Apple Notebook Shipments Skyrocket 61%
June 29, 2008
This is a good news, poor news story. Let’s start with the good news!
DisplaySearch, a market research firm, is reporting that Apple’s sales of notebook computers are up 61% from 1st Quarter, 2007 to 1st Quarter, 2008. In that fiscal quarter, Apple shipped by 1.4 million notebooks, compared t…
WALL•E - Robot with the heart of a Mac
June 27, 2008
Several TUAW readers have reported after seeing midnight showings of Disney-Pixar’s new and highly-rated movie WALLo.E that when the robot boots up, he makes the standard Mac startup sound. That’s not the only Apple connection with the movie.
Of course, Steve Jobs is the largest restricted sh…
Analysts: Macs will continue to take market share from PCs
June 27, 2008
Are you sitting down for that one? Good. Here goes: Apple is going to keep taking market share from “traditional PCs.” I know, it’s a real shocker. But so says Zacks Investment Research (which is not, apparently, run by a dude named Zack as you’d think). They say that consumers are enjoying Appl…
The real .mac opens up with new regulations
June 27, 2008
ICANN, the ruling body for Net domain naming, has voted to relax a few rules that will supposedly open up a whole slew of top-level domain names, multiple news sources are reporting. They haven’t precisely said why they’re doing that, only that it will “preserve the safety measure, stability, an…
Final Cut Server Update 1.1
June 26, 2008
In addition to the Pro Applications update tonight, Apple additionally issued an update for Final Cut Server. Final Cut Server 1.1 address “issues with the check in/check out process for Final Cut Pro projects.” In addition, double-byte character sets are now fixed and overall reliability has im…
Apple posts new online seminars
June 26, 2008
One of the hidden gems of Apple.com is the collection of free web seminars available 24/7 that cover a wide range of topics and applications. A few weeks ago, Mat posted about the iWork for Business seminar, but a lot of other new seminars have been posted recently.
Some of the highlights:
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Good news for Apple: Android delays expected
June 23, 2008
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google’s mobile phone platform, Android, is experiencing delays that may move the launch of Android-based phones into early 2009.
In a Monday editorial about the delays, the WSJ noted that at the launch of Android last November it was expected that th…
