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iTunes And The"Guy Tax"

TUAW has a funny post on how the idea of renting a movie on AppleTV in HD constitutes a "guy tax" in that only males will really care to pay the extra dollar to rent a movie in HD. In...

No One's Talking About Time Capsule, But....

One of the things I disliked about Leopard concerned Time Machine, the automated backup feature. Notebooks were a little left out because you have to connect them to a hard drive, which to me sort of defeats the purpose...

Video: MacBook Air's Debut

Back in my hotel room, watching CNBC "Fast Money." They just talked about the keynote, and basically slammed Apple and Jobs for a disappointing keynote today. It's funny how the perceptions here at the event and out on Wall Street...

A Great Day for Skyhook Wireless

Movie site Rotten Tomatoes got a shout out as "the best review site out there.” Jobs also showcased the unbelievable (insane?) skiing exploits of Erik Roner. But maybe the biggest winner was Skyhook Wireless.

Reporter's Notes from Interview with Steve Jobs

As for NBC Universal, Jobs predicts that the stalemate won't last forever. "We'll put it back together on the TV thing. Everybody lost (when Zucker pulled his content off iTunes). But NBC is a great company, and Apple is a great company," neither of which make a habit of ignoring their customers' wishes, he said.

Keynote Highlight: Apple Gets Greener

One of the overlooked bits of information from the Jobs keynote was about the environment. Apple has taken a good deal of flack from Greenpeace on the use of two types of hazardous materials â€“ brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and...

Garmin Gets The Mac, At Last!

If there were another company I know as well as Apple, it's Garmin. (I profiled it in 2003 in my last job, and have written about it regularly since joining BusinessWeek.) I remember in 2003 talking with Garmin CEO Min...

It's Not Everyday You Meet A Jazz Legend

A personal highlight for me at Macworld was my chance meeting with Herbie Hancock while waiting for the keynote to start. I was chatting with some press colleagues from other publications and up walks Herbie, saying hello to, among...

iTunes Movies Outsell HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc

Interesting statistical aside from the Jobs keynote on Tuesday. Apple has sold 7 million movies since the, and yet that number has been more or less deemed a failure. But, thats a million more than the six million Blu-Ray Discs...

IBM Bringing Lotus Notes To iPhone?

The iPhone's biggest weakness is its lack of support for enterprise email platforms like Microsoft's Exchange and IBM's Lotus Notes. It looks like that's changing. Reports are circulating that IBM is close to announcing a version of Notes for the...