Apple announced today that more than 100,000 iPhone developers have downloaded the beta iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in the first four days since its launch on March 6. According to Apple, “developer response continues to be phenomenal”. The company cites a variety of developers already working on new applications: ‚ÄúWe‚Äôre excited that the iPhone […]

Apple today introduced the iPhone software development kit (SDK) at a special event held on its Cupertino campus. In doing so, it hit the ball out of the park, delivering the deep enterprise support that businesses want and delivering the whiz-bang sh** that everybody else wanted to see. If that weren’t enough, Apple announced a […]

Apple Computer today announced that iTunes is now the number two music retailer in the United States, second only to Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group. Apple also disclosed that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers, who have bought over four billion songs (20 million songs sold on […]

Apple today updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple‚Äôs Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook […]

Via a comment on our coverage of the iPod touch app upgrade, Jackson let us know about two ways that people are protesting Apple’s $20 charge for the update that adds several apps left off the initial release. Jackson’s reaction to the $20 update reflects a lot of early buyers’ attitudes: I am outraged that […]

Apple has released a new movie on getting podcasts with iTunes:

An Apple patent reveals that the company is working on a podcast aggregator that would dynamically collect the news that you are interested in and deliver a personalized news podcast, according to a report at AppleInsider. In other words – Apple wants to be your news and information station. The system would allow you to: […]

Apple today announced that it has slashed prices on the iPod shuffle, now priced at $49, and that it is introducing a new 2GB model of the iPod shuffle for $69. ‚ÄúAt just $49, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever,‚Äù said Greg Joswiak, Apple‚Äôs vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing. ‚ÄúThe […]

It looks like Toshiba is giving up on HD DVD, making Blu-Ray the de facto high-definition DVD standard. The format war, often compared to the Betamax-VHS battle in the 1980s, has confused consumers unsure of which DVD or player to buy. The HD DVD standard has suffered crippling blows in the last few months, though, […]

People working in new media are starting to try out the Apple TV update, and most are giving it rave reviews. We published an in-depth Apple TV review and walkthrough yesterday, and gave Apple TV 2 a “B”. We like the new movie features, but the podcast support is confusing and makes it hard to […]