FREE MACWORLD
EMAIL NEWSLETTERS

---

News headlines

• Apple pays up over sparking power adaptors
• Apple settles two Canadian iPod battery lawsuits
• Creative Manager Pro becomes Workamajig
• Warner: digital sales climb, but losses continue
• Gear4 offers Duo system for iPods
• NBC streams shows for iPhone, iPod touch
• Softpress updates Freeway software
• Facebook go Nutsie for iTunes streaming
• Elgato ships EyeTV 3.0.2
• Hamrick Software issues VueScan update
• AT&T yanks iPhone free WiFi info from site
• Intel continues to invest in WiMax

More news...

Blogs

>> Friday, 09 May 2008

Macworld Team: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype?

By Michael DeAgonia

It has been just over six months since Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard first shipped, bringing with it a slew of new features, a tweaked user interface, revamped underpinnings and - as is often the case - a healthy batch of complaints from users about problems. At the time, some in the Macintosh community even argued that Apple Inc.'s new operating system was released before it was ready for prime time.

>> Thursday, 08 May 2008

Macworld Team: Will Sony play nice with Apple, or turn the screws?

By Ian Lamont

Every time you glance down at your Apple iPod to scroll through your music collection, much of the data you are presented with comes from Gracenote's massive database of artists, song titles, and other text and metadata. When you search for music in Apple's iTunes client, the results are largely based on data from Gracenote. And, if you still buy or own CDs, when you slot a disc into a 'Net-connected computer and fire up iTunes, Gracenote is the service that presents you with the names and titles of the tracks.

Macworld Team: Apple's games strategy looks beyond consoles

By Terrence Russell, The Industry Standard

It's no secret that Apple Inc. has been on a hardware tear. In the last year alone, there has been a flurry of developments: The company branched into the mobile phone arena with the iPhone. It reinvented the MP3 player with the introduction of the iPod touch. It worked its way into living rooms with an updated Apple TV.

>> Wednesday, 07 May 2008

Jonny Evans: Don't ignore the power of the iPhone

Apple’s iPhone is a game-changing device, and its use of a mobile version of OS X offers a spectacular future for application development.

Macworld Team: Three companies Microsoft could buy instead of Yahoo

By Eric Lai

Assuming that Saturday's public walkaway by Microsoft Corp. doesn't prove just to be a high-risk negotiation tactic against Yahoo Inc. -- after all, the companies are rumored to have been talking about some sort of merger or acquisition for almost three years -- then what we have is a software vendor suddenly awash in tens of billions of unspent dollars that it can now lavish on other Internet firms.

More blogs...