Posts Tagged with ‘Apple’

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only fitting to follow convention here and offer up a few wise words in anticipation of suspected things to come in the wide world of Web [...]

Unlike many retail giants of mostly brick-and-mortar, chain-linked proportions headquartered in the US, Amazon has shown a nice finish to 2007. The company, one of the largest of all online retail outlets, displayed a record number of sales this month – 5.4 million for the day of December 10th alone - effectively pushing the marketplace to a 13-year high, reported the London Times yesterday.
And there’s more. The mega-success, in tandem with the Warner Music Group, also revealed earlier this [...]

What seemed to grow more and more apparent throughout the last few months in advance of Macworld Expo ’08 has finally been outed by big media.
The Financial Times reported early yesterday (in its trademark salmon-colored pages) that Apple and 20th Century Fox, a entity held by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, inked a deal that would grant iTunes users the option to rent films produced by the studio. The news of the impending partnership comes in anticipation of [...]

This recurring subject of the Windows-Internet Explorer bundle’s anti-competitive behavior, as was recently reported once more by the BBC, is, I must say, a very tired one.
Yes, it is true that Microsoft packages its Internet browser with its operating systems sold both off the shelf and as partially-subsidized software for most new PCs. And no, that is not the ideal scenario other software manufacturers – Mozilla and Opera, to name just a couple – favor. They would, generally [...]

Up until this point Google Gadgets, the widgets or small applications that run in Google Desktop, were only available for versions of the Windows operating system. Although Mac OS X user have the Dashboard feature complete with a wide variety of downloadable widgets, Google's directory of more than 27,000 gadgets dwarfs the seemingly sparse collection of just over 3300 widgets in the Dashboard widget directory.
Now, however, Mac users will be able to use any of the Gadgets tomorrow, when Google [...]

Alright, say you?re an Apple devotee. You may be, you may not be. But, just for kicks, let?s pretend there?s a bit of a love affair going on between you and Cupertino.
How then do you satiate your craving for Apple news? Presumably with a steady diet of blog posts, the produce of rumor mills, maybe even a subscription to a magazine or two. Yes? Okay, well, that?s good and fine, but what about the video angle? How do you [...]

There’s been a great deal of positive buzz being made over the OpenSocial development platform Google recently unveiled.
And there’s also an ample amount of consternation being voiced about the new open standard. In particular, there exists some skepticism of Google’s (and it’s partners’) ability to employ firm and practically insurmountable security measures for OpenSocial, to ensure that the free flow of personal – and in some cases confidential - information remains under a solid set of locks and [...]

While it’s not at all fair that Apple’s iPhone (and the developments its release has spawned) are getting the overall bulk of the attention doled out to the smartie market these days, it’s certainly worth pointing out highlights that are piggybacking the multi-touch marvel’s success as they make their way into public view, if only because they’re 1) quite useful, and/or 2) so frickin’ cool.
Today we talk about two Web-based deliveries: Wakoopa and Google Docs. One is a [...]

I’ve heard continuously over the past few months of growing friction between Apple, its iTunes marketplace, and the major record companies. Yes, the one’s that have been selling their content through iTunes. And at quite a fast pace, as of late. (What is the count of tracks sold now? 3 billion? 3.5? 4? Somewhere in that area, I presume.)
And quite honestly, I’ve never really understood why they haven’t being playing very well together. I mean, sure, they’ve got their [...]