Will the strong Mac growth outlined by Apple COO Tim Cook continue amid times of economic turmoil?
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Apple’s fourth quarter should have survived the economic chaos currently rounding the globe, but what Wall Street will care about Tuesday afternoon is its outlook on the future.
Despite a few more product glitches than usual, it’s [...]
Apple may offer lower-priced machines on Tuesday, but one top Microsoft official said Monday that Mac buyers will still be paying an “Apple tax.”
In a lengthy interview, Brad Brooks, vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing, argued that Mac buyers face hidden costs if they try to add Windows to their Mac or if they [...]
We are already busy preparing our team of liveblogging ninjas for tomorrow’s Apple notebook event, which takes place at 10am Pacific Time on Apple’s campus in Cupertino. This event has been rumored since just after Apple’s last special event wherein the company introduced new iPods, but updated MacBooks and MacBook Pros have been on many [...]
Did you know that your Mac can read aloud to you? Mac OS X Leopard includes a cool Text to Speech function that makes the Mac speak selected text in text-based files — including web pages, email messages, spreadsheets, calendar entries, PDFs, text documents, Finder windows, and even iTunes.
To start, open the System Preferences panel [...]
The new iPods feature cosmetic changes and lower prices, but Steve Jobs didn’t announce any game-changing innovations many have come to expect
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Apple watchers have high expectations for the company’s signature events. There’s [...]
The Mojave Experiment aside, Microsoft’s Vista operating system has an image problem — and it is impacting sales. Negativity toward Vista could spill over to Windows 7 if Microsoft doesn’t address the issues that are hampering its current operating system.
In a recent survey of its customers running Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows operating [...]