Monday - May 12, 2008
Apple has agreed to settle a pair of class action lawsuits in Canada alleging it misled customers about the staying power of their iPods, the latest courtroom truce over the dwindling battery life of early generations of the device. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company is offering credits for its online store of about $44.75 to people who live in Canada and bought certain iPods there on or before June 24, 2004, according to a court document.
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Friday - May 2, 2008
Despite myriad indications to the contrary, Psystar does appear to be an actual company offering a real -- but perhaps not entirely legal -- product. Psystar, of course, is the company that burst onto the national scene with news that it was offering a Mac clone, dubbed the "Open Computer," capable of running the Macintosh OS X Leopard operating system.
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Thursday - April 24, 2008
The Boston Retirement Board is pursuing a stock option backdating lawsuit against Apple, and has issued summons to testify to CEO Steve Jobs as well as several other current and former board members from the company. The suit alleges that the company's accounting practices cost over $105 million in extra value for backdated stock options issued to Jobs.
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Sunday - April 20, 2008
Macolytes around the world were buzzing this week with news that an online hardware vendor called "Psystar.com" is selling a US$555 PC called the "Open Computer" that runs the Macintosh OS X Leopard operating system. In fact, for about the same price, you can buy the machine with Windows or Leopard installed -- or buy it for $400 with the open source Linux operating system.
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Wednesday - April 16, 2008
News of a $400 Mac clone on the market spread like wildfire this week -- only to be supplanted by suspicions that the offering may well be a giant fraud. The first inkling that something was wrong came when a message appeared on the Web site of the mysterious vendor, Psystar, stating it could not take orders over the phone but only via the Internet.
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Tuesday - April 1, 2008
Apple faces a legal challenge about its marketing practices for iMac desktop computer. The suit, filed by Kabateck Brown Kellner, in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., claims that Apple falsely marketed the monitor for the new desktop as an improved version of its 24-inch iMac monitor.
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Friday - March 14, 2008
The iPhone software development kit has been dominating the world of Apple-focused bloggers this week, in no small part due to an Apple announcement that its SDK was downloaded 100,000 times in a mere four days. In other blogging activity, Microsoft delivered its first update to the Office 2008 for Mac suite, and Apple got sued over its iTunes/iPod model.
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Thursday - March 13, 2008
ZapMedia Services has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple for unspecified damages related to Apple's iTunes and related media players, most notably the iPod. ZapMedia said it made multiple attempts to resolve its patent-related concerns, as well as license its system directly to Apple, but was rebuffed by the company.
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Wednesday - January 9, 2008
Apple has reached a deal that will have it equalize prices on the European version of its iTunes Music Store and end a European Union probe into the legality of the original pricing policy. As a result of the deal, iTunes users in the United Kingdom will see slightly lower prices for song downloads.
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Tuesday - December 11, 2007
Apple has delivered some amazing and successful products over the years, beginning with the groundbreaking Macintosh in the 1980s. 2007, however, may very well be Apple's biggest and most influential year yet. In January, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs set the tone for the next 12 months with the announcement of the now iconic iPhone, a device that had consumers drooling for months before it ever saw the light of day.
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Tuesday - December 4, 2007
Apple and its carrier partner in Germany won a key legal victory Tuesday, with a court tossing out an injunction that had forced T-Mobile to offer an unlocked iPhone and upholding the legality of the exclusivity agreement. T-Mobile won the right to offer the iPhone only to customers who agree to two-year contracts with the carrier, overturning a lower court's ruling.
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