Archived Links for May 2006

5.29	MacWorld UK	Google takes lion’s share of search, Ben Ames: US web surfers continued to flock to Google in April, using the internet search site for 50 per cent of their 5.3 billion queries.
5.29	Apple Matters	May 29, 1979: Mac Concept Committed to Paper, Chris Seibold: Mike Markkulahad asked Jef Raskin if he was interested in developing a $500 game machine. Jef wasn’t interested in that type of product but he did have a low cost concept in mind.
5.26	MacNN	Court rules against Apple, for bloggers, MacNN Staff: A California Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s decision and protected Mac websites and magazines from Apple’s subpoenas until it showed cause.
5.26	MacNN	Apple third in top 100 in tech growth, MacNN Staff: Business 2.0 has listed the 100 fastest-growing tech companies for 2006, with Apple scoring third just behind Red Hat and Celgene.
5.26	Low End Mac	Apple Nailed It: All You Need to Know about the MacBook, Charles W Moore: Kudos to Apple for this one!
5.26	MacMinute	New ebook helps Mac users install and run Windows, Staff: TidBITS Electronic Publishing today announced its new 104-page book, Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac (US$10).
5.25	MSNBC	Steve Jobs: Iconoclast and salesman, Brian Williams: If Steve Jobs is synonymous with Apple, then the new glass cube rising up out of the Midtown Manhattan streets is a monument to Steve Jobs.
5.24	MacMegasite	Apple accidentally releases DashCode, Staff: Several people who bought MacBooks & MacBook Pros report finding a widget creation tool called DashCode included with their Developer Tools installation.
5.23	Apple Computer	Nike and Apple Team Up to Launch Nike+iPod, Staff: Nike and Apple today announced a partnership bringing the worlds of sports and music together like never before with the launch of innovative Nike+iPod products.
5.21	FT.com	Apple files counter-suit against Creative, John Burton: Shares of Creative Technology (NASDAQ:CREAF), the Singapore consumer electronics group, fell on Friday after Apple Computer (NASDAQ:AAPL) filed a counter- suit in an expanding legal dispute over patent rights involving their rival digital music players.
5.21	Apple Matters	May 21, 2001: Apple Starts Selling Only LCD Monitors, Chris Seibold: With the introduction of the sunflower G4-based iMac it was obvious that Apple was heading away from clunky CRT monitors and towards flat panel goodness.
5.20	Low End Mac	MacBook Pro Gets Bigger, LEM Staff: We have been waiting quite a while to see what Apple would replace the iBook with, and the rumored 13.3 inch widescreen MacBook is now a reality.
5.20	MacMerc	The sun rises on a new Apple Store...and a man in love...who is Uschi Lang?,, RickMacMerc: Sometime after sunrise in Manhattan, outside the shiny new Apple Store, an unknown man stood in front of the webcam Apple had set up, he expressed his love for someone named Uschi Lang and proposed marriage.
5.19	Apple Computer	Apple Store Fifth Avenue, Apple Staff: Apple open a new store in New York.
5.19	Macworld	Symantec sues Microsoft to stop Windows Vista, Robert McMillan: Symantec sued Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, seeking unspecified damages and also asking the court to remove Symantec’s storage technology from a variety of Microsoft products.
5.18	Low End Mac	Why I Wish Apple Were More Like Microsoft, Jamie Gruener: The more I learned, the more frustrated I became. Not because Macs didn’t work like PCs, but because I couldn’t learn more about how Macs worked.
5.18	MacNN	MacBook to bolster Apple’s June quarter, MacNN Staff: Apple’s newly launched MacBook Pro line is expected to boost its June quarter sales, according to one analyst who calls the product an iPod companion.
5.18	PC Magazine	Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch, Cisco Cheng: And best of all, despite this MacBook’s larger 17-inch screen, it’s not too difficult to tote.
