Jim Tanous

Redmatica specializes in digital audio workstation software for OS X and its flagship product, Keymap Pro, features optional integration with Apple’s audio applications Logic, Mainstage, and GarageBand. Redmatica itself is relatively small, with total income reported to be about €26,000 (US$32,000) on less than €100,000 (US$124,000) in revenues per year, although the company’s audio technology,…

Breaking web traffic down by device type, traditional PCs, including desktops and laptops, account for 79.8 percent. Smartphones, on the market much longer than the current crop of tablets, represent 14.6 percent, and tablets take 5.6 percent. For its part, Apple is represented strongly in Chitika’s measured mobile traffic, with the iPad accounting for over…

Facing growing concerns over its immense cash balance, Apple announced in March a stock buyback and dividend of $2.65 per share to begin “sometime in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2012, which begins on July 1, 2012.” In an amendment filed with the SEC Friday, Apple’s compensation committee declared that the dividend would also…

IBM’s restriction on services such as Siri follows the company’s 2010 adoption of a “bring your own device” policy, allowing employees to use personal devices to access IBM networks and data. The policy, which now sees 80,000 of the company’s 400,000 workers using their personal smartphones and tablets, has created security headaches for IBM’s IT…

Microsoft’s initial success against Motorola comes just days after Apple achieved a temporary import ban on some HTC smartphones resulting from Apple’s victory in patent litigation last December. HTC’s phones eventually cleared customs although both companies are now heading to court-ordered settlement negotiations. Friday’s ITC ruling did not specify which Motorola devices were affected by…

This week, we’re taking a look at The Mac Observer’s Managing Editor, Jeff Gamet.Jeff has comfortable, modern home office perfectly set up for the two Macs he uses to keep tabs on Apple and creative design news and events. In addition to his comfy red chair, his office walls feature original artwork in the form…

Potential class members were notified of their status in emails (PDF) delivered early Wednesday. Although the class-action was granted in November 2011, notifications to consumers are now being delivered following failed settlement negotiations earlier this month.The court approved notice sent to potential class members. The suit’s origins date back to the early days of the iTunes…

Total revenue for the company was €75.4 million ($106.3 million) with pretax earnings of €48 million ($67.6 million), a margin of 64 percent for the year. Rovio, founded by three Helsinki University of Technology students in in 2003, had its big break in December 2009, when the company released the first Angry Birds title for…

 Cult of Mac’s Apple Television Mockup (with a little commentary added by TMO) Why? Because, while we think the product described by Cult of Mac’s source will share much in common with an eventual Apple television, it’s what the mockup lacks that’s going to be the “killer feature” of Apple’s “next big thing.” Apple, under Steve Jobs’s…

“We feel that the attitude of Apple Inc. has changed. Although they expressed that they were willing to negotiate, they have never taken any action before. But now, they are having conversations with us, and we have begun to consult on the case,” Mr. Xie said in an interview with Xinhua on Sunday. Without disclosing…

“We’ve seen a ton of excitement for both CS6 and Creative Cloud since our April 23 announcement,” Scott Morris, Adobe senior marketing manager told Macworld. “We want Creative Cloud to be an amazing experience for our customers and we feel that we just need a little more time to fine-tune it. At the same time,…

This week, we’re taking a look at The Mac Observer’s Senior Editor, John Martellaro.John’s office is the central hub of his digital life, from which he brings us great weekly columns and reviews, keeps up with Twitter, and roams the internet looking for the next big thing. On the left is John’s 3rd Generation Verizon…

Apple’s current iPad lineup, including the “new” iPad 2 with a 32nm A5 SoC (source: AnandTech) The Samsung-sourced chip grants benefits to both Apple and consumers. From Apple’s perspective, the new SoC gives Apple the ability test out the 32nm process, likely to make its way into the next iPhone, on an existing architecture with…

Due to its limited adoption thus far — Macs and only a few PCs support it — and its significantly higher cost compared to legacy connection options such as USB and FireWire, one of the areas Thunderbolt has yet to penetrate is memory card readers, a niche market crucial to professional photographers and videographers.  Up…

Research in Motion made the case for the continued relevance of its BlackBerry platform during its Blackberry World keynote Tuesday morning. Three months after taking the helm at the struggling company, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins took the floor to argue for the “unique value” that BlackBerry delivers to its customers. Distinguishing BlackBerry customers from those…

Chart by The Mac Observer from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners data.The study, conducted in February, asked new iPad customers where they had purchased their product. As mentioned above, 26 percent of iPads were bought directly from Apple’s online and retail stores while long-time Apple partner Best Buy accounted for 24 percent. Walmart, with 11 percent, came…

Despite suggestions to the contrary raised by The New York Times this weekend, Apple pays “an enormous amount of taxes,” the company argued in a letter published by The Times on Saturday. The highly-profitable electronics company also referenced its controversial data released in March on the number of jobs it “creates or supports” in the United States,…