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Pieces Fall into Place for Intel-Apple
Apple's Growing Army of Converts
Apple Seen With 'Impressive' Calendar Q4
Upgrading To An iBook G4 Cheaper At The Apple Store
Apple is a 'friend' - Adobe CEO
BusinessWeek Starts Apple Blog
PowerBook G4 (Double-Layer SD) OPTION Globetrotter GSM/GPRS card causes two AirPort ports to appear
Give Us Digital Rights For Digital Consumers
Sony Hit By Lawsuits Over Root Kit
Handiapped Website Strives to Empower Handicapped
Publish: Yes, There is a Market for Podcast Advertising
Publish: XPress to InDesign: Overcoming the Top Three Pain Points
eWeek: Microsoft 'Concerned' by Sony DRM
eWeek: VOIP No Longer for the Underdog
Pieces Fall into Place for Intel-Apple
eWeek's John G. Spooner and Daniel Drew Turner report:
Apple Computer Inc.'s plan to move to Intel Corp.'s processors appears to be coming together.
New Intel platforms are just around the corner, while Apple's Mac OS X for Intel processor machines has been brought up to speed, according to developers......
Based on the availability of Intel hardware and its own software, analysts speculate the Apple-Intel systems could come out as soon as the second week of January, when the Macworld Conference and Expo arrives in San Francisco......
Intel, of Santa Clara, Calif., will officially launch its Napa platform, a collection of notebook chips that Apple has been widely expected to adopt at least in part, the week prior to Macworld.
Intel will use the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas—where its CEO, Paul Otellini, will give a keynote speech—to showcase Napa, which is essentially the latest version of its Centrino chip bundle for wireless notebooks, and to discuss its Viiv brand for home computers, sources familiar with its plans said.
Although Apple might not use the Napa as a whole, analysts expect it to adopt Yonah, the forthcoming dual-core capable Pentium M processor, in its portables and possibly in its Mac Mini.
For the full report, visit here.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1884611,00.asp
Apple's Paradox - Go Intel and Keep the Hardware
macdevcenter.com's Derrick Story says:
Since WWDC I've been thinking about this. There are many ramifications involved with Apple moving to Intel. But one that confounds me, and certainly concerns Apple, is how to preserve its grip on hardware sales while doing so.
Apple has always been about the hardware. Mac OS X is about selling computers. iTunes is about selling iPods.....
At a time when Apple hardware sales are on the rise, the Intel switch seems, well, shall we say "bold"?
You can check it out at:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/8405
Apple's Growing Army of Converts
Windows users are trying Macs in increasing numbers -- and it's not just a function of the iPod "halo effect says BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl:
....But there's a bigger trend at play here. And Charles Wolf, a financial analyst at Needham & Co. in New York, discussed it in his latest research note on Apple. While downgrading the stock from to "hold" from "buy," based on the shares' recent price spike, Wolf noticed something else: a measurable surge in purchases of Macs by people who had previously been Windows users.
Wolf has created an interesting forecast model in which he assumes that 11% of Windows users who buy iPods also purchase Macs at the same time or soon afterward.....
.....Wolf built the model a year ago, and now thinks he's underestimated the switching phenomenon. No doubt Apple is experiencing an iPod "halo effect," whereby rising popularity of the digital-music player is reviving interest in Apple's other products.
But Windows users are also moving to the Mac in increasing numbers for other reasons.....
For the full commentary, visit:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2005/tc20051110_197491.htm
Apple Seen With 'Impressive' Calendar Q4
Forbes' Maya Roney reports:
Rebecca Runkle of Morgan Stanley raised the price target and maintained an "overweight" rating on Apple Computer in anticipation of a strong holiday season and continued portfolio expansion with the potential introduction of Macintosh computers based on Intel chips next year...
Runkle expects calendar fourth-quarter 2005 results to be "impressive," driven by an expanded iPod installed base, new iPods, extended digital content and CPU refreshes.
For the full report, visit here.
Upgrading To An iBook G4 Cheaper At The Apple Store
TUAW's Fabienne Serriere says:
MacBidouille (and its English counterpart Hardmac.com) posted a step-by-step tutorial for upgrading an iBook G4 (supposedly on the cheap) to rival the hardware specs of a PowerBook.....
Taking their figures from the article, they payed a total of 1598 Euros for their upgraded 12" iBook. Currently on the French Apple Store one can purchase a 12" iBook with all the same specs, minus the SuperDrive for 1269 Euros......
For the full commentary, visit here.
Apple is a 'friend' - Adobe CEO
Macworld UK reports:
Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen sees Apple "much more as a friend", he revealed in an extensive interview about his company.
