A ppleis Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations, Timothy Cook, has filed to sell 310,000 shares of his Apple holdings. Mr. Cookis intent to sell, which Dow Jones reported as having been filed to take place on April 25th and 29th, is the second filing Mr. Cook has made recently. The first was…
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Apple Stock Watch - AAPL Soars In Broad Market Rally
A bull stampede took place on Wall Street Wednesday as delighted investors beat back bearish sentiment following better than expected results from Cisco Systems. The networking hardware giant jumped more than twenty percent in early Wednesday trading as the company provided analysts and investors with a favorable earnings report after Tuesday’s market close. Cisco’s strong…
Product Announcements At WWDC Fail To Lift Apple
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished off about 200 points at 9,808.04. The S&P 500 Index ended Monday matching the Dowis two-percent decline to close at 1,052.23. The NASDAQ Composite Index dropped 34.55 to end the day at 1,578.48. On Friday the NASDAQ Composite Index had continued its downward trend on reports of ongoing weakness…
Adobe Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Macromedia
A dobe announced today that it had won a patent infringement lawsuit against Macromedia. The company received a favorable verdict from a jury trial in which it had accused Macromedia of willfully infringing on Adobeis patents governing reconfigurable tabbed palettes. From Adobe: Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it has received a favorable jury verdict…
Apple Introduces Apple Branded DVI - ADC Adapter
Apple has announced a new DVI – ADC (Apple Display Connector) adapter, appropriately called the Apple DVI to ADC Adapter. The adapter was announced with the company’s new TiBook line, which includes a DVI-out connector, but no ADC port. Apple’s own LCD display line uses the proprietary ADC connector, which combines power, USB, and the…
An Upgrade That Has The Right Stuff
YOU ARE GO! today announced A-OK! The Wings of Mercury 3.0 for Mac OS Classic is shipping. A-OK! The Wings of Mercury simulates Americais first spacecraft, Project Mercury. Users can fly orbital missionis like John Glennis historic 1962 flight or suborbital missions, simulating the first two American spaceflights by Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. A-OK!…
QuickTime Fun With QT Combo Pack
Feelorium has released Feelorium QT Combo today. Feelorium QT Combo includes 4 QuickTime applications: Full Screen Player – Full Screen Movie Player Picture-in-Picture X – Floating Movie Player and Web Cam Viewer Tattoo – Media Skin and Control Buttons Editor Textation – Text Track Editor Feelorium has also updated all applications to their new versions:…
AAPL Up On eMac Announcement
In a surprise move, Apple Computer on Monday introduced the 17″ CRT eMac designed specifically for the education market. The 17″ G4 eMac, which sports an enclosure similar to the original iMac, starts at $999 and will be available in the education market beginning in May. In other Apple announcements, the company released an updated…
Are You Part Of The Apple Tribe?: Corporate Tribalism
The millions who wear logoed shirts, drive only a particular brand of auto, and own a particular brand of computer, a Mac for instance, are members of what an article in the San Francisco Journal calls Corporate Tribes. The article, titled ‘Corporate tribalism — just can’t do it’ by David Lazarus, posits that people buy…
IBM & Hitachi To Merge Hard Drive Divisions
IBM and Hitachi recently announced plans to combine their hard drive operations and create a separate joint venture company. In a related move the two have also agreed to a multi-year alliance to research and develop new technologies for next-generation storage. The creation of the new company will include components from all levels of IBM…
Apple's Ad Agency Founder, Jay Chiat, Passes At Age 70
In 1984 the advertising agency, Chiat-Day, helped launch Apple’s new Macintosh computer with the now famous ‘1984’ commercial during the Super Bowl. The rest, as they say, is history. On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, Jay Chiat died of cancer in his home in California. A story in the Boston Globe had this to say: Chiat’s…
Apple CFO Fred Anderson Files To Sell 100,000 Shares Of Apple Stock
F red Anderson, the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Apple, has filed to sell 100,000 shares of his Apple holdings. According to a Dow Jones report, Mr. Anderson planned on selling the stock on Tuesday. Executives of publicly held corporations are required to disclose their stock transactions in SEC filings, including the…
Font Utility Update From Vizspring
Vizspring Software has released an update for Typeset, bringing it to version 1.1. Typeset is a text viewing utility designed for viewing custom fonts and logos. The update includes performance enhancements and bug fixes. According to Vizspring Software: Vizspring Software, a leader in quality shareware products for the Macintosh, released a major update their flagship…
"Creationist Site" Says: "Mac Users, You Are Godless Communists!"
