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We’re here at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco with Mr. Belloussov as well as Laura Ciekot with Allison & Partners, the public relations agency that works with Parallels. Serguei Beloussov TMO: How would you characterize the development of Parallels? Beloussov: Well, we have definitely come a long way since we started, but there is…

Then I remembered American-based Sandisk CEO Eli Harari recently saying that Apple had won the MP3 player war and saying that, “You can’t out-iPod the iPod,” a statement with which I agree, but it really begs the question of, “Why?” Why is it that no one can seem to do what it is that Apple…

The UNIEA Omniverse 13.3-inch Universal Tote and the matching 4 x 6-inch hard drive case are both very attractive and extremely functional. Among the features are a water resistant finish, memory foam to mold around your computer or hard drive, corner stabilizers , and a ventilated base that allows heat to dissipate in the larger…

Barclays Barclays’ Ben Reitzes was pleased with the number and nature of the products Apple announced, which included a new iPhone, updated MacBook Pros, price drops, more details and a release date for iPhone OS 3.0, and an announcement for Snow Leopard’s release. “While the iPhone announcements were expected,” he wrote in a research note…

Mickey Roberson TMO: We’re here with Mickey Roberson in the WWDC dining hall. (I’m using Recorder v 7.1 for the iPhone from Retronyms Software.) Mickey, how did you get started doing a Twitter client? Roberson: When I started doing this a few months ago, I didn’t really like the look of any of the Twitter…

Along with the iPhone 3G S, Apple announced that the current 8GB iPhone 3G price has dropped to US$99 from $199. “We believe the new lower priced 3G should help stimulate some demand, though we think Apple’s subsidy from operators likely remains unchanged, which would likely impact margins,” Mr. Um said. “However, we continue to…

Apple will likely show off iPhone Software 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) features during the keynote presentation, and many are expecting the company to introduce new iPhone models as well.The World Wide Developers Conference is Apple’s annual week-long gathering for Apple-related hardware and software. Now that the company has pulled out of…

Psystar’s bankruptcy filing put Apple’s case in northern California temporarily on hold because all legal actions involving the PC maker are automatically stalled while the bankruptcy court begins its proceedings. Apple’s Motion for Relief from the stay, if granted, would help minimize lost time while waiting for the bankruptcy case to run its course.Apparently some…

According to this source, Mr. Jobs’s recovery “is coming along.” More importantly to Apple observers, he is on schedule to return to work at the end of June, which would be the end of the six-month leave of absence time frame he announced shortly before Macworld in January of this year. “He was one real…

Snow Leopard The latest iteration of Apple’s UNIX-based OS is primarily focused on squeezing the best possible performance out of your Mac. So there won’t be a truckload of new features. In fact, I’d suspect that some features will be missing, the most obvious of which may be the lack of support for PowerPC based…

For those working out the numbers in their head, if the Post’s numbers are correct, the Fifth Avenue Apple Store is bringing in an average of $1.2 million in sales each and every day, numbers the Post referred to as “mind-boggling.” In the March quarter of 2009, Apple’s planet-wide Apple Store retail sales clocked in…

Yes, it is hugely important for Apple to communicate (in a small, controlled way) with the people who develop software and hardware for the Mac platform, for developers to communicate their needs and wants to Apple (whether Apple listens or not is a whole different column) and, to a smaller extent, to the Macintosh user…

By now, the word has gotten out that on new MacBooks, MacBook Pros and Mac mini with DisplayPort protected video content, typically HD TV shows and movies, purchased in iTunes need an HDCP compliant display. The easiest way to achieve that with the new Apple LED Cinema Display (24-inch). It also has DisplayPort and is…

Adam Jackson managed to snap a few shots through the lobby windows at the Moscone West building in San Francisco where the annual conference for developers will be held next week. The images are available on his Flickr Web page.Image from Adam Jackson’s Flickr page.Along with iPhone app-related banners, Apple is also adorning the outside…

Features like MovieMaker have been me-too additions to Windows desperately intended to match iLife features. Zune was an iPod-wannabe. The Zune Marketplace was an App Store gambit. And on and on. This is all old stuff, but there’s one area where I think Microsoft would be best-served by picking one thing (to copy) and sticking…

Even though the state isn’t officially saying that the tax breaks are aimed at Apple, word has leaked out from the government that the legislation is aimed squarely at drawing the Mac and iPod maker’s new server farm into the state.The deal could amount to about $46 million in tax savings for Apple, but the…

It’s not that I expect Bing to be a better search engine than Google, or even that Microsoft has any real shot at making Bing be better than Google — but I think Bing has a shot at being better than Yahoo!, and it’s this sort of competition that will push Google and other competitors…

The logic I used to forecast an Apple netbook, MacNetBook, is that it’s a growing market that Apple can’t afford to ignore. It is illogical to argue that if Asus, Acer and MSI can make some money on a US$250 netbook that Apple cannot make money on a $699, 10-inch MacNetBook. I’ll go even further…

— David Ogilvy There is a known market for notebook computers, and that market had been soaring until the economy went bonkers. There is a known and growing market for netbooks, and Apple can, if it wishes, carve out a piece of that market as well. But what is the market for an iTablet? When…

The developer also noted some changes that are still in progress, including modifications to trade routes, a redefinition of asteroid densities to change the dynamics of resource gathering, event registration, improvements to the faction system, player-owned stations and capital ships, and tweaks to piracy in neutral space. Vendetta Online is a free download. The game…

According to InfoWorld, Microsoft has put together new “maximum requirements” for netbooks running Windows 7 that limit the devices to displays no larger than 10.2-inches, but allowing 32GB solid state drives or 160GB hard drives. Vendors selling PCs that fall within Microsoft’s guidelines will be eligible for lower-cost Windows 7 pricing, which translates into potentially…

The bankruptcy documents were filed with the Federal Courts in Florida on Thursday, and Apple’s legal team was most likely made aware of the situation over the Memorial Day weekend.The Florida court will hold a hearing on June 5 where Psystar’s equity creditors will be revealed — which means if there have been deep pockets…

“We expect a price cut to the current generation iPhone to drive 50 percent to 100 percent (two million to four million units) incremental unit demand,” Huberty said.Some of those iPhones will go to current owners, making for a significant number of upgrades once the new models ship. “Our survey data suggests 15 percent plus…

The exploit, known as CVE-2008-5353, is an issue with Sun’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which is incorporated into Mac OS X. Sun released a patch for the vulnerability in December of 2008. Mr. Fuller wrote in a blog post, “CVE-2008-5353 allows malicious code to escape the Java sandbox and run arbitrary commands with the permissions…