Bryan Chaffin

macProVideo.com offers training tutorials on more than 50 professional (and some consumer) content creation applications for the Mac, including Final Cut Pro, Logic, Live, Reason, Dreamweaver, Aperture, Photoshop, and the like. The tutorials are professionally made and are usually hosted by professionals in the relevant industry like Michael Wohl. The eight Final Cut Pro X…

Instapaper is a popular service that can be used through most Web browsers, but the company also has a successful iOS app and a popular following amongst iPhone and iPad users. With Instapaper, users can mark Web content for later and even offline viewing, in the case of its iOS app. Mr. Arment said the…

According to a translation of the blog post by English-language Chinese gadget site M.I.C. Gadget, the reporter wrote, ““This morning, around 10, Apple COO Tim Cook is spotted in the lobby of China Mobile’s HQ, accompanied by 7-8 people. Probably Cook is talking with executives from China Mobile to discuss bilateral cooperation for the iPhone.…

In its description of the series, CNBC said, “CNBC Titans profiles remarkable people who made careers turning the ‘unthinkable’ into reality and companies that grew from humble roots to worldwide recognition.” This season kicks off with Steve Jobs, but it also includes looks at Jack Welch, Proctor & Gamble, Herb Kelleher, Quincy Jones, Milton S.…

The Journal also reported that the auction has been delayed until June 27th by Nortel in order to give all of these qualified companies time to advance their own talks with the U.S. Department of Justice. Nortel is hoping that the less the bidding companies are concerned about antitrust issues, the more they’ll be willing…

The Journal spoke to current and past employees, industry experts, and it got a look of some of Apple’s own training manuals in putting together its story. In addition to the control and focus on the details, Apple also spends a lot of time and resources on actually training its retail employees, something almost unheard…

The patents cover a wide range of technologies, including Wi-Fi, some social networking patents, and patents related to the LTE, the misnamed 4G wireless network that is being deployed in the U.S. by most of the major wireless carriers. Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, and HP had all filed objections to the very sale of the portfolio…

Then, as now, Mr. Jobs had lined up a world-class architect to head the project. In 1983 it was I.M. Pei, who designed such buildings as the John F. Kennedy Library (see photo below), the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, and several other iconic buildings. Mr.…

The Apple Barometer is the name of Ticonderoga’s look at a basket of companies in Apple’s supply chain with “a high concentration of sales generated” from the Mac, iPad, and iPhone maker. The financial services firm believes it that this provides a more accurate indicator of Apple’s own performance than the more common method of…

Apple introduced iCloud earlier this week during a keynote address at the company’s annual World Wide Developer Conference. iCloud offers a host of document hosting and syncing services, including the ability to have most of your iTunes purchases (music, apps, and iBooks) synced to any and every Mac and iOS device you have. While iCloud…

Apple purchased the land in two transactions. In 2006, the company bought 50 acres off Wolfe Road, and in 2010, the company bought 98 adjacent acres from HP, giving Apple not quite 150 acres. Mr. Jobs told the Cupertino city council that his company wanted to take that space, increase the number of trees on…

Apple had been rumored for some time to be working on a cloud service that could replace MobileMe, rumors that accelerated with the news that Apple had bought iCloud.com earlier this year. On Tuesday the company acknowledged iCloud by announcing that Steve Jobs would be participating in a keynote event for WWDC that focus on…

X2Y is based in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the suit was filed the Western District of Pennsylvania. According to Bloomberg, all five patents are in areas covering ways of overcoming electromagnetic interference. X2Y alleges that Intel is using the techniques covered by the patents in its processor line, and it named the Core i7 as “one…

Mac Defender is a fake anti-virus piece of malware that tries to extort credit card numbers out of Mac users by creating phony problems on their system (read more in our original coverage). The malware first came to light with a security alert from Intego earlier this month, and has made headlines since because Apple…