| 01.24 | MacNN | Gartner: Mac growth to remain stagnant, Staff: Apple is unlikely to capitalize on fluctuations in the 2007 operating system market, according
to a forecast released by the research firm Gartner.
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| 01.24 | Chosun.com | Microsoft Vista to Cause Confusion for Korean Net Users, Staff: When Microsoft releases its next-generation Windows operating system in Korea next week,
local Internet users will find that it doesn’t work with many of their favorite websites. A
Hangul version of the new OS, called Vista, hits shelves Jan. 31, but the new OS is
incompatible with many Korean online banks, portals, games sites and malls.
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| 01.24 | MacNN | Apple on track to lure Windows users, Staff: Apple is on the right track to lure curious Windows users into its Mac camp, according to
Needham & Co. analyst Charles Wolf.
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| 01.24 | Low End Mac | Could the iPhone’s Touchscreen Point the Way to Apple’s Legendary Knowledge Navigator?, Trevor Wale: Upon watching the keynote, it occurred to me that this technology could be incorporated into
some kind of future Macintosh. Memories of John Sculley’s highly advanced "Knowledge
Navigator" came to mind, and perhaps with touch screen Apple have edged closer to making
this once outlandish idea real.
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| 01.24 | Apple Matters | Apple to Charge for Bootcamp?, Aaron Wright: Rumor has it that Apple Inc. may be charging users to obtain the final release of Boot Camp
when it moves out of the Beta testing phase in the coming months.
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| 01.24 | Apple Recon | Apple Special Event on February 20, Staff: We have just gotten an anonymous tip from a source that indicates that Apple is planning a
special event on February 20 to introduce Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), iLife ’07 and iWork ’07 as
well as updated Mac Pros. Mac Pros will be available immediately with a free upgrade to 10.5
when it ships, and the ship date for 10.5 will be confirmed for 3/24/07 as we have been
predicting for quite some time now.
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| 01.24 | Macworld UK | Apple stock options - Jobs feels the pressure, Staff: US federal investigators have condemned Apple’s internal inquiry into the backdating of stock
options at the company, The Times claims this morning. According to the report, the US
Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Department of Justice have asked Apple to
hand over more documents explaining how company executives were granted the options.
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| 01.24 | Wired News | Idea of Paid Entries Roils Wikipedia, Brian Bergstein: When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported
inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams
and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia’s founder for behaving unethically.
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| 01.23 | PC World | Microsoft mulled Apple partnership, iPod rival in 2003, Eric Lai, Computerworld: As far back as 2003, Microsoft considered introducing its own rival to the iPod or seeking a
partnership with Apple, according to evidence introduced Friday at a Microsoft antitrust trial
in Iowa.
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| 01.21 | Apple Matters | Announcing iPhone Matters, Hadley Stern: Gregory Ng will be heading up the newest site in the Matters family, iPhone Matters. It
features a blog (updated throughout the day) and dedicated forum to all things iPhone.
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| 01.21 | MacOSXrumors | Steve Jobs for President in 2008?, Anonymous: In a FoxNews interview of January the 19th, the founder of PoliticalDerby.com suggested
Steve Jobs could be a "dream horse" for the democrats.
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| 01.19 | Mac Night Owl | Is There a Dark Side to Apple’s Financials?, Gene Steinberg: Consider the situation: A company earns record profits, exceeding analyst estimates in most
respects. Despite the skepticism, and dire predictions from over the years, just about
everything the company touches turns to gold.
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| 01.18 | Apple Matters | Can Apple Really Dominate The Mobile Market?, Tanner Godarzi: After years of being developed within the bowels of Cupertino, Apple has stunned us all by
releasing what may be the ultimate smart phone. Apple seems confident the iPhone can take
on popular competitors such as the Treo and Palm, but can Apple truly revolutionize the
entire portable device market?
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| 01.18 | Mac Night Owl | The Apple Financial Report: Wall Street Fooled Again!, Gene Steinberg: You can bet that Apple’s conservative guidance about income for a subsequent quarter must
take Wall Street by surprise. It seems as if they add a little to the estimate, read a few tea
leaves, and come up with projections that are way off the mark.
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| 01.17 | Apple Matters | Apple Results In, Chris Seibold: 7.1 billion in sales, 1 billion in profits, 21 million iPods out the door along with 1.6 million
Macs.
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| 01.17 | Apple Matters | Ultimate Death Match: iPhone Versus RAZR, Chris Seibold : As much as Steve was pushing the iPhone as a competitor for smart phones, and Steve was
pitching that concept harder than a head high Nolan Ryan fastball, the truth is that the
iPhone is only going to take on smart phones as a side project, the iPhone’s real target is the
Motorola RAZR.
