Mr. Burrows said Yahoo! faces a tough battle with its Music Unlimited service and that it wonit overtake Apple “overnight. “Changing consumer behavior — renting, not buying music — will take some doing,” he wrote. “Also, itis hard to make money on new types of subscriptions that allow folks to download tunes to portable players,…
Power Mac G5s run Microsoft's XBox 360 Demos at E3
"Itis an alpha kit, it has the Power PC processor. Itis the closes thing to whatis in the console. Itis the best source," Mario Rodriguez, a Microsoft employee on hand at Microsoftis Xbox 360 booth at E3, told TMO. The Xbox 360 has long been known to use a special version of the G5 processor,…
TMO at E3 - E3 Keynote Offers "Six Easy Steps to World Domination"
Entertainment Software Association president Douglas Lowenstein laid down the facts in this year’s E3 keynote speech. The "Six Easy Steps to World Domination" speech was delivered in an unconventional style that directly addressed industry insiders while explaining the state of the video game industry to the broader audience listening. Mr. Lowenstein presented the following major…
Editorial: Apple "Arrogant"; Unfairly Singling Out Journalists
Apple Computer is continuing to get headlines it would no doubt rather not have. This time, a scathing editorial by Los Angeles Times financial writer Michael Hiltzik who wrote Monday that Apple’s on-going lawsuits against so-called Mac news rumor sites shows arrogance and puts into question the definition of what news really is. Writing in…
Apple Releases Mac OS X v10.4.1 Update
Late Monday, Apple Computer released Mac OS X v10.4.1, the first update to the operating system dubbed “Tiger.” The 37 megabyte upgrade, which can be obtained via the Software Update pane in System Preferences or through a standalone download file from Apple’s support site, improves the performance of Mail, Address Book, Dashboard, the iLife suite,…
Apple Successfully Defends Itself in Tiger Direct Lawsuit
AppleInsider reported on Friday that Apple won a ruling from a Florida judge in the lawsuit brought against the computer maker by the retailer Tiger Direct. Judge Joan Lenard noted: “The Court finds that the [companies’ trade]marks are distinctly different. “Any given customer who cross-hops Tiger Direct and Apple, whether over the Internet or in…
Analyst Says Tiger Server Should Make 'IT Managers Sit Up and Take Notice'
“It has full 64-bit support, and as a direct challenge to data centre managers who might dismiss using Xserve, and OS X in mixed environments, the Server variant includes support for Access Control Lists (ACLs) and native file permissions of Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory environments.” He then relates other…
TMO Reports - Merrill Lynch Analyst: Yahoo! Threatens Real and Napster, Not Apple
Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich on Thursday issued a research note in response to the threat posed by Yahoo!’s introduction of a subscription-based music download service, saying that the company really worries Real and Napster, not Apple. Similar to recent statements made by Banc of America Securities, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster and two JP Morgan…
The Back Page - Don't Do Business with Mac-Pro in Campbell, CA
Don’t do business with Mac-Pro, an Apple VAR in Campbell, CA. Why? Because they were rude to me, did a terrible job of working on my PowerBook, and the owner wouldn’t take care of the situation to my satisfaction. That’s right, I am using my column to complain about customer service. The story starts with…
TMO Reports - Apple Steps Up Targeted e-Mail Campaign to iTunes Users
Apple Computer has begun to escalate its campaign of sending targeted e-mail to users of its online iTunes Music Store (iTMS), suggesting different types of music and updating users on new albums from previously bought artists. The marketing ploy has increased in its intensity over the past few weeks, based upon responses from readers of…
Apple Proposes Scrapping Safari Open Source Code for its Own, Report Says
The report by CNET News.com says Apple has openly discussed abandoning the KHTML code base, or “tree,” in favor of Appleis version, called WebCore. In an e-mail dated May 5, Apple engineer Maciej Stachowiak admitted the company would be willing to port WebCore to work with the K Desktop Environment, which is an interface for…
Bill Gates: Cell Phones Will Overtake MP3 Players, Calls iPod 'Unsustainable'
The article quotes Gates as saying that heid “bet on the mobile phone for sure” as the mobile device that will eventually emerge as the best for listening to music. The article also notes that Microsoft is working hard to get its Windows Mobile smart phone software into devices manufactured by nearly 70 companies, a…
Is This the New Motorola iTunes Phone?
