Apple has wasted little time in tackling their worldwide sales problems. After announcing an earnings warning, the resignation of their Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, and earnings that actually fell slightly below their own warnings, the company has moved quickly to reshape their sales team. Apple has announced a new European sales team that…
Bryan Chaffin
Bryan Chaffin is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and co-authored the last two updates of iPad and iPad Pro for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus and Ed Baig. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, or find his Twitter link below.
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Apple Continues Plunge, But Slows The Descent
Apple sank 7/16 to close at 21 3/4 on volume of 10,666,900 shares. This is still 2 1/2 times normal volume before Apple announced its warnings earning, though once again volume is slowing. Apple announced that Mitch Mandich, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, will be retiring in December of this year. The Mac Observer covers…
Apple Adds New David Pogue Article To Macintosh Product Guide
A quick note to let you know weive just published the September installment of David Pogueis "Mastering Your Mac" in the Macintosh Products Guide. This month, David, along with Dave Reynolds and Jim Elferdink, provides a ton of great information for getting the most out of AppleWorks 6 style-sheets. You can find more information on…
QuickTime Live! Early Registration Discount Ends This Friday
Save $195 off of the Platinum Pass registration until Friday, September 1. The Platinum Pass provides access to the full day workshop of your choice, all conference sessions, keynotes, the Product Showcase, evening events, lunch and breaks each day of the conference, all conference proceedings (audio and presentations) and an attendee gift bag. You can…
Microsoft Can't Get A Break; How About A Bottle Of Windows 99?
In a short story about the value of names and the nature of domain names, Upside Today had a blurb that we thought you may be interested in. It seems that beleaguered Microsoft has run into yet another problem, this time in Russia, where a Vodka manufacturer has introduced a new product it calls "Windows…
The Mac Observer Talks To Xtrem About MacThrust And 1.2 GHz PowerMacs
1st things first Xtrem will be releasing a product in the next two weeks called MacThrust. MacThrust is an overclocking device that will allow owners of Blue & White G3s as well as PowerMac G4s to increase the speed of their Macs up to 35%. Xtrem did not give us specific information on which systems…
The Back Page - How I Came To Use A Mac: A Tribute To Kinko's
The time is 1991. I was managing a pizza delivery store whose name (Domino’s) I won’t mention. Oops, I mentioned it. I had just taken over this store and was very excited about building sales. This unit was in a sorry state when I took over, and the key to building sales is marketing of…
Microsoft Chooses Mac Group To Develop Office 2001 Icons
As was demonstrated this morning in Steve Jobsi keynote address at MacWorld, New York, Microsoft formally announced the newest version of its popular Office suite of applications – Office 2001. The Iconfactory is pleased to announce it worked closely with the Office team at Microsoft to update and revise the over 300 user interface and…
MacInTouch Rebuffs Apple Legal With Public Snub
As we reported last week, Apple’s legal department has been busy trying to squelch rumors about a new Mac "Cube" that will supposedly be released during MACWORLD. MacOS Rumors, AppleInsider, and now MacInTouch have all felt the long arm of Apple tap them on the shoulder. The controversy started when MacOS Rumors first printed information…
MACWORLD Early News: Keyspan To Unveil FireWire Cardbus & PCI Cards
Keyspan has let The Mac Observer know that they will be showing two FireWire products at this weekis MACWORLD Expo. The company will be showing a FireWire CardBus card for laptops and a FireWire PCI card for Desktop Macs and PCs alike. According to Keyspan: Keyspan (Booth 1419) will announce and demo two brand new…
The Back Page - In Reluctant Defense Of MacNN/AppleInsider
If you regularly follow the Mac Web with its occasional dramatics, you probably know the story of Adobe suing MacNN/Appleinsider and its proprietor, Monish Bhatia. AppleInsider published detailed information about officially unannounced upcoming versions of Photoshop (version 6) and Image Ready (version 3). According to a Law.com article, Adobe contacted Mr. Bhatia and gave him…
The Back Page - Accountability, Responsibility, And Denial Of Service Attacks
Unless you have been living under a rock of late, and even then that rock would have to be at the bottom of at least a medium size body of water, you have heard all about the attacks on several top Internet sites. Yahoo!, eBay, CNN, Amazon.com, Buy.com, E*Trade, and Datek were all victims of…