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| 01.15 | The Mothership! | Steve Wozniak Talking About the Creation of the Apple II, Staff: YouTube vid of Woz talking about the creation of the Apple II.
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| 01.15 | Low End Mac | How Much PowerBook or iBook Do You Need to Run Mac OS X?, Ted Hodges: I had a lot of good response to "How Much Mac Do You Need to Run Mac OS X?", and I had a
lot of people ask me to which low-end PowerBooks I would recommend.
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| 01.15 | Macworld | Apple product prediction silliness, Jason Snell: Apple always gets the big stage to make its Expo announcements. But shouldn’t other
companies get the chance, too?
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| 01.15 | Macworld | The iPhone: What you need to know, Dan Frakes and Jonathan Seff: Our inside look at what to expect from Apple’s smart phone-iPod combo.
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| 01.15 | Macworld | Hands (and fingers) on the iPhone, Jason Snell: Yes, I’ve touched it.
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| 01.15 | Macworld | Hackers can’t wait for iPhone, Robert McMillan, IDG News Service: Technology fetishists aren’t the only people itching to get their hands on an iPhone. Hackers
want to play with Apple’s new toy, too.
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| 01.15 | Cult of Mac | Apple Newton Versus iPhone, lkahney: Apple’s Newton -- the great granddaddy of Personal Digital Assistants -- is still going pretty
strong, but surely the iPhone is ringing its death knell? Who’d want to lug the old green brick
about when they can have a shiny new iPhone?
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| 01.15 | The Boston Globe | Personal computers still at Apple’s business core, Hiawatha Bray: Despite the hoopla surrounding Apple’s iPod music players, and the hype over upcoming
Apple home entertainment servers and cellphones, the company still makes a lot of money
on computers.
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| 01.15 | Mac Night Owl | The Ongoing Apple Death Watch, Gene Steinberg: I don’t know what there is about Apple Inc. that makes people wish them dead. But that’s
apparently something that a few tech writers - and certainly some Windows diehards -
fervently wish will happen sooner rather than later.
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| 01.14 | Apple Matters | Apple kowtowing to Cingular?, Chris Seibold: It is no big deal for one company to get the upper hand when negotiating wwith another
company. Cingular claims that Apple bowed to demands
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| 01.13 | The New York Times | Ultimate iPhone FAQs List, Part 2, David Pogue: Just got back home tonight after my week in San Francisco, and found ANOTHER several
dozen questions about the iPhone waiting on this blog’s comments area!
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| 01.12 | Electronista | Cisco working on Apple TV rival, Staff: Cisco may unintentionally create more controversy later this year by introducing its own
equivalent to Apple’s recently announced Apple TV, according to Light Reading
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| 01.12 | Low End Mac | Taking the ’Mac’ Out of the Macworld Expo, Tommy Thomas: This past Tuesday, the Macworld Expo in San Francisco began with a Steve Jobs keynote.
Time for a little checklist - iPhone, Apple TV, iTunes Store hits 2 billion tracks sold, iTunes
Store adds movies from Paramount, new iPod ads, AirPort Extreme 802.11n, Apple Computer
Inc. becomes Apple Inc... What am I missing here?
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| 01.12 | Low End Mac | Apple TV Aimed at the High End, not the Mass Market, Dan Knight: I just can’t get excited about Apple TV. I’m sure it’s a great product for people who use
iMovie and/or buy TV shows and movies through the iTunes Store, but it’s missing everything
I want in a set-top box.
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| 01.12 | Apple Matters | The iPhone is Great But What About The Rest?, Aaron Wright: Don’t sit there and deny it. Don’t tell me that the iPhone and AppleTV deal was enough for
you because, in all honesty, it certainly wasn’t for me. Don’t tell me you weren’t waiting for
Stevey J. to say his famous "oh, and one more thing" line, hopefully talking about Leopard,
iLife or at least something!
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| 01.12 | Macworld | Pushing no buttons with the iPhone, Eric Suesz: Here comes the iPhone. I haven’t touched one yet, but I will stand in line for a long time to
get one. I desire one: heartily, enthusiastically, and with gusto. Mucho gusto. How can I not
tell everyone I know-and everyone who cares to listen-just how cool it is?
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| 01.12 | Wired News | iPhone: Calling the Future, Michael Calore: When Steve Jobs stood on stage Tuesday at Macworld and showed off the iPhone for the
gathered masses, he wasn’t just selling a phone. He was selling us the future -- mobile,
broadband-connected and ubiquitous.
