Archived Links for March 2007

03.25	MacDailyNews	Apple confirms Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to ship on schedule in spring 2007, Staff: Just spoke with Apple who confirmed the reports are wrong and Leopard is still scheduled to ship in this spring as they previously announced. The rumor mill is wrong again.
03.24	MacDailyNews	Hidden details from Steve Jobs’ Apple iPhone keynote, Staff: For those who haven’t yet seen this, ACTV near the end of February posted a video on YouTube that looks at "four things about the iPhone that you probably overlooked from Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynote."
03.24	TUAW	Apple TV: The first 24 hours, David Chartier: After spending a good 24 hours with a shiny new Apple TV, I agree with Mossberg and Pogue: this thing rocks. Apple has produced a great device that makes getting your iTunes and iTunes Store content from your Mac/PC to your TV and entertainment center, and with a nearly 10x lead in the digital media market at 118 million active iTunes users, they have quite an audience for it as well.
03.23	MacNN	iTunes brings back the original Star Trek, Staff: Star Trek: The Original Series has returned to Apple’s iTunes store after quietly disappearing in February of this year.
03.23	MacNN	70+ hippie groups urge Gore to make Apple green, Staff: Greenpeace and more than 70 other groups are urging Vice President Gore to use his influence on the Board of Apple to convince the Cupertino-based company to be a "green leader" in the electronics industry.
03.23	Mac Night Owl	A Look at the Apple Naming Problem, Gene Steinberg: Once upon a time, when Apple was losing money hand over foot, many of us played guessing games, trying to identify the differences between the various models in Apple’s Performa line. No, I won’t bother to list the models, beyond the Performa 6110CD, typical of the breed. It’s not a very pleasant trivia game, at least not to me.
03.23	MacDailyNews	G4’s ’Attack of the Show’ host Olivia Munn licks Apple TV, Staff: G4’s "Attack of the Show" host Olivia Munn gives me something to look forward to everyday at 7pm (on G4TV). So imagine my delight when Olivia Munn did the hottest possible thing you can do with tech gear (at least on national television), and licked one of the new Apple TV boxes.
03.23	Engadget	How-to: Upgrade the drive in your Apple TV, Ben Drawbaugh: While thousands of people were enjoying their Apple TVs last night, we decided to take ours apart for some pictures and to upgrade the drive.
03.23	Wired News	Wikipedia Shakeup: Resignations, Kim Zetter: Two top employees of the Wikimedia Foundation have resigned, citing disagreements with the board. Both publicly tendered their resignations to the community yesterday on a foundation mailing list, but say their resignations are unrelated and the timing coincidental.
03.22	AnandTech	Apple TV Part 1: Unboxed and Dissected, Anand Lal Shimpi: Although the less exciting of Apple’s major announcements this year, Apple TV is finally upon us. As the world waits for the iPhone, it’s time to look at Apple’s latest entry into the convergence market. While we work on our review we thought you all might like to see the innards of the Apple TV.
03.22	PC Magazine	Apple TV Review, Tim Gideon and Joel Santo Domingo: Review gives Apple TV 4 out of 5 stars.
03.22	PC Magazine	Apple TV - Is There a Niche?, Bryan Gardiner: With the Apple TV now shipping, the question remains: will people want one and, if so, what will its impact on the market be?
03.22	PC Advisor	Microsoft misses Zune deadline, Elizabeth Montalbano: Zune users in the US who were waiting for an important firmware update from Microsoft were disappointed on Tuesday when the company didn’t deliver on schedule.
03.22	Crave	A pink Zune, now? So 2006, Mike Yamamoto: It’s become standard practice in the consumer electronics industry: When it doubt, paint it pink. But strategies like that usually work best when a color is still hot, or at least lukewarm.
03.22	The New York Times	Apple TV Has Landed, David Pogue: In the technology world, conventional wisdom says that we’ll soon be saying R.I.P. for the DVD. Internet downloads are the future, baby. No driving, no postpaid envelopes. Any movie, any TV show, any time.
