Steve Jobs returns to terrorizing Apple Employees »

Apple’s Steve Jobs has returned to the office. Apple Employees have return to a status of fear and paranoia. Here’s the AP:
Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is back at work after a five-and-a-half-month medical leave, during which he received a liver transplant. Jobs, 54, is working from Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters [...]

Bad News IBM and Apple »

Video comes to the iPhone »

Wonderful move, Apple. Just need faster speed, beyond 3G… And Video Chat!
Apple unveiled the newest version of its smart phone today at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, adding video recording and voice control to the device. The “S” in its name represents “speed,” said Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, after [...]

iPhone Video 3GS Coming Today? »

The iPhone Video, which has the code name of iPhone 3GS should be announced later today. Here’s the buzz roundup from the interwebs:
Everything I wrote about last month in “The Next iPhone” still stands. I expect Apple to announce updated iPhones with significantly faster processors, twice the RAM, and twice the storage. I expected prices [...]

Apple reportedly building $1 billion server farm »

Apple Mac Music Video »

Cartier sues Apple for trademark infringement »

French jeweler and watchmaker Cartier sued Apple on Friday for infringing on its trademark, according to The Associated Press, Dow Jones, and others. According to the reports, the suit—filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan—contends that Digitopolis’ Fake Watch and Fake Watch Gold Edition time-displaying iPhone apps improperly use Cartier’s trademarks. Apple is being [...]

Apple set to unviel $500-700 tablet device »

With a conventional netbook clearly out of the question, researchers for Piper Jaffray said Thursday there’s mounting evidence to suggest Apple next year will introduce its own take on the market in the form of a tablet-based device that will sell for $700 or less. “Between indications from our component contacts in Asia, recent patents [...]

Apple Earbuds and static electricity »

Symptoms
It’s possible to receive a small and quick electrical (static) shock from your earbuds while listening to iPod or iPhone.
Products Affected
iPhone Accessories, iPod, iPhone, iPod Accessories
Resolution
What is happening?
When using headphones in areas where the air is very dry, it is easy to build up static electricity and possible for your ear to receive a small [...]

Sony’s Touchscreen NWZ-X1000 Walkman Reviewed »

An Apple iPod Touch killer? Sony’s touchscreen Walkman, the NWZ-X1000 has been grabbing headlines of late for it’s sheer beauty, design and innovation. The NWZ-X1000 is equipped with a stunning 3-inch OLED display and can play a large range of audio files like MP3, WMA, and AAC at up to 320kbps.
The video side doesn’t fall [...]

Zune and Microsoft, Gay. »

Wes Moss, Certified Financial Planner, points out that filling a 120 GB iPod at iTunes costs $30,000. But you can get the same amount of songs, and millions more, for just $14.99 a month with Zune Pass.

Pressure on Apple to lower MacBook pricing »

The birth of a new class of inexpensive thin-and-light notebooks, described in my current Tech & You column, is a good-news, bad-news story for most laptop manufacturers. To the extent that these new sub-$1,000 notebooks cannibalize sales of high-end executive thin-and-lights, among the most profitable products in the portfolio, the manufacturers will face downward pressure [...]

Google will Acquire Twitter, Not Apple »

The Apple rumor is utter BS — and makes no sense at all. We feel Google or a search engine focused company (Microsoft’s Live.com) will acquire Twitter. It’s about organizing data — cataloging posts. Just like Google picked up Blogger, the same thing will happen with Twitter. But Apple? No way….
Twitter Search is easily the [...]

Google Dismisses Antitrust Concerns Over Ties to Apple »

Google executives acknowledged Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission is inquiring about the antitrust implications of the ties between the Google and Apple boards. But they said they do not believe that the fact that Apple and Google share two directors — Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, and Arthur Levinson, the former chief [...]

Is Google a Monopoly? »

If there was any doubt about whether or not Google is under the antitrust microscope, it has been erased by news that antitrust regulators may try to break up interlocking directors at Google and Apple.
This is now the fourth real or threatened antitrust action against Google in just a year, suggesting that regulators are itching [...]

Apple and Google Ties Are Questioned »

The Federal Trade Commission has begun an inquiry into whether the close ties between the boards of two of technology’s most prominent companies, Apple and Google, amount to a violation of antitrust laws, according to several people briefed on the inquiry. Apple and Google share two directors, Eric E. Schmidt, chief executive of Google, and [...]

Apple to buy Twitter? »

Facebook tried to buy Twitter. Google and Microsoft have been giving the red-hot Internet-messaging startup the eye. But we hear it’s Apple that’s closest to sealing a deal, possibly for as much as $700 million. A source who’s plugged into the Valley’s deal scene and has been recruited by Apple for a senior position says [...]

MacBooks sweep latest Consumer Reports scores »

In a minor coup against Microsoft’ claims of better value for money in Windows notebooks, Apple has earned the crown in Consumer Reports’ latest computer study for its current generation of MacBooks — as well as in tech support and, very nearly, desktops. The new overview from the researchers’ June report gives the Mac portables [...]

Big-screen Kindle coming from Amazon “as early as this week” »

But it is Amazon, maker of the Kindle, that appears to be first in line to try throwing an electronic life preserver to old-media companies. As early as this week, according to people briefed on the online retailer’s plans, Amazon will introduce a larger version of its Kindle wireless device tailored for displaying newspapers, magazines [...]

Bill Watkins on Shrinking the iPod »

Bill Watkins, the outspoken former chief executive of Seagate, wants to make a thinner iPod. The Silicon Valley veteran has joined the board of Vertical Circuits, a start-up that has come up with a technique for cramming large amounts of flash memory into a tight space. By using Vertical Circuits’ technology, device makers can fit [...]