S omeoneis idea of a joke or a leaked image of the real thing? The Mobile Gazette is reporting details and a photo of what many believe is the yet-to-be-announced Motorola cellular phone with built-in iTunes capability. The mobile enthusiast site reports the phone will probably be called the Motorola E790, “a handset based on…
TMO Reports - JP Morgan Stays Positive on Apple Despite Yahoo! Threat
JP Morgan analysts Bill Shope and Elizabeth Borbolla on Wednesday issued a research report in response to Yahoo!’s announcement of the Beta release of its subscription-based online music store. In the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Mac Observer, the analysts wrote: “In our view, the service does little to break the…
TMO Reports - Apple Starts Bundling Music Videos on iTMS (UPDATE)
Apple Computer has begun bundling downloadable music videos on its online music service, slowly entering a new direction that could easily expand into all types of video services. With the debut of its iTunes version 4.8 software, announced Monday, Apple quietly began selling music videos via its iTunes Music Store (iTMS) late Monday, together with…
Toshiba Adds 50% to HD DVD Capacity; Word on Joint Format Soon?
The new disc has a capacity of 45 gigabytes (GB), Toshiba said. The additional storage capacity came by adding an additional 15GB data layer for a total of three layers. The company said the new disc had enough capacity to hold 12 hours of high-definition movies. The competing dual-layer Blu-ray standard currently holds 50GB. The…
Analyst: Apple Stock Drop Offers Buying Opportunity
At issue is the announcement of a beta subscription music service from Internet giant Yahoo!, which the company introduced Wednesday morning. The service is being launched with a yearly subscription fee of US$59.98 that allows people to rent as much music as they want, and take it with them on any digital media device that…
Eminem, Apple Settle Lawsuit
Over a year in negotiations, Eminem’s music label Eight Mile Style has agreed to an undisclosed financial settlement with Apple Computer in a lawsuit over the use of one of his songs in an iPod commercial that appeared on MTV last year, lawyers for the rapper confirmed Monday. “The parties were able to reach an…
iTunes 4.8 Full of New Features; Plays Video & Syncs iPod
The latest and greatest feature is the ability to not only store video files, but play them in the thumbnail window, normally used to display album covers, as well as a separate QuickTime window (see screen shot below). Users can default to always watching a video “in the main window,” “a separate window,” or “full…
Norton AntiVirus 10.0 for Mac Released
Version 10.0 includes a new Global Threat Assessment dashboard to provide users with an overview of current virus threats, a new Contextual Menu support feature and custom SafeZones. The Global Threat Assessment dashboard provides the status of local computer virus protection and an overview of global threats allowing users to quickly and efficiently monitor their…
Destineer Buys Close Combat Developer Atomic Games
First to Fight is a first-person shooter that puts the player in charge of a four-man U.S. Marine fire team sent to Lebanon to quell internal strife. It was released in April for Mac, Windows and Xbox. A more realistic version is in use by the Marine Corps as a training tool. The two companies…
Abel Cine Hosting Post-NAB Open House Featuring the HVX-200
You can find out more about the event at the Abel Cine Tech Web site. The event is scheduled for May 11th from 12PM until 6PM at the New York location.
First on TMO - Apple Exec: Shuffle Grabs 58% of Flash Player Market; What Cell Phone Threat?
On the market less than six months, Apple’s iPod shuffle has grabbed a 58% share of the flash-based digital media player market, up from 43% in February, company chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer has told Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich in a recent interview. In a report to clients released Wednesday and obtained by The…
Mac Gaming News - Aspyr to Publish CSI: Dark Motives
Aspyr Media on Monday announced that this summer it will publish CSI: Dark Motives, the follow-up to the CSI: Crime Scene Investigations game that the company released late last year. Like its predecessor, Dark Motives places gamers in the shoes of a forensic detective tasked with solving five crimes that have happened throughout Las Vegas.…
