Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Psystar vows to fight Apple’s EULA in Court - they’re kidding, right?
You know sometimes its nice to wake up to a good chuckle, and Psystar definitely provided that this morning for me. The company who only yesterday decided to offer a $399 system they’re calling ‘OpenMac’ that comes with Leopard pre-installed (which is a violation of Apple’s EULA), has decided to ride the wave of [...]
NBC and Apple play kissy face over iTunes TV Downloads
You may remember the little spat that NBC and Apple had last year. It ultimately resulted in all NBC programming being removed from iTunes and got so out of hand that the companies shot insults back and forth from NBC CEO Jeff Zucker saying that Apple “destroyed the music business” and Apple even attempting [...]
Apple expanding to 500 ‘Best Buy’ stores
After speaking with Best Buy executives at CES, The Street is reporting that the Best Buy/Apple partnership is continuing to grow. In Oct. Apple announced that they were expanding to 270 Best Buy stores.
Now, according to the execs at Best Buy, that number is growing to 500. The reason is partially [...]
‘No Zunephone’ say Bill Gates
In an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates said that Microsoft WILL NOT release a direct competitor to the iPhone.
“No, we won’t do that. In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile program,” Gates was quoted as saying. “We have partnerships with a [...]
R.I.P. - Think Secret - 1998 - 2007
Think Secret was, at one time, THE Apple Rumors site. If you’re new to the online world, of if you’ve only been reading the Apple sites for a few years, its possible that you never really checked out Think Secret. Over the last few years the site has diminished because of a lawsuit [...]
R.I.P. - CompUSA 1984-2007
The first time I ever saw a Mac in real life it was at a CompUSA. If it hadn’t been for a CompUSA I would probably have never seen a Mac, or gotten a chance to try one out - and who knows if I’d ever made the switch.
The CompUSA in my local area [...]
Do we need a mini-disk Adapter from Apple?
A patent discovered by AppleInsider reveals plans for a mini-disk adapter that would allow companies to distribute media on smaller disk formats and still have them load in Apple slot-load disk drives.
One of the problems with using slot drives is that you typically can’t insert mini-disks or disk that have been cut into a shape [...]
Apple Link Round-up - iPhone Update, O2 sales numbers, and VMWare
iPhone 1.1.2 is finally available in the US iTunes store according to TUAW.
O2 says that the iPhone is the “fastest selling device” according to MacNN.
and VM Ware has updated Fusion with several new features according to Yahoo!
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EA finally ships Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, Madden NFL 08
Well, they were supposed to ship in July. Some other EA titles shipped in August, and now, here in the latter part of October, EA is finally shipping Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 and Madden 08 for Mac according to MacNN.
Both titles require Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later and a 1.83GHz Core Duo [...]
Netflix coming to Mac in 2008
Steve, the developer of Netflix’s download service, gave Gizmodo some explanations about the selection of movies on the service, the reason for a lack of Mac support and so on…
Basically Mac support is coming in 2008, and isn’t already here because Apple doesn’t license its DRM. (Of course, if you have Parallels or Fusion, [...]
