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An Overweight rating from Barclay’s means, “The stock is expected to outperform the unweighted expected total return of the sector coverage universe over a 12-month investment horizon.” Mr. Reitzes wrote that he expects Apple to reposition the Mac product to keep to stay in line with the declining prices in the market, and repeated his…

Mr. Schiller, along with what Apple is calling “a team of Apple executives,” will deliver the keynote.Senior vice president of Software Engineering, Bertrand Serlet, also confirmed that developers would be receiving a final developer preview release of Mac OS X 10.6 at the conference.CEO Steve Jobs started a six month leave of absence early in…

Mr. Jones is a fan of Jonny Ive’s. In his filing with the WIPO, the non-governmental body that oversees such issues by treaty, Mr. Jones said: “I’m a web designer living in the UK, and I’ve been a huge fan of Jonathan Ive since I first used an iMac G3 in college in 1998. I…

Neat’s main competition comes from Fujitsu, which similarly makes desktop and portable versions of its popular ScanSnap scanners. The latest version of its desktop scanner is the S1500M (also available for approximately $400 at Amazon). I have the previous S510M model, which is overall quite similar and is what I used in my comparisons here.…

Apple and Psystar are currently fighting a legal battle over whether or not companies can sell PCs with Mac OS X installed. Apple asserts that any company wanting to sell Mac clones needs permission, and the Cupertino-based company has no plans to let companies sell PCs with Mac OS X installed. Psystar claims that Apple…

If the other major apps for writers previously reviewed are aircraft carriers, and Jer’s Novel Writer is a destroyer, then CopyWrite is a frigate. Lightweight, simple, focused, and devoid of anxiety inducing complexities that can stymie the creative writing process. There are apps for writers that try to do everything: manage time lines, enable rich…

County fire fighters evacuated Building 4 on De Anza Blvd around 3:30PM after receiving a call about the suspicious envelope. Additional details about the envelope and the powder inside are still unavailable.

This new version of the computer security program offers enhancements to the program’s logs, and improves performance for several of the program’s functions. The update includes the following changes: Logs now record more events: start and stop of real-time scanner, virus definition updates, and cancelled archive scansLog entries can be copied to the clipboard, and…

Like the smaller 6-inch display Kindle 2, the Kindle DX includes a built-in keyboard, wireless downloads via the 3G Amazon Whispernet network, and text-to-speech support.Amazon is targeting education and research with its new Kindle model. Educational book publishers Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley have already committed to offer text books  through the online Kindle Store,…

Apple filed its motion to compel with the court after what it saw as a disappointing deposition hearing with Psystar’s CEO, Rudy Pedraza. Mr. Pedraza, according to Apple, “stated approximately 90 times during the deposition that he did not know or recall answers to basic questions about Psystar’s sales, its general costs and profits, its…

For those who intend to connect a Mac to their HDTV and also preserve HDCP for protected content, the Atlona USB to HDMI converter provides a very simple solution. It’s about the size of a pack of cigarettes, accepts audio + USB from the Mac and outputs 720p via HDMI. The number of different ways…

Why should you care what a spudger is? Glad you asked. Turns out that, if you want to do any hardware repairs or maintenance on an iPhone (such as replacing a cracked front panel or a dead battery), you’ll want this tool. Apparently, a flat-head screwdriver won’t cut it. While most people will leave such…

After ATI was acquired by AMD, Mr. Drebin served as CTO of AMD’s Graphics Product Group, but left in January of 2008. He’s Linked-In profile shows that he had some downtime before joining Apple, which The Inquirer pointed out could well have served as non-compete time. His Linked-In profile shows that he’s currently a “Senior…

The patch can be downloaded by simply logging into the World of Warcraft client. The update is free, and the full version of the latest expansion pack can be purchased at Amazon.com for US$31.49. The patch notes in full: General In order to address issues with the dual talent specialization system, all players will have…

Okay, it’s not June yet and sixteen is not an especially noteworthy number. So why am I mentioning this? Because it is also the anniversary of what is probably the biggest miscalculation I ever made (aside from the money I put in the stock market last summer). Yes, the book went on to become a…

The live tech support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so subscribers can “initiate a realtime help session with a MobileMe support agent.”MobileMe is priced at US$99 a year and includes online file storage and data backup, AddressBook and iCal syncing, Computer and iPhone and iPod touch syncing, email, and more.

In the ad, PC is showing a banner that says, “PC. Easy as 1-23,” which Mac assumes means easy as, 1, 2, 3, but PC explains that are actually 23 easy steps that are needed. PC. Easy as 1-23 9to5Mac.com first noticed the ad, which has also been posted to YouTube (above). The full list…

The “Say on Pay” proposal, or Shareholder Proposal Number Regarding Advisory Vote on Compensation, was originally reported as defeated because shareholder abstention votes had been accidentally counted as “No” votes. According to Apple, “the mistake was due to human error, which Apple regrets.”The reversal means that shareholders will be able to vote on executive pay…

The organization successfully stopped the demolition in 2006 after claiming Mr. Jobs and the town of Woodside failed to produce documentation that showed the house would be more expensive to preserve than to replace. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the new demolition filing shows it would cost over US$13 million to renovate the…

One of the new “Get a Mac” ads, “Legal Copy” throws up a lot of legal text on the screen that’s hard to read. Well, someone has captured it all and transcribed it. So if you want to know how all that (improvised) legal copy reads, here it is. I ran across this tidbit midweek…

Mr. Jobs’s testimony was part of the SEC’s investigation of then-General Counsel Nancy Heinen, whom the SEC accused of backdating the 10 million option grant to Mr. Jobs. Ms. Heinen eventually settled with the SEC, paid a fine, and was not required to admit any wrongdoing. Mr. Jobs himself was cleared of any wrongdoing. At…

First, the Java community is very large. My wife attended Java One last year and reported that it dwarfs WWDC by a considerable amount. There are, I’m guessing, billions of lines of code of Java in place all over the planet, seriously eclipsing C#. That creates a community that can bring to bear considerable pressure…

Some functions are strongly coupled and some are not. A significant rise in unemployment, for example, has domino effects. Add a little bit of slant from the media to get our attention, and things look pretty bad. There is no doubt now. Apple’s brand and products have weathered the worst recession in memory. Tim Cook…