Archive for July 22nd, 2008

Analyst: RadioShack testing new concept designed to emulate Apple Retail Stores

Shares of electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. climbed Friday after an analyst said the company may soon test…
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Windows 95 lead architect is a Mac switcher, launches first iPhone app

After he left Microsoft, Satoshi Nakajima, the lead architect of Windows 95 and a ‘defining force’ in the creation of…
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Apple goes after the duo behind Psystar: Robert and Rudy Pedraza

A Doral company founded by two South Florida brothers has been sued by technology giant Apple…
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iPhone 3G Reception Problems Around the World

f your new iPhone 3G has oddly weak 3G reception, you’re not alone. I wrote about this problem two weeks ago, but it seems that since then, things have only gotten more puzzling. One thing to be sure of: It’s not an AT&T problem. I’ve now seen reports from the U.S., […]

Apple Mac’s market share surge is ‘remarkable’

There is much exuberance in the Mac orbit this week over news from market research and analysis firm Gartner Group…
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Apple shares tumble in after-hours trading on conservative guidance

Apple shares tumbled in after hours trading as the company offered guidance…
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John McCain: Confirmed Mac user, Barack Obama: Confirmed Mac user (and BlackBerry sufferer)

Blogs have been buzzing recently over McCain’s admission that when it comes to the Internet…
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Belly Up to the Bar, We’re Geniuses

During the morning tutorial at OSCON, Dan’s MacBook Pro refused to boot. We tried a few tricks, but gave up fairly quickly, since we didn’t want to miss any of Damian Conway’s Perl Worst Practices tutorial. Fortunately, there’s an Apple Store across the river at Pioneer Place. So we met up with Alice as […]

Microsoft’s real problem: Apple

“As Microsoft continues to waste time and resources figuring out how to win a sideline game it has already lost…
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Apple to announce Q308 financial results today

A reminder: Apple will post earnings results for their third quarter 2008 after market close today…
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It’s NOT Lower Prices, You Eejits! It’s iPod Air!

I’ve been tooling around the Net reading some of the — ahem! — “analysis” of the Apple Mystery Product(s) hints and one of them suggested Apple will be slashing prices to gain more market share. How frikkin tragic is that tinythinking? Especially when Apple itself has said that’s not what’s going […]

What is Apple’s secret ‘future product transition’ that execs cannot discuss?

During Apple’s thrid quarter 2008 conference call today, Apple Chief Financial Officer, Peter Oppenheimer repeatedly…
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iPhone App Suggestions

I’ve been asked by a couple people what apps I’m using on my retro original iPhone, so here’s a quick list, in no particular order: iNetworkTest - Speed Testing of EDGE / 3G. Their site even maps your location for each test, which is cool. VoiceRecord - For quick notes. The only thing […]

Apple smashes Street; reports record third quarter results, all-time high Mac sales

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008. The Company posted revenue of…
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iPhone Dev Team releases PwnageTool 2.0.1, free unlocking tool for Apple iPhone 3G

The iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool 2.0.1 which addresses the following issues…
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Crónica: ¿Está Steve Jobs Enfermo?

Puedes ser una de las personas más influyentes, mas adineradas y mejor evaluadas de la industria, sin embargo, nada de esto sirve para hacerte invulnerable a las enfermedades y al propio deterioro de nuestra frágil humanidad, Jobs tal como se puede pensar no es un hombre de acero y desde luego no está exento […]

Apple’s iPhone 3G TV ads hit Italy (with video)

On Monday, a new Apple iPhone 3G TV ad was aired on Italian television channels….
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Wordpress app released for iPhone

Apple today approved and released the Wordpress iPhone app. Hopefully this will persuade me to post a bit more than of late, have been a bit busy drinking wine see. First impressions are very good. Setting up blog access took minutes, as did creating a new post and adding tags and categories. Now can I […]

AT&T confirms yet another error: no free WiFi for iPhone yet

AT&T has been on-again, off-again a few times with its offer of free WiFi hotspot access to iPhone users…
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Phone post

Trying out the iPhone WordPress app. For emergency knitting posts as they come up, and lord knows they do come up… this will include a random photo from my phone, apropos of nothing at all…
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Free Rays Cartoon Plug-in for Adobe, Apple and Avid!

