Daniel Drew Turner

Amazon.com this week launched its new Amazon MP3 Store, which, some analysts say, may become the first serious digital music challenger to Apples dominant iTunes Music Store. Like the iTMS, Amazons online store offers digital music tracks and albums from major-label artists. However, all tracks offered by Amazon are free of DRM (Digital Rights Management) […]

Microsoft has firmed up the details of the product lineup and pricing for its Mac Office 2008 Suite, which is scheduled to debut on Jan. 15, 2008. The suite will include the Word 2008 word processor; the Excel 2008 spreadsheet; the PowerPoint 2008 presentation producer; and Entourage 2008, an e-mail and schedule manager. The Redmond, […]

The Apple news has been all about iPods and iPhones for a while now, what with a complete line refresh of the former and price drops and European introductions of the latter. But some eagle-eyed Mac users have noticed that the calendar is rapidly creeping up on October, the month Steve Jobs promised—after a delay […]

The ruling by the European Court of First Instance dismissing Microsofts appeal of the European Commissions 2004 punishment could serve to make Apples Mac OS X a more appealing server solution in the enterprise. The Courts decision against Microsoft, which upheld the Commissions finding that the Redmond, Wash., company abused its monopoly status and prevented […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared in London Sept. 18 to officially roll out his companys iPhone in the United Kingdom. Speaking at the Regent Street Apple Store, Jobs said the iPhone will be available starting Nov. 9 and will work exclusively on the O2 wireless telephone network. In response to later questions, Jobs said that […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Apple introduced a redesigned iPod Nano and iPod Classic along with a multi-touch-screen iPod, confirming most of the rumors about what the company was going to introduce at a Sept. 5 product briefing at the Moscone Convention center here. Apple CEO Steve Jobs also announced a price cut for the iPhone, with the 8GB […]

Apple watchers are speculating that the company may introduce new iPods, Beatles content for Apples iTunes store or perhaps an enhanced iPhone ring-tone feature at a media briefing Sept. 5 at the San Francisco Moscone Convention Center. The event is titled “The Beat Goes On,” according to the invitation sent to the media. The invitation […]

Theres a maxim well known to the tech-savvy that you should never buy the first version of any new gadget. Yet Apples iPhone has been a success, getting snapped up by consumers and professionals alike. Still, some experts in coding and product design have wish lists for what theyd like to see Apple change when […]

Four independent projects have claimed that Apples iPhone can be unlocked, allowing users to use the phone with cellular providers other than AT&T. At least one of those projects, the Belfast, U.K.-based iphoneunlocking.com, has claimed that it has received a warning call from a law firm purportedly representing AT&T. An AT&T spokesperson said that the […]

Judging by user and developer reaction, the biggest news out of Apples special media event Aug. 7 was the debut of Numbers, a new spreadsheet application “for the rest of us,” as Apple CEO Steve Jobs termed it. Numbers is a part of Apples iWork 08 $79 software suite, which also includes updated versions of […]