Jim Dalrymple Jim Dalrymple has written 527 posts for The Loop
Apple director Jerome York in critical condition
Jerome York, 71, has been hospitalized in Michigan, after collapsing at his home on Tuesday night. According to his wife, he suffered a a massive cerebral hemorrhage. York has been a director at Apple since 1997.
Jerome York, Apple Director, in Critical Condition [Bloomberg]
Apple adds social networking, iPhone features to iWork.com
Apple on Wednesday added a few new features to its iWork.com Web site, including the ability to share documents on social networking Web sites.
MacUpdate Spring 2010 Software Bundle launches
Mac software tracking site, MacUpdate, launched its spring software bundle on Wednesday, offering users 10 apps for $49.99.
Your next friend request could be from the FBI
If you’re one of the millions of people on a social networking Web site, you should be aware that the U.S. government may use the sites for undercover work. For most law abiding citizens, it won’t matter much, especially if you only add friends that you know.
The Obama administration has considered sending federal police undercover [...]
Microsoft employees love the iPhone
Really, it shouldn’t be a big surprise that Microsoft employees love the iPhone, right? Everyone seems to appreciate the design and functionality of Apple’s iPhone. What may be surprising is that 10 percent of Microsoft’s worldwide workforce accessed their email using an iPhone.
One Microsoft worker said he knows several colleagues who try to disguise their [...]
Motorola Backflip ‘an abomination of design’
Sometimes I get criticized for being too opinionated, but I love it when people say what they think. So, if you were thinking of buying one of Motorola’s new Backflip mobile devices, you should take a look at Sascha Segan’s review. It’s quite entertaining, to say the least.
It is an abomination of design, encrusted with [...]
Roland ships the AC-33 acoustic guitar amplifier
Roland on Tuesday began shipping the AC-33 acoustic guitar amplifier. The amp has the ability to run on batteries or be plugged in to a power outlet.
Parallels 5 kicks VMWare’s butt in graphics test
I’m not much of a gamer on Windows systems — it’s just not what I use virtualization software for. However, it is something a lot of people want to do, so it’s important for Parallels and VMWare to make sure their software can handle games as fast as possible. A big part of that equation [...]
Apple releases Aperture SlideShow Support Update 1.1
Apple on Monday release an update for its professional photography workflow application, Aperture.
Etude sheet music app coming to iPhone, iPad
A promising new music app is making its way to the iPhone and iPod touch on Tuesday from Wonder Warp Software.
Eight reasons Apple sued HTC and not Google
The speculation around the Web has been that Apple sued HTC to get at Google. By suing its biggest licensee, Apple hopes to hurt Google’s operating system business — at least that’s what people think.
Apple has good reasons to fear Android. In the three months from December to February, Android’s US smartphone subscriber share shot [...]
McCracken’s impressions of Opera Mini for iPhone
Technologizer founder, Harry McCracken, is at South by Southwest this week and took some time to try out the Opera Mini Web browser for iPhone. I must admit, I’ve never been a real fan of many alternative browsers for the Mac (except Camino), and haven’t really thought about needing something else for the iPhone, but [...]
Apple, LG, HTC, Nokia sued for patent infringement
ADC Technology launched a lawsuit against several technology companies claiming they infringed on its patents.
AT&T’s network holds up at SXSW
AT&T said it was prepared for SXSW this year and by all accounts, the network is holding up. The problem is that they didn’t really fixed the underlying problem. AT&T put in mobile cell towers to handle the extra bandwidth consumed at the show, but the network is still broken. That’s what needs to be [...]
Apple will replace iPad with new one for $99 if battery dies
With all of the hype surrounding the iPad in the past couple of days, we missed an interesting page on Apple’s Web site: Battery Replacement.
Wife vents on Twitter at husband that left for SXSW
There’s trouble in paradise. A self-professed “pissed off wife” is posting openly on Twitter about her husband leaving on their anniversary weekend to attend South by Southwest (SXSW). The bio for @ScrewYouSXSW is a gem:
My husband f****d off to Austin on our anniversary weekend for South by Southwest. Asshole. Follow me to see what happens [...]
Apple gives Tim Cook $22 million performance bonus
Apple gave its Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, a $22 million performance bonus on Friday. The bonus was split between a cash bonus of $5 million and the rest as restricted stock. Cook’s bonus was approved by the board on Friday after being recommended by Steve Jobs. He was apparently given the bonus for his [...]
Apple adds screen orientation lock to iPad
It seems that Apple added a little something extra to the iPad for the launch — Screen rotation lock.
AT&T’s CEO gets 35% pay hike, makes $20.3 million
It’s a good news, bad news story for AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson when looking at his 2009 pay package. The bulk of Stephenson’s pay was in the form of stock awards, which were valued at 12.1 million, down 8 percent over the 2008. (In case you didn’t know, that folks, was the bad news). The [...]
Universal Audio releases three new audio plug-ins
My favorite audio plug-in maker, Universal Audio (UA) on Thursday released an update for its plug-in platform. UAD 5.6 includes many fixes and three new plug-ins.
