Apple Computers News
Unlocked iPhone sales as high as 40 percent in Europe - report
Wall Street folk remain immersed this week in the hunt for Apple's missing iPhones, with one firm saying it believes that the majority of the unaccounted for units are in the hands of unlockers rather than idling in inventory. The latest claims co... Read more…
Apple details potential fix for mis-ordered iPhone SMS messages
Apple Inc. has responded to complaints from customers who say the recent iPhone 1.1.3 software update has caused their handsets to display text messages out of the order in which they were sent or received. A lengthy Apple Support discussion threa... Read more…
Briefly: 70K iPhones in Germany; HD DVD cuts; Office 2008 flaw
Germans have purchased only 70,000 iPhones since the handset went on sale in November. Meanwhile, HD DVD is said to be on its last leg, prompting Toshiba to slash the price of its HD DVD players across the board. And Microsoft is promising to fix a f... Read more…
Free service promises over 25 million iPod-compatible tracks [u]
A once controversial peer-to-peer file sharing service said this week it is relaunching with the blessing of the recording industry under an ad-supported model that will see its vast music catalog made available as free downloads, even for Apple iPod... Read more…
Piper: over half million "missing" iPhones likely in channel
With Apple having announced iPhone shipments far in excess of reported activations, the ongoing debate about exactly what happened to all those other "missing" units continued on Friday, with investment bank Piper Jaffray weighing in with its own exp... Read more…
Apple sued for stifling air filtration firm
A Delaware company specializing in air purification is suing Apple Inc. in order to get the iPod maker to stop causing a ruckus over the airPOD name used to market its desktop-based air filtration systems. In the 4-page complaint, filed last week ... Read more…
Morgan Stanley advises investors not to bet against Apple
While researchers for investment bank Morgan Stanley aren't disputing that slowing iPod growth presents a negative scenario for Apple's share price, they're pointing to recent history this week in advising their clients that now would be the wrong ti... Read more…
Benchmarks for all three 8-Core Penryn Mac Pros reported
Following up on a previous set of 2.8GHz Mac Pro benchmarks, Geekbench developer Primate Labs has expanded its report on the latest Apple workstations to include performance measures for all three models, including the 8-Core 3.2GHz configuration. ... Read more…
Briefly: Development of Mac OS X 10.5.2 winding down
The frequency at which Apple is seeding new pre-release builds of its second update to the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system is increasing rapidly, suggesting an official release may be imminent. Fresh on the heels of build 9C20, which was r... Read more…
Video confirms ease of MacBook Air battery replacements
With the first review units of the base configuration MacBook Air making their way to a handful of privy publications Thursday, several previously reported details -- such as the ease in which the notebook's battery can be swapped out -- are seeing f... Read more…