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19 Apr
Published: 12 January2005 17:25 GMT Sony execs look to be the hottest signing in the tech world right now. Rumour has it Apple head honcho Steve Jobs tried to woo a top Sony exec over an iTunes union and Microsoft top dog Bill Gates told the Wall Street Journal last week he thought Sony president Kunitake Ando would do well to come out fighting his corner.
The company has also started a countdown to 1 billion songs sold through the iTunes Music Store. At each 100,000-song interval Apple will award prizes to the buyer of the 100,000th song. The person who buys the 1 billionth song will get a prize package that includes a 20-inch iMac, 10 iPods and a $10,000 iTunes music gift card. Apple also will create a scholarship at a music school in the winner’s name.
On Tuesday morning, Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs will take the familiar Macworld Expo stage at the Moscone Centre convention hall to tempt the Macintosh-faithful with new wares. This year’s Macworld comes on the 20th anniversary of the Mac, which was introduced in a Super Bowl ad in 1984. While much speculation has centred on whether Apple will debut a cheaper, lower-capacity iPod, a good deal of Jobs’ keynote speech is likely to focus on software, as has been the case in past years.
12 Apr
Under: Apple iPhone , News , Phone Software Date: September 16th, 2008 As petrol prices are becoming quite an issue for most motorists its not too surprising that some clever iPhone developer came up with greenMeter, which is a vehicle performance and efficiency monitor.
10 Apr
The rumors- some of them, anyway- came true for Apple on Tuesday as the company, at its Let s Rock event in San Francisco, rolled out new versions of the iPod Touch, iPod Nano and a 120GB iPod Classic. Other announcements included the return- with HD- of NBC shows to the iTunes Store, as well as a Genius feature that will recommend songs based on the user s existing library.
10 Apr
Chicago (IL) – Apple apparently can withstand the earthquakes that are rocking the financial world these days as analysts expect the company to once again turn in record sales for the quarter. Market watchers do not quite agree on Apple’s possible performance with iPhone sales estimates ranging from 4 to 8 million units for Q3. But even the lower number would be an impressive result in a time most IT firms are likely to face tougher quarters.
9 Apr
AppleTechnology NewsFeatured A whole new range of iPods by Apple has been unleashed in the Indian Market, which includes the iPod nano, iPod Touch, iPod shuffle and iPod Classic.The new series of iPod shuffle is now in exciting three new colours, while the Classic is available with extended memory. On the other hand iPod Touch has become even slimmer and now is supported by volume control buttons.
By Rachael Ruiz TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - About 12 years ago, the Moelker Orchards planted about 100 Honey Crisp apple trees. Now, because the Honey Crisp is so wildly popular, they have more than 1,000 trees. At their on-site store, the Honey Crisp is the star among stars. “The economic impact is very good, the price is quite a bit higher than any other apple, and customers can t seem to get enough of them,” said Tom Moelker.
8 Apr
Security company Intego said that the QuickTime tag fails to properly handle long strings of data, resulting in a heap overflow flaw in both QuickTime Player and iTunes, as well as other Mac OS X programs that stream media via the QuickTime plug-in, such as Mail. The error also affects Web browsers Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Consequently, such long strings will crash any Web browser running the QuickTime software, Intego says.
2nd generation iPod touch: A T he design improvements are minimal, the hardware remains largely the same and many of the software advances are the work of other companies, yet Apple s new iPod touch represents a giant stride forward for portable entertainment devices. The second generation iPod touch is the best iPod to date. It cost less and does more than the original, although owners of the first version can benefit from many of the improvements with a 10 software upgrade.