Geez Louise this has gotta sting and more than a little. To date, two of the more prominent web metrics firms have pegged Microsoft’s operating system launch somewhere between good for Apple and the Mac, to better than Vista. So much for a holiday homerun for Redmond this Christmas shopping season.

A new study says that Apple needs to lower its price expectations for its tablet computer, if indeed it exists, and had better think about getting it to market sooner than later.

Even though no one is really sure what [...]

Is Apple preparing to push its industry-leading jukebox + device management + digital download store software in a new direction? The latest rumor making the rounds is that Steve Jobs, Eddy Cue and their merry band are preparing the way for a monthly subscription service, but you’re run of the mill pay-forever-music deal [...]

When Mac OS X 10.6.2 comes out, the rumor is that the the new version of the Apple operating system will no longer run on the Atom processor, insuring that it can’t be used on certain netbook computers.

The good news for Microsoft over the last week or so is that Windows 7 has seen its share of web traffic rise by nearly three-quarters from just under 2 percent to around 3.5 percent. The bad news is that the company, at least by this sam overall measure, is still losing market [...]

What’s up with Apple’s new prosumer all-in-one desktops? Some users report the problems experienced are intermittent while others say nothing has helped them overcome persistent and vexing performance issues.

Looking to free a big ol’ chunk of drive space? Is your Time Machine back up directory giving you grief and you’d just rather start over again? Here’s a quick and easy way to just make it go away.

Apple has filed a patent for a device that seems to be an iPod Bluetooth headset, with an order of other capabilities on the side, that has a bit of a SyFy Channel taste about it.

Looked at from a [...]

Forget Dell and Google, the only company standing between the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone maker and the top tech company valuation is Microsoft. Steve Jobs’ fortunes and those of his company have skyrocket over the last year, whereas the rest of the industry, including Redmond, have declined.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.