit the fan?
Close on the tail of the Securities and Exchange Commission announcement that it had settled claims against Mr. Anderson arising from his tenure as Chief Financial Officer at Apple came this statement attributed to his lawyer.
"Fred Anderson has a long-standing im ... [read more >>] | | Date: 25 April 2007, 15:23 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| No SEC Stock Options Case Against Apple |  | SEC impressed by Apple's ‘extraordinary’ cooperation...
It looks like the dust is beginning to settle, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that it will not be filing an enforcement action against Apple Inc.
Usually, stock-options backdating investigations wreak havoc with a company’s stock price; however, with Apple, ... [read more >>] | | Date: 25 April 2007, 15:08 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Releases ‘iQuiz’ iPod Trivia Game |  | Get it at the iTunes Store...
When Apple first announced games for the iPod, there was much excitement. Unfortunately that’s pretty much where things ended since Apple has not really done much with the games and has not opened the door to let other game developers jump in.
However, despite not doing much with t ... [read more >>] | | Date: 25 April 2007, 14:42 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| AT&T Prepares to Sell iPhone to Business Market |  | But it has no buttons...
It looks like Apple and AT&T are partners beyond just an exclusive contract and will be working together to give out as many iPhones as possible, each to the market it has the most access to.
In a recent IDG News report, Nancy Gohring cites anonymous sources familiar with AT& ... [read more >>] | | Date: 25 April 2007, 14:19 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Vista Made No Impact on Macs |  | And a negligible impact on the rest of the industry...
With Apple’s delay of Leopard, and Microsoft’s Vista already out, there has been talk of Apple losing its touch, and ignoring its computer business, as well as much speculation on how Vista is having such a big impact on the operating system scene. All in all, considering the amount ... [read more >>] | | Date: 24 April 2007, 16:29 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Leopard Developer Application Technology Overview: iChat |  | Apple goes into detail aboput Leopard's expanded Instant Message framework...
Everybody that was interested already knows about the Leopard features that Apple is talking about, either from the WWDC keynote or from the presentation sites. While Apple has not yet gone into the Top Secret features, it has begun to go into more detail about the features it has s ... [read more >>] | | Date: 24 April 2007, 15:55 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple’s Former CFO Settles In SEC Backdating Investigation |  | Former General Counsel still under investigation...
It looks like Apple’s former chief financial officer, Fred Anderson, settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding his alleged role in the company's stock options backdating. The SEC is also expected to bring legal action against the company's former top la ... [read more >>] | | Date: 24 April 2007, 15:31 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| CanSecWest Winner Is A QuickTime Flaw |  | Seems to be browser independent...
Despite being widely reported as an OS X vulnerability, it turns out that the bug that was exploited in the CanSecWest contest has nothing to do with Apple’s operating system itself and could very well affect even Windows machines. The vulnerability was originally said to be in Safa ... [read more >>] | | Date: 24 April 2007, 14:43 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Gains The Upper Hand in Negotiations with Labels |  | Jobs will undoubtedly push for DRM free music...
Next month, is going to be sitting down with the major record companies to negotiate again. However, unlike previous times, it is not going to be a head-on clash.
Apple’s deal with the EMI Group, the third-largest record company, has created a precedent, which the other companies c ... [read more >>] | | Date: 23 April 2007, 19:08 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Criminal Charges Against Jobs Unlikely |  | The options backdating probe seems to have found nothing...
After many months, the federal investigation of Apple’s stock option backdating, the prospects for a criminal case against Steve Jobs seem dim.
The federal probe showed that there is little, if any, evidence to support criminal charges against the CEO. Despite the fact that Jobs ... [read more >>] | | Date: 23 April 2007, 18:41 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Sued Over Tiger Interface |  | A rather ancient patent...
Apple is being sued by an Illinois-based company and its Nevada partner over the Mac OS X. Apparently, Apple is infringing on a patent for tabs.
Little-known intellectual property agency IP Innovation LLC and its parent Technology Licensing Corporation are claiming that Apple is ... [read more >>] | | Date: 23 April 2007, 18:07 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Latest Mac Security Calamity |  | MacBook hacked but not PWNd...
After the first 24 hours of the ‘'PWN to OWN’ contest, seeing as how the machines remained untouched, the attack base was expanded. In just under three hours, the first MacBook had been breached.
A lot of the talk and dispute regarding this competition revolves around the ‘changing of ... [read more >>] | | Date: 23 April 2007, 17:39 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Dell Users Want OS X |  | So does Michael Dell...
Dell recently made the headlines when it decided, due to popular demand, to bring back Windows XP as an option to their customers. However, it seems that Dell customers would like a bit more than just XP.
Despite initially switching to Vista loaded systems, it seems that the reaction throu ... [read more >>] | | Date: 20 April 2007, 17:04 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| CanSecWest Adds $10,000 to ‘Hack a Mac’ Contest Pot |  | So far everything is quiet...
At the CanSecWest conference in downtown Vancouver, the stakes for the “pwn-2-own” hack-a-Mac contest have just been raised by quite a bit.
Initially, the successful hacking of the machines would have resulted in ownership of the MacBook that you managed to break into. However, ... [read more >>] | | Date: 20 April 2007, 16:20 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Releases Security Update 2007-004 |  | Lots of holes plugged...
Apple’s operating system has long had a reputation of being secure. While no OS is perfectly secure, Apple does its best to plug the holes before there is any actual harm caused, and releases frequent security updates.
Security Update 2007-004 is recommended for all users and im ... [read more >>] | | Date: 20 April 2007, 15:11 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple Releases Aperture Update |  | It seems that Apple still has some developers not working on the iPhone...
While Apple may be having problems with getting enough developers for both the iPhone software and Leopard, they have not forgotten about all their other software. The Cupertino Company has just released a rather chunky update for its post-production tool for photographers.
The ... [read more >>] | | Date: 20 April 2007, 14:48 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Elgato Upgrades EyeTV with Apple TV Support |  | And tons of other improvements...
With the Apple TV already in people’s houses, companies are moving quickly to make sure that their existing products work well with it. Elgato Systems has released EyeTV 2.4, a free update to its EyeTV 2 software which now includes one click export for Apple TV. The feature functio ... [read more >>] | | Date: 19 April 2007, 18:19 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
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