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Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 29, 2009
Apple, who seems to spend a lot of time on both sides of patent infringement lawsuits, has vowed to fight hard in court against the recent major case about iPhone patents brought by Nokia.
The lawsuit from Nokia claims that Apple’s [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 28, 2009
There are a million reasons why the Apple tablet should succeed with consumers, but is the much-predicted new product likely to be a hit in the corporate world as well?
The rumored Apple tablet computer is almost certain to be a hit [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 28, 2009
Here’s a quick and neatly annotated compendium of 40 of the best Macintosh graphics, game, utility, productivity, video, browser, iTunes add-ons and internet applications available. Most of these of products are free or offer free demos, and there are tons of links to Blorge’s huge library of reviews and best of listings.
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 27, 2009
In a surprising move, Apple has adopted a Chicago subway station that has seen better days and will pitch in about $4 million to help with renovation costs before their new store opens next door.
Apple will soon be opening a retail store [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 27, 2009
When the Miami, Florida-based hackintosh maker hit the scene back April 2008, the company made quite a splash, becoming the first company to openly advertise and sell Apple’s OS X on generic PC hardware. However, like their first computers, the Rebel EFI might charitably be called a work in progress with little in [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 26, 2009
Is Apple readying revised pro portables with faster processors and crunchier graphics? A Spanish Mac website has been trawling the depths of an upcoming release of Snow Leopard point update and found evidence of just that.
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 26, 2009
An offhand remark in a presentation by a New York Times editor has the much-prophesied tablet computer back in the news and connected once again to the news business.
Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, mentioned the Apple tablet [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 24, 2009
Once again the search giant cofounder has popped up in public to express his irritation at the lack of a Mac version of Chrome. Moreover, he says the company he helped create should have shipped the WebKit browser simultaneously with the PC iteration way, way back in August of last year — apparently [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 23, 2009
Even at the time, people realized how important the iMac was for Apple. However, when Apple hit the market with the iPod, many pundits dismissed it out of hand as too expensive and too limited — FireWire and Apple only. Now, as media player that could closes in its first decade, it still [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 23, 2009
Nokia, the giant Finnish cell-phone maker, has sued Apple for not paying fees for patents which Nokia owns, saying that not paying those fees has given the iPhone an unfair advantage on price.
Basically, Nokia says in its filing that Apple has gained [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 22, 2009
It is difficult to tell that Apple and AT&T share a product sometimes, such as when the time rolls around to announce earnings. How can the results of the two companies be so different?
Apple is the manufacturer of the iPhone. Earlier in the week, they held what could have been seen as an earnings celebration. [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 21, 2009
In addition to rolling significant upgrades in its consumer iMac, MacBook and Mac mini product lines, the mothership delivered more subtle, under-the-hood updates for its pricey and popular, plug-n-play wireless hub and wireless storage solutions.
In March of this year, Apple upgraded the Airport Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule with the addition of dual-band support, [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 21, 2009
For the first time in the history of the two giants of Silicon Valley, the market capitalization value of Apple passed that of Google, just a few weeks after the Google CEO left Apple’s board of directors.
Market capitalization (market cap) is a measurement of the value of a business enterprise equal to the share price [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 20, 2009
And, they went ahead and did it anyways. At least three hours after new product usually hit the streets on Tuesday morning, the company has as — better late than never — expect released updated iMacs, MacBooks, Mac minis (including a server edition, baby!) and a multi-touch mouse.
“The iMac is widely praised as the [...]
Posted from MAC.BLORGE on October 20, 2009
There is no doubt any more which cat is the best leopard in the land; Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) has more than doubled the previous best by an Apple OS, set by Leopard (OS X 10.5).
All of Apple’s news was good yesterday, with record earnings being reported across virtually all lines of Apple products. [...]
