Apple Unveils Cell Phone, Takes New Name

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday made the company's long-awaited jump into the mobile phone business, unveiling a gadget that's controlled by touch, plays music, surfs the Internet and runs the Macintosh computer operating system. He then renamed the company to just "Apple Inc." to reflect its increasing focus on consumer electronics.

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Apple Faces Suit Over iPod-iTunes Link

As if its options woes weren't trouble enough, Apple Computer Inc. said Friday it is facing several federal lawsuits, including one alleging the company created an illegal monopoly by tying iTunes music and video sales to its market-leading iPod portable players.

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Apple Says Options Probe Clears Execs

Apple Computer Inc. gave the most detailed account yet of its stock-option practices Friday, clearing CEO Steve Jobs and other current executives of any misconduct. Yet it still isn't clear who was responsible and how much Jobs was involved.

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Apple Says Options Probe Clears Execs

Apple Computer Inc. said its own investigation of stock-option grants found no misconduct by current management, but it did find that Chief Executive Steve Jobs was aware or recommended the selection of some favorable grant dates.

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Verizon Markets Services at Mall Stores

Verizon Communications Inc. has flooded mailboxes, gone door to door and even handed out free ice cream as it seeks to sell its new FiOS television, telephone and high-speed Internet service. Now, the phone company is following Apple Computer Inc. and other high-tech companies that have opened stores in shopping malls to show off their offerings to consumers.

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Linksys Unveils New 'iPhone' Line

The iPhone has arrived, but it's not made by Apple Computer Inc., which was widely rumored to be working a cell phone-iPod combination of the same name.

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Apple Shares Slip on Stock Option Report

Now that an internal investigation over Apple Computer Inc.'s stock-option practices has helped abate investor worries over Steve Jobs' role as CEO, a key lingering concern will be the impact of pending earnings restatements.

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Nordic Officials Take Up iTunes Dispute

Nordic consumer regulators and Apple Computer Inc. moved closer to solving a dispute over iTunes music downloads in their first face-to-face meeting this week, the leader of the Nordic effort said Wednesday.

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Apple Unveils Online Movie Store

Seeking to further push digital media into homes, Apple Computer launched its long-awaited online movie service Tuesday and showed off a device that will make it easier for consumers to watch the videos on television.

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Apple Updates iMacs With New Intel Chip

Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday updated its iMac line with Intel Corp.'s latest microprocessors.

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Report: iPod Supplier Told to Unionize

Embroiled in a dispute over its labor policies, a Chinese supplier of Apple Computer's iPod has been told to let its more than 200,000 workers set up a trade union, reports said Friday.

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Google CEO to Join Apple Computer Board

Apple Computer Inc. named Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt to its board of directors Tuesday, creating a high-profile link between two of Silicon Valley's most prized companies as they try to expand their recent successes and topple Microsoft Corp. as high technology's kingpin.

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Apple Recalls 1.8 Million Sony Batteries

In a second major PC battery recall, Apple Computer is telling consumers to return 1.8 million Mac laptop batteries with both product recalls traced to the same manufacturing plight.

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Apple Recalls 1.8 Million Sony Batteries

Ten days after Dell's record-setting notebook battery recall, Apple Computer Inc. told its customers Thursday to return 1.8 million batteries that could cause their Mac laptops to overheat and catch fire.

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apple Paying $100M to Rival Creative

Apple Computer Inc.'s agreement to pay $100 million to rival Creative Technology Ltd. settled five patent lawsuits over iPod technology that had threatened to block imports of the popular digital music player, which are manufactured abroad.

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Online Music Holdouts Give in to ITunes

Bob Seger turned the page, and Metallica finally found justice for online fans. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple Computer's popular iTunes Music Store.

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Nordic Regulators to Discuss iTunes

Nordic consumer regulators will meet in Iceland this month to discuss possible legal action against iPod-maker Apple Computer Inc. if the company does not ease restrictions that prevent songs bought at its online store from being played on rival music players.

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Apple Completes Switch to Intel Chips

Apple Computer Inc. completed its switch to Intel Corp. microprocessors and previewed its next-generation operating system Monday, shifting attention — for the moment — from the company's troubles surrounding the mishandling of stock options.

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Apple to Integrate iPod With Car Radios

In the latest boost to its dominance in portable music players, Apple Computer Inc. is teaming with General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Mazda Motor Corp. to integrate the iPod into car audio systems.

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French Law on iPod, iTunes Takes Effect

A closely watched French law that allows regulators to force Apple Computer Inc. to make its iPod player and iTunes online store compatible with rival offerings went into effect Thursday.

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Apple Defends iTunes-iPod Compatibility

Apple Computer Inc. has struck a defiant stance with Scandinavian regulators, staunchly defending its right to make its iPod the only portable music player compatible with songs purchased from the company's iTunes music store.

