The iPod is the king of portable music players, according to new dollar market share numbers obtained by The Mac Observer. During the fourth quarter of 2002, Apple’s dollar market share reached 27 percent compared with 10 percent for second-ranked SONICBlue and its Rio players, according to market research firm NPDTechworld. In terms of actual…
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EU May Force restrictions On Microsoft, Including Uncoupling Windows Media Player For QuickTime/Real
The European Union’s antitrust probe into Microsoft’s business may yield more results than the US’s suit. Reuters is reporting that the EU has concluded that Microsoft did indeed violate the EU’s antitrust regulations, but that remedies are still being debated. One of the remedies being shopped around internally is to force Microsoft to uncouple Windows…
Apple Posts Tips On How To Troubleshoot Effectively
A pple has added a new article to the Knowledge Base detailing how one would go about tracking down an problem or error while running OS X. Appleis Knowledge Base (sometimes referred to as the KBase) is a central location for all of Appleis support documents and other important information. Anyone who has ever had…
Jobs Rises, Gates Falls, On Forbes's Billionaire Lists
To paraphrase the late Carl Sagan: They have billions upon billions upon billions… We are talking, of course, about the newly released Forbes’ list of the World’s Richest People. The Forbes list is headed, once again, by Microsoft’s own William H. Gates III, whose fortune Forbes values at US$40.7 billion dollars, down substantially from the…
IBM Introduces PowerPC 970 Servers, Touts 970 As "Fastest PowerPC So Far"
Today, IBM announced the first products to use the 970 — the PowerPC Blade — at Europeis CeBit conference. The PowerPC Blade will be added to IBMis BladeCenter product line, a line of servers powered by Intel processors. The company is touting the PowerPC Blade as "superior to Intel Blades for certain applications in the…
metaobjects Releases PdfCompress 4.0 With Image Sampling
metaobject announces the immediate availability of version 4.0 of the popular PDF compression tool for Mac OS X. Version 4.0 adds image downsampling, the feature most requested by our customers. We took a little extra time to ensure best quality results and the ease of use users have come to expect from metaobject. You can…
Apple CFO Fred Anderson Says Apple Is Going For Market Share, Intermediate Goal Of 5%
Apple Computer, Inc. Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson said the companyis aim is to expand its share of the computer market. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology Symposium, Anderson said a "good intermediate" goal would be to reach 5% market share from 3% today. He also said the computer makeris target is to get to…
AquaFold, Inc. Releases Version 2.0 Of Aqua Data Studio
AquaFold, Inc. has released a new version of Aqua Data Studio, bringing it to version 2.0. Aqua Data Studio is a utility designed for creating and managing relational databases. The latest version features expanded compatibility including support for Sybase and Oracle. According to AquaFold: AquaFold, Inc today announced the latest version of Aqua Data Studio,…
DEVONtech Enters DEVONagent Beta Testing
DEVONtechnologiesi new Internet search agent software DEVONagent is now in internal beta phase and will be ready for shipping in Q1/2003. Consequently, new screenshots and more background information have been posted on the web site. Based on DEVONtechnologiesi revolutionary DEVONtechnology, DEVONagent is the information finding tool of the next generation. It simulates the behaviour of…
Can You Hear Me Now? Woz Can't, So He's Moving
W hat would cause you to move out of your house? Bad neighborhood? Termites? Even if it was a castle, literally, complete with secret tunnels? How about bad cell phone reception, would that push you out? Thatis what did it for Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. He canit get a digital signal to his GSM cellular…
BusinessWeek : Proposed Levy Could Increase iPod Price By US$100
The RIAA’s assault on Fair Use rights has been unprecedented in its scope, and much of the recording industry trade group’s arguments has centered around the notion that piracy is killing sales. TMO strongly denounces piracy, but has taken issue with the RIAA’s efforts to reduce and eliminate the Fair Use rights of people who…
Robota, Birds, & The Big Green Hulk
< I>Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Appleis latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know whatis new. Early last year we stumbled onto a Web site that was truly intriguing. The site seemed to be dedicated to an animated movie that featured robots. At that time, the site only had…
