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Notice to Tim Cook: Apple Has A Netbook. It's Just Not Competitive.

Notice to Tim Cook: Apple Has A Netbook. It's Just Not Competitive.Well putGreat article.WRONG!If you follow this, Dell launched a new Netbook, the Adamo. Or the really tiny Sony Vaios. Or the other small Windows Notebooks.This Article = EPIC FAIL!Ridiculous ArticleA netbook is a weak system with a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Flybook, netbook, Tim Cook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Jobs to take medical leave; Cook in charge; Will Jobs appear at WWDC?

Updated: Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday that he will take a medical leave until the end of June to focus on his health. In the meantime, chief operating officer Tim Cook right will take over day-to-day operations. The news (Techmeme, Apple statement) is likely to start...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Tim Cook, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-14

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event

update: (Editor's note: The updates of this entry appear in reverse order.) 11:03 a.m. - The event is over. Steve thanks us for coming and we're done. 10:54 a.m. Answers questions about relationship with Nvidia, as well as integration of Blu-Ray. Jobs said...

Tags: Job, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Apple MacBook Pro, Tim Cook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

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Apple's "force fed ads" patent more likely related to content, not hardware

Perhaps neitherHopefully you are right and they'll use this process to allow customers to earn free content. Unfortunatley I see this as being a way for Apple to increase its warchest by forcing its followers to view ads. Perhaps it'll be a blend - view enough ads to put $10...

Tags: hardware, O'Grady, advertisement, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Apple TV update looks good but doesn't offer much more

I second your thoughts, Sam.The updates were nice, but hardly worth it from the functional standpoint. Yes, Netflix would be nice, although iTunes provides most, if not all, of what Netflix would, doesn't it?One thing Tim Cook mentioned during the most recent earnings call was that Apple was going to...

Tags: INTERNET, Apple TV, Internet radio, Apple Inc., TV, NetFlix Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

HP TouchSmart 600

The HP TouchSmart 600 shows how getting an early jump on unproven technology can pay off. HP was first to market with a touch-based all-in-one PC more than two years ago. Now that Windows 7 has spurred almost every major desktop vendor toward multitouch, HP has the advantage of years...

Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, audio ouput, Hewlett-Packard Co., TouchSmart 600, Sony Corp., HP TouchSmart

Product reviews 2009-10-13

Podcast: Can Apple make the tablet PC cool?

Apple's rumored tablet is just the latest incarnation of the form factor. In fact, the tech industry has been pushing tablet PCs forever with little success. The big question we address in this podcast: Can Apple make tablets cool? We---Jason Hiner, Sam Diaz and I---were a bit...

Tags: Podcast, PC, Tablet PC, Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Those darned kids and their multitasking

Multitasking is good for some things...but not for others. I'm also a natural multitasker, in that I get bored if I'm not. I can watch TV, listen to the radio, write a paper, surf the web, respond to text messages, and cook. But none of those things...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, that-I, TV

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Can ultrathin laptop David beat the netbook Goliath?

Are netbooks too portable, inexpensive and popular to beat? Brooke Crothers writes on his CNET blog that the netbook's popularity is perhaps too great to overcome by the burgeoning ultrathin laptop market, and takes Apple COO Tim Cook to task for bashing netbooks in April for being...

Tags: Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, Netbook, Brooke Crothers, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?

Gene Munster's living room of the future is centered around a Web-connected, iTunes-powered Apple-branded TV - a 50-inch, high-def, wall-mounted iPhone, if you will. And the stuff you'll watch on this "TV set" won't come in via Comcast or DirecTV. It will all stream in from - or be archived...

Tags: Web, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, Cable, Munster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-20

$299 laptop specials keep back-to-school shoppers happy; would you buy over a Netbook?

This will only drive down the cost of netbooksSo laptops drop to $299, netbooks will drop to $199. Or less. This is really a bad news trend for MS. As hardware prices drop, Windows becomes a higher percentage of the unit cost. When it comes to...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, laptop computer, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Apple should name Cook to board

Apple is reportedly going to meet to weigh candidates for the board seat vacated by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple directors will meet Tuesday to discuss Schmidt's replacement. Schmidt resigned from the board given that Apple and Google increasingly compete. ...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Thoughts to ponder as Apple Tablet rumors spread

The rumors around the arrival of a tablet computer from Apple have been out there for a while, but the latest one from the AppleInsider blog seems to have some meat to it. [caption id="attachment_21735" align="alignleft" width="213" caption="Image Credit: AppleInsider"][/caption] The blog is reporting...

Tags: Apple Inc., AppleInsider, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Apple can't seriously be "very happy" with AT&T relationship

If you're Apple and you sell 5.2 million iPhones in the third quarter, then you're probably feeling just fine about that exclusive carrier agreement that you have with AT&T in the U.S. After all, look at the numbers. Apple beats Wall Street again - even in the midst of one...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Relationship, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Product Marketing, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-22

The decade's biggest tech flops: Funny how Sony and Microsoft dominate

The decade's biggest tech flops: Funny how Sony and Microsoft dominateSony and MS seem to be trying a lot of new for them things.It's reasonable that they're going to have a lot of failures in the marketplace.MS especially has the money to try a lot of new things just to...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

SEC inquiry into Steve Jobs health is too murky to go anywhere

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to know what Apple's board really knew about Steve Jobs' medical condition when Jobs announced on Jan. 5 that he had hormone imbalance and, nine days later, said his condition was more complex and that he would take a medical leave through the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, SEC, Health Care, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed

Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosedFlawed logic"They?re gonna find out about it anyway so I don?t see a big privacy issue"The fact if something is found out, does not define if something is private in the first place or not.But hey, this is an...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Investment, Steve Jobs, surgery, health care, material fact, Apple Inc., absence

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Apple thumbs nose at Palm, reports 1 million iPhone 3G S units sold in 3 days

Apple thumbs nose at Palm, reports 1 million iPhone 3G S units sold in 3 days"Think Again"?Like they're bragging about 1M for Palm's sake?What is Apple worried about, then?If they have to go out of their way to defend their sales of a device that has been on the market...

Tags: Sales strategy, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone 3G, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Pre, Palm Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights

Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rightsSteve alone DOES make Apple the company it isWhat would Apple be like without Steve Jobs? We don't have to guess. We already know because Apple was without Steve Jobs for many years. If Jobs hadn't returned Apple would have disappeared...

Tags: Leadership, job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., liver transplant, transplant

Discussion threads 2009-06-20

Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights

Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago and is said to be recovering well, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cites unnamed sources. Jobs still is expected to return to work later this month, as expected, though he may come back...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-19