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| 01.12 | BusinessWeek | Why Hollywood Snubbed Jobs at Macworld, Ronald Grover: Most of Hollywood was conspicuously absent from Steve Job’s Apple TV introduction at
Macworld Expo.
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| 01.11 | I, Cringely | What’s in a Name?: That which we call an iPhone by any other name would sound as sweet., Rober X. Cringely: There are a couple glaring mysteries surrounding Apple’s new iPhone, announced this week
at Macworld -- the name and the Internet connection speed. I’ll get to Google in a moment,
but first I’d like to cover these two points about the iPhone.
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| 01.11 | Red Herring | iPhone Brand Could Run Apple $325M Yearly, Scott Martin and Red Herring Staff: Industry experts suggest licensing iPhone from Cisco could cost hundreds of millions.
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| 01.11 | Electronista | Nokia says iPhone "lacking," MSNBC touts over Zune, Staff: The iPhone continues to create a ripple effect among cellphone producers and journalists,
according to separate reports by MSNBC and Reuters. Speaking originally to a local business
paper, Nokia multimedia unit leader Anssi Vanjoki largely dismissed the Apple-made device,
labeling it "quite an interesting product" but quickly playing down suggestions that it might
upset the Finnish cellphone maker’s core business.
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| 01.11 | Low End Mac | Why the iPhone Will Succeed Despite the Pundits, Dan Knight: A lot of technology pundits are calling Apple’s iPhone an overpriced gadget and don’t believe
it will sell well. I think that’s nonsense.
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| 01.11 | Apple Matters | The Biggest Deal About Macworld was the Name Change, James R. Stoup: Now, it wasn’t an enourmous change, I’ll grant you. They didn’t go from Apple Computer Inc.
to Steve’s Discount Electronics Barn but it was, nonetheless, a signifigant event.
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| 01.10 | Mac Night Owl | The Worst Thing About the iPhone, Gene Steinberg: While I’m not always a fan of Consumer Reports magazine, particularly when it comes to the
way they treat Macs, I’m not going to quibble with their reader surveys about the reliability of
products and services. In a recent article on wireless providers, Cingular was among the
worst in a number of major cities. This is something, alas, that Steve Jobs and Apple can’t fix
even if the iPhone is indeed the best product of its kind on the planet.
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| 01.10 | Mac Night Owl | The Almost Non-Mac Keynote, Gene Steinberg: How times have changed. Not so many years ago, Apple used a Macworld Expo keynote to
unleash the latest and greatest Mac hardware. Certainly last year was a prime example, with
the introduction of the first crop of Intel-based computers, and an assurance that they’ll all
be called Mac from now on. Thus ended the use of such trade names as iBook and
Powerbook.
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| 01.10 | Dominate Brands | Handicapping the race: iPhone markets and rivals, Tomi T Ahonen: No matter how much the industry has loved SonyEricsson’s Walkmans as "iPod killers" - we
can safely trust that this iPhone will be the best of the bunch for music. And the rest of the
phone features are pretty impressive too.
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| 01.09 | MacNN | Apple "reinvents the phone," unveils iPhone, Staff: Apple today unveiled the iPhone (site not updated), a wide-screen iPod with touch controls
that also functions as a mobile phone and an internet communication device.
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| 01.09 | MacNN | Apple still finalizing iPhone trademark, Staff: Apple is still in the final stages of procurring the iPhone trademark, following the iPhone
debut at this morning’s keyote, according to a new report. Cisco, which currently holds the
trademark on "iPhone", uses the name for its Linksys division’s VOIP-based wireless phone
that was introduced in mid-December.
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| 01.09 | Apple Matters | What Do You Think of the iPhone?, Hadley Stern: Will you buy one. I can tell you as someone who has seen (at least in Keynote form) that this
device looks incredible.
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| 01.09 | Macworld | Not waiting on the world to change, Jason Snell: What a shocking, stunning, surprising Macworld Expo keynote address Steve Jobs gave today.
It was strange and different in so many ways, from the complete lack of new Mac
announcements (at Macworld Expo!) to the surprising removal of "Computer" from the
company’s name after thirty years.
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| 01.09 | Macworld | Analysis: iPhone a ’wake-up call’ for the industry, Jim Dalrymple: With the announcement of the iPhone during Steve Jobs’ keynote on Tuesday, Apple has put a
tremendous amount of pressure on handset makers like Motorola and Nokia, according to
industry analysts. Capitalizing on its legendary ease-of-use, Apple will be a competitor out
of the gate.
