A reference to an iPod digital music player with a "touch-screen" interface that turned up in a recently revised Apple Computer iPod developer document is causing some excitement amongst the Apple enthusiast community this week.
Examined broadly, Apple Computer's new Core 2 Duo-based MacBook Pro notebooks are strikingly similar to their predecessors, though more careful inspection has turned up a number of notable tweaks and enhancements.
Apple Computer will open its third Manhattan retail store at SL Green Realty Corp.'s retail joint venture at West 34th Street, according to Reuters.
Despite increasing talk of market saturation, analysts for PiperJaffray said Tuesday they believe Apple Computer's iPod growth will continue at around 30 percent year-over-year.
Apple Computer said Wednesday it plans to expand a pilot program aimed at testing Macintosh sales at Best Buy to approximately 50 stores nationwide.
Apple Computer MacBook makers Quanta Computer and Asustek Computer are expected to be the leading buyers of semiconductors among all Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) in 2006, according to iSuppli.
Apple Computer plans to introduce two iPod-based cell phone models in the first quarter of 2007 that it will initially manufacture in limited quantities, says one analyst.
Merrill Lynch's Richard Farmer is the latest Wall Street analyst to tweak his expectations for Apple's fiscal fourth quarter to reflect lower iPod digital music player sales and slightly higher Mac sales.
Apple Computer has been granted a patent for a pretermitted feature of Mac OS X that would have allowed users to sync their home directories to an iPod and then use the data stored on the player to securely log into any supported Mac.
Foxconn Electronics, the now infamous maker of Apple Computer's iPod nano digital music players, recently secured a contract that will make it the third manufacturer of the company's Intel-based MacBook computer line, according to a report in the Commercial Times.
Apple Computer is one of few high-tech companies which may have been responsible for a recent market survey that asked participants to rate their preference of form factor designs for a next-generation Internet handheld device.
Intel Corp's plan to incorporate NAND flash memory into its next-generation notebook platform will enable PC manufacturers such as Apple Computer to develop systems that are twice as fast in some operations yet sustain longer battery life.
Presenting at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, Intel boss Paul Otellini said the chipmaker plans to introduce new micro-architectures about every 2 years and remains on track to debut its first 45nm products during the second half of 2007.
Shares of Apple Computer rose over 3 percent to $75.32 on Monday after one investment research firm raised its price target on the Mac maker to $100 a share, saying significant catalysts will boost the company's revenue trajectory, earnings power and price valuation in the near term.
In a bid to disrupt Apple Computer's reservations for a prime seat in the living room, Amazon is reportedly talking with TiVo about making its new Unbox movie download service accessible to TiVo subscribers.
Nike on Wednesday said runners have combined to log over 1 million miles in the 10 weeks since it teamed with Apple Computer to launch the Nike+iPod Sport Kit for the iPod nano.
Although AppleInsider sources had suggested Apple Computer was on track to exceed sales of one million notebooks during its December holiday quarter, one Wall Street analyst is now modeling for it to reach that milestone in the three-month period ending September.
Ahead of expectations, Apple on Wednesday announced that its entire iMac line now features the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor in every model, delivering up to 50 percent faster performance than the previous iMac.
AppleInsider has learned that despite ongoing software interface testing, Microsoft Corp. this month began manufacturing its much-anticipated Zune digital media players overseas.
Apple Computer on Thursday disclosed plans to open parts of its WebObjects Java application server to the developer community, ending more than a year of speculation on the subject.
Apple Computer's iPod digital music players could gain wireless capabilities through an enhanced docking station before such capabilities are actually built into the players themselves.
Despite recent rumors to the contrary, Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs remains in good health, an Apple spokesperson said this week.
Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it will not proceed with plans for an Intel-native version of Virtual PC for the Mac, but said its Mac Business Unit is continuing work on several other products, including a Universal version of Office.
Even if Apple Computer is found guilty of improperly backdating stock option grants, chief executive Steve Jobs is likely to remain clear of any liability, one Wall Street analyst says.
Intel Corp. this week said it's bumping up the release of its quad-core desktop and server chips to the fourth quarter of this year from their previous target date of early 2007.
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