S AN FRANCISCO, CA — Better Energy Systems announced Monday Solio, a solar power charging solution for iPods and other portable devices. Consisting of a collapsible array of three solar panels that fits in your pocket, the device connects to your iPod with a cable (see image below). The company said it will be introducing…
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TMO at CES - From 102 Inches to 2 Inches, CES Showing Off Lots of 'Eye Candy'
LAS VEGAS, NV — Looking for that huge flat panel television? An iPod is just way too big? There’s no other place to find the big to small, the utterly ridiculous to the amazingly miniature, but at the International Consumer Electronics Show, taking place this week in the gambling mecca of the world. Electronics makers…
XM Squelches Combo-iPod Rumors; Leaves Door Open
L AS VEGAS, NV — XM Satellite Radio has had discussions about a combination portable media device and XM receiver with a number of major manufacturers, including Apple, but no formal partnership has been formed and there are no plans for an imminent announcement, the company has told The Mac Observer. XM Director of Product…
Altec Lansing Moves iPod Speakers to Other Music Players [PHOTO ADDED]
L AS VEGAS, NV — Altec Lansing has introduced a new portable speaker system for non-iPod music players based on the companyis original inMotion iPod speaker system. The new unit is called the iM4, and was introduced at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, NV. The company said that it supports any player from…
Apple Ships Xsan Storage Area Network File System
Apple announced Tuesday that it has begun shipping Xsan, the company’s enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system. Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac OS X that allows users to share storage resources over Fibre Channel. Aimed at both video professionals and IT networks, Xsan supports very high data throughput for multiple…
Adobe Releases Acrobat 7
L AS VEGAS, NV — Adobe announced Wednesday the release of Acrobat 7, the companyis PDF creation software family. Version 7 provides users the ability to assemble documents from multiple sources, create intelligent forms, and collaborate on projects inside and outside the firewall. Adobe has three versions of the software, Professional, Standard, and LE. Acrobat…
Apple Sues Mac Site For Publishing "Trade Secrets"
A pple has filed suit against Think Secret, the Mac rumor and news site, according to a report by CNet News. Apple sued the site for publishing what it calls trade secrets regarding unannounced products. ThinkSecret has recently published stories about a headless Mac and an Apple productivity suite, neither of which have been announced…
Recording Industry Sells More Music While Apple Sells More iPods
T he New York Times reported that record sales increased in 2004, the first increase in some three years. The newspaper reported that the recording industry reported sales of some 667 million albums, a 1.6% increase over 2003. The increase sales in music came during a time when the recording industry said that piracy was…
Apple Upgrades Xserve G5 to 2.3 GHz
Apple announced Tuesday upgraded Xserve G5 systems. One week in advance of Macworld Expo, a venue Apple usually reserves for new product announcements, the company announced an upgraded 2.0 GHz single processor Xserve and a dual 2.3 GHz Xserve. The dual-processor system also sports a faster front side bus, which now runs at 1.15 GHz,…
I.D. Magazine Names Jobs #2 Design Trendsetter
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Steve Jobs the second most important design trendsetter for 2005. The industrial design magazine asked 800 experts to name their 40 most influential people in design. Mr. Jobs won out over such visionaries as “Gherkin” building architect Norman Foster (#11), renowned architect Frank Gehry (#12), and vacuum cleaner designer James…
iPod Helps Seattle Area Mac Retailers
A ccording to the Seattle Times, iPods have been good for Appleis third party retail stores. The newspaper reported on Monday that a five store chain called The Mac Store saw its business grow in 2004, and the companyis president and CEO, Kevin Anderson, attributed at least some of that growth to the iPod. "The…
This Week in Apple History - December 19-31: ScriptX, So Long Taligent, Apple Buys NeXT
The last two weeks of the year are upon us, and this week’s look back at Apple’s history finds a couple of esoteric moments, as well as the one of the most pivotal moments in Apple’s corporate life. First, we’ll start with the esoteric: It was this week in 1994 that Kaleida Labs shipped Media…
