Archives for August 2011

August, 25th August 2011

• Analyst Reiterates “Buy” for Apple Following CEO Transition

  Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu has reiterated his “Buy” rating on shares of Apple Inc. following the company’s change in…

• Ruminations on Apple’s Second ‘Post-Jobs’ Era

  “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the…

• OS X Lion: Apple Publishes Tech Note on Local Snapshots

  On Thursday, Apple posted a new Knowledge Base article on how Local Snapshots work on portable Macs, with OS X…

• Tim Cook to Employees: Apple Is Not Going to Change

  Tim Cook, the newly ordained CEO of Apple Inc., wrote a letter to the employees of his company reassuring them…

• Steve Jobs’s Path Towards Resignation

  Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple Inc. on Wednesday while on a medical leave of absence. To outside appearances, the…

• Create & Manage iBook’s New Release Alerts

  Future book releases in iBooks can be earmarked with an alert. You’ll get an e-mail when the book is available.…

• Steve Jobs, A Revolution Every Other Year [Updated]

  With the news that Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO, it seemed a good time to look back at…

• Reader Discussion: iCloud’s Sneaky Move into the Living Room

  iCloud is replacing MobileMe as Apple’s tool for syncing content with iOS devices and Macs, but it can be so…

• TMO on MacJury: Steve Jobs Resignation

  The Mac Observer’s Jeff Gamet and Bryan Chaffin joined MacJury host Chuck Joiner to talk about Steve Jobs’s announcement that…

• Analyst: Apple’s Transition to Cook will be Smooth

  Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO on Wednesday, and was replaced by Tim Cook, who has been running the company…

• Assessing Apple’s Future with Tim Cook as CEO

  It is said that investors only have two emotions: Fear and greed. Right now, everyone is in a fearful mode…

• Steve Jobs, A Revolution Every Other Year [Updated]

  With the news that Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO, it seemed a good time to look back at…

August, 24th August 2011

• AAPL Dips 5% Following Apple CEO Change

  Shares in Apple inc. dipped more than 5% in after-hours trading following the news that Steve Jobs had resigned as…

• Apple Names Tim Cook CEO, Steve Jobs as Chairman

  As we reported earlier on Wednesday, Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple, an announcement made official by Apple…

• Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO, Recommends Tim Cook as Successor [Update]

  Steve Jobs announced late afternoon on Wednesday that he was resigning from Apple Inc., the company he cofounded with Steve…

• Apple Patches iMac Firmware to Fix Hangup

  Apple released iMac Graphic FW Update 3.0 on Wednesday, a firmware update for the iMac that, “fixes a graphics issue…

• iSuppli: Tablet Market Remains a “One-Horse [iPad] Race”

  iSuppli updated its media tablet forecast Wednesday, and the company bumped estimates for Apple’s iPad for the next four years.…

• Toshiba Canvio 2.0 Plus 750GB Portable Hard Drive:  $55.99

  The Deal Brothers found a deal on the Toshiba Canvio 2.0 Plus 750GB Portable Hard Drive for $57.99, and that price…

• A Tale of Mac Success

  With each new advancement in our technology it sometimes does us good to stop and remember the little reasons we…

• Booq’s New iPad 2 Agenda Case Includes Real Paper

  For those who sit in meetings and need to draw diagrams, figure numbers, write down dates, or anything else that…

• Colorific Brings Kid Coloring Tools to the iPad

  Alexey Rashevskiy announced the immediate availability of his new child-focused coloring app for the iPad, Colorific 1.0, on Wednesday. The…

• Analyst: Sprint iPhone 5 Good News for Apple

  Following reports that U.S. cell carrier Sprint will be supporting Apple’s yet unreleased iPhone 5, UBS analyst Maynard Um is…

• Forum Discussion: Voice Control for the Mac

  Keyboard and mouse may be the most common ways to interact with your computer, but that doesn’t mean there are…

• Samsung Hit with EU-wide Galaxy Smartphone Injunction

  A Dutch court ruled in favor of Apple on Wednesday and issued a preliminary injunction that blocks Samsung from selling…

• OS X Lion: Using Preview to Open Office & iWork Files

  An often overlooked feature in Lion is Preview’s new ability to open iWork and Office files. For people who don’t…

• Apple Rolls Out New Lion, Snow Leopard Epson Printer Drivers

  Apple released Epson 2.8 Driver Update late on Tuesday. The update, according to Apple’s slim release notes, “the latest Epson…

