On April 1st, Apple Computer will begin to offer customers additional incentives to purchase computers direct through the company's retail stores, reliable sources told AppleInsider.
Apple Computer will take the wraps off the latest version of its industry-standard compositing and effects solution for film and HD during the annual NAB conference next month, reliable sources told AppleInsider.
Apple Computer may have made a private investment in a small startup company specializing in Intelligent Security Infrastructure Management Systems (iSIMS), sources tell AppleInsider.com
Apple hardware engineers currently have their hands full, as the company races to refresh almost all of its professional and consumer CPU offerings this spring.
Apple Computer is preparing to unveil the 4th-generation of its flagship iPod music player, reliable sources told AppleInsider last week.
In its race to remain on top of the digital media player market, Apple this month launched several additions to its world-wide iPod advertising, according to reports from around the globe. The extensive marketing push seemingly coincides with the availability of the company's new iPod Mini music player.
In a followup to yesterday's report on further Power Mac G5 delays, sources have informed AppleInsider that shipping dates for Apple's newly announced Xserve G5's appear to have slipped once again.
In October, Microsoft fired an employee for his blog posting titled, Even Microsoft wants G5s, which includes photos of the delivery of three palettes of Dual 2.0Ghz Power Mac G5s to Microsoft\'s Redmond Campus. While many were shocked at Microsoft\'s retaliation to the innocuous web posting, employees reportedly signed a contract containing at least one clause prohibiting photography on the Microsoft campus.
The first two months of 2004 have now come and gone without product announcements to Apple's professional line of desktops and laptops. While the company may not have planned a revision to its PowerBook line by early March, an unidentified hold-up has reportedly delayed the release of revised Power Mac G5 models, which were previously anticipated for a January introduction.
Apple has plans to launch a second Apple retail store in the San Francisco bay area this year, AppleInsider has learned.
Each fiscal quarter, Apple-owned Retail locations are assigned a number of CPU-based sales, which ultimately become the outlet's target goal for the quarter. While Apple Retail employees don't work on commission, all sales (and almost every detail of every sale) is tracked thoroughly, sources said. The data from these sales logs is then used to generate daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports.
Several Apple retail sales clerks are voicing their displeasure at what appears to be a case of broken or false promises aimed at boosting sales this past holiday season.
New details on Mac OS X 10.3.3 "Panther" are emerging following the first seed of the system update, which began making its way to developers earlier this morning.
Apple continued the further development of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther this week with the first seedings of Mac OS X 10.3.3 build 7F24 and Safari 1.2 build 125.
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The music-oriented Apple keynote that took place last week in San Francisco accomplished its mission of \'wowing\' a consumer-based crowd with new versions of the company\'s the iPod and GarageBand software, but this week\'s focus will shift to music professionals.
Apple engineers are very satisfied with the latest results of quality assurance tests performed on a pre-production series of XServes, sources said earlier this week. A batch of about two dozen new PowerPC 970 G5-based servers rolled off a production line in one of Quanta's manufacturing facilities about two weeks ago. Each of the units, which consist of both single and dual processor models, reportedly passed Apple's quality assurance tests.
Industry contacts have recently reported on sightings of a new pre-production Apple 1U rack-mount server residing in Apple's Cupertino-based hardware labs. The tips arrives amongst wide-spread rumors that the company will finally bear the fruits of a G5-based XServe project during the month of January.
According to a number of circulating reports, Apple may soon unveil a new piece of software targeted at sound engineers specializing in professional audio recording and sound mixing. The Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), as sources describe it, is rumored to consist of a user interface developed by Apple Computer and sound technology acquired from Emagic.
Apple Computer, Inc. recently extended its AppleCare support service to cover the iPod family of digital music players, and rumors of a new plan that would insure accidental laptop damages have also turned heads in recent weeks. But for a company that was once renowned for its top-notch customer support, these strives mark only the beginning of what sources say will become a renewed commitment to reliability and support by the computer maker.
Apple\'s iPod has become an undisputed success story over the past two calendar years. Stock of the sleek palm-sized digital music players have been flying off store shelves during the holiday season, with many retail outlets throughout the United Kingdom and US citing short supply. However, with a base price of $299 for a 10GB model, Apple\'s iPod is not accessible to everyone.
Sales of Apple\'s new PowerMac G5 product-line have topped over the half million mark, sources told AppleInsider this week. The dual 2GHz model remains the most popular among holiday shoppers, but is closely followed by the dual 1.8 GHz configuration. Sales of the company\'s single processor 1.6GHz model are said to be trailing far behind its multiprocessor counterparts.
About 10 months ago, IBM began to layout the foundation for a major architectural revamp to the PowerPC line that will allow chips to run much cooler for mobile and embedded applications, sources recently told AppleInsider.
Apple Computer, Inc. may soon become the target of another class action lawsuit, AppleInsider has learned.
With the annual Expo approaching quickly, sources are now corroborating rumors that Apple is poised to revise its Power Mac G5 line of professional desktop computers during the annual Macworld Expo trade show, which will take place during the first week of January.
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