Apple ups the stakes with convergence play
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What about digital rights management? Alongside the well-publicised launch of the iPhone, Apple has now pre-announced two of its major plays into the converging consumer digital media marketplace. The other was Apple TV, unveiled last year and available next month. Although pre-announcing is something of a departure for the company, it's clear Apple will be handily placed to deliver a seamless digital experience, going toe to toe with Microsoft and its integrated Xbox/IPTV combination.â¦
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Computex: Apple's entry will raise interest in everyone's smartphones, ARM CEO says.
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Riding the tide of its popular iPhone and a new line of iPods, Apple shares hit the nice round number before dropping back a few cents. The Wall Street boys are bullish.
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When it comes to Apple's widely anticipated new gadget, both  companies are starting to see the benefits of friendship
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An analyst for JPMorgan Chase made headlines recently by saying Apple would soon release an iPhone resembling its nano media player.  One of his colleagues, however, disagrees.
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Now it looks as if an additional function, coupled with a definitely major enhancement, will further boosts its popularity - and Apple&#39;s profits.
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Apple has set the stage for a product release Tuesday. Readers tell us what they'd like to get their hands on.
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A note from Linkin Park to its fans hints of an Apple event in New York later this month. A frenzy of speculation, of course, ensues about what the company might introduce.
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Finding it âa significant leap,â Steven Levy (Newsweek) calls  iPhone âa superbly engineered, cleverly designed and imaginatively implemented approach to a problem that no one has cracked to date: merging a phone handset, an Internet navigator and a media player in a package where every component shines, and the features are welcoming rather than foreboding.Â  The iPhone is the rare convergence device where things actually converge.â iPhone, he says, âfinally fulfills the promise of people-friendly palm-top communication and computing.â
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With the iPhone, Apple offers a glimpse of what's to come.
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Shares of Apple hit the $200 mark for the first time, as investor confidence in the company continued rising near the end of what has been a strong year for the iPod and computer maker.
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In the Apple (AAPL) pantheon, hardware design usually stands at the altar, from the company's sleek, silver MacBook computers and its colorful iPod music players to its latest object of desire, the soon-to-be available touch-screen iPhone.
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Â·  Dozens camp out to be first in line for iPhoneÂ·  Stakes could not be higher for computer giant
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Handset-to-handset fighting Whenever a single monolithic company has launched against the globe spanning iTunes, Apple has been able to move the goalposts and push further and further towards a monopolistic market share of online music, but this week a genuine challenge has emerged, one that we are certain will dent the success of Apple, and we suspect that it will be reflected in the companyâs share price before too long.â¦
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The company offers a range of predictions. Lots of folks are keying on the guess that Apple will double their U.S. share, but I'm intrigued by other predictions, including forecasts that we'll be traveling without laptops and renting our business software
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Apple stock is on the rise once again, as analysts raise their target prices and provide support of an iPod &#39;halo&#39; effect.
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Industry-watchers bicker over Apple's next likely move in consumer electronics.