R epent, sinners. Your Macintosh is a tool to promote Godless Communism and anti-Creationist "propaganda", according to an article at OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries. Dr. Richard Paley, apparently "a teacher of Divinity and Theobiology at Fellowship University," starts out with discussions of the PBS series Evolution and Pokemon, and goes on to say: However, these propagandists…
Telecom Worries Rock The Market
Over the weekend representatives of the G7 nations met and agreed that a worldwide economic recovery is taking place. Indeed, except for international concerns over the impact of rising oil prices, finance ministers of the worldis wealthiest nations are optimistic that an economic rebound is taking hold. A quick look a the Dow Jones Industrial…
Cheap Digital Pix:Part 1
This isnit intended to be a review of cameras; my goal is to show you how you can get reasonably good quality digital pictures and video using equipment that cost a fraction of the cost of the tools usually considered for the purpose. I also want to be able to warn you of some of…
2nd Fiscal Quarter Review And Analysis
In the conference call with analysts following release of the quarterly numbers, Apple CFO Fred Anderson detailed for Wall Street and AAPL investors the factors which enabled the company to slightly exceed Wall Street estimates for the period that ended in March and why his revenue and earnings guidance concerning the current quarter and the…
Time Tracking App Updated From Malus
Malus Software released today Sambucus 2.0.1, the multi-tasks time-management application for the Macintosh. This new version fixes a bug that would crash the application when relocating the timer window accross multiple screens. It also tweaks the floating timer window to make it even smaller and give more control to the user over itis size and…
MacsDesign Studio Releases Web Help Desk 5.5
MacsDesign Studio today released Web Help Desk 5.5, a powerful web application for technical support designed for education and small to medium sized business customers. Built with the industry’s most powerful and mature application server, WebObjects 5.1 from Apple Computer, Web Help Desk 5.5 offers an intuitive web interface and an excellent feature set for…
Microsoft Pledges Continued Support For Apple
In 1997, Apple and Microsoft signed an agreement: Apple would make Internet Explorer the default Web browser on all new Macs, and Microsoft would continue their support for Office and other key applications. Additionally, Apple would drop a long-standing patent lawsuit, and Microsoft would buy $150 million in Apple shares. That agreement is set to…
SmarterChild: AIM-bot With Answers
I f youire an instant messenger junkie, youill probably get a kick out of ActiveBuddy, Inc.is SmarterChild. SmarterChild is an iinteractive agenti – an interface to a search engine, weather reports, cinema times and more – that understands your plain English requests, and delivers them right there in your chat window. All you need to…
Will Microsoft Abandon The Mac Platform? No Way!
For one thing, the MBU makes money for Microsoft. It makes a lot of money for the company. Microsoft likes to make money, and Microsoft is perpetually on a quest to increase its revenues. The companyis shareholders like for Microsoft to make money, too. Those shareholders might well question a move from the company that…
Pomp And Economic Circumstance
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ended the day at 10381.73, up 173.06 in a broad-based rally sparked by investor interest in highly cyclical stocks. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index closed at 1767.07, up 24.50 on the day. Softness in software stocks limited the Nasdaqis gains. Weive heard the reports from various government agencies, Bush…
Time Tracking App Release From Malus
Malus Software released today Sambucus 2.0.0, the multi-task time-management application for the Macintosh. This new version is a major rewrite of version 1, integrating many user requests. Sambucus is a time-tracking application that is flexible and easy to use. It is aimed at freelancers, small buisnesses or anyone else who might have the need to…