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| 01.09 | Macworld | Apple drops ’Computer’ from name, Mathew Honan and Peter Cohen: Don’t call it a computer company. Speaking at Macworld Expo today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs
announced that Apple is dropping the word "Computer" from its name to become "Apple Inc."
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| 01.09 | Mac Night Owl | The Night Owl’s Instant Keynote Commentary - What Happened to the Mac?, Gene Steinberg: The Steve Jobs keynote is over, and you’ll be able to read what’s going on at lots of Mac Web
sites, so I want to do something different, and that is to provide instant analysis on some of
the information you’ll be hearing about. You may think that’s a little irresponsible, but
consider that the cable news networks have been doing the very same thing for years.
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| 01.09 | MacOSXrumors | The "iTV" drops the "i", set to ship in February, Alexandros Roussos: Along with the historic announcement of the iPhone, Apple has also released the Apple TV,
formerly code-named "iTV", when the company unveiled the product in September 2006.
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| 01.09 | Wired News | ET, Phone Steve Jobs, Leander Kahney: Steve Jobs was in rare form Tuesday at Macworld. This was the most exciting product
introduction he’s made in 20 years, and the iPhone is going to shake up the phone business
the way the iPod is rewiring the music biz. And he looked great. Reality-distortion field?
Bring it on. I have yet to hold an iPhone in my hands but I’m already hooked.
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| 01.09 | Wired News | iPhone Takes Apple on New Path, Pete Mortensen: With a wave of his hand, Apple CEO Steve Jobs changed the mobile phone landscape.
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| 01.06 | MacDailyNews | RUMOR: Apple to increase .Mac iDisk storage to 30 GB, Staff: Apple is going to announce a storage upgrade at Macworld 2007.
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| 01.06 | MacDailyNews | Jim Cramer: ’Apple has a winning formula’, Staff: Cramer (Mad Money TV program) picked Apple Computer as his No. 2 growth stock of 2007.
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| 01.06 | InformationWeek | Review: Mac OS X Shines In Comparison With Windows Vista, John C. Welch: Amid the hype surrounding the release of Windows Vista, Mac users are taking solace from
the fact that OS X is still a champ on many fronts. Here are some reasons our reviewer John
C. Welch opts for Apple.
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| 01.05 | Low End Mac | Mac and Windows: Different but Equally Productive, Andrew Fishkin: In my previous installment, Switching Back to Windows after 3 Years with Mac OS X, I wrote
about some of the reasons for my frequent switches between Mac and PC. Now, I would like
to go into a bit more detail about the systems themselves and what attracted or repelled me
at the time.
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| 01.05 | Macworld | ’Scores’ of new products coming to Expo next week, Peter Cohen: IDG World Expo announced Friday that "scores of companies" are expected to debut and
feature new products at next week’s Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Calif.
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| 01.05 | TechWeb | Macworld Buzz: Will Mac Pros Move To Eight Cores?, Sharon Gaudin: Some analysts are predicting that Apple Computer may announce a Mac desktop that sports
eight processors at the Macworld Expo next week.
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| 01.05 | MacDailyNews | RUMOR: Steve Jobs will take leave of absence from Apple Computer, Staff: In a list of rumors he’s picked up from trading desks and other industry sources this
morning, TheStreet.com’s Doug Kass drops this thermonuclear bombshell: "Apple will
announce that Steve Jobs will be taking a leave of absence from the company."
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| 01.05 | ITWire | Apple Quietly Canned Lawyer Who Backdated, Alex Zaharov-Reutt: Macworld 2007 is the most anticipated Apple event in history. Never before has there been
such enormous expectation placed on one company - and ultimately, until Steve Jobs leaves
- one man to deliver an astounding series of innovative, easy to use products at the much
more consumer friendly pricing that Apple has used over at least the last couple of years.
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| 01.04 | MacMerc.com | Tablet Mac coming...but not from Apple, RickMacMerc: Today we get word that there will be a Tablet Mac but, like the iPhone, it won’t be made by
Apple.
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| 01.04 | FT.com | Luxpro to countersue Apple for $100m, Kathrin Hille: Luxpro, a Taiwanese electronics company that won a lawsuit filed against it by Apple over an
imitation of the iPod shuffle, intends to countersue Apple for $100m in damages.
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| 01.04 | Network World | Apple’s Macworld opens arms to corporate users, Jennifer Mears: There will be a heightened focus on enterprise customers as Apple has in the past couple
years bolstered its standing as a viable server alternative in corporate data centers.
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| 01.04 | Blackfriars | Apple’s marketing may pay off with nearly $8 billion in revenue, Carl Howe: One company that hasn’t been cutting marketing budgets is Apple Computer, which was
named Marketer of the Year over at MediaPost’s Marketing Daily. And NPD released some new
data today, showing that Apple increased its market share of the MP3 player market from
45% in 2005 to 57.5% in the five weeks around the holiday season in 2006.
