According to report published on CNN’s iReport this morning, Apple CEO Steve Jobs suffered a heart attack, causing Apple’s stock price to plummet until Apple officially denied the report.
CNN’s iReport, for those not familiar with it, is a “citizen journalism” site that allows any registered user to submit news stories. Think forum, but with James [...]

The Copyright Royalty Board has voted to maintain the existing rate of the royalty payments paid to music publishers and songwriters.
The National Music Publishers Association had asked the board to increase the royalty payment to 15c per song from the existing 9.1c per song, a rise Apple claimed in a submission could force it to [...]

A French newspaper is reporting that the widely reported smell emanating from Mac Pro computers is toxic, and may cause leukemia or just straight out death.
According to Liberation.fr (english translation), as reported on ZDNet, the odor being emitted from Mac Pros manufactured before 2008 includes a number of chemicals including Benzene, a known carcinogen that [...]

News was confirmed today that Microsoft will exclude a range of desktop applications as standard installations in Windows 7. Included in the list not appearing in Windows 7 are Windows Photo Gallery (photo management), Windows Mail (email, previously Outlook Express), and Windows Movie Maker (video editing). Instead, Microsoft will offer the Windows Live versions as [...]

New figures released show sales of Blu-ray movies are declining at a time where DVD sales figures are at best flat or worse in trouble after years of huge growth and massive profits. No one is calling the end of an era quite yet, but clearly something is going on in the movie industry, and [...]

As the fabled first GPhone gets closer to launch (T-Mobile is expected to make the formal announcement tomorrow) the blogosphere and press have run heavy coverage comparing the Android powered HTC Dream to Apple’s iPhone, complete with the lines iPhone killer and Apple’s nightmare among others. In the school of sensationalist journalism 101, these headlines [...]

Microsoft has released the Jerry Seinfield free phase two of their $300 million Crispin Porter + Bogusky ad campaign. As we reported yesterday, the new ads feature “everyday people” who use Windows machines. First ad above, and the next two below.
The good news is that they are a mile better than the Gates/ Seinfield [...]

Not long after news broke that Microsoft had dumped Jerry Seinfield from the current $300 million Windows campaign, the New York Times reported that the second stage of the campaign would highlight everyday Windows users, such as Eva Longoria, Deepak Chopra and Pharrell Williams, sharing with the world how they love and use Microsoft products.
The [...]

Apple has released an update to its Leopard operating system, 10.5.5 that addresses a number of performance issues.
Highlights from the release include (via MacRumors)
- Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
- Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
- Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
- In [...]

iPhone firmware 2.1 was released earlier this week, promising to fix the core issues plaguing many iPhone 3G users, including reception, call drop outs, and crashes.
I’ve only just now upgraded as I had to wait for the Pwnage team to release their latest version that supported the update (I like having streaming video at hand, [...]

I’ve been an Apple fan boy for nearly two years. In that time we’ve acquired 3 Macs (a Mac Pro, Macbook Pro and Macbook) two iPhones and an Apple TV. I purchased and love iWork, I use iLife for podcasts and photos, I use iTunes to manage our music, and I’ve even started renting movies [...]

i.TV has launched a new movie and TV guide service for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Features
i.TV delivers users relevant and up-to-date TV and movie listings based on their current location and other customizable settings. The service includes rich background information for most programs, including celebrity photos, biographies, show synopses, ratings, and reviews. Users can [...]

Three new products are taking center stage from Apple’s music announcement in San Francisco so far today: a new version of iTunes, and new iPod Nano, and a new iPod Touch. Plans have also been confirmed for a long-awaited OS fix for the iPhone, one that promises to repair the host of problems users [...]