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Apple releases Performance Update 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.5 Leopard; addresses hard drive stallsThursday, October 15, 2009 - 01:11 PM EDTApple has released Performance Update 1.0 for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard which addresses "intermittent hard drive-related stalls reported by a small number of customers." Products Affected: MacBook Air (Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009), iMac (20-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009), MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009), MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum,...

BusinessWeek magazine seems to have jumped the gun on Apple's announcements today - the Apple Store is still down in the US and UK, but BusinessWeek's story is up, saying there are upgrades to the MacBook and iMac lines. [Update: perhaps we were just being cached to death - everyone else seemed to see the products while we were getting the same no-show. But this is still a prebrief - read on.]

by linathael . Original by Lionel - 15/10/2009 00:15:00 CEST According to one of our sources, Apple is finalizing the future Mac Pro models. They are currently testing the last evolution of Xeon CPU, known as Gulftown, that Intel only demoed a couple of times so far.This Xeon is an evolution of those already powering Mac Pro 2009 with some new features: 6 cores and 12 threads for each CPU.12 MB of shared cache instead of 8 MB today.32-nm engraving vs. 45 nm today.Power consumption of future hexacore Xeon 32 nm will be slightly lower than the one of current...

Read from bottom up for proper sequential presentation.—Swordmaker MacDailyNews presents live notes from Apple’s conference call discussing Q409 financial results. Live notes will begin today at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT in reverse-chronological order: Conference call ends. Apple again refuses to talk about the anticipated Q110 air freight cost increases in terms of specific products The State of Maine buy helped immensely Student Mac buys significantly helped Apple's online sales. Apple still worried about state education spending. iPhone sell-through up 38% YOY which is a significant multiple vs. the smartphone market growth overall Apple continues to be pleased with the number of...

Apple Inc. on Monday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 a share, on revenue of $9.87 billion. During the same period a year ago, Apple earned $1.14 billion, or $1.26 a share on $7.9 billion in sales. Apple's results topped the estimates of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters, who had forecast the company to earn $1.42 a share on revenue of $9.2 billion. Among the highlights of the quarter were sales of 7.4 milion iPhones in the quarter ended Sept. 26. For its fiscal first-quarter, Apple estimates it will earn between $1.70 and $1.78 a share...

Apple growth per IDC:MacDailyNews Take: Nothing to see here, Mr. Ballmer. From 4.3% in Q3 '05 to 5.8% in Q3 '06 to 6.3% in Q3 '07 to 8.6% in Q3 '08 to 9.4% in Q3 '09 - it's all just a rounding error. No worries. Keep up the good work!

Apple's sales up 7% to 12% last quarter, handily beat industry average, say IDC, GartnerComputerworld — Apple's Mac sales in the U.S. last quarter were up between 7% and 12%, according to estimates published yesterday by research firms Gartner and IDC. Both companies said Apple will post third-quarter numbers significantly above the industry average, but disagreed on the Mac sales gains over the same period a year ago. Gartner estimated that Apple sold 1.57 million Macs in the U.S. for the quarter ending Sept. 30, an increase of 6.8% over 2008. IDC, on the other hand, put Mac sales at...

The $99 iPhone is turning the wireless industry on its head, and not in a good way. It's having an obvious negative affect on AT&T (NYSE: T)'s bottom line, and it's causing some serious pain for other makers of mobile devices. One of the biggest trends on Wall Street is the proper adoption of technology that will help each part of an organization be more efficient, says Jim Feingold, global head of Sales and Marketing and co-head of product strategy at Portware Last week, analyst firm Yankee Group fired off a report begging mobile network operators to stop subsidizing devices...

According to leading market research company The NPD Group's 2009 Household Penetration Study, approximately 12 percent of all U.S. computer owning households own an Apple computer, up from 9 percent in 2008. While Apple ownership is growing, those households are decidedly in favor of mixed system environments. Of those 12 percent, nearly 85 percent also own a Windows-based PC. Multiple computer ownership is a common thread in Apple computer households, with 66 percent of households owning three or more computers, compared to just 29 percent of Windows PC households. Apple owning households are decidedly more mobile as well, with 72...

The focus of Apple's long-rumored tablet device could be the transformation of newspapers, magazines and other print media, a new rumor suggests. With anonymous information from people within various facets of the publishing world, Gizmodo has said that Apple has been reaching out to print publications about putting their products for sale on iTunes via a new piece of hardware. The report cited people familiar with The New York Times, publishers McGraw Hill and Oberlin Press, and a trip that "several executives from one of the largest magazine groups" took to the company's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. Apple's tablet has been...

