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Apples Q1 Financial Results
Todays conference call has finished, announcing Apples Q1 Financial results, the last 14 weeks have been the best in Apples history. 14,043,000 iPods sold, 207% growth over the year ago quarter. 1,254,000 Macintosh computers sold, 20% growth over the year ago quarter. Revenue of $5.75…
Apple Intel Ad Not a Copy After All
It's been a big story over the last few days, Apple's new Intel ad was supposedly the same as some music video, well it appears the reason they look similar is because they are by the same Director. Sarah Moody of Sub Pop Records had…
Apple Denies Plans to Use UK Tax Loophole
Yesterday we reported on a story about Apple UK possibly using a VAT loophole that would allow the iTunes Music Store to sell VAT free songs. Apple has today denied this report by saying; "This report is not true"
Sony BMG Artists Now on iTMS Australia
The Australian iTunes Music Store has now begun selling artists from Sony BMG at the same price as other singles and albums. It looks like Apple got their own way on this one then...
Final Cut Products no Longer Stand Alone
AppleInsider is reporting that from March Apple will no longer sell its Final Cut products, such as Soundtrack, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and others as stand alone products but will instead only be selling the Final Cut Studio which encompasses them all. Naturally…
VAT Free iTunes Songs in the UK?
What appears to be an exploit in the tax loophole could allow Apple to sell songs through the iTunes Music Store without VAT tagged on. This could bring the price of songs down to 67p. All Apple has to do is move some operations to…
Jobs Suggests Dell to Eat His Own Words
Last Friday Steve Jobs sent a friendly email to his employees saying "Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may…
Q1 2006 Conference Call Wednesday
Just a reminder to all whom are interested, Apples first conference call of 2006 will take place this Wednesday at 14:00PT which is 22:00GMT. The call should bring some more details into the figures that Jobs presented last week in his Keynote. The webcast can…
CocoaRadio
Its not often we like to endorse another site, but it is a slow news Sunday and CocoaRadio has some of the best Podcasts we've ever heard. These podcasts are all about... Well you guessed it Cocoa, but they are very interesting all round.
Apple Mouse with Spinning Dial
AppleInsider has pulled up a Patent filing from September 2002 which seems to represent a failed attempt or a future product from Apple. The patent is a mouse design with a rotary dial; "The rotary dial is configured to provide a control function (or functions)…
Disassembled Intel iMac
I know we like ripping computers apart but we simply don't have the heart to hurt a 4 day old Mac. But it appears somebody else did, check it out
Multiple Speakers Enabled in iTunes
It appears that either an accidentally released update to iTunes that was pulled or an update to the Airport Express Base Station which is not widely known has brought in a new feature. Some readers on World of Apple have notified us to a new…
Post MacWorld 2006
It's all over for another year, that right MacWorld is officially over and its time to start booking tickets for next year. 8-12th January 2007, we'll be there! So in usual fashion although slightly late we're going to roundup what we got right and what…
Post MacWorld 2006
It's all over for another year, that right MacWorld is officially over and its time to start booking tickets for next year. 8-12th January 2007, we'll be there! So in usual fashion, although slightly late we're going to roundup what we got right and what…
Intel Macs Have Support for 802.11a
Introduced around 2001 the 802.11a standard was thought up as an alternative to 802.11b, at the time 802.11g was being ratified and due to its compatibility became the mainstream standard in computers from that point onwards. Three years ago Greg Joswiak of Apple said "802.11a…
Final Gallery Up
After some set backs and then followed by more set backs we've got the final images online. Check out the images of the Expo floor Yes we are aware that the images appear to be scrambled, not sure why this has happened.
Jobs to Reap Stock Rewards
Already a billionaire from owning stock in Pixar, Steve is set to receive another set of stocks from Apple. "Jobs exchanged worthless options on a split-adjusted 55 million shares for 10 million shares of restricted stock three years ago. The shares, Jobs's entire stake in…
iMacs to Use X1800 Graphics Card?
The current line of iMacs uses ATI's Radeon X1600 Graphics Card, and although this is a welcome boost it appears more power may be due in the very near future. A report straight from ATI's Conference room suggests that the Radeon X1800 card will be…
12″ and 17″ MacBook Pro’s?
An individual very close to the core of Apple has spoken out on the Cult of Mac Blog, offering information about how the Keynote address was changed at the last minute, slating the 12" and 17" MacBook Pro's from the lineup. The decision is supposedly…
iPod Updater 2006-01-10
Apple has released an update for most of the current pods. As described below, looks like this is to enable support of the new FM Radio Remote. iPod Updater 2006-01-10 delivers: iPod Software 1.1 for iPod iPod Software 1.1 for iPod nano iPod Software 1.2.1…