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• Apple considering additional compensation arrangements for CEO Steve Jobs - Because Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ “continued leadership is critical to the Company, the [Apple] Compensation Committee is considering additional compensation arrangements for him,” according to the company’s 2008 proxy statement. MacimumNews
• ‘Seeking Alpha’: Apple has huge stream of deferred revenues - Apple’s earnings at first glance look great, a 57 percent rise over last year’s quarter. However, if you look more closely, the numbers get even more impressive as the company (AAPL) has a huge stream of revenues that it doesn’t add into the quarter’s numbers, according to Seeking Alpha. MacimumNews
• Chart looks at 30 quarters of Apple finances - setteB.IT has published a chart with Apple’s last 30 quarters of revenue, and it’s obviously a very healthy company. The first fiscal quarters have been great for some time, but the 2008 quarter was the best of all. MacimumNews
• Several more Macworld Expo editions of ‘MacVoices’ available - Several additions of MacVoices are now available. They include interviews conducted at last week’s Macworld Conference & Expo. MacimumNews
• Analyst chops $35 from Apple target price - Slower-growing iPod sales and recession fears drive American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu to cut the target price on Apple stock. Macworld UK
• Apple boss takes home a dollar - 'In fiscal year 2007, Mr. Jobs' entire compensation consisted of his $1 annual salary,' Apple said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Macworld UK
• Despite $1 salary, Jobs stocks up with big Apple gains - USATODAY.com - Despite a big drop in the price of Apple (AAPL) stock this month, it's fair to say that CEO Steve Jobs earned his pay in 2007. Yahoo! NEWS
• Apple CEO takes $1 salary in 2007 - AP - SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs continued his tradition of taking home only $1 in salary in 2007, when he also gained $14.6 million on paper by exercising stock options that were about to expire, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo! NEWS
• Apple’s Q1 no disappointment - Apple posted the best quarter ever Tuesday for iPod and Mac unit sales as well as record revenue and record profitability. And so its stock... plummeted? This excerpt reprinted from MWJ examines how stellar results got spun as "disappointing" ones to investors. Macworld
• Analyzing Apple's Low Q2 Guidance - Hot Forum Topic - Today TMO readers are discussing what's behind Apple's lower revenue guidance for its second fiscal quarter of 2008. Mac Observer
• EPICENTER - Despite Record Earnings, Investors Trash Apple Stock Wired
• Was the Apple Sell-Off Savvy or Senseless? - Usually, on days when Apple reports earnings, giddy investors have a chuckle about the company's famously conservative forecasts and proceed to load up on the stock -- confident that Apple's closely guarded pipeline of new products will keep sales and profits on the rise. However, in a reflection of the gloomy mood on Wall Street over the prospect of a recession, investors found little to laugh about in Apple's latest forecast. After the company said earnings in the March quarter would come in 14 percent below analysts' expectations, the share price fell more than 11 percent, to $137.93. MacNewsWorld
  
• Where Has All the Tech Sector Optimism Gone? - Prior to Tuesday, there were still a few investors optimistic that tech stocks would remain the proverbial safe haven. It was a reasonable stance, given that the focus of responsibility for the mounting economic troubles in the U.S. has been the housing market. Then Apple -- which routinely surpasses analyst expectations -- released its sobering outlook for the second quarter. MacNewsWorld
• Apple primed to shock the naysayers yet again - This week, you can bet the true believers around Apple’s Cupertino headquarters are thinking... MacDailyNews
• Apple’s extra 1 billion dollars of deferred revenue - Apple's (AAPL) deferred revenues are a huge stream of revenues that it doesn't add into the quarter's numbers... MacDailyNews
• Steve Jobs' selloff pain: $1 billion - The Apple CEO's paper losses are mounting as shares in the iPod maker and Walt Disney fall sharply. CNN Money
• The Mac Goes To Moscow - Apple brand still nascent in Russia. Insanely Great Mac
• Apple sees web traffic rise - Visitors up nicely, though a higher percentage bought stuff Insanely Great Mac
• So why have Apple shares dropped? - It's no longer news that Apple had yet another spectacular quarter - the company's best quarter ever! So why are AAPL shares more than $20 lower than they were last week, $40 lower than two weeks ago and $60 lower than a month ago? The answer is probably more obvious than many may think. itwire