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| 01.04 | eWeek | Can Apple Overcome Latest Security Backlash?, Ryan Naraine : A pair of renegade hackers has launched a project aimed at embarrassing Apple Computer
into fixing software vulnerabilities in a timelier manner, prompting new calls for the
Cupertino, Calif. company to hire a security czar to head off a growing crisis.
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| 01.04 | Mac Night Owl | Time for Apple to Reinvent the Personal Computer?, Gene Steinberg: You know it’s hard to realize that not a whole lot has changed in the way you interact with
your Mac, or PC for that matter. Some years back, when I wrote my first book about Mac OS
X, I remarked how the interface of the first Mac operating system resembled the new one so
closely.
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| 01.03 | Apple Matters | Predicting MacWorld by Looking Backwards, Chris Howard: Everyone has their own idea of what to expect and, like every year, the predictions for Mac
World San Francisco 2007 have flowed.
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| 01.02 | MediaPost | Marketer of the Year: Apple Computer, Karlene Lukovitz: Amid a formidable and growing cast of competitors, Apple has been pulling off this tricky
souffle with iron chef mastery. Steve Jobs has racked up an impressive list of feats since
returning as CEO in 1996, and that list grew longer last year.
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| 01.02 | Macworld | Opinion: What does 2007 hold for Apple?, Ryan Faas, Computerworld: It’s clear that 2006 was a momentous year for Apple. The company’s entire Mac lineup was
converted to Intel processors, Boot Camp and Parallels Desktop offered every Intel Mac owner
the ability to run Windows on their computers and iPod sales continued to surge - the
release of the Zune notwithstanding. Coupled with a successful year on those fronts, Apple
tantalized users with a preview of the next version of Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. "Leopard," and a
set-top box for streaming videos.
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| 01.02 | Macworld | Apple: "first 30 years were just the beginning", Peter Cohen: Apple kicked the new year off with a bang with a new teaser on its Web site home page that
has left many visitors wondering what the company is up to.
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| 01.02 | Mac Night Owl | Stop! Every Apple Product is Defective! Well, Maybe Not, Gene Steinberg: Someone once said that a dog biting a man isn’t news, but a man biting a dog is. When it
comes to product reliability, you can’t just say everything is hunky-dory, because that would
be what you ought to expect.
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| 01.02 | MacDailyNews | Study shows huge market potential for Apple ’iPod phone’, Staff: As the anticipation about an Apple iPod/phone hybrid builds with a steady stream of rumors
and news stories, a new research study shows that an iPod phone has the potential to be a
big hit with consumers.
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| 01.02 | The Motley Fool | Apple’s Rotting Core?, Rich Duprey: Will Steve Jobs be able to survive Apple’s backdating scandal? More importantly, should he
be allowed to survive?
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| 01.02 | Mac Night Owl | A Macworld Expo Preview: Expect Disappointment, Gene Steinberg: Apple is already dropping tantalizing hints that "The first 30 years were just the beginning" at
its site, which is certainly going to fuel heavy-duty anticipation for next week’s Macworld
Expo keynote, and the things you hope Steve Jobs will announce.
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| 01.01 | MacNN | Apple leads NASDAQ into double-digit gains, Staff: Apple led technology stocks today as share prices rose to set the stage for three major
indexes to end 2006 in the double-digit gains, according to a report from Reuters.
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| 01.01 | MacNN | Apple takes $84m charge for option scandal, Staff: Apple will restate financial data going back to 2002 and take an $84 million ($105 million
pre-tax) charge after a board committee found the company had improperly backdated
thousands of stock options grants to employees and executives.
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| 01.01 | Electronista | Vista launched too soon: analyst, Staff: Microsoft’s Vista business launch was premature and has instilled doubt that the company
was ever truly ready for a 2006 launch, according to an expert speaking to PC World. Analyst
Russ Cooper of Cybertrust observes that much of the compatibility is broken, leaving many
early adopters stranded as essential tools such as antivirus or tax software break and require
updates that may be months away from completion.
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| 01.01 | The Washington Times | ’06 good for tech users, industry, Mark Kellner: Best company: Apple Computer Inc. Yes, it did it again, but this time with astonishing grace.
Switching an entire product line from the Motorola/IBM-made PowerPC chip to Intel Corp.’s
processors is one of the most daring, and potentially daunting, moves in a long time. The
Cupertino, Calif.-based company did it with tremendous speed and performance gains.
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