Archive for the 'Apple News' Category

WWDC 2006 preview?

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Since Apple’s World Wide Devloper Conference 2006 is about to start this week, rumors on the web are starting to fly like crazy.

Leisuremonkey managed to snap some picture at San Francisco’s Moscone Center where the even will be held, including some of the banners hanging on the wall.

I’ve played around with one of them to [...]

Apple caught up in a stock options scandal?

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

As reported on Reuters.com by Sue Zeidler

LOS ANGELES, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) said on Thursday it would likely need to restate earnings and will delay filing its quarterly report because of additional irregularities it found in its accounting of stock options and its shares fell 6.6 percent. Apple first announced [...]

OpenDarwin Shutting Down

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

From the OpenDarwin web site:

OpenDarwin Shutting Down

OpenDarwin was originally created with the goal of providing a
development environment for building and developing mac os X
sources as well as developing a standalone Darwin OS derivative.
OpenDarwin was meant to be a development community and a proving
ground for fixes and features for mac os X and Darwin, which [...]

Is a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Mac Sales on the Horizon?

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Is a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Mac Sales on the Horizon? by David Morgenstern is an eWeek article suggesting that, finally, the PC-using public is going to ‘get’ the Mac.

From Slashdot: “According to the article, the new advertising, increased functionality of OSX, and Intel-based machines are all raising the profile of Apple’s machines to new heights.”

From [...]

WWDC Bingo 2006!

Sunday, July 30th, 2006
This is a randomly-generated bingo card for WWDC Bingo 2006, created by Peter Hosey. (Note: This is a mirror of Foom’s mirror site; the canonical URL is http://geocities.com/iamtheboredzo/wwdcbingo/.)

About
The game was first proposed by John Siracusa on his blog. Since then, Simone Manganelli has created shuffled versions of the original card.

But at Christopher Forsythe’s suggestion [...]

Apple’s Mighty Mouse to get Bluetooth

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

DailyTech and Engadget are showing off pictures from an FCC filing by Apple Computer of the new Mighty Mouse. It looks a lot like the old Mighty Mouse, minus the wire. It is being reported that the mouse will use two standard AA batteries and will be compatible with Tiger. However, the current [...]