Apple to open third San Francisco store on Black Friday Apple said Monday it plans to open its third San Francisco retail store just in time for the holiday shopping season, with a grand opening slated for Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving. Slash Lane 18 years ago 4
Warner Music chief has epiphany, praises Apple Warner Music boss Edgar Bronfman this week conceded that the music industry is partly to blame for the proliferation of illegal music sharing and — in an apparent change of heart — suggested that his peers in the mobile industry could learn a lot from Apple. Slash Lane 18 years ago 27
O2's sees 8,000 iPhone activations on day one of 5-year UK exclusive O2, the wireless arm of Telefonica and exclusive iPhone provider in the UK, beat its own expectations for iPhone activations by more than twofold on Friday, the first day the Apple handset was made available for sale in Europe. Slash Lane 18 years ago 27
iPhone to gain Apple Spotlight search in 2008 The next significant software update for Apple Inc.'s iPhone handset is unlikely to surface until early next year but will pack a system-wide search feature when it finally does arrive, according to information obtained by investment bank Piper Jaffray. Slash Lane 18 years ago 28
Adobe says Photoshop Express beta due by year's end Adobe has confirmed it will make a beta version of its online Photshop Express software available before the end of the year, with a finalized version penciled in for availability sometime in 2008. Slash Lane 18 years ago 11
Spiral glass staircase at future NYC Apple store; Hard Drive Update 1.0 Apple on Wednesday evening release a hard drive software updated for owners of its iMac and Mac Pro desktops. Meanwhile, Manhattan's third Apple flagship shop is due to receive a snazzy spiral glass staircase. And reports claim that an iPhone line has already formed outside the Regent St. Apple store in London. Slash Lane 18 years ago 36
Google unveils plans for Android mobile software platform Google on Monday confirmed its long-awaited foray into the mobile phone business by announcing the Open Handset Alliance, a team of thirty three other leading technology and wireless companies who have agreed to share in Google's development of Android, a new open software platform aimed at bettering the user experience on today's mobile devices. Slash Lane 18 years ago 49
New MacBooks offer marginal speed improvements (benchmarks) New 13-inch MacBook notebooks quietly introduced by Apple on Thursday offer up to a 10 percent performance increase on some tasks over their predecessors, official company benchmarks show. Slash Lane 18 years ago 45
Briefly: Apple still working on Time Machine's AirPort Disk support All hope for wireless backup support under Apple's new operating system may not be lost, recent evidence suggests. Slash Lane 18 years ago 29
Warner Music may not renew yearly iTunes contract - report Steve Jobs helped save a sinking music industry by courting struggling record labels to his iPod + iTunes ecosystem, but his bargaining position hasn't been as strong when it comes to video content. As a result, some music companies are now starting to reexamine their relationships with Apple, writes the Washington Post. Slash Lane 18 years ago 109
AmTech ups estimates as Apple market cap surpasses Intel and IBM Analysts for investment research firm American Technology Research increased their estimates for Mac maker Apple Inc. on Tuesday as the company's perceived market value coasted past that of industry heavyweights Intel Corp. and IBM Corp. Slash Lane 18 years ago 16
Steve Jobs talks future Mac OS X upgrades, Mac sales, and more In a new interview with the New York Times, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs hints that his company will continue to pump out rapid revisions to the Mac OS X for the foreseeable future, while also shedding some color on current Mac sales mix and the birth of multi-touch. Slash Lane 18 years ago 155
Apple supporting WDL initiative; Mac worldwide share; iPod suit Apple is amongst a handful of tech companies pitching their support to a multinational effort to create a free international digital world library. Meanwhile, Piper Jaffray weighs in with estimates on the Mac platform's worldwide market share growth. And Apple has been hit with another lawsuit — this time over iPod storage capacity. Slash Lane 18 years ago 49
Apple poised to expand, drop price of iTunes Plus service [confirmed] Apple Inc. as early as this week will expand its iTunes Plus digital download store and reduce the price of the higher-quality, DRM-free music tracks offered through the service by nearly 25 percent, according to a published report. Slash Lane 18 years ago 36
Intel shows off mobile quad-core chip, new cooling technology Presenting at the start of its developer forum in Taiwan on Monday, Intel Corp. demonstrated a working quad-core microprocessor design that will eventually find its way into notebook systems, as well as a new strategy for cooling notebooks derived from compressor technology. Slash Lane 18 years ago 29
Apple files for second force-sensitive display patent If a recent series of patent filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office is of any indication, Apple Inc. as early as next year could add force-sensitive detection to the repertoire of its fledgling multi-touch platform, AppleInsider believes. Slash Lane 18 years ago 24
iPod classic: the last hurrah for HDD-based iPods? The latest incarnation of the classic iPod appears to be a stopgap measure targeted solely at consumers who make extensive use of storage capacity, but at the same time may signal the beginning of the end for hard disk drive (HDD) iPods, based on inferences derived from a recent report by iSuppli Corp. Slash Lane 18 years ago 82
Study: HDTVs, Windows PCs crowd out Apple on holiday wish lists HD-capable flat screen TVs and Windows notebooks — not Apple iPods or iPhones — rank atop this year's holiday wish list of American consumers who listed at least one digital lifestyle product amongst their most desired gifts. Slash Lane 18 years ago 58
Royalty demands may have kept Valve's Half-Life 2 off the Mac Money — and lots of it — rather than a lackluster approach to gaming on the part of Apple may be the primary reason why Valve's popular Half-Life 2 title has thus far eluded the Mac platform, according to a new report. Slash Lane 18 years ago 42
New Zunes likely to cannibalize everything but iPod - analyst A new line of Zunes introduced by Microsoft earlier this week signal forward progress for Microsoft in the digital media player market but pose a larger threat to the company's own partners than Apple, according to one Wall Street analyst. Slash Lane 18 years ago 65
Leopard 'Notes' to sync with iPhone New evidence suggests that a more significant software update for Apple's iPhone handset will arrive following the release of the company's Mac OS X Leopard operating system, adding features such as Note syncing, among others. Slash Lane 18 years ago 25
Apple unleashes new "Seed Update" for Leopard testers Apple Inc. on Monday provided its developer community with yet another small update to its upcoming Leopard operating system, this time adding a couple of bug fixes and proceeding with tests on the system's software update mechanism. Slash Lane 18 years ago 32
iPhone software bug lets you stream music to Bluetooth headsets An apparent oversight in Apple Inc.'s iPhone software makes it possible to wirelessly stream all of the handset's audio output — including music tracks from its iPod application — to Bluetooth headsets. Slash Lane 18 years ago 0
iPhone a no-show at Apple Expo (and now we know why) The Apple Expo — Europe's largest Apple and Mac tradeshow — kicked off in Paris this week to little fanfare. Not helping matters was the conspicuous absence of iPhone, which had been widely expected to make its French debut at the conference. So it doesn't take a genius to figure out that something went awry. Slash Lane 18 years ago 30
