Archives: December 2006

Options expert Erik Lie, on Apple's backdating disclosures

Posted by: Peter Burrows on December 30

University of Iowa professor Erik Lie is credited with the research that exposed the widespread use of backdating to boost the value of options granted to corporate executives--a scandal that...

It Was 10 Years Ago Today (Well not Today )

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 28

Don't know how I missed it, but Daring Fireball noted that Dec. 20 marked the 10-year anniversary of the day that Apple Computer acquired NeXT and links to the letter...

iPod Phone Rumor Watch Part XXXVII

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 21

Is this it? The rumor blogs are linking to this picture and a few others like at at aMobileME which it says came from tipsters. This design of the phone...

And Speaking Of Security

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 20

Who says Apple isn't responsive when it gets reports of security issues within Mac OS X? The latest security update just came out and it fixes and interesting issue concerning...

Happy New Year, Here’s A Mac Bug

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 19

Once more into the breech on the subject of Mac security. Brian Krebs over at The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog is reporting that an anonymous security researcher going by...

Behold, An iPhone

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 18

Well now we all know what Gizmodo Knows. As you may have seen today, the iPhone debuted. But it’s not exactly what you’re probably expecting. It came not from Apple,...

Fun With The Forrester Report and My Calculator

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 13

So, that whole thing about iTunes sales "plummeting" according to a Forrester Research report? Well, it turns out Forrester meant nothing of the kind. You see, it's all the media's...

And While I'm On The Subject of Music. . .

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 12

I'm going to miss Tower Records a lot. I was at one of the "going out of business" sales at the Tower on Manhattan's Upper West Side recently, and the...

Who Says Macs Aren't Used In Businesses?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 12

I was at the Hewlett-Packard analyst's meeting today and a funny Mac-related thing happened. I happened to sit right behind a four people folks from Soleil-Cross Research, three of whom...

Why iTunes Sales Are Down: Music Is Bad

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 12

There's a lot of buzz going on about this Forrester Research report that portrays iTunes sales as "collapsing." Well, here's the thing: I don't think they were ever all that...

About the Apple Video Game Rumor

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 06

The weird Apple rumor of the day suggests that Apple is eyeing the video game console market. Here's on version, courtesy of AppleInsider. It's weird because Apple has done this...