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Apple Meets Scandinavia's Reply Deadline

Apple Computer Inc. met a Tuesday deadline to respond to Scandinavian regulatory claims that Apple is violating their laws by making its market-leading iPod the only compatible portable player for iTunes downloads.

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Apple Shares Surge on Strong Earnings

Apple Computer Inc.'s shares surged after the company reported the recent update of its notebook line and the continued popularity of its iPod music players helped fuel a nearly 48 percent increase in profit and countered Wall Street fears that the company might be losing its shine.

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Apple Rids Product Line of CRT Monitors

Apple Computer Inc. completely rid its product line of bulky cathode-ray-tube monitors on Wednesday, becoming one of the first major PC makers to sell only flat-panel displays.

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France Lawmakers Approve 'ITunes Law'

French lawmakers gave final approval Friday to government-backed legislation that could force Apple Computer Inc. to make its iPod music player and iTunes online store compatible with rivals' offerings.

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Gary Krakow spends some time with Microsoft's Zune and likes what he sees. But admits that it comes burdened with being a first-generation device tied to an ill-conceived online store.

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In a hilarious variation on telephone prank calls made by kids everywhere, this streaming video is a prank phone call to iPod Customer Support regarding "Animal Pornography" on the complainant's 4-year-old son's iPod.

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"An anonymous reader points out Gizmodo's review of a USB dongle, made by a company called Efix, which allows for an effort-free transformation of a non-Apple computer into one that runs Mac OS X." -Slashdot

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"China Mobile is eventually expected to offer the iPhone to mainland China but has requested that Apple deliver a model with Wi-Fi and 3G technology disabled, according to the South China Morning Post.

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A political satire video has been placed on YouTube. It plays on the popular advertisements on television by Apple Computer. However, in this case, the Mac guy is not talking to the out-of-touch PC guy, but to Sen. John McCain.

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The first rule of publishing is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. (A corollary favored at Time Magazine, where I labored for nearly three decades, is that all copy is guilty until proved otherwise.)

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This video from 1987 imagines the Apple Computer company of the year 1997, (tongue planted firmly in cheek). I can't decide if the iPsychiatrist or the R2D2-style hologram is my favorite Apple innovation through 1997.

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Here's the first look at the new largest Apple Store in the U.S, courtesy of John Sheehy. Last time we saw the glass mammoth, it was covered up in an unsightly green sheet.

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Apple has cut its 2008 flash memory orders by $200 million, according to iSuppli, setting up a down year for flash vendors.

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When word came out on Thursday about Apple's legal challenge to the seemingly innocuous GreenNYC logo, claiming that the looped green apple would cause "consumer confusion resulting in damage and injury" to Apple, and will "cause dilution of the distinctiveness" of Appl …

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Do You Need Permission to Take Control of Leopard?

While there has been considerable debate in the geek microcosm of the Mac community over whether repairing permissions in OS X does any good or not, what hasn't been debated is that understanding permissions can empower an OS X user and lift them into superuser status.

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One year after launching a controversial Macintosh hacking contest, the promoters of the CanSecWest security research conference are thinking about giving hackers another shot at cracking the Mac. Only this time, they're looking to broaden the field.

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Whenever Steve Jobs wants Apple to get into something new, he follows the same tried-and-true modus operandi: He finds the leading expert in the field and puts that person on his company's payroll.

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A way cool article about the computer history museum in Mountain View, CA. I have donated one of my old computers (from 1981) to the effort!

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Because both compressed music and the iPod's relatively low-quality earbuds have many limitations, music producers fret that they are engineering music to a technical lowest common denominator.

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Dell's Debacle -- Laptop Shipping Delays Could Cost Dell Big Time

Dell is on the ropes. The customizable PC giant's assembly lines have been brought to a veritable stand-still by massive delays relating to the manufacture of their popular XPS M1330 series laptops.

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How I managed to procure a brand new Apple iMac for only $900.

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A little more info on George Hotz and his iPhone hack...

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Hacker Gets Car, More iPhones for His iPhone

According to the Rochester Democrat & Chronical today: The 17-year-old hacker and Rochester Institute of Technology freshman who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car.

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Am I lost without my computer? Wouldn't you be, too? Or am alone in my Apple Crack addiction?

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A must have for Apple fanatics with money left over from their last overpriced, flash-in-the-pan ... make that indespensible Apple product purchase...

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ThinkSecret.com's review of the recently released Filemaker Pro 9. I actually just bought a copy this past Friday - after sticking with Filemaker 5.5 for a very long time. However, I now have a ton of Filemaker 7 databases on my computer and would really like to use them...

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The dock has always been one of those sort of 'live with it', rather than 'love it' features of OS X. Right from the start it's had pointless special effects like the magnifying icons, but in Leopard it really takes the biscuit.

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Yes, let's not forget the great COMPUTERS that Apple puts out.

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According to a Russian hacker team called "web-hack," Apple's much heralded and overly hyped iPhone contains "a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server.

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