Chizen accepts that Apple will develop its own software that sometimes competes with Adobe's, but believes a strong Apple to be "a good thing". He also revealed an "appropriately close" relationship with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who warned Chizen at Apple's Intel-migration plans.
Despite the work such plans will require from applications developers, such as Adobe, Chizen is also optimistic on Apple's move to Intel processors: "In the long term it's great because it allows production of faster, more powerful computers that can be more affordable than today," he told Silicon.com.
For the full report, visit here.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=13106
BusinessWeek Starts Apple Blog
MacObserver reports:
BusinessWeek online recently started a new blog called Byte of the Apple that focuses on Apple, Macintosh, and iPod related topics. The blog is hosted by BusinessWeek's computer editor Peter Burrows, and technology correspondents Arik Hesseldahl, and Cliff Edwards. Recent topics included a discussion on the future of video distribution, Apple product warranties, and a very active post looking for advice on switching from Windows to Mac OS X.
For the full report, visit here.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/11/10.2.shtml
PowerBook G4 (Double-Layer SD) OPTION Globetrotter GSM/GPRS card causes two AirPort ports to appear
A new Apple Knowledge Base Article says:
If you install the Option Globetrotter GSM/GPRS card in a PowerBook G4 (Double-Layer SD), two AirPort ports will be displayed in the Network pane of System Preferences.
This is a cosmetic issue only—the Globetrotter card functions as expected.
You can check it out at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302729
Give Us Digital Rights For Digital Consumers
The Register's Lucy Sherriff reports:
The UK's National Consumer Council (NCC) has lent its voice to pan European calls for the music and film industries to stop treating consumers like pirates.
The pan European consumer organisation BEUC is launching a campaign, backed by MEP Zuzana Roithova, to see consumers' digital rights enshrined in law because it believes consumers' rights being ignored by many online music vendors.
It is particularly critical of licence conditions the music industry is imposing on consumers, and says that the range of content available online is very narrow, threatening cultural diversity.
For the full report, visit here.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/digital_rights_online/
Sony Hit By Lawsuits Over Root Kit
The Register's John Oates reports:
Sony BMG is facing a class action suit from Californian consumers who claim the music giant's rootkit DRM technology damaged their computers and breaks three separate Californian laws.
The suit asks the court to stop Sony selling any more CDs containing the rootkit and seeks compensation for damage already done. Some Sony audio CDs include software which will secretly load itself if the CD is played on a computer. The suit was filed 1 November in the Los Angeles Superior Court by attorney Alan Himmelfarb, according to Reuters.
For the full report, visit here.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/sony_sued_for_rootkit/
Handiapped Website Strives to Empower Handicapped
Low End Mac says:
Frank Petrie is a reviewer and web designer with Multiple Sclerosis. He starts his welcome page at handiapped.com by saying, "This site is for those of us who have, or will have, bits dropping off." One assumes that this is meant to be taken figuratively as well as literally.
Petrie, who has a B.A. in communications from Temple University, clearly understands that a main key to living with disability is to cultivate a sense of humor about it.
With this new site, he hopes to "examine software and hardware to increase their productivity and to learn how to extend their functionality to make our lives more pleasurable.....
For the full report, visit here.
http://lowendmac.com/menagh/05/1110.html
Publish: Yes, There is a Market for Podcast Advertising
Opinion: Podcasting is just one more example of shorter, faster, portable media. Advertisers will adjust because they have to.
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http://www.publish.com/article2/0,,1884593,00.asp
Publish: XPress to InDesign: Overcoming the Top Three Pain Points
"Whether making the switch or just staying marketable, many long-time QuarkXPress professionals are busily learning InDesign. While they're quickly getting the hang of InDesign-centric features like object transparency and blending modes, OpenType support, and the ability to export PDFs that print, certain fundamental features like runaround, overriding master page items, and linking text frames are tripping them up."
Read more at:
http://www.publish.com/article2/0,,1884451,00.asp
eWeek: Microsoft 'Concerned' by Sony DRM
"Microsoft Corp. is concerned about rootkit features in CDs from Sony BMG artists and is evaluating the situation to see if any action needs to be taken, a spokesperson said.
The Redmond, Wash., software maker said that the security of its customers' information is a "top priority" and that the company is concerned by software like that deployed by Sony to block illegal CD copying."
Read more at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1884677,00.asp
eWeek: VOIP No Longer for the Underdog
News Analysis: The telehone industry's old guard emerges as leaders of "new telephony," and they can thank federal regulations.
Read more at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1884449,00.asp
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