5.17	WSJ.com	How Apple’s Store Strategy Beat the Odds, Nick Wingfield: As Apple prepares to take the wraps off its latest, most ambitious store yet -- on New York’s Fifth Avenue, opposite the Plaza Hotel and Bergdorf Goodman -- there are few doubters left about Chief Executive Steve Jobs’s retail strategy.
5.11	Apple Matters	Five Best Macs, Five Worst Macs...So Far, Chris Seibold: A look at the author’s opinion Apple’s best and worst computers of all time.
5.08	MacMerc.com	Apple launches new Get a Mac TV ad campaign, posts vide, MacMerc Survey: Which Get A Mac ad is your favorite?
5.08	Macworld UK	US Mac users get best tech support, Macworld UK Staff: Computer manufacturer’s free technical support systems seem to be failing US customers, according to a new report, but Mac users get a slightly better deal, it claims.
5.08	MacNN	Mac demand still solid, MacNN Staff: Demand for Apple’s MacBook Pro and Intel-based Mac minis is still solid, according to UBS Investment Research.
5.08	The Korea Times	Samsung Steals Apple’s Graphic Design for Handset, Cho Jin-seo: Samsung Electronics said on Sunday it has changed the graphic designs used in its latest handset model Skin, after it was found to have copied Apple and Microsoft artwork.
5.08	Macworld UK	Apple Computer wins in Apple v. Apple case - UPDATED, K. Haslam and J. Evans: Apple Computer has prevailed in the latest trademark dispute with The Beetle’s music label Apple Corps.
5.08	Apple Matters	Steve Jobs Broke Hollywood’s Back with iTunes, David Parmet: Apple won this race not in terms of the number of iPods sold or songs downloaded through the iTunes Music Store.
5.08	Playlist	Steve Jobs invites Beatles to iTunes, Jim Dalrymple: After successfully defending itself from a lawsuit by Apple Corps, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Monday invited the Beatles to join the iTunes Music Store.
5.05	Low End Mac	The Sad State of Today’s Music: Rap Brings Out the Worst, Ted Hodges: Imagine this: You’re at work, and everything is already driving you crazy. Then your coworkers decide it’s time to break out their boom box and turn on the local rap station.
5.05	Business Journal	Apple boosts 2006 capital spending plan by $280M, BJ Staff: Apple Computer Inc. said Friday it will spend hundreds of millions more this year in capital expenditures, in the wake of announcing plans for a second corporate campus in Cupertino.
5.04	Apple Matters	What We Think about the New Mac Ads, Meiera Stern: Gotta love those new Mac ads. At least one person at Apple is still a cheeky so and so.
5.01	MacNN	Critical Mac OS X flaws see rapid growth, MacNN Staff: The SANS Institute today announced updates to the Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities, listing rapid growth in critical vulnerabilities being discovered in Mac OS X, including a zero-day vulnerability.
5.01	Apple Matters	What Device Should Apple Conquer Next?, James R. Stoup: I think most people will agree that Apple, as a whole, makes products that are very well designed. Two of their most elegantly designed products would have to be the iPod and the iMac.
5.01	Macworld UK	Napster launches free music service, Jonny Evans: Napster has launched a new free-to-listen music service to supplement its fee-based offerings.
5.01	Financial Times	Apple sets tune for pricing of song downloads, J. Chaffin and K. Allison: The Financial Times is reporting that Apple has succeeded in renewing its contract with the four major record labels to continue with flat-rate pricing of songs on the iTunes Music Store.
5.01	macOSXrumors	Apple trademarks Photocast, Alexandros Roussos: The U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office reveals that Apple has filed a trademark for the brand Photocast.
5.01	WindowsITPro	Google Lashes Out at IE 7 Search Feature, Paul Thurrott: Google approached the US Department of Justice and the European Union to complain about the Internet search feature in Microsoft’s upcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 7 Web browser, which Google says unfairly promotes Microsoft’s MSN Search service.
4.25	Apple Matters	Why Vista will be GREAT!, Chris Seibold: Windows Vista will be great. Even the mediocre can seem pretty good when viewed from a carefully chosen perspective.