Can Apple, Gilead and the Hot Techs Keep Growing?
In tough times, technology industry leaders are showing how it’s possible to thrive—and winning slots in BW’s annual Tech Hot Growth ranking
Amid the roiling waters of the stock market and economy, which have tossed tech investors around for weeks, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs made a special guest appearance on Apple’s fourth-quarter earnings call [...]
Google Earth Comes to the iPhone
Google just released an iPhone version (iTunes link) of its popular Google Earth desktop mapping application. We have seen a wide range of interesting iPhone applications lately, but few have been as impressive as Google Earth on the iPhone. Google has taken the basics of the Google Earth interface and brought them to the iPhone. [...]
Android Market Takes On Apple’s App Store: Games Still Rule, But Should They?
24 hours have passed since the launch of the Android Market, the Google equivalent to Apple’s App Store. Medialets has conducted a thorough analysis of the two store launches. The verdict: the size of Android Market pales in comparison to Apple’s store at launch, and won’t allow for paid applications until next year.
Apple Goes McCain On Microsoft With Mocking Attack Ads
The advertising war between Apple and Microsoft continues. Apple’s latest TV spots mock Microsoft’s $350 million ad campaign for Windows Vista, suggesting that some of that money would be better spent fixing Vista. The ad is funny (see above), but it does seem petty and elitist.
Music royalty rates unchanged, iTunes will remain open
Phew! For a second there I actually believed Apple when it threatened to shut down iTunes. Now it won’t have to, seeing as though the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington has left royalty rates unchanged.
And what does Apple have to save, now that it knows it will only have to pay 9.1 cents per song [...]
Install, run Mac OS X Leopard on your Dell Mini 9 netbook
A bloke at UneasySilence has managed to install Leopard on his Dell Mini 9. Even better, he’s listed all the steps, so if you’re hankering for a quick weekend project (and you have a Mini 9), this may just do the trick.
Note that it does include downloading a specialized version of Leopard off The Pirate [...]
Music Downloads: Is the Price Right?
A federal panel will decide if Apple, Amazon and the like should pay higher royalties to music publishers. But 99¢ songs likely aren’t going anywhere
A contentious battle between Apple and part of the music industry is set be decided today (Oct. 2), when a panel of judges appointed by Congress is expected to rule whether [...]
Once More Musicians and Fans Will Get the Shaft
The music business has to be one of the most contentious online of all industries with so many players involved. On one side you have the record labels who are facing an ever increasing devaluation of their physical media business. You have the trade organizations for the music industry trying to maintain their power base [...]
Jobs, Apple Executives Settle Suit
By NICK WINGFIELD and JUSTIN SCHECK
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs and several other current and former Apple executives and directors have agreed to a tentative settlement in a shareholder lawsuit that alleged improper stock-option practices at the company.
Apple Plans To Sell A Lot Of iPhones Next Year. But How? (AAPL)
Short of a major meltdown, Apple (AAPL) will probably achieve its goal of selling 10 million iPhones this year. So what’s the plan for next year?
Apple hasn’t made an official prediction, and might never. But they do have to tell their suppliers how many phones to make. Between now and August 2009, the company plans [...]
