A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for CompUSA at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at least in…
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Apple Updates Hot Deals With DV & Digital Photo Deals
A pple has updated its Hot Deals section of the Macintosh Product Guide again. The Hot Deals for B&H Photo, DV Direct, & ProMax are all new, including lots of DV and Digital Photography items. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals…
Fortune Magazine Offers Positive Look At Apple's MWSF 2003 Offerings, Touts Keynote To Business Audience
We are always keen on seeing a bit of positive mainstream press about Apple, and Fortune delivered just such a treat today. The financial and business magazine has published a very positive outlook on Apple’s Macworld San Francisco 2003 product announcements that is fairly gushing with glowing remarks. The author, Brent Schlender, specifically looks at…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For ClubMac, MacConnection
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for ClubMac and MacConnection at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at…
Safari Catapults To #2 Browser On TMO With 24% Of Traffic, Internet Explorer & Chimera Take Brun
W eb logs can tell you some amazing things, if you know how to interpret them, and they offer the advantage of not being able to lie. As such, we can get an outstanding glimpse into browser use, or at least a barometer of that use as it pertains to The Mac Observer (TMO). In…
Apple Posts US$8 Million Loss; Aside From Non-Recurring Charges, Company Earns US$11 Million
Today at 2:00 PM PST, Apple held its quarterly conference call (see TMO’s live coverage for more information), where the company announced a net loss of US$8 million dollars or two cents per share. During the same quarter last year, Apple posted a net profit of US$38 million, or eleven cents per share. Apple was…
TMO Exclusive - Apple Switcher Star Survives Helicopter Crash (With Pics)
Apple Switcher Jeremiah Cohick ended Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003 with a bang, literally. Mr. Cohick survived a helicopter crash on Friday afternoon during an aerial tour of San Francisco. The star of one of Apple’s Switch ads — and the nemesis of fellow-Switcher Ellen Feiss according to an interview she gave a college newspaper…
In The Midst Of Economic Downturn, Macworld SF 2003 Attendance Tops 90,000
J ust when there is debate on the efficacy of Macworld Expo as a vehicle for Apple to get the word out on its products, IDG announces record attendance for the event. At the most recent Macworld Expo in San Francisco that was held last week, IDG says that 90,473 people attended the event. We…
Day 4 Macworld Attendance Higher, Vendors Report Higher Macworld Sales
F rom those of us hitting the floor of this yearis Macworld Expo, attendance on the first day of the show was off. Thatis not based on official numbers or comments from IDG World Expos, the Macworld Expo organizers, but rather our own observations, and comments from vendors. What makes this interesting is that attendance…
Shots From The floor Of Massive Tablets, Jaguar Drives, Cool Furniture, More
< /P> John F. Braun offers more pictures from the floor of Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003. Below we have the a huge tablet, some Jaguar themed drives from Maxtor, the very cool iGo iMac desk, and more. Check out our Special Report for Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003 for more image galleries, and other…
Shots From The floor Of Puppies, UFOs, More
< /P> John F. Braun offers more pictures from the floor of Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003. Below we have the UFO base for G4 iMacs, as well an image of the Puppy, a fingerprint ID device for the Mac. Check out our Special Report for Macworld Expo San Francisco for more image galleries, and…
Apple Stores Sales Grew To US$282 Million In 2002, Failed To Earn Profit
A pple released its Form 10-K SEC filing for fiscal 2002, a document that has revealed many things about the companyis operations. First and foremost of those things is the companyis retail operations. Appleis retail Apple Store strategy has been the center point of its quest for renewed growth. The company has looked at and…
Ready For Macworld? Got Your TMO Mac Shirt?
M acworld is just around the corner, three weeks or so, for those keeping score at home. While sitting around the water cooler at the TMO Towers, Fact Checker Thomas Stafford suggested that Macworld might make a good excuse to hawk our line of TMO Mac merchandise again. The editorial staff [In this case, that…
Another PC Company Innovates By Copying Apple
In another clear-cut case of Apple’s innovation being borrowed by the Wintel camp, Sharp has unveiled a laptop that includes an amazing "new" feature that is just like something that Apple has been doing for years. Observer Brutno noticed in a PCWorld magazine article that Sharp was touting the ability to use its MM1-1 laptop…
Apple Posts Signature iPods From Tony Hawk, Beck, & Madonna
W ould you pay extra to have Beckis name on your iPod? How about Madonna? Tony Hawk? Thanks to some eagle-eyed members of the TMO forums, that question has relevance today. On Appleis iPod promo site, the company has listed three new signature iPods, from Beck, Madonna, and Tony Hawk. Those Web pages: Click on…
Apple Updates Hot Deals Site With Mac Bundles, Software, Music Equipment, & Books
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for Outpost.com, Sweetwater, CompUSA, and OiReillyis at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only…
Apple Brings IP Over FireWire To FireWire Macs; What Does That Mean?
T he gearhead community has been asking for IP over FireWire from Apple, the company that invented FireWire, and today Apple delivered it. The company released a preview release of IP over FireWire that works on FireWire enabled Macs. This is similar to FireNet from UniBrain, a commercial product that effectively does the same thing.…
TMO Reports - Mac Users Turn Out In Force For After-Thanksgiving In-Store "Free Stocking Stuffer" Event
Apple’s in-store event last Friday was another success. The company held its after-Thanksgiving "Hello Stocking" event at all of its 50 retail operations. Based on the successful midnight Jaguar event held in August, Friday’s event was also a success, if not as big as the Jaguar roll out. At the Valley Fair Apple Store in…
A New Racing Game For The Mac Is Here
T here arenit many racing games on the Mac, but Feral Interactive and MacPlay have brought a new one to the table, F1 Championship Season 2000. As the name suggests, this title is a Formula 1 racing game, and it is set up around the real Formula 1 circuit, complete with real tracks, real cars,…
Larry Ellison Bought 70,000 Shares Of AAPL Shortly After Resigning From Apple's Board
L arry Ellison resigned from Appleis board of directors in late September, but he exercised options for some 70,000 shares of the company two months later, according to a report from Reuters. The options were earned during Mr. Ellisonis 5-year tour as one of Appleis Directors. Larry Ellisonis day job is being CEO of Oracle,…
Microsoft Appoints Former Microsoft Employee For Antitrust Settlement Oversight Board. Seriously.
Imagine, if you will, a world where criminals go unpunished for their actions. Now, imagine if law-breakers could choose the people who were assigned to watch over their actions in the future. For those with little imagination, you don’t have to imagine, because we have an example right here in the US. In the Microsoft…
Apple European Exec Named To Online Bank's Board
Another Apple executive has been tapped to sit on a board of director. Pascal Cagni, Apple’s Vice President and General Manager Europe, Middle East and Africa, has been named to the board of Egg, a European online banking firm that has been aggressively expanding its operations throughout Europe. The firm cited Mr. Cagni’s work with…
Apple To Open Apple Store In Microsoft's Back Yard
The Seattle Times is confirming what our friends at MacNN reported yesterday, that Apple is opening up a retail Apple Store in Big Redmond’s back yard. According to the Seattle Times, Apple is opening up an Apple Store in the Seattle area, specifically in the Bellevue Square mall in Puget Sound, Washington. MacNN broke the…
Scientist Uses iPod To Transport Entire Human Genome
W hen Apple released the iPod, perhaps the company knew that it would become an important scientific vessel. Or perhaps not. Be that as it may, the Sydney Morning Herald has a fascinating report today on how an Australian scientist is using his iPod as just that, a vessel to carry scientific data from Mac…