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When you’re spawning products and updates like Jerry Bruckheimer throws off bad forensic crime dramas (“From the 200x blow-up of this webcam footage, you can clearly make out the perp’s face…”), it must be tough keeping all this stuff straight. Oops! Steve just nuked employee #10,220. UPDATE: Ars reports that ATV 3.0  is in the [...]

To say it is a laughable copy of an Apple Store is really understating it. If I were an investor in Microsoft, I’d really, really want to know how they’re going to track the financial performance of these things.  Bury them in the “Entertainment and Devices Division”?  These stores – which sell nothing that you [...]

In boxing, there are few things more satisfying to watch than a well-executed combination.  A lot of it is the result of what a fighter does before entering the ring.  Once there, it’s about opportunity and timing. In Apple’s case, coming off another estimate-stomping quarter, they announced major refreshes to the iMac, the once-thought-dead MacBook, [...]

According to The Wall Street Journal, the analysts have finally shaken a little bit of the stupid out of their Q4 estimates for Apple: Investors have grown accustomed to Apple crushing Wall Street estimates, so there are strong expectations for the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter, which ended September. Nearly 20 analysts have lifted price targets since September. Analysts [...]

Apple holds its quarterly earnings call on Monday, which means that analysts are tripping over themselves trying to anticipate Mac sales for the quarter.  Both Gartner and IDC predict Apple continuing to buck the trend – to the tune of 7 – 12% growth, depending on who you ask. The folks at IDC (the same [...]

Ed Bott whines about Apple’s insidious Software Update while his site, ZDNet, spams new commenters with unsolicited emails through ZDNet’s comment registration.

If you’re the kind of person that tries to rope friends into helping you move‚ claiming it’ll be “fun” and offering a cold beer in lieu of money‚ Microsoft has an idea for you: the Windows 7 launch party.  They’ve even posted a video how-to guide‚ with a somewhat incomplete list of suggested activities.  What [...]

Remember Kylie?  She’s the cute four-and-a-half year-old who figured out how to download pictures from her camera to her PC, apply image correction to the photos and email them using a distribution list – all in Microsoft’s Windows Live. Yeah, I didn’t quite buy it either. Seems Kylie may be the next Jerry Seinfeld for [...]

The way I redefined the aria. 9 apps taking from 8 to 30 seconds to load.  And this: What will it take to get you into this Kia? from Ars Technica on Vimeo. Advertising.  What did you expect?  They are free‚ you know.

As a result of an announcement made at Apple’s ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll’ event‚ you can officially kiss goodbye any hopes you had of doing something stupid in public and not getting caught.  Yes‚ the rumors were true – the newest iPod Nanos can now capture you being Sharpie skunked by your “friends” in [...]