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Apple won Billboard’s 2004 Digital Entertainment Award for Brand of the Year, while CEO Steve Jobs was named Visionary of the Year. Apple’s iTunes Music Store lost out to Real Networks’ Rhapsody for Best Downloadable or Subscription Music Service, however, and Apple was also edged out by XM Satellite Radio for Innovator of the Year.…

At a certain point, usually after the night terrors start, I realize I absolutely have to write a column about Some Great Topic. And when I haven’t been creative enough to think of Some Great Topic, rather than deal with night terrors, I like to go with Stuff That Crossed My Mind. Item Number One:…

Safari users number less than one percent of the U.S. Web browsing populace, according to a new online study, but Microsoft’s dominance has slipped recently, as Internet Explorer users fell to 92.86 percent of the market. Internet Explorer’s decline, from 95.48 percent in June, is primarily due to the Mozilla and Firefox browsers, which saw…

Forbes Magazine Editor Steve Forbes believes Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is the best candidate to succeed Michael Eisner as CEO of The Walt Disney Co. Writing in his weekly opinion column, Mr. Forbes said, “(Mr.) Jobs knows high tech, Hollywood and finances as few Hollywood moguls do, and he knows the critical importance…

24 Days In The Valley: The Life And Times Of An HD Production In South Texas In Part I -III of this series, I introduced readers to the production of Harvest of Redemption, a High-Definition narrative feature I shot in the Texas Valley. In Part IV, I will cover the technical aspects of the post-production…

Apple Computer’s worldwide market share fell to 1.8% in the third quarter of this year from 2.1%, and dropped to 3.2% from 3.6% in the U.S., according to figures from research company Gartner. The numbers also showed dramatic declines in the quarter-to-quarter growth rate of Macs sold while Apple’s Windows-based competitors saw double digit increases…

Apple began shipping Wednesday its new iPod Photo portable multimedia device, a day after it debuted the product, TMO readers and product buyers have confirmed. A number of Apple retail stores in the U.S. told TMO Wednesday they will have “sparse” availability of the new product by the end of next week. Readers starting receiving…

Apple’s new iPod Sock (Click the thumbnail for larger image.) SAN JOSE, Calif — During Thursday’s U2 event in the California Theater, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Apple’s first iPod accessory, the iPod Sock. The socks come five to a package, with one each in green, purple, orange, pink, and blue. Packaged just like normal…

On the heels of Thursday’s iPod announcements, Apple has added an "iPod Store" to the online Apple Store. The iPod Store prominently features Apple’s four iPod offerings as well as links to a multitude of iPod and iTunes-related pages and accessories. A section titled "iPod Everywhere" includes pages with specific accessories for connecting an iPod…

SAN JOSE, Calif — As anticipated, Apple Computer announced Tuesday the iPod Photo with a 2-inch color screen and the ability to output digital photos to a television. The new handheld device will come in a 40 gigabyte (GB) and 60GB model, at US$499 and $599, respectively. iPod Photo, (photo below) holds up to 25,000…

Apple Computer will likely introduce a flash-based iPod in early 2005 and a color iPod in the first half of next year, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich predicted Monday in a 10-page report to clients obtained by The Mac Observer. Mr. Milunovich focused primarily on future iPod products, of which Apple did not deny any…

Electronic News has published an error ridden article that attempts to look at the burgeoning music player market. A hodgepodge of facts, fallacies, strange interpretations, and other mistakes, the piece is not an attack on Apple, by any means, but just a pad piece of journalism. Since it’s out there, I felt a bit of…

In David Pogue’s latest column for the New York Times, titled The Security Paradox, he discusses the odd state of affairs Microsoft and its patch update strategy, and the virus ad worm writers who take advantage of the holes in the Microsoft products the patches are suppose to fix. Mr. Pogue relays a story in…

Step Aside If you use a modern Mac, then you are likely already familiar with the ease and elegance of using OS X. I’ve said it before, and it doesn’t hurt to say it again; OS X, unlike any other OS, tries its damnedest to get out of your way to let you work. It…

BusinessWeek’s Alex Salkever has turned his attention this week to one of Apple’s suppliers, PortalPlayer. The company supplies the chip that powers both the iPod and the iPod mini. With Apple’s massive iPod success, one could be excused for thinking PortalPlayer, a fabless chip maker, might be doing well, making its impending IPO attractive. According…

Apple Computer will announce a new special edition U2 iPod promoting the band’s forthcoming album at an invite-only event next week, according to report’s by Think Secret and Forbes magazine. Forbes reporter Matthew Miller reported Monday that sources close to the band have confirmed the U2 edition of the popular digital music player will come…

Gefen has announced that its HDTV Switcher, 4×1 HDTV Switcher, and HDTV Splitter products have been re-engineered. The company has done so "to address connection issues between new DVD players and set-top boxes with DVI or HDMI ports and HDTV displays with HDMI inputs." In their place, Gefen is announcing the HDMI Switcher, the 4×1…

After months of wrangling over a 78-year-old, 17,000-square-foot mansion in southern California Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn’t want, it appears someone is willing to take it off his hands, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday. The paper reports 30 enquiries have been made into the property. Mr. Jobs, who has described the house as “one…