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January 25, 2005
Apple Computer Inc. said on Monday customers have purchased more than 250 million songs from its online iTunes Music Store. At a rate of 1.25 million songs at 99 cents a piece per day. Apple's iTunes store is credited as one of the driving factors behind legal music downloads, the store launched the in April 2003 is now available in 15 countries, sales have far outpaced rival services. According to research firm NPD Group, music sold from iTunes accounts up to 70% of legal music sold between December 2003 and July 2004. The success of iTunes has been helped by the widely popular iPod music, Apple Computer sold 4.5 million iPods in the fourth quarter and more than 10 million since its debut in October 2001. Forbes reports Shares of Apple rose 65 cents to $71.14 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
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January 23, 2005
Approximately 100 Apple Computer retail stores opened 1 hour early on Saturday in anticipation of a flood of Apple hungry people looking to take a bite of the Mac Mini, Apple's new $499 budget computer and the $99 iPod Shuffle portable music player. Fans hope to forgo the three to four weeks behind on the Mini and Shuffle when purchased on the company's website, Apple executives say some Minis will be available in stores this weekend, along with a greater supply of the Shuffle, no word on how many. Apple hopes the Mac Mini will take the brand beyond the creative folk and touch the hearts of the not so creative. Analysts believe Apple's mini cheap price will probably entice users of rival Microsoft Corp.'s Windows to switch operating systems and go with the Mac and its Mac OS X operating system. There is a snag however while the mini is pleasing to the eye, and cheap by Apple standards it comes without display, keyboard, or mouse. Forbes reports Office Depot on Thursday advertised a Compaq PC with monitor for $300, after rebates. Dell on Thursday advertised a PC with a 15-inch flat-panel monitor for $349, after rebates.
The Mac mini measures a mere 16.51cm wide, 5.08cm high and weighs less than 1.5kg, touted as the cheapest Apple ever the basic model at $500 features a 40gb hard drive, 256mb of Ram, a DVD player and CD Writer drive, a modem, a network port, USB ports, a FireWire port and a monitor port. Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller cautions consumers not to think of the Mini as anything but a small, second computer or first Mac.
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January 21, 2005
Apple has given Target.com the green light to carry the Mac Mini. The discount retailers' website features product pages for the both Mac Mini model (40 gig, 80 gig), at $499 and $599. Mac Mini is the first Apple computer to be sold by the retail giant. There is a 2 to 6 week wait for the computers. - MORE
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January 19, 2005
Brighton, JP has announced the B-AUDIO COMPACT SPEAKER for the Apple iPod. The portable speaker will be available from January 21st in Japan for 5,980 Yen. Features 0.6Wx2ch amplifier output, built-in nickel hydrogen charge pond, continual playback of approximately 16 hours. Also supports charging by AC adapter or USB. Measures 128x83.5x12mm and weighs 230 g.
In addition Brighton also announced iPod Gel which locks the iPod in place on the dashboard. Priced at 980 Yen.
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Security company Immunity has uncovered four vulnerabilities in the open-source operating system Mac OS X is based on called Darwin. The bugs were first discovered in June, during a large-scale source code audit of Darwin by Immunity's security research team. The vulnerabilities affecting all recent versions of OS X are caused by memory errors in the kernel. This kind of bug mostly affects remote systems with multiple users," David Aitel, founder and security consultant with Immunity told CNet News.com. This means most desktop users of the operating system will not be too badly affected. Flaws include: kernel problems; HFS catalog search; and a task scheduling logic bug.
Apple is now investigating the flaws.
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Just one week after launch, Apple's flash memory player going by the name iPod Shuffle is umm backordered by up to four weeks. There is a two-to three-week wait for the $99 512MB iPod Shuffle, which holds about 120 songs, while customers face a wait of three to four weeks for the $149 1GB iPod Shuffle. I am sure that this will totally increase the demand for the already love Shuffle. Speaking of iPod Shuffle love - Dell CEO Kevin Rollins has this to say on the iPod
"Apple's in the $2.4 billion (region), so the size and scale is not even in the same league. But what they do they do very well, and they've had great success with the iPod. It's interesting: The iPod has been out for three years, and it's only this past year it's become a raging success.
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January 18, 2005
Sony Computer Entertainment has issued a statement regarding the file that offers a update of the Sony PSP. Sony revealed that the file was originally downloaded from a Sony maintenance server. "It was indeed developed by SCEI," "but it's a dummy file at best, and isn't something that has been officially released. Using it could damage your PSP." When running the software, users are first given a list of new features before the update actually begins installation. The list of features promised by the update is, according to SCE, not necessarily indicative of features that will be made available for the PSP in the future. "The PSP is equipped with the ability to go through the network and update its firmware,but the features that will be added are still undecided."
If you jumped the boat and installed that updater already SCEI revealed that it plans to offer a fix at some point in the future.
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January 17, 2005
I know you have been just itching to see what lies underneath the iPod Shuffle's white casing, well people, some good news - the wait is over - AppleMatters did some surgery on the shuffle, with a tool that belongs in a museum - all the photographic evidence - I believe the shuffle survived the operation
- Seem at Engadget
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Cyndustries has announced a combination of the Mac mini and their touchscreen controlled liquid crystal color video monitors that will apparently allow a whole new level of integration between worlds of synthesis!
The new combo allows you to go from your analog modular oscillators and filters -- into digital audio effects plug-ins, and then right back to analog. The system supports multiple Mac minis. The Cynthia brand Major Monitor currently in development offers a color 16:9 aspect ratio LCD screen with built-in stereo audio speaker ports mounted into a one of our six-module wide MegaPanels.
Anticipated price for the MIDI and Computer module alone is $999.00 and it will it accept any customer supplied Mac mini computer easily without voiding your Apple warranty. - by Special Order Only
- Seen at Engadget
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Auto customizing and restoration shop Classic Restorations in Sloatsburg, New York is offering the Mac Mini Auto, a custom in-dash mounting system for the recently unveiled Apple Mac Mini. Classic Restorations is looking to make the Mac mini the "brain" of the car, serving as a multimedia center and Internet connectivity hub. The custom design incorporates a touch screen or conventional LCD panel and mounts in a single-DIN slot in the dashboard. Pricing was not announced, but the company said that it is taking reservations and has a "special introductory offer."
- Seen at UberGizmo
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