Production MySQL Management with Navicat 2004
A bridge was constructed between the existing Apple user community and open source when OS X was released. It has not only helped migrate traditional Mac users to OS X, but also has generated a Switcher group of developers accustomed to working either from a UNIX variant or Windows-based workstation. MySQL has clearly become one…
Seattle Times Compares Apple and Google to Microsoft "of Old"
I n a sign of the ever-changing times, the Seattle Times has published an editorial by Paul Andrews that compares both Apple and Google to not only Microsoft, but the Microsoft "of old." Mr. Andrew looks at Appleis successful iPod and Googleis successful Internet and desktop search platforms, and wonders how it is that Microsoft…
Merrill Lynch Reiterates "Buy" on AAPL; Sees Mac Market Share Growth in 2005
Steven Milunovich of Merrill Lynch reiterated his “Buy” rating on Apple’s stock Thursday, as well as his US$78 per share 12 month target price. In a research note to his clients obtained by The Mac Observer, Mr. Milunovich offered a variety of anecdotal notes that indicate that Apple’s current quarter continues to go well, and…
iRiver-Maker Unveils Hard Disk MP3 Player
< a href="https://www.reigncom.com/eng/en_default.asp">ReignCom Co., makers of the iRiver line of digital music devices, has announced its first hard disk-based MP3 player digital media device, in what it hopes will be its first big attack to steal away sales from Apple Computeris iPod, The Korea Herald reports. The iRiver H10 is built around a 5-gigabyte (GB)…
Apple Sues Three For 'Tiger' Posting on Web (UPDATE)
Apple Computer has filed suit against three individuals it alledges posted illegal test versions of its next version of Mac OS X, code-named “Tiger”, it was reported Tuesday. The Reuters news agency reported (link attribution: MacMinute) the three unidenitifed men, members of Apple Developer Connection, posted copies of the operating system on the Internet on…
Just a Thought - Geekier
Taped to my desk at work, there use to be a copy of an ad I found somewhere a long time ago. The ad claimed that Linux was 33% geekier than Windows; it had charts and graphs that showed that Linux was, indeed, 33% geekier. That ad isn’t there anymore, I moved to a different…
Baltimore Sun Names iPod mini This Year's "Must-Have" Gift
T he Baltimore Sun has added to the coverage Appleis iPod is getting. Naming the iPod mini, in particular, as this yearis "must-have" gift, the article looks at how hard the mini has become to find. "From New York to San Francisco, there are reports of shoppers entering Apple and other retail stores seeking the…
Just a Thought - Geekier
Taped to my desk at work, there use to be a copy of an ad I found somewhere a long time ago. The ad claimed that Linux was 33% geekier than Windows; it had charts and graphs that showed that Linux was, indeed, 33% geekier. That ad isn’t there anymore, I moved to a different…
TMO Exclusive - Apple Subpoenas Mac Rumor Sites Over Audio Product
A California Superior Court has granted a request by Apple Computer to serve subpoenas on three Mac rumor Web sites seeking information on who leaked facts about an un-announced audio hardware product code named “Asteroid” or “Q97”, court documents obtained Monday by The Mac Observer showed. Apple’s seven-page civil complaint, filed with the Santa Clara…
December 12-18: Apple Goes Public, 1984 Airs
You can find more information on many of the entries below in Owen Linzmayer’s excellent Apple Confidential 2.0. The other entries can be found in TMO’s archives, and we link to articles whenever we can.1981: December 12-18 1980: Underwriters Morgan Stanley and Hambrecht & Quist take Apple Computer public in the largest IPO since Ford…
Frameline - HD Marketing: Getting Too Gimmicky?
While I will be the first to admit to jumping on the High-Definition bandwagon recently, it has occurred to me that the term HD is becoming a rampant buzzword that is being thrown around like a magic term to describe the Holy Grail of digital cinema and television. Granted, HD does look spectacular, and using…
California Fruit-Sellers: "Would You Like iTunes with That?"
The California Tree Fruit Agreement, the entity responsible for marketing California produce, will begin a new promotion using Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Buyers of California produce, including nectarines, plums, and peaches, will earn free iTMS downloads. The Sacremento Bee reports, “The number of songs to be given away — they usually cost 99 cents –…