Bill Gates Envisions A Future Where Microsoft Is Innovative In The Digital Decade
D uring the three-day Most Valued Professionals Summit at Microsoft headquarters, Bill Gates expressed his opinion that Microsoft is the "most optimistic company" about innovating new technologies. The summit is a closed to the public event where Microsoft invites 1,300 Microsoft resellers, consultants, and other business partners to participate. Within the Windows world, the event…
Mireth Tech Ships New MP3 Burn Utility
Mireth Technology has launched MacMP3CD, Macintosh OS X software that allows you to burn and to play MP3 CDs. MP3 CDs are audio CDs that are burned using the MP3 file format, which allows you to put up to 10 hours of music on a single CD. MacMP3CD&Mac226;s burning capability supports features that make MP3…
Apple Explains How To Delete The Undeletable
If youive ever cancelled a download or a file copy part of the way through the process, you may have been unable to delete the partially copied file. The solution, if the file was downloaded in Internet Explorer, is to open the download manager, and delete the file from there. If not, it gets a…
SilverNetworks Shipping Spy For Remote Screen Viewing
SilverNetworks today released the final version of itis new remote screen capture tool, Spy. Spy allows you to run a small server on your Mac, that when accessed by any normal Web browser, allows people to see your screen, as well as information about your Macintosh. But it doesnit stop there – they can look…
Maxprog Updates eMail Extractor With Added Filters
Maxprog is proud to present a new release of eMail Extractor, new version 1.6.1, available now at Maxprog website with several interesting improvements, new features and bug fixes. eMail extractor is a very powerful tool to extract email addresses from all kind of files. eMail extractor is very fast, easy to use and multithread. eMail…
Apple Joins Microsoft, Dell & Others To Fight Hollywood & The CBDTPA
Yet another group is standing up to protest Senator Fritz Hollings’ misleadingly named Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, or CBDTPA. The CBDTPA is a proposed law being backed and pushed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and sponsored by Senator Hollings. As it is written, the CBDTPA would, if passed, require…
Apple Explains How Spammers Can Verify Your E-mail Address
A pple has added a new article to the Knowledge Base explaining some of the tactics that spammers use. The article also provides links to documents with information on how to help protect yourself. Appleis Knowledge Base (sometimes referred to as the KBase) is a central location for all of Appleis support documents and other…
MonkeyByte Releases Two Games From Mac-Yun-Soft
MBD is proud to announce a new partnership with independent game developer Mac-Yun-Soft! You can now find their popular games, iZadori and iCan You Find It?i, at our Online store front, VendorNation.com! These games are RegCode ready and available for immediate registration! Zador is a game in which you find pairs of matching tiles which…
Fortune Magazine Offers Positive Look At Apple's MWSF 2003 Offerings, Touts Keynote To Business Audience
We are always keen on seeing a bit of positive mainstream press about Apple, and Fortune delivered just such a treat today. The financial and business magazine has published a very positive outlook on Apple’s Macworld San Francisco 2003 product announcements that is fairly gushing with glowing remarks. The author, Brent Schlender, specifically looks at…
Apple Excommunicates iCommune: iTunes File Swapping Plug-In Violates SDK Terms Of Service According To Company
iCommune, a plug-in for Apple’s iTunes that allows users on a network to browse and share music files, has been shut down by Apple, according to an article on ZDNet UK. James Speth, the developer of iCommune, was ordered by Apple to discontinue offering iCommune for download, alleging that Speth violated the terms of the…
Apple Posts US$8 Million Loss; Aside From Non-Recurring Charges, Company Earns US$11 Million
Today at 2:00 PM PST, Apple held its quarterly conference call (see TMO’s live coverage for more information), where the company announced a net loss of US$8 million dollars or two cents per share. During the same quarter last year, Apple posted a net profit of US$38 million, or eleven cents per share. Apple was…
TMO Exclusive - Apple Switcher Star Survives Helicopter Crash (With Pics)
Apple Switcher Jeremiah Cohick ended Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003 with a bang, literally. Mr. Cohick survived a helicopter crash on Friday afternoon during an aerial tour of San Francisco. The star of one of Apple’s Switch ads — and the nemesis of fellow-Switcher Ellen Feiss according to an interview she gave a college newspaper…