Categories: Apple News

Apple's New Video Strategy Coming Into Focus

Posted by: Peter Burrows on August 24

The blogosphere has been buzzing with talk of a radically updated version of the Apple TV set-top box. It turns out Apple plans to unveil the $99 device at an...

Four New Patents For Skyhook

Posted by: Peter Burrows on August 03

Skyhook Wireless, which makes location-tracking software used in smart phones and other mobile devices, announced today that it has been granted four new patents to go along with the eleven...

Why the Jury's Still Out on the Apple iPad

Posted by: Cliff Edwards on January 27

Does Apple's tablet computer, the newly announced iPad, live up to the hype? There's no doubt Apple fans will flock to the device, with its svelte build and 9.7-inch color...

Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement Over iPhone

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 22

Finland's wireless giant Nokia said today that it is suing Apple for what it says are violations of 10 patents it holds on several wireless technologies. The patents in question,...

Apple Announces Major Consumer PC Upgrades

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 20

Hot on the heels of its knockout earnings report from last night, Apple is seizing more attention today with a significant upgrade to its consumer PC lines, specifically the entry-level...

Apple Quietly Acquired Placebase, A Mapping Startup In July

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 01

Apple has according to various reports made another of its all-but-silent acquisitions. Electronista reports that Apple acquired Placebase, a mapping service, on July 9. Placebase's entry in Techcrunch's Crunchbase describes...

Another new chief counsel at Apple

Posted by: Peter Burrows on September 15

Apple just issued a press release announcing that Bruce Sewell, the former chief counsel of Intel Corp., will take over the top legal job at Apple. He replaces Dan Cooperman,...

Steve Jobs Appears At Apple Event, Announces iTunes 9, New iPods

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 09

Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared on stage at an event in San Francisco to announce a revamp to its iTunes music and media store, and new versions of its iPod...

Apple's iPod And iTunes Event As Details Become Known

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 09

A few early details from the Apple event in San Francisco today: Bloomberg News is reporting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been spotted at the Apple event. It's not...

Apple Sept. 9 Event Officially Confirmed: Expect An iPod Touch

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 31

Apple today finally ended the guessing around exactly when it will hold its annual fall iPod refresh event: The date is Sept. 9 and the location will be Yerba Buena...

Apple Debuts iPhone 3GS, New MacBooks at Developers Conference

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on June 08

Steve Jobs didn't appear, but a new iPhone chock full of new features and new MacBooks, soon-to-sport a spanking new operating system all did appear at Apple's World Wide Developers...

Apple WWDC Keynote Is Underway

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on June 08

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference is underway in San Francisco. Here's a roundup: -Schiller is focusing first on the Mac. He announced a new 15-inch MacBook Pro with a 7-hour...

Apple Beats Estimates, But Mac Sales Decline

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on April 22

The economy hasn't taken the air out of Apple's growth yet. The company just reported earnings of $1.21 billion or $1.33 per share on revenue of $8.16 billion. The EPS...

Safari 4 Out Today

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 24

Apple released the latest version of its Safari browser today. That's an image of its opening page from my desktop this morning. What's really cool is the visual effect that...

No Jobs At Macworld After All

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 16

Well now we see why Paul Kent was more than a little evasive on the topic yesterday. Apple just announced that Steve Jobs will not be delivering a keynote address...

Notes from the Apple Notebook Event

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 14

Cliff Edwards was at the event and sent some emails. The headline is the expected round of new MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Here's the rundown: MacBook Pro, with a 15.4-inch...

Notebook Event On Oct. 14

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 09

I just received an email from Apple PR announcing an event on Oct 14. "The spotlight turns to notebooks." is the headline....

Blogging Apple Event News

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 09

Peter and Cliff are at the event in San Francisco, and I'm tracking developments from New York. Here's the story so far: Steve has taken the stage, and looks similar...

Fire at Apple HQ

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 13

The Associated Press is reporting that firefighters have put out a fire that burned for nearly three hours at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. The first reports of smoke came...

Tech Beat Liveblog from WWDC

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on June 09

Rob Hof of Tech Beat is at the WWDC handling our liveblogging duties for today. Here's the link....

DOD Reviewing Apple's PA Semi Acquisition

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 21

The U.S. Department of Defense is reviewing Apple's acquisition of chipmaker PA Semi, according to EETimes A particular chip PA Semi-made chip, known as the 1682, PA Semi has designed...

Apple Buys A Chip Company

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on April 23

Word today is that Apple is buying PA Semi. The reported price is $278 million in cash. This is unexpected, but in light of Apple's strategic direction, and competitive developments,...

Highlights from Apple's Shareholder Meeting

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on March 04

Details are starting to emerge from Apple's meeting with shareholders, taking place in Cupertino today. Among the tasty bits: The iPhone will launch in China Asia this year. (We knew...

As Expected: New MacBooks, Still No iPhone SDK

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 26

Apple pulled the trigger on updating the its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines today, boosting the internal specs substantially on the high end: A 2.6 GHz processor with 6MB...

