iPod touch shortages deepening to include all iPods?
iPods are becoming increasingly difficult to find in the wake of last week's Black Friday sales, says Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu. Immediately following the sales, the only vendor to report any shortages was Amazon, which lengthened its lead times to 11 days for the 8GB iPod touch, and three to five weeks for the 16GB player. The company's situation has since been made even worse however, with...
published yesterday, 1 day 53 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
RSPlug Trojan evolves into third version
A third variant of the RSPlug Trojan has appeared online, says security firm Intego. Following in the wake of the RSPlug.D version, Intego notes that another mutant copy called RSPlug.E has appeared. The new Trojan is said to be very similar in scope to D, being mainly found on dubious pornography sites, and equipped with a downloader that installs files from a remote server....
published yesterday, 1 day 3 hours 28 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
Apple posts Monday-only shipping discount
Following in the wake of its one-day Black Friday sale, Apple has posted another single-day special at the online Apple Store. For the duration of Monday only, all products at the store should be eligible for free shipping, regardless of expense. The deal is also not exclusive to the US, and applies to stores such as the ones in Canada, France and the United Kingdom....
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share
While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, appleinsider
10.5: Safer sleep during networked Time Machine backups
The problem: You have Time Machine set up using a sparsebundle on a network drive, such as a Time Capsule or an AirPort Extreme-connected hard drive. Most of the time, everything works great. Consider this reproducible scenario, however:You are working away at home and a hourly backup starts. Time machine automagically mounts the sparsebundle.You need to leave and put your laptop to sleep, not paying attention to the fact that time machine is working.You move your laptop to work/school and wake it up.The sparsebundle is still mounted, but obviously does not work. Finder and Spotlight grow increasing stuck until you have to reboot your machine. It occurs to you that the image back home was not closed properly and that eventually, this will corrupt your backups!Solution:Install SleepWatcher (I ...
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macosxhints
AT&T chief lays out futuristic vision for the iPhone
Before a future version of Apple's iPhone wakes you up in the morning, it will have downloaded the morning's news feeds and sent a message to your coffee maker to begin brewing a fresh pot, says AT&T Mobile chief Ralph de la Vega.
published on Friday, the 7. November 2008, appleinsider
Intel gets foot in mouth about ARM-twisting iPhone comments
Damage control kicked into overdrive at the world's largest chipmaker this week in the wake of comments from two Intel executives who had a field day badmouthing the iPhone and its embedded ARM processor during a public developer forum, apparently without the company's blessing.
published on Friday, the 24. October 2008, appleinsider
Analysts contemplate tougher times for Apple
Apple is beginning to experience harsher conditions than it is used to, say analysts in the wake of yesterday's Q4 results call. Researchers from Needham & Co. comment that Apple's guidance for the next quarter is "downbeat," as a result of worries about a looming recession. UBS' Maynard Um is still more pessimistic, downgrading Apple's rating from "Buy" to "Neutral" based on the economy, which ...
published on Wednesday, the 22. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
OZAKI announces IP858 clock for iPhone, Touch
OZAKI has announced the IP858 iMini Timber 3G iPhone Speaker, a portable wooden case design with a mirror-coated casing. The device is actually an alarm clock, which lets users wake to music from an iPhone or iPod touch, FM radio, or a straight buzzer. The LCD display on the clock is backlit, and a USB connection can be used to sync with a computer, unlike many such devices. Pricing and availabil...
published on Friday, the 17. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
ezGear introduces ezView Leather Case for iPhone 3G
ezGear has released the ezView Leather Case for the iPhone 3G. The case features a velcro band that can be used not only to seal the case shut, but to double as a support for landscape viewing. The case protects the entirety of the device, but still leaves access to all important controls, including the touchscreen, sleep/wake button and volume controls....
published on Thursday, the 9. October 2008, macintosh-news-network