Daniel Drew Turner

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, announced a total refresh for the iMac all-in-one desktop computer line, plus “completely new versions” of Apples iLife and iWork application suites, the latter gaining Numbers, a new spreadsheet application, today at a press event at the companys campus here. Jobs also showed new features for Apples $99.95-per-year .Mac […]

Microsofts delivery date for Office 2008 for Mac OS X has slipped to mid-January 2008 at the earliest, the companys Macintosh Business Unit confirmed on Aug. 2. That time frame is for the U.S. version, the company said, with international versions available “in the first quarter of 2008.” This marks a significant delay in Microsofts […]

Apple public relations representatives made calls to press members July 31, inviting them to an event on the companys campus in Cupertino, Calif., Aug. 7 and promising Mac-specific announcements. No further information was available, though it seems clear that the event will not feature iPhone, iTunes or iPods, but will stick to Apples core hardware […]

A day after Apples stock dropped 6 percent, CEO Steve Jobs reported that the company produced revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 million for its third fiscal quarter. This compares with $4.37 billion in revenue and $472 million in profits for the same quarter in 2006. The $818 million quarterly profit […]

Apple will be offering an RSS application on Safari for the iPhone, said some who have seen a new page on Apples own site. The page initially showed a screenshot of what appears to be an RSS list on an iPhone, but that image has since been replaced with an iPhone showing its main screen. […]

The iPhone service plans that Apple and AT&T introduced on June 26 are competitively priced and wont pose a barrier to people interested in buying the much-anticipated mobile phone/Internet browser/iPod, industry analysts said. The iPhones plans are not prohibitively priced, but neither are they a bargain, said Samir Bhavnani, research director at Current Analysis West. […]

Ask any BlackBerry-toting exec whether theyre going to buy the new iPhone, and theyll ask you a question right back: Will my IT staff be able to support it? Corporate users have become accustomed to high-tech smart phones that allow remote messaging, scheduling, group calendar functions and more. But analysts said there are at least […]

Apples Safari browser is finding favor with Windows users. The Cupertino, Calif., computer company disclosed June 14 that visitors to its Web site had downloaded more than 1 million copies of the Windows-compatible beta version of the Safari 3 Web browser in the first 48 hours of its availability. However, any satisfaction about the browsers […]

SAN FRANCISCO—News that Apple had created a version of its Safari Web browser running on Windows overshadowed the long-anticipated presentations on Mac OS X Leopard and the iPhone at the opening keynote of Apples Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11. Jobs demonstrated for the first time the Safari Web browser running on Windows, calling it […]

Mac OS X developers and Apple enthusiasts are anxiously awaiting the June 11 opening of Apples Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco to find out whether there will be any changes or surprises in the companys product plans. During his keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected at the very least to show a feature-complete […]