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Our favorite computer manufacturer warned investors yesterday that it was going to miss earning expectations for the first time in years. See the Mac Observer full story. Roughly 60% of Apple stock is owned by institutions, such a mutual funds, who must be responsible for the huge intraday trading volume. Now that so much of…

Keynote speakers for the second-annual QuickTime? Live! conference on October 9 ? 12 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California include: Philip Schiller, Apple?s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing When: Tuesday, Oct. 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Frank Casanova, Apple?s director of QuickTime Product Marketing; award-winning filmmaker and director David…

Brokerage firm downgrades began to roll in this morning. Investors and analysts were rushing to disassociate themselves from the Apple catastrophe, in a wave of selling and downgrades of the likes rarely ever witnessed for a major corporation with eleven robust quarters under its belt. Investors wondered whether Appleis sales shortfall., in conjunction with other…

The momentum players began to jump in by midmorning as it became clear that the vitality in the stock market wasnit due merely to short covering. Todayis broad rally on good volume may indicate a solid bottom has finally been found after several weeks of searching. Apple stock soared by 4 9/16 or 9.32% to…

Itis never a good sign when the big cap technology stocks begin to break through formerly robust support levels, but thatis what going on this month in the stock market. Today, it was Yahoois (YHOO) turn to break through support on fears the company might not meet earnings expectations. Shares of Yahoo! fell 12 1/16…

Obse rver Richard Ikeda sent us an alert about a Motorola press release about a new G4 processor. The new unit would reach clock speeds up to 550 MHz. According to Motorola: Motorola today introduced the second of its fourth-generation G4 PowerPC microprocessor, the MPC7410 with AltiVec technology. Designed for high-performance, high-bandwidth applications, the MPC7410…

Finance is a checking, savings, and credit card account management program. It enables you to quickly enter, view, or modify transactions, search through your records, and reconcile your account balance with your bank statement by just clicking a button. Finance is fully compatible with Mac OS 9 and Year 2000 compliant. Key Features in Version…

For the first time in the eurois short existence the central banks of Japan, England, the US, Canada and the European Union intervened in currency markets to support the euro, which climbed several cents against the dollar. On Wednesday, the euro sank to all-time lows of 84.38 cents and 90.04 yen. The surprise concerted intervention…

The reactions to Apple licensing the 1-Click technology from Amazon.com seem mixed. There are users and writers who believe that the Apple Store is simple enough – not without reasons – that the 1-Click technology adds very little to an already simple shopping experience at Appleis online store. A different reaction, this one coming from…

A Reuters article noted that investors are in a cautious mood, "Bullish comments from one of Wall Streetis most influential market watchers, Abby Joseph Cohen, failed to rally the market. Investorsi worries that high oil prices and a weak euro will bite into corporate profits are "overdone" and will be "short-lived," according to Goldman Sachsi…

Thanks to Applelinks for the tip. From the interview: Asked for his thoughts on Apple, Kawasaki responds that as a consumer he would like to see Apple make an ultra-lightweight laptop to compete with Sony Corp.is VAIO line of computers. "Iid like a laptop I can carry to five meetings a day," he said. As…

PC stocks bounced back after IDC said, "unit volume for the worldwide PC market should climb to 33.4 million in the third quarter, a 18.5 percent jump from the year-ago period, " according to a CBS MarketWatch article. IDCis Bruce Stephen was quoted as saying, "The consumer market will once again propel global PC growth…

Mr. McCloudis first nonfiction book Understanding Comics, which is written/drawn in comic book fashion, achieved the very unusual combination of being eminently entertaining, becoming a bestseller in many languages, and becoming a widely used textbook on understanding comics. The book covers so many basic concepts it contains many important ideas that apply to creative subjects…

Default Folder 3.0.7 delivers several compatibility fixes, including an important fix for problems that could cause applications to unexpectedly quit when using Default Folderis Recent Folders menu. St. Clair Software recommends that all existing Default Folder 3.0 users download this free update. Highlights of the changes in Default Folder 3.0.7 include: The Recent Folders menu…

If you said you were a user interface specialist, you wouldnit have been understood. And certainly in the computer industry, it was a totally unknown concept: you just didnit worry about that. The idea of building a whole computer system starting with the user interface and working from there was completely alien, at least in…

Money that has been sidelined for months is just now beginning to return to market and as before the technology stocks are leading the way higher. Mark Jakob, a former employee of Internet Wire was arrested today for the Emulex (EMLX) hoax that last week crashed the stock intraday until the fraud was revealed. AP…