Is Apple Still a Computer Company?
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Plus, GM's spinning wheels, and Hooker takes a hit.
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The Apple Macintosh makes its debut. But, despite outward appearances, all is not rosy along the Infinite Loop.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON Associated Press  Apple Inc. and the Beatles' Apple Corps end their dispute, but iTunes downloading is still uncertain.   Video:  Apple, Beatles Settle Trademark Suit     SAN JOSE, Calif. -- For the third time in nearly three decades, iPod maker Apple Inc.
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Apple, these days, is an innovation factory. The company releases so many products you get the idea that everyone there just runs around yelling ideas.
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Forgotten Tech Some say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and when you consider the history of the PDA, that statement holds many truths.â¦
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By Robert Weston  For years, Macintosh computers have been praised for their cool looks and elegant simplicity while being knocked for often carrying a hefty price premium over Windows-based machines sold by Dell Inc. and others.  It's time to think differently. Again.
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Ever since Steve Jobs began prefacing Apple's product names with a lower-case ``i," with the introduction of the turquoise iMac desktop computer in 1998, the company has been on a tear. The iPod upstaged every digital music player that preceded it, and the accompanying iTunes Music Store made it cool to purchase music legally online.
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âNot too long ago, ad agencies, design firms and other creative companies were about the only businesses that widely deployed Macintosh computers to their employees,â writes Seth Weintraub for Computerworld. âBut for a number of reasons, word of the benefits of Apple Inc. hardware  â  and software  â  on enterprise desktops is now spreading.â
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The recent debate over the number of iPhones sold in the U.S. by Apple Inc. -- which differs from the number of phones activated by AT&T -- misses the point, according to analysts. Apple is still making money, whichever number is correct.
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Apple's recipe for success continues to entice.
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&quot;Rumord reports of a $500 Macintosh has got many industry watchers wondering how this will affect Apple&#39;s standing within the computing market place.
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By MAY WONG Associated Press  Video:  Apple Bites Into Online Movies     Initially, only Walt Disney Co. productions are being offered.   SAN FRANCISCO -- Seeking to push digital media further into homes, Apple Computer Corp.
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Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced a two-for-one stock split, giving investors one additional share of stock for each one they already own. After the announcement, the company's share price rose almost 4 percent.
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Apple Inc., the computer and digital music company, has bought rights to all "Apple" trademarks from Apple Corps. Ltd., the record company set up by The Beatles, ending aÂ long-running trademark disputeÂ between the two. However, there was no word on whether Apple will soon begin selling The Beatles' music through its iTunes Store.
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In 1980, I signed a deal with a company to market a product I was developing. The contract required me to turn over the source code, which I did. One day I went to a meeting at the office of the company, and there on the product manager's desk, right next to a door that opened to the outside, was a floppy labeled "Dave Winer's source code" in big letters.  If you own a Mac you may soon find out what that felt like. It's amazing to me that the tech blogosphere doesn't treat Apple's policy re broken hard disks as the huge gaping security hole that it is.  Think about it. We worry about bad people getting their hands on little pieces of data that, when added together, give them the power to be you in banking and credit transactions.  Think about what you would do if your laptop was stolen. Well, if you own a Mac and its hard disk goes bad, and you make the mistake of bringing it to Apple for service, you will turn over all that data to Apple. Not "may" or "might" but "will." What Apple in turn does with that data is none of your affair. They don't sign anything or offer any guarantees that they won't sell the disk to a data miner. Think it can't happen or that it's unlikely? I don't gain much comfort from your feeling of security. I've been writing about this issue since December 22. Usually when I write something critical of Apple, the results are mixed. Some people are supportive, but far more people attack. This time the ratio is very different. Almost everyone who has commented gets that there's a huge problem here. Can we solve this problem? Of course we can.  Some say that other vendors do this too. That gives me less comfort, not more. That means there's no escaping this crazy way of treating user's confidentiality. Ultimately it hurts the vendors because people can't use their computers for things the manufacturers say we can.  Further, it's got to be an issue for the banks, brokerage firms, credit agencies. If you are a newspaper and you employ reporters and they use a computer, how exactly are you guarding the confidentiality of your sources? If you're a confidential source, don't you have an interest when the reporter gives their computer manufacturer all their data to do with as they please? Imagine what you would do if it turned out there was a bug in a Netgear or Linksys router that allowed, under special circumstances, a mailicous person to gain access to the full content of your hard disk at any time. Would you have a problem with that? This is worse than Microsoft's neglect of malware that got me to stop using their computers. In that case it was Microsoft being neglegent. This time Apple itself is the cause of the problem. It's as if they planted a virus in their operating system that entitled them, under special circumstances, completely out of the user's control, to gain access to everything on your disk, with as much time as they want, with no way for you to prevent or even detect the intrusion.  See also: My letter to Steve Jobs.
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With a market value of $162 billion, Apple is now the most valuable computer maker in the world, and it is the fourth most valuable technology company, after Microsoft, Google and Cisco. It will have to battle all of them to stay on top of the tech world.
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THE iPhone has hit the market - not the widely anticipated Apple device, but one from rival computer firm Linksys.   Cisco, Linksys' parent, has owned the iPhone trademark since 2000 when it bought Infogear Technology, which registered it in 1996.