Archives for April 2005

April, 06th April 2005

• First Albany Raises Revenue & Earnings Estimates for Apple

  First Albany Capital has raised revenue and earnings estimates for Apple based on higher than expected iPod sales, and strong…

April, 05th April 2005

• Duke University Renews iPod Initiative

  Duke University, which made headlines last year by giving iPods to all 1,600 freshmen, will continue the initiative with this…

• The Mac Gathering Comes to SoCal

  The Mac Gathering will be coming to Southern California from Friday, May 13th, to Sunday, May 15th

• It’s a Blogger/RSS Reader/Browser/Editor/Archive System

  Near-Time announced Wednesday the commercial availability of Current, an all-in-one tool for creating text documents, browsing Web sites, managing and…

• Tunewear Announces Silicone iPod shuffle Case

  Tunewearannounced Wednesday the Icewear shuffle, a new protective silicone case made for Apple's iPod shuffle

• Macworld Boston Opens Up Registration

  IDG World Expo has opened up registration for Macworld Expo Boston 2005, the company announced Tuesday

• Apple Store Goes Mobile in Japan

  Japanese AU and NTT DoCoMo cell phone customers can now tap into the Apple Store directly from their phones

• iPod #1 with American Teens, Survey Shows

  The Apple iPod remains the number one digital media device among American teenagers by a signifcant margin, a new survey…

• UBS Analysts Predict Apple Media Server; iTunes-like Video Service

  Apple could be on the verge of debuting a digital media hub, a new series of photo-capable and multimedia iPods…

• Apple’s Quarterly Conference Call to be Webcast

  Apple Computer's quarterly financial conference call with analysts will be Webcast. The company posted a Webcast page on its Web…

April, 04th April 2005

• High Quality QuickTime Video Now Free At Endorphin.com [CORRECTED]

  Endorphin.com is now offering its cache of beautifully shot, high quality videos in a new magazine style format, free of…

• InfoWorld CTO Under Mac Attack for Lackadaisical Support

  The Mac community has lashed out at one of its own for what was perceived as a lackadaisical approach to…

• Developer News: Details on WWDC Brown Bag Lunches with O’Reilly

  Apple has sent us detailed information on the Brown Bag Lunches with O'Reilly sessions for 2005's World Wide Developer Conference

• Apple Now Accepting ‘05 Apple Design Awards Entries

  Apple is now accepting submissions for the Tenth Annual Apple Design Awards 2005

• DeltaGraph 5.6 Improves Windows Integration

  Red Rock Software announced Tuesday a version update to DeltaGraph, its charting, graphing and data analysis software for Mac OS…

• Giga Designs Offers First 2GHz G4 Upgrade

  Giga Designs recently introduced a 2GHz version of its PowerPC G4 7447A processor upgrade for AGP equipped Power Mac G4…

• LaCie Boosts Bigger Disk Extreme to 2TB

  Storage experts LaCie announced Tuesday a higher capacity version of its Bigger Disk Extreme, taking the external storage solution to…

• Reports: Flash Media Market to Explode; Prices to Plummet

  Get ready: the flash-media market is going to explode, and with it, prices will fall

• Napster Subscriptions Up; Company Raises Revenue Estimates

  Napster's subscriber service soared 53% during the company's fourth fiscal quarter. Napster announced Tuesday that its subscriber base grew to…

April, 03rd April 2005

• April 1 - 10: Apple Founded, John Sculley Chooses Change, Irony

  This week in Apple history, we have the story of Apple being founded, John Sculley taking the Steve Jobs Challenge…

• Longhorn To Ship One Year After Tiger; Microsoft Dismisses iPod Halo Effect

  Microsoft plans to ship Longhorn, its next major revision of Windows, during the second quarter of next year, making it…

• Newsday: Buy Lots of Music? Buy CDs, Not Downloads

  If you spend a lot of money on music, you should spend that money on CDs, and not downloads from…

• Time Rounds Up iPod Competitors

  Though Apple is leading the digital media device market with the iPod, there are a host of companies offering iPod…

• ShuffleArt Vinyl Skins Start Shipping

  The iPod shuffle Skins are now available for order in five designs for a special launch price

• Adobe Announces Creative Suite 2, Shipping in May

  Adobe took the wraps off its new Creative Suite Monday, which includes all new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and…

• Analyst: Best Buy to Carry Mac Mini Soon

  Best Buy will soon begin selling the entry level Mac mini, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said Monday