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Apple under fire for 'harvesting iTunes user-data'
News Because iTunes users typically sign up for the music store with an email address and a credit card number, the account ID number could in theory be linked to that information, as well as a user's purchase history, said Apple expert Kirk McElhearn... [13 Jan 2006]
One-laptop-per-child by next year?
News It's expected to run an open-source operating system, probably Linux, Negroponte said, rather than a closed-source product from Apple or Microsoft. MIT Media Lab chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at a UN internet summit in Tunis, Tunisia, that his... [17 Nov 2005]
Minority Report: Will Apple send in the clones?
Comment Given its early success, we can expect to see Apple's littlest Mac receive an identity and marketing makeover long before another clone hits the shelves. The romantics who await the next stage in the OS wars may have to settle for skirmish rather... [04 Nov 2005]
Digital sales not saving faltering music industry
News Apple CEO Steve Jobs, however, recently said he is strongly against an increase in pricing. The organisation claims downloads now account for six per cent of all global music sales. Digital music made up $790m of music sales worldwide for the first... [04 Oct 2005]
Sony slashes seven per cent of its global workforce
News The company, which has been facing financial losses and pressure from Samsung's LCD and plasma televisions and Apple's iPod, said it expects to spend $1.8bn on the restructuring. At an afternoon news conference in Tokyo, Stringer said: "We have... [22 Sep 2005]
Will Apple make a true iPod-mobile phone?
News With the help of Motorola, Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally made good last week on his pledge to deliver a mobile phone that plays music like an iPod, Apple's wildly successful digital music player. Tim Bajarin, an analyst at market research firm... [13 Sep 2005]
Minority Report: Apple as media company - and why that's good for Macs
Comment Crossing the divide between content and computer could be an Apple media entertainment centre. Apple's evolution into a global media company has been explosive and the company is likely to continue in that vein as it evolves beyond music with the... [02 Sep 2005]
'Test drive' the Mac mini, says Apple
News Our overall Mac business is very strong," David Moody, Apple vice president, said in an interview. Apple's global share of the desktop computer market hit 2.1 per cent in the second quarter, nearly double its share from a year ago, according to Kay. [01 Sep 2005]
Photos: Playing full scale London Monopoly
Photo The Apple Store, Regents Street: The first Apple store in the UK is on Regent Street, one of the few survivors from the original board game to make it onto the new edition. London has been transformed into a giant Monopoly board for an online... [29 Jun 2005]
Red Hat releases newest Fedora
As previously reported, the new Fedora works on machines with Power processors, such as the PowerPC G4 in Apple Computer's Mac Mini. In years ahead, those systems could become harder to find as Apple moves to Intel processors, though many IBM... [14 Jun 2005]
Mozilla says Thunderbird podcasting is on its way
News Podcasting is a recent internet phenomenon which takes its name from Apple's iPod digital audio player. The changes were highlighted in an informal change-log of modifications to the software before its upcoming 1.1 release. [03 Jun 2005]
Podcasts are go for Thunderbird 1.1
Podcasting is a recent Internet phenomenon which takes its name from Apple's iPod digital audio player. The technique uses RSS which allows simple forms of content such as blogs to be repetitively syndicated across the Internet and has enabled many... [03 Jun 2005]
PalmSource CEO steps down
Nagel also previously served as a senior vice-president at Apple and led its global research and development group. Nagel spearheaded Apple's ill-fated Copland operating system project, one of the computer maker's first efforts at its next... [24 May 2005]
Apple legal row backed by Intel
News Apple has filed a civil complaint against unnamed individuals who we believe stole our trade secrets and posted detailed information about an unannounced Apple product on the internet. The potential conflict between trade secrets and First... [29 Apr 2005]
Intel backs up Apple in court
Apple has filed a civil complaint against unnamed individuals who we believe stole our trade secrets and posted detailed information about an unannounced Apple product on the Internet. The potential conflict between trade secrets and First... [29 Apr 2005]