August, 23rd August 2011

• Sprint to Also Get iPhone 5 in October

  Tuesday was a day of dueling rumors: The Wall Street Journal cited unnamed sources who said that Sprint would be…

• Apple Adds Lion 10.7.1 to Mac App Store

  Apple added OS X Lion 10.7.1 to the Mac App Store Tuesday, the first time the current version of Lion…

• Samsung Invokes Kubrick Defense in Apple Tablet Fight

  Samsung has pulled out all the stops in its legal battle against Apple, invoking what we are dubbing The Kubrick…

• Facebook (Possibly) Comes to Jesus on Privacy Concerns

  The Facebook blog on Tuesday announced that there would soon be some changes to make it easier for users to…

• ASUS 21” Ultra-Slim LED Backlit LCD Display:  $134.99

  The Deal Brothers found a deal on the ASUS ML228H 21.5” Ultra-Slim LED Backlit LCD Display for $134.99, after a…

• SeisMac Turns Your Mac Laptop Into a Seismograph

  Today’s east coast earthquake makes it timely to discover that your Mac portable can be a seismograph. Suitable Systems’ SeisMac…

• McAfee Sees 76% Increase in Android Malware

  Security threats in the form of malware are on the rise for Google’s Android platform, according to security company McAfee.…

• Bryan Chaffin Jumps into Apple’s Big Cash Pile on MacNotables

  TMO’s own Bryan Chaffin paid a visit to Chuck Joiner’s MacNotables podcast to talk about Apple’s growing bank roll —…

• United Brings iPad to the Friendly Skies

  United Airlines began transitioning its pilots from traditional paper flight manuals and charts to iPads on Tuesday, cutting down on…

• Reader Discussion: Apple’s Growing Store List

  Apple has over 300 stores around the world and is still opening more. Today TMO readers are talking about the…

• China Telecom Still Negotiating with Apple for iPhone Deal

  China Telecom is still working to land a deal to carry the iPhone in China, according to the company’s chairman…

• iPhone 5, 8GB iPhone 4 Coming in September

  New iPhone 5 rumors seem to be cropping up daily, and the latest claims Apple’s next generation combination iPod and…

• Apple Updates Apple Remote Desktop Admin (v.3.5.1)

  Apple released Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) v3.5.1 Admin Update late on Monday. As the name implies, this update affects only…

• Apple Updates iTunes (v.10.4.1) with 5 Bug Fixes

  Apple released iTunes 10.4.1 for Mac OS X/OS X and Windows Monday. The maintenance release includes five bug fixes, most…

August, 22nd August 2011

• Report Claims Apple Working On “Clearly Different” Mac

  A report from Japanese Mac site Macotakara claims that Apple is working on some kind of Mac that will be…

• Analyst: Lion Helps Push Mac Sales Up 26% in July

  The release of OS X Lion in July helped send U.S. Mac sales up 26% year-over-year. The data comes from…

• Report: Oracle Considering Hostile Takeover of HP

  Claiming a variety of unnamed and unspecified sources, The New York Post reported that enterprise software giant Oracle is considering…

• MGG 349: Lion (and other) Tips Shared, Your Questions Answered, and More!

  John and Dave are back at it, this time with August’s second Premium episode. There are more great Lion tips…

• Patent Lawyers Find Value in the Googorola Deal

  Of the 17,000 patents Google will pick up when the company completes its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, 18 of them are likely…

• Play Hide ‘n Seek with Lion Preference Panes

  Ever since OS X 10.0 Chetah, System Preferences has displayed a fixed set of baseline Preference Panes plus user additions.…

• Life Without Print Media: Going All In With My iPad (Part 2)

  In Part 1 of this two-part series, Ted Landau explained the rationale behind his self-imposed two-week ban on reading print…

• iMac 27-inch 2.93GHz Intel Quad-Core i7 processor:  $1569

  The Deal Brothers noted that Apple is offering the refurbished iMac 27-inch 2.93GHz Intel Quad-Core i7 processor for $1,569. This system…

• NPD: iPhone & Android on the Rise, RIM Falling

  Based on the latest studies from the research organization NPD Group, Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platform are gaining in…

• John Martellaro Talks Google & Lion on Tech Night Owl LIVE

  At Tech Night Owl LIVE, hosted by Gene Steinberg, Senior Editor John Martellaro, of The Mac Observer, offered his thoughts…