Archive for the ‘apple’ Category

Apple Profit Up 67%, Aided by Record Mac Sales

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Apple’s earnings report today leapt ahead of analysts’ already optimistic expectations. The company posted record Macintosh sales numbers for its fiscal fourth quarter, showing that the company is climbing into the league of the dominant personal computer makers, Hewlett-Packard and Dell.Read the full story

Is there a bruise on Apple’s reputation? - BusinessWeek Online

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

A widely watched study of customer satisfaction, released in August by the University of Michigan, showed Apple slipping 4 points from last year's score, to 79 on a 100-point scale. That still leads the industry, but it's the company's first decline since 2001.Read the full story

Microsoft overhauls Zune

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

"It's a great player -- for 2006," said Matt Rosoff, analyst at research firm Directions on Microsoft. He said the improvements put the company "where they probably should have been last year, when they launched."Read the full story

Apple’s Jobs Is Subpoenaed By SEC in Backdating Case

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s chief executive, has been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to answer questions in a stock-options backdating case against Apple's former general counsel, according to a person familiar with the matter. [Steve Jobs] Read the full story

Krakow’s Corner : Living with an iPhone

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Figuring out how to work an iPhone is, in a word, easy – you don’t really need to look at the instructions to know how to use an iPhone. Everyone who has tried using my iPhone – about a dozen people or so - has been able to figure out ...