03.21	CNET	Best Buy finagles Apple TV exclusive, Erica Ogg: Best Buy said today that the just-released Apple TV will be available in all 822 of its U.S. stores starting Tuesday. That’s two weeks ahead of all other retailers that are not named the Apple Store.
03.21	Mac Night Owl	The Leopard Report: Can We Dump Interface Silliness?, Gene Steinberg: Aside from the massed demands for a better Finder, my attempts to expand the scope of a Leopard wish list haven’t brought much in the way of innovative ideas. Well, I suppose we’ll all know soon enough just what Apple has in mind.
03.21	Digital Trends	The Apple, AMD, Cisco & Microsoft Conspiracy to Kill the Cable Set-Top Box, Rob Enderle: Of the four platforms recently launched, Apple TV is the most limited although it may be the easiest to use. If successful, the revenue potential for iTV dwarfs that for the trendier iPhone because the available market is potentially much larger. The iPhone’s price alone, at least initially, will hold down volumes.
03.20	Low End Mac	The iPhone: Is It a Macintosh?, Dan Knight: That’s a question we’ve been pondering here at Low End Mac, because our primary focus is the Macintosh. Not iPods. Not Apple TV. Not Apple displays or printers.
03.20	MacOSXrumors	Apple confirms Rome retail store plans, Alexandros Roussos: Apple has officially confirmed through a note on its Italian web site that it plans to open a store in Rome.
03.12	MacOSXrumors	UK Apple Store hints at 8-Core Mac Pros, Alexandros Roussos: Apple has unintentionally leaked on its UK online store a reference to what could be the company’s forthcoming high-end Mac Pro line-up.
03.07	Electronista	Amazon Unbox on TiVo goes live, adds studios, Staff: TiVo today announced that its Unbox on TiVo service had become available, fulfilling a promise made just a month earlier. New with the release are the addition of two new studios to the service: movies from MGM Studios and Sony Pictures will be available alongside those announced originally. New subscribers will also get $15 in free downloads if they sign up before May, Amazon says.
03.07	MacNN	Apple looks to NAND flash for subnotebook, Staff: Apple is increasing its use of NAND flash technology in its future product development plans, and is designing a new subnotebook that uses NAND flash memory as its primary storage, according to American Technology Research senior analyst Shaw Wu.
03.07	MacNN	Apple to open 35-40 new stores in 2007, Staff: Apple is aiming to expand its retail presence in the U.S. as well as abroad, with plans to open 35-40 stores in 2007 with more than 10 of those planned overseas.
03.07	TUAW	Is Jobs Already Using the iPhone?, Dan Lurie: Could Steve Jobs already be using the iPhone as his personal mobile device?
03.07	TUAW	The Onion: Apple launches iLaunch, Dave Caolo: One things about Apple geeks: We’re not afraid to make fun of our own fanatical devotion. Take this great article at The Onion which describes the latest Apple product, The "iLaunch."
03.07	Mac Night Owl	Dell Reaps What it Sows, Gene Steinberg: Do you remember that infamous statement back in the 1990s from Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer (once again)? Apple was on the ropes, hemorrhaging millions of dollars of red ink, and Dell suggested Apple give the money back to its stockholders; more or less close up shop.
03.06	Computing	Intel chief sings praises of iPhone, Tom Sanders: Apple’s iPhone is forcing a new wave of mobile device innovation, and validates the superiority of Unix-like systems on mobile devices over Windows, claimed Intel chief executive Paul Otellini.
03.06	Apple Matters	If Apple Ran Our Government, Devanshu Mehta: I pledge allegiance to the fruit of the pastel shades of Appletopia and to the coolness for which it stands, one nation under Jobs, inscrutable with appleLiberty and iJustice for all.
03.06	AppleInsider	Apple TV to dual as casual gaming device?, Slash Lane: Apple’s much anticipated Apple TV wireless set-top box will not only stream various types of media from Macs and PCs to widescreen TVs, but also serve as a casual gaming hub, the company appears to have inadvertently confirmed.
