NBC and Apple in spat

NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes.
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NBC Universal is also seeking better piracy controls and wants Apple to allow it to bundle videos to increase revenue, the person familiar with the [...]

Still excited about the next iPod?

That really sketchy looking photo of the iPod nano “phatty” from yesterday? Yeah, you can officially file that under deceptively sketchy looking — Apple’s legal team called demanding we take the shot down, claiming ownership of the photo, and that it was “stolen” from the company.

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Steve’s multi-touch fascination expands

Steve Jobs have called Multi-Touch interface on Macs an ongoing experiment. Sure it is. But it’s quite an intensive experiment that is very likely to produce the results soon.
The latest Apple’s patent filing  to become public called “Wide touchpad on a portable computer” (it’s a continuation patent for earlier 2004 patent application), shows [...]

Everyone drool, an Apple keyboard

Apple has confirmed the hopes / fears of typists the world over: there’s a new desktop keyboard (er, two actually) in town. The new keyboards (one larger wired USB 2.0 edition with two USB 2.0 ports, one smaller Bluetooth 2.0 flavor) are crafted from anodized aluminum, and include dedicated keys for screen dimmer / [...]

Leopard: We got your Unix here

OS X’s commercial credentials recently got a major boost from the Open Group. Thanks to the efforts of Apple’s OS boss Kevin Van Vechten and his team, Leopard has cleared all of the hurdles required to attain UNIX 03 certification. That places Apple in elite company. Only Sun, IBM and HP are certified, so OS [...]