In a new patent application revealed this week, Apple has again disclosed plans for a multi-touch surface that could accommodate two full hands and distinguish between palms and individual fingers for typing, gestures and more. The application, filed by Morrison and Foerster LLP in Los Angeles in June 2009 on behalf of Apple, expands on information first revealed by AppleInsider in early 2008. The massive document details a hand-based system that would allow "unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer input device." The document notes that input with a stylus, mouse,...

With the end of September comes the end of fiscal year 2009 for Apple. While the company won’t be releasing the numbers for another two weeks or so, consensus estimates from Wall Street for the fourth quarter will fill in the blanks, as Apple always beats estimates. For 2009, during what is arguably the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Apple will have its best year ever. . . . Fiscal year or calendar year, it just doesn’t matter, either way 2009 will be the first year the company sells 10 million Macs. Sales estimates for the quarter ending...

Windows works for me. But I'd never recommend it to anybody else, ever.I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one. Seriously, stop it. I don't care if Mac stuff is better. I don't care if Mac stuff is cool. I don't care...

Apple has released iTunes 9.0.1 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, Mac OS X Server 10.4.11 or later, Windows XP, Vista, and the Vista service pack that Microsoft refers to as "Windows 7." iTunes 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes, including: • Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store. • Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive. • Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit. • Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone. • Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs. • Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not...

Microsoft is promoting the release of Windows 7 by encouraging users to throw Tupperware-like house parties in celebration of the launch. The new campaign encourages participants to print out Windows 7 advertising banners for their home along with "host notes" outlining how to talk about Windows 7 in glowing terms. There's even a question and answer pamphlet, of which the official launch party web site recommends, "download and print this fun activity to keep the party going!" With the new security features in Windows 7, it's unlikely the parties will get too carried away. Interestingly, the quiz pamphlet has nothing...

Russian cyber crime gangs after Apple's Macs, too, says researcherComputerworld - A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security researcher said yesterday. In a presentation Thursday at the Virus Bulletin 2009 security conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Sophos researcher Dmitry Samosseiko discussed his investigation of the Russian "Partnerka," a tangled collection of Web affiliates who rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars from spam and malware, most of the former related to phony drug sites, and much...

Myth 1: Macs Are Safer Than PCsThanks to aggressive marketing from Apple, Mac users often think they are impervious to the viruses, Trojans and numerous other assaults that have plagued Windows users for decades. Security experts say that if Mac users are less susceptible to attack, it's simply due to the fact that there are fewer viruses written for Macs than for Windows. That is rapidly changing, however, as Macs gain market share. Meanwhile, users who have the unfortunate experience of being attacked by information-stealing Trojans will likely have their systems compromised and their data stolen ... just like every...

Hackers just like the PC more. Regardless of which side you're on (though as a true computing enthusiast, you shouldn't be taking sides), you've heard the arguments back and forth on the which operating system is truly safer – Mac OS X or Windows. It is of the opinion of Charlie Miller, a well known Mac security guru, that even Snow Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X, isn't as safe as Windows. One key point is that Snow Leopard still doesn't have ASLR, or address space layout randomization, which randomly arranges the position of key data making it...

Psystar reasserted its claims that Leopard and Snow Leopard copyright-related issues should be dealt with in court independently in its response to Apple's motion to dismiss the unauthorized Mac clone maker's recent case filing in Florida. Apple and Psystar have been battling in U.S. District Court in California over whether or not the PC maker can build and sell Mac clones for months, but the clone maker added a new wrinkle to the case when it started the legal process over again with a new filing in Florida. Psystar filed a new lawsuit against Apple in Florida over Mac OS...

Psystar has filed its Memorandum in Opposition [PDF] to Apple's Motion to Dismiss or Enjoin Prosecution of the Florida action Psystar recently initiated. Psystar claims that the California case cannot possibly include Snow Leopard because "put simply and starkly -- neither Snow Leopard nor the Psystar computers that run Snow Leopard existed when it was filed." Also, Psystar claims that Snow Leopard cannot be included in the California action because Apple had not registered a copyright for Snow Leopard at the time it filed its California complaint. If Apple wants the two cases joined, Psystar argues, or wants to make...