Free Rays Cartoon Plug-in for Adobe, Apple and Avid! Toolfarm is hosting the Boris BCC Rays Cartoon Plugin! For a limited time, we’re offering a free, fully-licensed plug-in from Boris Continuum Complete 5 - Rays Cartoon. Download BCC Rays Cartoon (trial download form)* Tutorial: BCC Rays Cartoon for Adobe After Effects […]

Vocalocity Integrates iPhone with Internet Phone Service

Vocalocity enhances its business Internet phone service by allowing customers to seamlessly route office calls to and from an iPhone. This feature untethers workers from the desk while providing them with the ability as well as benefits of making and receiving critical calls that ultimately utilize their office phone system. This […]

Apple Gazette Daily 311 - 3Q Financials, New iPhone Apps, and more!

podcast sponsor link: Click Here to check out Audible! Today’s Show: 3Q Financials, New iPhone Apps, and more! You can subscribe via iTunes, or by RSS feed, or… you can listen to the episode right here: In addition to that, you can also download the Apple Gazette Daily Widget […]

‘Mac cloner’ Psystar’s headquarters put on the market, ‘priced for quick sale’

If Mac clone maker Psystar manages to survive what’s sure to be an expensive copyright battle with Apple…
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Apple’s App Store brings increased music functionality to iPhone, iPod touch

When it was unveiled in June, Apple’s new iPhone didn’t appear to offer anything new for music fans…
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Beats by Dr. Dre unboxing gallery

We’ve been following the Beats by Dr. Dre headphones ever since we first got some hands-on (and ears-on) time with them back at CES. The Gear Live group that got to try them out included a few serious audiophiles, and we were thoroughly impressed by the sound that they were putting out, and […]

MacRumors’ Arnold Kim profiled in New York Times

For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company…
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Live notes from Apple’s Q308 Conference Call

Live notes from Apple’s conference call discussing Q3 - 2008 financial results…
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Apple Rumor: MacTouch? Perhaps I should get in line now?

I will if this rumor is true.
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Testing Wordpress for iPhone

Wordpress for iPhone works great. Wish typing was easier and faster on my iPod touch.
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PC Advisor Gives iPhone 2.0 4 Star Rating

It’s nice when a PC magazine gives an Apple product a fair shake, and the UK’s PC advisor did an in-depth review of iPhone 2.0, which netted the software an overall 4 out of 5 star rating, with a full five stars for value. The review concluded that the software is, “a welcome step-up […]
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Users drool over Apple iPhone, but ask for more

Enthusiastic new iPhone owners are starting to sound like the cast of long-running stage musical…
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Greetings from my iPhone

Greetings from my iPhone 22 July Posted by Jake Rutter Apple Tools/News, Web, WordPress | No Comments » Greetings from the new WordPress iPhone app. I was waiting for wordpress to release an iPhone app and it looks like they have come through. Stay tuned for more […]

WordPress para iPhone

Ya puede descargarse de la App Store la aplicación oficial y nativa de WordPress para controlar nuestros blogs desde el iPhone o iPod Touch de Apple. La aplicación permite realizar las tareas más habituales, el único inconveniente es que no está en español y no reconoce acentos ni caracteres como la ñ. […]

Virginia Tech deploys new 29-teraflop Mac supercomputing cluster (324 Apple Mac Pros)

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. today announced that its 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology interconnects the new 29TFlops computer system…
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Wordpress For iPhone Is Not A Killer App

Everyone on the Internet got really excited about the recent Wordpress release for iPhone users that lets iPhone users create and edit Wordpress posts with their iPhone. I’m probably the only one not falling for the hype right now, let me tell you why. The iPhone has not ordinary keyboard. That’s the reason. […]

Beleaguered Motorola accuses Apple iPhone executive of taking trade secrets

Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, has sued a former executive now working for Apple Inc…
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The New York Post dredges up ‘concern’ over Steve Jobs’ health on day of earnings report

Industry concerns about Steve Jobs’ health have not gone away more than a month after the Apple CEO…
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Apple shares slammed, shed 11-percent following conservative guidance

Stock in Apple (AAPL) dropped 11% to $148.63 following the company’s estimate for fiscal fourth-quarter earnings…
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The Reason to Switch to Mac: MacBook Touch

Dear Apple, Hear is a check with my name on it.  Write down any amount and I will pay it. Yours Truly, naNye east.
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