Posted on REUTERS: Apple says shipped iPods carrying computer virus
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some of Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod digital music players shipped in the past month carry a computer virus, according to a posting on Apple’s technical support Web site.Apple said since September 12, less than 1 percent of Video iPods—the pocket-sized devices that [...]
From Yahoo!
Finance:
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
September 27, 2006
A startup formed by Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and two other Apple veterans bought a Newport Beach semiconductor company for $260 million.
Wozniak, former Apple chairman and CEO, and former COO Gil Amelio and CTO Ellen Hancock formed Acquicor Technolcogy Inc. and their first acquisition was the [...]
I can’t say how this relates to Apple jumping ship and switching to Intel processors, but anyway: Remember that company, Freescale, which was spun off from Motorola Inc. in 2004?
THAT Motorola, that used to make the hearts of our Macs?
Well, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has just agreed to be bought for $17.6 billion, or $40 a [...]
Co-founder tells his side of Apple story
Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:39am ET
By Eddie EvansNEW YORK (Reuters)
There was excited chatter as the revolutionaries met in a nondescript garage in Menlo Park, California, but in the beginning few of them really knew how they would change the world.And yet within a year of that first meeting of [...]
What about Quad Core?
Later this year Intel will be introducing pin compatible upgrades to its Core 2 and Xeon lines, except instead of two cores these processors will feature four. Codenamed Kenstfield (Core 2) and Clovertown (Xeon), Intel’s new quad-core processors will dramatically increase the amount of processing power you can have in a single [...]
Slashdot: The Apple News That Got Buried
Posted on Slashdot by kdawson
on Tuesday September 12, @11:30PM
“Apple’s Showtime event was all well and good, but the big news today was on Anandtech.com. They found that the two dual-core CPUs in the Mac Pro were not only removable, but that they were able to insert two quad-core Clovertown [...]