Rumor: Apple's iTunes going DRM-free starting Tuesday
                            Apple is believed to be on the verge of an end-of-year push that would start by finally offering unprotected iTunes Store music from all major labels and would switch a special post-holiday campaign giving away music and videos to Europeans.
Rumor: Apple's iTunes going DRM-free starting Tuesday
                    Rumor: Apple's iTunes going DRM-free starting Tuesday
                            A couple of speculative reports have come out about what plans Apple might have for its ARM-based processors in the coming year. Apple is rumored to be a major architectual licensee for ARM. This would offer Apple an added level of control and owne...
Apple's ARM Plans in 2009 NetBooks, Tablets, Other
                    Apple's ARM Plans in 2009 NetBooks, Tablets, Other
                            Ever wonder how those catchy tunes find their way into Apple's iPod commercials? You'll have to look no further than the ear of chief executive Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs key to selecting tunes for Apple ads
                    Steve Jobs key to selecting tunes for Apple ads
                            The economic pressure continues to increase and there is a reasonably good chance that we'll be down to one large car company in the U.S. by this time next year -- Ford, which appears to be the only one that isn't saying it won't survive without a massive cash infusion from the U.S. government. In the PC space, there are three companies being watched closely: Apple and Dell in the U.S. and Lenovo in China.
Apple vs. Dell vs. Lenovo: Got to Love Choices
                    Apple vs. Dell vs. Lenovo: Got to Love Choices
                            Apple might be unfairly blocking rival software makers who want to sell music for its iPhone, according to some rivals and a technology rights group. The iTunes store accounts for four out of five songs sold on the Internet in the United States and is becoming more important as CDs fade. A milestone was reached last month when Atlantic Records announced digital sales had surpassed CD sales.
Apple's Staunch Defense of the iPod Ecosystem
                    Apple's Staunch Defense of the iPod Ecosystem
                            Apple's first major update to the Cinema Display line brings a much greener design and a raft of welcome feature updates, especially for MacBook owners. At the same time, a partial shift away from Apple's mainstay professional crowd makes one wonder where the company is going and whether it hasn't lost focus.
Apple's LED Cinema Display: the review
                    Apple's LED Cinema Display: the review
                            Did Apple know what the future held when CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone during his Macworld Expo keynote in January 2007? They probably had some sense of it, but they likely had no idea that games would become such a big part of the platform, especially considering the outsider status of gaming on the Mac.
Can Apple Beat Sony and Nintendo at Their Own Game
                    Can Apple Beat Sony and Nintendo at Their Own Game
                            Imagine being a Chicago Public Schools student and having Rickie Lee Jones, the Staple Singers or Bo Diddley belting out songs alongside you at a school assembly? Boasting musicians that also include Benny King of Swing Goodman and mega-Grammy Award winning rapper Kanye West, city schools alumni have put a major stamp on popular music during this century and last.
Documenting Chicago's Musical Legacy With iTunes
                    Documenting Chicago's Musical Legacy With iTunes
                            Faced with the perfect storm of a bleak market and a boom in ultra-budget portables, Apple is believed by some to be readying its own take on the netbook for the first half of 2009.
Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook
                    Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook
                            Here's what we know about President-elect Barack Obama and gadgets: He loves his BlackBerry. He's a Mac, not a PC. He was seen working out with a Zune. Wait ... a Zune? Not an iPod? Is it too late for a recount? Obama's alleged choice of digital music player has sparked so much buzz in the techie blogosphere that all the incoming traffic briefly crashed the Web site of the Philadelphia weekly newspaper that broke the story.
Obama's Zune Prompts Screams of Betrayal From Apple Fanboy Nation
                    Obama's Zune Prompts Screams of Betrayal From Apple Fanboy Nation
                            There's no doubt that Apple will release a mobile handset priced at $99, according to Kaufman Bros. It's just a matter of when and in what form.
A $99 Apple-branded cell phone is inevitable, analyst says
                    A $99 Apple-branded cell phone is inevitable, analyst says
                            Apple's share of the worldwide smartphone market is closer to 13% than the 16% reported earlier this week, but that's still good enough to push the iPhone maker past Microsoft to become the third largest smartphone OS vendor, according to Gartner.
Apple's smartphone share closer to 13%, still ahead of Microsoft
                    Apple's smartphone share closer to 13%, still ahead of Microsoft
                            A fairly new filing from Apple discusses the advantages of using proximity sensors more generously to aid its multi-touch technology on devices larger than the iPhone, which would allow certain functions to be invoked without the user having to physically touch the display.
Apple proposes infrared matrix to aid larger multi-touch designs
                    Apple proposes infrared matrix to aid larger multi-touch designs
                            Investment bank Piper Jaffray said Thursday that weakness in consumer spending will bite into PC sales next year, including Apple's, leading the firm to cut its 2009 sales estimates for the Mac maker along with the broader market.
Piper shaves Apple estimates, sees slower Mac growth
                    Piper shaves Apple estimates, sees slower Mac growth
                            Chris Wysopal is the head of a four-iPod family. His wife and two kids all carry the pint-size nano music player from Apple, while he uses a 2003-vintage device he got as a hand-me-down from his wife. But as much they love their iPods, the Wysopal family has no plans to buy any new ones in the foreseeable future.
Apple's iPod Problem
                    Apple's iPod Problem
                            Now free of any countersuits, Apple has grown its lawsuit against Mac clone maker Psystar to accuse it of further violations and to claim that others have contributed to its breaking copyright law.
Expanded Apple lawsuit claims Psystar part of a larger plot
                    Expanded Apple lawsuit claims Psystar part of a larger plot
                            Groklaw.net reports on the most recent legal filings from the Apple vs Psystar lawsuit which suggests that there may be unnamed individuals or corporations behind Psystar:
Apple Suggests Possible Conspiracy Behind Psystar
                    Apple Suggests Possible Conspiracy Behind Psystar
                            Apple isn't lying in television ads that tout the iPhone 3G as twice as fast as its predecessor, but customers would have to be fools to take those claims at face value, the company argues.
Apple argues only a fool would believe its iPhone 3G ads
                    Apple argues only a fool would believe its iPhone 3G ads
                            A multi-year effort to deliver an open-source and customizable iTunes rival came to fruition this week with the release of Songbird 1.0, but whether it will sway some users from the Apple jukebox software remains to be seen.
Mozilla-based iTunes rival "Songbird" takes flight
                    Mozilla-based iTunes rival "Songbird" takes flight
                            Although Macs and iPhones were seen as Apple's ticket to a healthy holiday quarter, the electronics maker has reportedly been struck by surprising demand for iPods and is now scurrying to restock some of its reseller channels.
Apple's unexpected iPod shortage spreading
                    Apple's unexpected iPod shortage spreading
 
                                 
                                 
                                