Reports: $99 Wal-Mart iPhone would be atypical, risky move Research firms and investment banks are welcoming a move that would see Wal-Mart carry the iPhone later this year, but warn that a special $99 model would stand in contrast to the company's proven strategy while also presenting unnecessary risk. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 17
Rumor: Apple's iTunes going DRM-free starting Tuesday [u] Apple is believed to be on the verge of an end-of-year push that would start by finally offering unprotected iTunes Store music from all major labels and would switch a special post-holiday campaign giving away music and videos to Europeans. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 109
Apple's LED Cinema Display: the review Apple's first major update to the Cinema Display line brings a much greener design and a raft of welcome feature updates, especially for MacBook owners. At the same time, a partial shift away from Apple's mainstay professional crowd makes one wonder where the company is going and whether it hasn't lost focus. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 198
Hidden feature turns iPhone into TV gaming device With a little work and the help of an undocumented feature in Apple's iPhone Software Developers Kit, one iPhone developer was able to turn its game into a version suited for playback on big-screen TVs. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 57
Apple's smartphone share closer to 13%, still ahead of Microsoft Apple's share of the worldwide smartphone market is closer to 13% than the 16% reported earlier this week, but that's still good enough to push the iPhone maker past Microsoft to become the third largest smartphone OS vendor, according to Gartner. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 50
Expanded Apple lawsuit claims Psystar part of a larger plot Now free of any countersuits, Apple has grown its lawsuit against Mac clone maker Psystar to accuse it of further violations and to claim that others have contributed to its breaking copyright law. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 101
Adobe to be largely a no-show at Macworld 2009 Usually one of most reliable and dominating presences on the show floor at Macworld's annual San Francisco expo, Adobe Systems is now warning that its presence at the 2009 event will be limited to the sidelines. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 50
Mozilla-based iTunes rival "Songbird" takes flight A multi-year effort to deliver an open-source and customizable iTunes rival came to fruition this week with the release of Songbird 1.0, but whether it will sway some users from the Apple jukebox software remains to be seen. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 69
Apple's unexpected iPod shortage spreading Although Macs and iPhones were seen as Apple's ticket to a healthy holiday quarter, the electronics maker has reportedly been struck by surprising demand for iPods and is now scurrying to restock some of its reseller channels. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 62
iPhone single-handedly driving smartphone growth In addition to outselling a broad and combined range of Windows Mobile handsets, Apple's iPhone 3G is being credited this week as the lone force responsible for growth of the smartphone market during the September quarter. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 18
Apple now "encourages" antivirus use for Mac OS X After years of jabbing Microsoft for the seeming need to run antivirus software on Windows, Apple has quietly posted its own recommendation for similar security with its own operating system. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 115
High-quality unboxing photos of Apple's LED Cinema Display Apple's first LED-backlit and DisplayPort-based desktop monitor has arrived at AppleInsider; we now have high-quality photos as well as some early impressions. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 101
Apple pushing Mini DisplayPort through no-fee licenses Apple is offering no-fee Mini DisplayPort licenses to anyone interested in designing products around the new specification, a move the company hopes will take the fledgling display connector mainstream. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 88
Google testing Picasa for Mac beta Long the domain of Linux and Windows users, Google's Picasa photo management tool is currently being tested for Macs, AppleInsider has learned. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 60
iPhone 2.2 hides video out code for third-party apps An unpublished part of iPhone's latest programming framework lets third-party developers pipe video out to an external device, albeit not without a few catches. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 14
QuickTime 7.5.7 allows SD iTunes playback over DisplayPort Calming a controversial situation, Apple on Tuesday night released a new QuickTime update that allows standard definition iTunes movies to play over the new MacBooks' DisplayPort to older displays. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 37
Apple's unadvertised retail store price matching policy In an effort not to be undersold on its own products this holiday shopping season, Apple is quietly re-conveying its long standing price-matching procedures to retail store staffers. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 23
Apple sued over mobile Safari as email retention policy questioned Apple is facing a new lawsuit over the iPhone's Safari web browser just as the company's lax policy on employee email retention is brought into question regarding a separate suit. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 26
Apple, Palm taking different steps to reduce worker overhead While Apple is giving its phone rival Palm a drubbing in the market, both are now known to be scaling back their work commitments to employees — though Apple is using creative reassignments to soften the perceived blow. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 30
iPhone security posting suggests 2.2 firmware tomorrow Germans documenting an exploit that forces an iPhone to dial an unwanted number have also potentially tipped users off to the imminent release of Apple's widely anticipated 2.2 firmware upgrade. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 15
Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 19
Apple releases Apple TV 2.3 with AirTunes, third-party remotes Apple on Wednesday night released version 2.3 of its Apple TV firmware to add AirTunes streaming as well as support for third-party remotes. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 107
Apple's OpenCL standard near complete in just six months Apple has reportedly set an industry record by moving its OpenCL parallel computing standard from its beginnings to imminent approval in half a year, paving the way for its inclusion in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 17
Microsoft saw Apple's anti-Vista campaign coming Microsoft officials were concerned about the performance of Windows Vista and the way it would be compared to Mac OS X long before Apple zeroed in on the problematic software with its humorous "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" advertising campaign, internal emails show. Katie Marsal 17 years ago 66
