23 May 2006
19 May 2006
Apple decides to step up and defend itself
Creative Labs, makers of the Nomad and Zen line of portable MP3 players, decided to sue its biggest MP3 competitor, Apple Computers. The suit that Creative filed claims that Apple infringed on patents over the interface that's used in Apple's iPods. Creative claims that it had designed the easy to use interface over 6 years ago. Many are asking why Creative waited so long if it had the patents 6 years ago.
18 May 2006
17 May 2006
Apple Mac back in black!
Apple officially ditches iBook in favour of a slinky new MacBook, that’s also available in panther black. Grrr…
14 May 2006
Softbank and Apple to co-develop iPod phones
Softbank Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. plan to jointly develop cellular phone handsets that have built-in iPod digital music players and can download songs directly from Apple's iTunes Music Store, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is reporting.
12 May 2006
Apple offers QuickTime, Front Row, Security updates
Apple said the 49.1MB QuickTime 7.1 update is an important release that delivers numerous bug fixes, support for iLife ’06, and H.264 performance improvements. This update is highly recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.
11 May 2006
New Standard for Opulence in iPod Cases
Owning an iPod in the first place is one of the top ways to conspicuously demonstrate your disposable income level (or at least that of your parents).
Google has its eye on Vista search
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google executives downplayed their legendary battle with Microsoft but said they were keeping an eye on their larger rival's plans for embedding Web search functionality into Vista, its delayed next-generation operating system.
Technology Cult: Mac
Want an Intel-based Mac but don't want to pay Apple's prices? A company called Red PCs may have what you're looking for -- if you're willing to face the wrath of Apple's lawyers.
10 May 2006
Technology Cult: World of Warcraft to the Big Screen
Warner Bros.-based Legendary Pictures has picked up film rights to adapt the popular fantasy video game franchise World of Warcraft and will develop the project with game publisher Blizzard Entertainment, which is owned by Vivendi.
Technology Cult: iTunes customers are Red Hot angry
A large number of Apple Computer's iTunes customers, who paid in advance for rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album "Stadium Arcadium" in order to receive a Ticketmaster code that would allow them to purchase advance tickets for the bands upcoming tour, did not receive those codes before ticket pre-sales began on Tuesday and are now enraged with the iPod maker.
09 May 2006
Gates Doesn't Want to Be Richest Man
Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates Doesn't Want to Be the World's Richest Man REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Most people probably dream of being the world's richest person -- except, perhaps, the man himself.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told an online advertising conference Wednesday that he'd prefer not to be the richest person in the world.
08 May 2006
Fight spammers - Sign up at Blue Frog
by 1 otherBlue Security’s Blue Frog has an interesting defense against spammers. If you constantly receive spam from a specific merchant, Blue Frog will bombard that spammer with email asking him to desist.
07 May 2006
More MacBook News
ThinkSecret has been able to confirm the release of the Apple MacBook for this Tuesday, May 9th. It also looks like they will be thinner than current iBooks and come in White and Black.
05 May 2006
MacBook Next Week?
MacRumors is quoting an unverified anonymous source that Apple may announce the MacBook notebooks as early as May 9.
Games hacked for militants' jihad
THE makers of combat video games have unwittingly become part of a global propaganda campaign by Islamic militants against the United States, US Defence officals say.
03 May 2006
Microsoft and SAP make sweet music together
Back in late 2003, Microsoft secretly approached SAP to discuss the potential of a merger that would have been by far the largest coupling in software industry history.
23 April 2006
Bush shows support for tech industry
The United States is losing its competitive edge in science and technology, and President Bush told Silicon Valley leaders Friday that the country can’t afford to let that happen.
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