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The Cupertino-based company isnit saying what Apple University is, but it wonit likely come to life until sometime next year since Mr. Podolny isnit scheduled to start his new job with Apple until early 2009. This wonit be the first company Steve Jobs has been involved with that started a “University” program. Pixar Animation Studios,…

As e very Mac Observer reader knows by now, Apple has dropped the FireWire port from its latest MacBooks. The result is a lot of angry Mac users, and a controversy over exactly how important it is to have a FireWire port on a Mac. Although much ink has already been spilled on this topic,…

A team of former Apple employees has formed a startup company to pick up where Apple left off with RAID 5 storage. Active Storage in Torrance, California is building and delivering XRAID, a powerful RAID 5 system especially designed for Macintosh customers with up to 16 TB of storage in a sleek 3U case. Alex…

Psystar has filed a motion in opposition to Appleis motion to dismiss its counterclaim. Psystar believes it has found relevant case law to support single product relevant markets and supporting antitrust argument. Previously, in response to Appleis original copyright infringement case against Psystar, a counterclaim was filed which emphasized possible antitrust action by Apple. Apple…

Keychain, which stores passwords, registration codes, certificates, secure notes, and anything else that you want to keep secure comes with Mac OS X. It is free and it offers a good level of security for all those things you want to keep secure. Many things are automatically added to Keychain which saves you time. However,…

“Our position hasnit changed,” the company said in a statement. “Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Yahoo!; there are no discussions between the companies.” The public statement followed comments from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando. According to ZDNet, when asked about his companyis interest in pursuing Yahoo! again, Mr.…

On Tuesday, Apple released new aluminum MacBooks without a FireWire port of any kind, some customers have been greatly annoyed, and they let Apple know about it on Apple forums. Steve Jobs has responded to one customer via e-mail, according to AppleInsider. In his first response to an Apple customer, Mr. Jobs said, “Actually, all…

On Boing Boing tv, John Hodgman, famous and known to Apple customers for his Apple ads with Justin Long, continues his SPAMasterpiece Theater series, part II, featuring “true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you –…

Apple has not confirmed that it was planning on opening a call center in the city, but Volt recruiters were telling prospective employees that the Mac and iPod maker was doing just that under a project dubbed the “Appleflex Project.” The recruits were later told that via email that their training dates had been pushed…

Currently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is confiscating laptops as it pleases when travelers — including U.S. citizens — enter into the country. The seized laptops are being held in some cases for months, and the agency is demanding travelers turn over the passwords necessary to access all of the hard driveis contents. “Most…

In the course of discussing his career and love for computers, Steve Wozniak predicted that the iPod has peaked and will eventually die out like the transistor radio and Walkmans, according to the Telegraph in the U.K. on Tuesday. Rupert Neate engaged Mr. Wozniak who reminisced about the early days with Hewlett Packard, his shyness,…

The original report appeared on the CNN Web site, but was later removed. The information was released as a CNN iReport that said in part “Steve Jobs was rushed to the ER just a few hours ago after suffering a major heart attack. I have an insider who tells me that paramedics were called after…

Microsoft allowed their brand to be diminished, remained quiet for too long, then came out with ineffective, inconsistent ads according to Therese Poletti at MarketWatch on Thursday. Given the current economy, one way for Microsoft to save some money is to just kill the whole campaign. In March, Microsoft hired a rebel but hot ad…

Gimp.org announced on Wednesday that version 2.6 has been released. The new version was described as an important release and features changes to the user interface that address the most frequent complaints. It also introduces the GEGL graph-based image processing library that will eventually bring high bit-depth and non-destructive editing to GIMP. User interface improvements…

The “Travelersi Privacy Protection Act” bill has been introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate. The law seeks to curtail the ability of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents to demand passwords, search and seize notebook computers and other small digital devices without probable cause. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI)?introduced S. 3612 along with…

I kn ow I’m supposed to write here about things having to do with Apple, or at least technology in general. But today, it’s hard to write — or even think — about anything other than the failed bailout plan and the 777 point drop in the Dow. Perhaps I can tie it all together…

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said on Monday in a note to investors obtained by TMO, that fear is outweighing fundamental analysis as investors arenit seeing the light at the end of the investment crisis tunnel Mr. Munster wrote: Consumer [spending] is slowing, but Street models reflect the slowdown. Our FY08 Mac unit growth estimate…