03.06	Low End Mac	The $900 Notebook: Where Is Apple?, Adam Robert Guha: In the past, whenever I’d buy a laptop it seemed that the machines I looked at were in the $1,500 to $2,000 range. These machines were fully-featured, very capable notebooks which were generally within the realm of up-to-date hardware.
03.05	CNN Money.com	Steve Jobs’ bad bet, Geoff Colvin: The visionary CEO didn’t have enough faith in Apple’s future.
03.04	Apple Matters	RIAA Is About To Kill Independant Radio Stations, James R. Stoup: I hate the RIAA.
03.01	CNN Money.com	Dell reports steep decline in profits, Rob Kelley: Dell reported a 33 percent drop in fourth-quarter profits, slightly ahead of expectations. But the No. 2 PC maker’s sales figures came in below estimates, and Dell warned that growth and profit margins will remain "under pressure" for the next few quarters.
03.01	MacDailyNews	Video of ’iPhone-like user interface’ on Pocket PC, Staff: "Tzywen" has posted a video on YouTube of a "custom ’iPhone-like’ interface running on a Eten M600 PocketPC.
03.01	Computerworld	Opinion: Mac OS X ’an ideal platform’ for SMBs, Ryan Faas: Historically, Macs and small business aren’t often associated with each other. Yet smaller firms seem to be one of the markets Apple is targeting with Mac OS X Leopard Server.
03.01	BusinessWeek	What to Do with Apple’s Cash, Arik Hesseldahl: Launching a venture capital fund would allow Apple to fund its vision for the future without making awkward acquisitions. What would you do with $12 billion? It’s the kind of question that the financial minds over at Apple (AAPL) have to consider, for that is about the amount of cash the company had on its balance sheet the last time it reported earnings on Jan 17.
03.01	AppleInsider	Mac sales growth up over 100 percent in January, says firm, Katie Marsal: Sales of Apple Inc.’s Mac line of personal computers saw year-over-year growth accelerate over 100 percent during the month of January, with revenue growth rising even further, according to Pacific Crest Securities.
03.01	MacDailyNews	Net Applications: Apple’s Mac market share continues rise, hits 6.38% in February 2007, Staff: Net Applications’ "Market Share" has posted their operating system market share statistics for February 2007 showing Apple Macintosh share at 6.38% (4.29% for non-Intel-powered Macs and 2.09% for Intel-powered Macs).
03.01	New York Post	Apple’s Big Talk, Janet Whitman: Apple isn’t concerned that sticker shock will take a bite out of the 10 million iPhones the company expects to sell in the device’s first year. The sleek new portable gadget - which lets users tap on a touch screen to download music, watch TV, talk on the phone, check voicemail, take digital pictures, surf the Web and get email - goes on sale in June at a starting price of $499.
03.01	Chron.com	Europe Threatens New Microsoft Fines , Raf Casert: The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, threatening new multimillion fines against the software maker over claims it is asking rivals to pay too much for information that would help their servers work with Windows.
03.01	TMZ.com	Mac Guy Trades Mouse for Dog, Staff: Friendly dude Justin Long is taking steps to make sure his new co-star is in shape for their upcoming film.
03.01	Surfin’ Safari	Background Music, hyatt: macenstein.com has an interesting article about a slowdown in other applications when a Safari window with a specific set of pages is loaded in the background. What a browser should do when it is the background application is actually extremely complex, and not all of the decisions are as clear-cut as they might seem.
03.01	OSWeekly.com	iPhone: Mobile OS X at its Finest, Brandon Watts: Car manufacturers love the iPod, and many of them have offered iPod integration as a feature on their vehicles. An FM transmitter can get the job done, and I’ve used one for the past couple of years, but it’s not perfect by any means, and the interference and lack of sound quality can really get to you after a while. When you’ve experienced this, you begin to understand why full iPod compatibility in an automobile is such a useful thing.
03.01	Apple Matters	How much is the iPhone Really Going to cost you? Try $3,000., Chris Seibold: There is a lot of talk about the price of the iPhone; comparisons are made to the Newton, to Macs, and to any seemingly overpriced item.