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Back last year when Greenpeace protesters protested outside Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO unceremoniously dismissed them by suggesting they “get out of the computer business and go save some whales.” And this year, Climate Counts Scorecard rates Apple the least among 12 companies. Read the rest of this entry »

02 as of today have ceased their sales of the iPhone in the UK. Nothing specific was conveyed by O2 except a ubiquitous ‘iPhone no longer available’ on their website. No details, nothing. This announcement by O2 comes right at the footsteps of Apple’s 8GB model officially reaching the end of its rather long and illustrious life late last month and as has been quoted before, the stocks reportedly will not be replenished.

However, an odd coincidence or rather an accidental finding was that the UK store of Apple Inc.’s still shows both iPhone models - the 8GB and the 16GB versions as being readily available and ready to ship. Maybe O2 has started bracing itself for a hit which Apple need not fear. O2 which sells the phone in UK, and T-Mobile, the German distributor are said to have significantly overestimated the number of first version iPhones that would sell in Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

NBC has suddenly decided to side with Microsoft and publish its television shows on Microsoft’s video store of late for use on their Zune media player. This is after NBC and Apple parted ways last August after months of tedious negotiations. Though Apple had quoted differences in pricing as the main reason for the split, NBC later made a statement that the split was also due to Apple’s reluctance to address the piracy issues that NBC had been extremely concerned about. Read the rest of this entry »

For years now many employees have used Macs at homes and now prefer them in their work places as well. The funniest part? Apple treats this reverence with utter indifference. While many companies would clamber and claw tooth and nail to get the corporate sector interested in their products and shove it to them in droves and in the age when the tiniest show of interest in computer marketing is enough for the salesmen to bombard you with their pitches, smelling a huge deal of profits there. Read the rest of this entry »

Back in 1997, in the Fartner Symosium and ITxpo97 held at Orlando Florida, the CEO of the then Apple’s competitor DELL joined the chorus when a question was posed to him, asking him what he would do if he was in charge of Apple. His answer was something he would live to regret. “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,” Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT enthusiasts and executives who had come to attend the symposium.

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Adobe systems Inc. of late has said it would license its video-enabling Flash software to mobile devices, free of cost to make the Internet experience on the mobile almost as good as the experiences on the computer. The statement of course smells of more than just sheer perspiration in the face of desperate circumstances.

In what has been labeled the Open Screen Project, Flash endeavors to support mobile makers like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba, chip makers inclusive of Intel and Qualcomm and content providers including NBC Universal, MTV Networks and BBC to name a few. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple’s newest iMac was reviewed as on Monday by CNET as follows:  “A bump to the front side bus and a smidge more L2 cache can safely be classified as a minor update. But even slightly improved specifications, when they come at a lower price than those they replace, are appreciated,” Matthew Elliott reported for CNET Reviews.

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It is entirely possible that AT & T has given away Apple’s secrets as far as the iPhone due this summer is concerned. If you buy a next-generation, 3G-capable iPhone with a two-year AT&T Wireless contract, AT&T will take $200 off the sticker price. If this report does fructify into reality, it’s a rather daring venture. The discount of course would not apply to iPhones bought at the Apple store, and therefore, AT & T would make a quick buck there and permanently borrow retail sales from Apple themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Back in January, Apple unveiled movie rentals on the iTunes Store with much fanfare. Most customers of course do not want to own the movie. They just want to see it and digital downloads are just plain convenient. However, the 30-day delay quirk had many customers annoyed and was the reason for dwindling interest. The movies had a thirty-day lead-time on DVD before being available on the iTunes Store. Moreover, most of the new movies were available for rent and not for purchase. Today, Apple set out to fix them.

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