Month: January 2008

I go to trade shows with a mission based on my view of what matters, which oft times yet entirely by chance fails…

Dotnaught writes with word of an anti-trust lawsuit filed against Apple late last month. Information Week has the story, a suit charging the company with maintaining an illegal monopoly on the digital music market. “The complaint goes beyond software licensing politics and charges Apple with deliberately designing its iPod hardware to be incompatible with WMA. One of the third-party components in iPods, the Portal Player System-On-A-Chip, supports WMA, according to the complaint. ‘Apple, however, deliberately designed the iPod’s software so that it would only play a single protected digital format, Apple’s FairPlay-modified AAC format,’ the complaint states. ‘Deliberately disabling a desirable feature of a computer product is known as crippling a product, and software that does this is known as crippleware.'”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Want VoIP for your Apple iPod touch?

A recently granted patent reveals Apple’s plans to create a docking station for an as-yet unidentified ultramobile computer.

Hitachi said it’s winding down production of 1.0 and 1.8-inch hard drives, yielding to competition from Toshiba and Samsung.

An antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple on Dec. 31 charges the company with maintaining an illegal monopoly…

Learn how to open the Print & Fax System Preferences panel directly from some applications.

Apple’s always enjoyed patenting the near-absurd, just to get us speculating in the wrong direction or to give its thousands of patent lawyers something to do during a slow design cycle. We can’t really imagine Apple has this pair of “products” prepped and waiting in the wings of Macworld, but it’s still fun to look.

Apple’s always enjoyed patenting the near-absurd, just to get us speculating in the wrong direction or to give its thousands of patent lawyers something to do during a slow design cycle. We can’t really imagine Apple has this pair of “products” prepped and waiting in the wings of Macworld, but it’s still fun to look.

Apple’s always enjoyed patenting the near-absurd, just to get us speculating in the wrong direction or to give its thousands of patent lawyers something to do during a slow design cycle. We can’t really imagine Apple has this pair of “products” prepped and waiting in the wings of Macworld, but it’s still fun to look.

Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (MBU) has been hard at work on the first new Office for Mac release in four years…

Apple Inc. at this month’s Macworld Expo will will outline a high-definition video strategy that will see its weight thrown further behind Sony Corp’s Blu-ray DVD format as opposed to Toshiba’s HD-DVD, according to one Wall Street analyst.

Apple Inc. at this month’s Macworld Expo will will outline a high-definition video strategy that will see its weight thrown further behind Sony Corp’s Blu-ray DVD format as opposed to Toshiba’s HD-DVD, according to one Wall Street analyst.

QuickBooks 2006 can still delete desktop data if you access it from a Wi-Fi hotspot, according to Intuit.

Apple TV one of the worst products of 2007? Just wait until the other shoe drops.