The Rundown: New iPhone, iPod Touch

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 05

Apple boosted the maximum storage capacity on both the iPhone and the iPod Touch today. The top end of the iPhone family now comes in at 16 gigabytes, and sells...

Apple Store Is Down; Earnings Today After the Bell

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 22

The Apple Store is down. That's often an indicator that a new product is about to be announced, though sometimes it isn't. The store went down over the weekend for...

No One's Talking About Time Capsule, But....

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 15

One of the things I disliked about Leopard concerned Time Machine, the automated backup feature. Notebooks were a little left out because you have to connect them to a...

New Machine, Old Design

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 08

Perhaps hinting that it has more products in its pipeline that can comfortably fit into a single Steve Jobs keynote — now a week away — Apple bowed an updated...

Meet Apple's Newest Director: Andrea Jung

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 07

Word from Apple HQ is that the company has elected a new director: Andrea Jung who is Chairman and CEO of Avon Products, the $8.7 billion (2006 sales) cosmetics concern....

Revolving Door At Apple's General Counsel Office

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 28

Well that didn't last. Word out of Apple this morning is that senior vice president and General Counsel Donald J. Rosenberg, who joined from IBM less than 11 months ago...

Cliff Is At the Apple Event....And Sending Emails

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 05

Here's the rundown as I get it on announcements at the Apple event in San Francisco. Latest count on the iTunes library is 6 million songs, and 3 billion sold...

Breaking: Apple iPod Media Event Sept. 5

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 28

Word just in from Apple is that the company will hold a media event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Sept 5. The headline on the invite sent...

Liveblogging The Liveblogs

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 07

Peter and Cliff are at the Apple event in Cupertino. I'm in New York watching the liveblogs so you don't have to. I'll try to update this post with the...

What the ....?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on June 11

So Apple releases a new Browser for Windows and Apple stock tanks? That makes sense...not. As I type, the press release is just more than an hour old and the...

BREAKING: Leopard Delayed

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on April 12

Turns out the Leopard delay rumors are true. Leopard will now be delayed until October. Here's the full text of Apple's statement: iPhone has already passed several of its required...

I Think I Just Felt A The Earth Move

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on April 04

In late 2005 I called on Apple to launch a computer that would “make the very firmament rattle and shake” when it enters the scene. I think I finally felt...

The Keynote So Far

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 09

Steve's up and has been speaking now about 30 minutes. Here's the rundown so far: Partnership with Paramount Some 250 movies on the iTunes Store, and Paramount is the latest...

So Many Announcements, So Little Time

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 08

So I’m not at CES standing on long taxi lines and fighting with cantankerous Wi-Fi connections to get anything done. Nor am I in San Francisco getting ready for the...

Macs On The Top 500 List

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on November 14

The latest list of the Top 500 supercomputing sites in the world is out today. This is a regularly updated list put out by The University of Mannheim, The University...

New MacBook Pros

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 24

Apple boosted the specs on the MacBook Pro line today, adding the Intel Core Duo 2 processors at speeds of 2.16 and 2.33 GHz today. Here's the part that got...

Google CEO Joins Apple's Board

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 29

Apple and Google each got a little bit cooler today as Google CEO Eric Schmidt joined Apple's board of directors. Schmidt brings a lot to Apple's board: A long resume...

Mighty Mouse Goes Wireless

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on July 25

Apple announced today that its two-button Mighty Mouse" has taken on the trappings of other, er, mice, by going wireless with a Bluetooth connection and new laser tracking engine. I...

Just asking...

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 09

Does anyone know why Nancy Heinen, Apple's now-former Senior Vice President and general counsel left? Could it be that she's just leaving because she can?...

Boot Camp -- What's in a name?

Posted by: Peter Burrows on April 06

Our Tech Channel editor Tom Giles got me thinking about the name Apple chose for the beta of its new software to let users load Windows on their Intel-based Macs....

But What About My "Blue-Screen-of-Death"--or should that be "Aqua"?

Posted by: Peter Burrows on April 05

I view [Boot Camp] as only the first move in what will be a fascinating chess game over the coming months and years. To me, Steve Jobs just pushed forward his first pawn, and it was an excellent first move. Now it's Bill Gates' turn.

News Flash: Apple Introduces "Boot Camp" To Run Windows XP on Macs

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on April 05

Just got into the office and saw the press release, and will be talking to Apple about this shortly. Apple today introduced a Beta version of a news software program...

Kudos to Apple

Posted by: Peter Burrows on March 29

Kudos to Apple for announcing a volume limit setting in iTunes, with parental controls! I don't know how many days (hours?) of programming time it took to accomplish this. But...

Keynote News: New Mac Mini and iPod Hi-Fi

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 28

A new Mac Mini based on the Intel chip platform is the first news out of today's Jobss Keynote. It's the same size as the current model and supports Front...

So What's It Gonna Be?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 22

Okay, you know what I think. Feb. 28 will bring something big on the software side, and possibly an Intel-based iBook or iBook-equivalent. The rumor mills are starting to rumble...

A Special Event Next week

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 21

Moments ago I just received an email from Apple concerning a "Special Event" scheduled for Feb. 28, which will take place at Apple Town Hall, Building 4 at 10 AM...