Apple’s market share continued to deteriorated in the US last quarter and for the year 2003 overall, according to data released by technology market intelligence firm IDC. Apple’s domestic market share fell fractionally to 3.2 percent from 3.5 percent in 2002 and its calendar fourth-quarter numbers fell 0.2 percent from the previous year to 2.8…
CBS News: Oh Boy! More iPods! And GarageBand Too!
“…And I shall call him, Mini Me.” Dr. Evil People absolutely love their iPods. Well, most people, anyways. The little white and silver player was a hit this past Holiday buying season, and downloading music from the iTunes Music Store seems to be as addictive as eating those potato chip that claim you can’t eat…
TMO Reports - Merrill Lynch: Apple "Has Its Groove Back"; Must Update iMac Form Soon
A new analyst report from brokerage firm Merrill Lynch has recommended buying Apple Computer stock saying the company “has its groove back for now,” but expects competition in the portable music player market to get fierce and test Apple’s 31 percent market share. In a new analysis report for clients obtained by The Mac Observer,…
Northern Softworks Updates Panther Cache Cleaner With LCD Testing
Northern Softworks today announced the release of version 2.1 of Panther Cache Cleaner, its popular OS X maintenance and utility application. What is Panther Cache Cleaner? Panther Cache Cleaner is a utility designed to provide easy access to numerous OS X maintenance and utility options. When used in combination with OS Xis disk repair tools,…
Apple Shares Fall 5.58% Despite New, Positive Advice
D espite two new glowing recommendations from stock analysts, Apple Computeris stock price fell more than five-and-a-half percent Thursday on investor concerns that Power Mac sales fell 15,000 units and Appleis overall profit margins slipped almost a full percentage point in the calendar fourth quarter of last year. Appleis share price closed down US$1.35, to…
Apple Sees Increased Usage In The Field Of Genetics
A couple of years ago, we heard of an Australian geneticist using his iPod to carry around the entire human genome. According to an article at Forbes, Apple’s presence in the realm of genetic research is by no means limited to genetic information being carted around on MP3 players. For example, Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for…
Chinese Company Copies Power Mac G4 Design
W hen the iMac was introduced, Apple found that a few companies from Japan and the US thought they could copy Appleis industrial design. One company, Future Power, went so far as to claim that people had a right to industrial design. Future Poweris General Manager, Bill Voecks, said in response to an Apple lawsuit…
Apple Hot Deals Update: MIDI Interfaces, Music Keyboards, DV Stuff, More
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for MacConnection at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product Guide features several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at least in…
DEVONtech Updates DEVONthink With Quicktime Support
DEVONtechnologies updates DEVONthink to version 1.7.5. Good news for movie and music lovers: DEVONthink 1.7.5 now natively plays Quicktime movies, MP3/MP4s and sound files directly from within the application. This makes DEVONthink not only a simple freeform database, notepad, outliner and information manager, but also a personal media centre. Additionally, two new Services menu commands…
TMO Panther Desktop Contest Winners & 22 Desktop Images!
N ow that the holidays are behind us, and the 12-story TMO Christmas Tree and the 20-gallon eggnog encrusted punch bowl have been boxed up and stored in the attic of TMO Towers, we can announce the winners of the TMO Desktop Picture Contest! (The next contest should be to guess how many frickin boxes…
Ihnatko - Andy's Ihnatko's Macworld Wrap Up
The freakish aspect about attending San Francisco Macworld Expo is this business of being awake at 7:30 AM. In fact, it’s 7:38 right now. I’ve been tossing and turning in my King Bed/Nonsmoking/Not Too Close To The Elevators, Please hotel room for more than half an hour. Yes, I realize that my body clock thinks…
26 More Pics From The Floor
O ne of our most popular features during a Macworld show is the picture galleries. People who canit make the show like to see what they are missing, and we appreciate the clamor for more pics. Accordingly, we are offering up our third picture gallery taken from the floor. This time out we have some…
Digital Networks Proud Of Its Rio Being Panned By Steve Jobs (W/Pics & Corrected)
[Editor’s Note: As originally reported, this story said that the Rio referred to in this story was priced at US$149. While true, the flip side is that it isn’t the same Rio referred to by Steve Jobs in his Macworld keynote. Steve Jobs was comparing the iPod Mini to a 256 MB version of this…
39 More Pics From The Show Floor
O ne of our most popular features during a Macworld show is the picture galleries. People who canit make the show like to see what they are missing, and we appreciate the clamor for more pics. Accordingly, we are offering up the first picture gallery taken from the floor. Todayis pics come from Wednesdayis show…
Newcomer "You Software" Introduces New Mac Apps
The first product is called You Synchronize, and is based on the award-winning ExecutiveSync package that we looked at back in 2002. Unlike basic synchronization packages that only look at the time and date stamp of files to detect changes, You Synchronize uses a proprietary Time and State (TAS) technique to detect changed files. What…
Apple Has Sold Over 2 Million iPods, Introduces New Colorful iPod Mini
The iPod phenomenon continues to roll on, with Steve Jobs today announcing that Apple has sold over 2 million iPods since its debut, having sold 730,000 iPods in the December quarter alone. In addition, 10GB iPod has been moved up to 15GB for the same US$299 price point, and Apple has introduced a new 4…
Apple Introduces Final Cut Express 2
Apple today introduced the second major version of Final Cut Express, a “prosumer” video editing application based on it’s bigger brother, Final Cut Pro. The new version delivers RT Extreme features for real-time compositing, an updated interface, real-time color correction and more. From the press release: Apple� today introduced Final Cut� Express 2, the next…
Freeverse To Debut Child Targeted Browser At MacWorld
Freeverse Software has annouced the upcoming debut of a new browser aimed at children, to be unveiled at next weeks MacWorld conference. Titled: BumperCar, the Web browser utilizes WebCore and Safari influences and is designed with content filtering and child advocated Internet securty. According to Freeverse Software: Freeverse Software announced today that it will show…
TMO Reports - Guitar Center Now An Apple Reseller; Ramps Up Mac Support
Guitar Center (GC), the largest professional audio recording equipment and musical instruments retailer in the US, has started stocking its 120-plus stores with the entire line of Apple products and will soon start training a number of specialists in each store to be ‘Apple experts’. Audio engineers, producers, recording artists, and musicians now have an…
Lawsuit Campaigns Get Ink From Reuters Article
A pple is getting some bad publicity in the form of consumer complaints about the iPod and the dual-USB iBooks. Reuters has published a story that has been picked up by many news outlets about campaigns to start class-action lawsuits against Apple for problems that some are saying is widespread. Neither campaign is new, but…
