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Hands on with Apple's new hardware
News While Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs focused exclusively on the company's OS moves at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, hardware took centre stage at this week's Macworld Expo in New York.
[July 20, 2000, 15:26]
Compaq's colourful 'back-to-school' PCs
News Borrowing a page from Apple Computer's iMac, Compaq said it will offer buyers a choice of up to six colours when they purchase Presario 5000 and 7000 series desktop computers. The machines owe another design debt to Apple.
[June 22, 2000, 14:48]
Mac patch fails to fix problem
News A security hole still threatens Mac OS X users after a patch issued by Apple Computer last week failed to fix the underlying problem, security experts said on Tuesday. Security information company Secunia raised its rating of the potential risk to...
[May 26, 2004, 8:35]
Future Power fires back at Apple
News Future Power came out swinging on Tuesday in response to Apple Computer's claim that it had obtained a "worldwide injunction" against Future Power's E-Power PC, which Apple has accused of aping its popular iMac.
[March 15, 2000, 9:12]
Apple left out of the spotlight
News Hollywood shows its love for Apple Computer in many ways, by routinely featuring Macs in blockbuster movies and by using the PC maker's software to produce cool special effects. Last week's slight from Hollywood is an embarrassing rebuff for Apple...
[November 18, 2002, 11:41]
Apple may buy Universal Music
News Shares of Apple Computer fell on Friday after a report that the company was in talks to buy the music company of Vivendi Universal for as much as $6bn, or about £3.7bn. We believe that Apple Computer has been slowly evolving into a digital media...
[April 14, 2003, 8:02]
Apple takes early DVD lead
News Apple Computer on Monday said it had shipped nearly half a million computers with DVD recording drives capable of making movies that consumers can play in home DVD players. Apple, Compaq Computer, Sony and Packard Bell NEC in Europe use DVD-R/RW...
[April 9, 2002, 9:38]
Apple stops iTunes swapping
News Among other additions Apple Computer made to its iTunes software, the Mac maker has plugged a hole that allowed some people to download music from another computer. Apple's iTunes allows Macintosh and PC users to play music stored on other PCs on a...
[April 29, 2004, 9:10]
The iMac's first year? Sudden impact
News But to iMac fans, designers and Apple Computer developers, the translucent, all-in-one machine has ended Apple's blues -- and may have spawned a new way of designing PCs for consumers. Apple's sort of reinvented itself, and probably the best...
[August 16, 1999, 10:34]
Firms rush to sell songs online
News In a rush to market that's reminiscent of the dot-com bubble's headiest days, a stampede of companies is following Apple Computer pell-mell into the online music sales business. The near-daily announcements of new music services that have followed...
[July 29, 2003, 10:33]
MusicMatch unveils new jukebox-to-go
News MusicMatch on Wednesday plugged in new online jukebox technology that will enable subscribers to easily transfer music files onto portable devices, including Apple Computer's iPod for Windows operating systems.
[November 7, 2002, 8:20]
Microsoft picks FireWire over USB
News Microsoft will not support a budding peripheral-connection standard in its forthcoming Windows XP operating system, instead favouring a technology developed by Apple Computer. It also creates strange bedfellows: Apple and Microsoft on one side...
[April 11, 2001, 9:35]
Musical tribute to iPod and Treo
News A small San Diego company has come out with a device that shares similarities with two of the hottest gadgets in the tech world: Apple Computer's iPod and Handspring's Treo.eDigital has started selling a pocket MP3 player known as Treo 10, which...
[December 6, 2001, 15:27]
Apple: Snow Leopard set to unleash chip power
News Apple wants Mac OS X to do a better job of dealing with the new directions in which Moore's Law has taken computer chips. At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software...
[June 9, 2009, 9:21]
Gartner: Apple should quit hardware business
Talkback Apple is a computer company - they sell hardware. Apple gives iTunes software out for free to Windows users so they will buy an iPod. Apple gains a lot of its strength from its superior industrial design.
[October 19, 2006, 4:56]
iTunes flaw helps hackers
News A critical vulnerability has been found in some versions of Apple's popular iTunes that could allow attackers to remotely take over a user's computer, according to a warning issued on Thursday by a security research firm.
[November 18, 2005, 15:05]
Apple OS continues to gain market share
News While Windows certainly still dominates the computer market, Apple's share continues to grow. Apple's gains on Windows are particularly painful given that US computer shipments only grew 4.2 percent, again according to Gartner.
[July 17, 2008, 8:32]
ProShutdown
Downloads On older Apple keyboards, these keys are on opposite diagonal corners of the keyboard, and at the end of the day you can simply hit the two corners of the keyboard then Return to switch off your computer.
[June 5, 2009, 16:28]
Apple vs Apple: The long and winding road
News As eager Macintosh developers waited for Steve Jobs to speak, the familiar strains of "Magical Mystery Tour" filled the darkened hall at an Apple Computer conference in June. That high price has some observers betting that Apple Computer might be...
[September 24, 2004, 12:20]
Wireless: The new rage in notebooks
News But other vendors, including Compaq Computer and Apple Computer, aren't far behind in their thinking. While Compaq is exploring wireless, Dell and Apple are already putting together features for their portables.
[September 17, 1999, 9:20]
