Archive: December 2006
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In Brief: SEC Filing Reveals Multiple Lawsuits Against Apple, New Display Rumours Continue, 8-Core Mac Pro in January?
SEC Filing Reveals Multiple Lawsuits Against Apple In Friday's SEC filing Apple revealed that it is facing multiple federal lawsuits, one of which accuses the company of creating an illegal monopoly with iTunes and iPod. The case which was filing on July 21 refers directly…
Apple Restates Earnings Back to 2002 Following Options Review
Apple today released it's Form 10-K which restates earnings back to 2002 to account for backdated stock-option grants. Apple adjusted its results by $4 million for the fiscal year of 2006, $7 million for 2005, and $10 million for 2004. In the filing Apple said…
Jobs Involved in Falsified Stock Options Documents
The Financial Times reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was awarded 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without required authorisation. The report cites "people familiar with the matter," saw documents "that purported to show a full board meeting had taken place to approve Mr Jobs'…
In Brief: iTunes Visits Surge 413% Over Christmas, Options Scandal Unlikely to Impact Jobs
iTunes Visits Surge 413% Over Christmas Hitwise has reported today that visits to the Apple iTunes website surged 413% on Christmas Day this year over Christmas Day 2005. In addition to this visits to the online Apple Store showed an increase of 110% when comparing…
Apple Fears Formal Charges From SEC
According to a Law.com report, Apple is set to publish its annual report before this current week is out, the slowest week of the year. According to the report Government officials are looking closely into the stock option probe, which concerns falsified documents forged by…
Presenting World of Apple Live, World of Apple at MacWorld
The World of Apple Team proudly presents World of Apple Live, the first site to offer a live audio stream of the MacWorld Keynote. After months of planning and development it was recently decided that such a scheme is possible with the necessary funding and…
In Brief: Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.4.9, 1G iPod shuffle Software Update, New Displays at MacWorld?
Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.4.9 Apple has seeded build 8P21111 for Mac OS X 10.4.9 to developers. Areas said to have fixes are as follows; Sync Service Engine, rsync and extended attributes, .Mac Sync, Rosetta, USB Modem and caller ID, Bluetooth device pairing, USB…
Apple Turns Down Samsung Hybrid Drive
Apple Computer has turned down an offer to incorporate hybrid flash-enhanced drives from Samsung into its notebook computers. Apple has reportedly been working on a next-generation laptop that will feature flash memory to increase the speed of certain functions, instead of accepting Samsung as the…
Apple Receives Resolution Independent User Interface Design Patent
Apple filed a patent protecting its Resolution Independent on July 21, 2006, Apple today was granted this patent. FIG. 4 shows a screen image of a graphical user interface object design application in accordance with one embodiment of the invention. In the patent application Apple…
Further iPod Hi-Fi Development?
In a recent job posting Apple states that it is looking for "an Acoustic Engineer who will be responsible for the design and development of many aspects of consumer loudspeaker systems such as Apple’s Hi Fi - including enclosure design, passive and active filter design…
Mac OS X for Consumer Electronics?
AppleInsider reports that Apple is working on an Operating System based on core technologies of Mac OS X but designed to work on upcoming consumer electronic devices. According to AppleInsider, Apple plans to use the version of Mac OS X to run its iPhone, but…
Apple UK Plans Second Scotland Store
AppleInsider reports that Apple UK is planning to open a second retail store in Scotland, situated into the city of Edinburgh. Last month it was revealed that Apple plans to open a store on Buchanan Street in Glasgow but now it appears that Apple plans…
Security Update 2006-008
Security Update 2006-008 (PPC) - 1.5MB Security Update 2006-008 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components: Quartz Composer QuickTime for Java Security Update 2006-008 (Universal) - 1.8MB Security Update 2006-008 is recommended for all users and improves the security…
ZFS File System Makes it to Mac OS X Leopard
Back in May of this year it was rumoured that Apple's File System Development Team had contacted Sun Microsystems to help in a translation of the Zettabyte File System to Mac OS X. Zettabyte File System makes appearance in Mac OS X 10.5, Disk Utility…
Apple Delays Annual Report Due to Stock Options Probe
Apple reported to the SEC Friday that it was unable to file its Form 10-K for the 2006 fiscal year as a result of the ongoing probe into stock options irregularities. The company reiterated to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it needs to the…
iPhone Coming Monday?
Gizmodo is claiming that the long rumoured iPhone is due for release this coming Monday. I guarantee it. It isn't what I expected at all. And I've already said too much. writes Brian Lam, Editor for Gizmodo and former assitant editor for Wired magazine. At…
iPhone to Feature Virtual Click-wheel, Metal Casing?
AppleInsider is reporting that a research note by Rebecca Runkle of Morgan Stanley, "said she is high in her convictions that Apple will launch an iPhone device in the first half of 2007 and offered some specific findings from unnamed sources." "While we view the…
Apple Updates Airport Software for Core 2 MacBooks
Apple has just released an Airport Software update for Core 2 Duo MacBook notebooks, the update is 1.3MB in size and available from Apple's website and Software Update. AirPort Update 2006-002 improves AirPort compatibility in the following computers: MacBook Pro (15-inch Core 2 Duo) MacBook…
Exclusive: New Features in Latest Leopard Build Revealed
With the latest build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in the hands of developers, some features are coming to light. In the latest build of Leopard developers have noticed the appearance of a new tab in iChat. The tab called "Answering" allows users to…
Water Leak Floods Apple Building in Cupertino
A water leak was reported at 12.55am(PST), at one building at Apple's campus in Cupertino. A security guard is reported to have spotted water coming out of a wall in the building. Santa Clara County Fire Department was dispatched to the building and the water…