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Mac Hardware

• ‘USA Today,’ ‘Wall Street Journal’ give MacBook Air mixed reviews - Two new reviews of the MacBook Air like the “world’s skinniest laptop overall,” but note that it has its flaws. “Personal Tech” columnist Edward C. Baig for USA Today praises the laptop’s ultra slim design, sexy looks, full size keyboard, built-in iSight and 13.3-inch display. MacimumNews
• Apple patent is for a touch pad for handheld device - An Apple patent (number 20080018615) for a touch pad for a handheld device has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. It relates generally to a media player (think, of course, the iPod) having a touch pad. More particularly, the present invention relates to touch pads having scrolling features. MacimumNews
• Apple patent is for a techniques for interactive input to portable electronic devices - An Apple patent (number 20080018616) for techniques for interactive input to portable electronic devices has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. The invention relates to improved techniques for providing user input to interactive and multitasking computing environments. MacimumNews
• Fujifilm unveils new digital cameras, printers - Fujifilm has unveiled new FinePix consumer digital cameras and printing solutions. The company is showcasing them at athis week’s PMA 2008 Annuall Convention and Trade Show. Pricing and availability haven’t been announced. MacimumNews
• FTC settles Ethernet patent claims - The FTC settles with a company attempting to collect higher patent licence fees on two Ethernet patents than originally negotiated. Macworld UK
• Think tank: FCC, Bush have failed on broadband reform - Bush administration panned for failing to prioritise broadband in the US Macworld UK
• MAC Gallery: Learning From Failure, Apple's Most Notorious Flops Wired
  
• From the Lab: More benchmarks - We test two more configurations of the new Mac Pro models, one with eight 3.0GHz processor cores and another with four 2.8Ghz cores, and compare them to Apple's suggested configuration as well as past Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 models. Macworld
  
• MacBook Air vs. Sony Vaio - Any subnotebook is about tradeoffs, and the MacBook Air is no exception. To see where Apple's latest laptop makes its tradeoffs, Rob Griffiths compares the new machine to a comparable Sony Vaio model. Macworld
• Blu-ray Player Sales Soar - iPodObserver - Blu-ray player sales took a sharp jump during the week of January 12 to account for nearly 90 percent of the HD disc player sales. While the increase in sales compared to HD DVD players may be linked to the Warner Bros. announcement that it will support Blu-ray exclusively, analysts aren't quite ready to say that the movie studio was the catalyst. Mac Observer
  
• Mossberg: MacBook Air is Beautiful, But Limited - The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg went hands on with Apple's new MacBook Air and found that the ultra-thin notebook computer is beautiful, but there are features missing that may turn disappoint some frequent travelers. Mac Observer
• MacBook Air Reviews: Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today [Now Shipping] - The first reviews are in for the MacBook Air: MacRumors.com
• NBC’s Today Show hosts rave about Apple’s MacBook Air (with video) - "The folks at Apple have done it again, " Meredith Vieira reports for NBC's Today Show... MacDailyNews
• Newsweek’s Levy reviews Apple MacBook Air: an instant object of techno-lust, a design triumph - With their new MacBook Air, Apple has fulfilled its goals in terms of thinness. The Air is a lithe sheath of aluminum so slim... MacDailyNews
• USA Today’s Baig reviews Apple MacBook Air: 3-pound marvel for frequent travelers - The MacBook Air laptop that CEO Steve Jobs unveiled last week turns heads... MacDailyNews
• Mossberg reviews Apple MacBook Air: Beautiful, amazingly thin, daring design - Apple finally has entered the subnotebook market, introducing a lightweight laptop... MacDailyNews
• First HDD-based MacBook Air reviews hit the wires - Apple has seeded journalists at three of the nation's most widespread publications -- The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Newsweek -- with early MacBook Air review units. The first reviews from these publications began cropping up earlier this morning. A detailed summary of each review, and some observations, follow. AppleInsider
• THIS DAY IN APPLE HISTORY January 24, 1984: Hello - Apple is defined by a secondary project, one that Steve Jobs wanted to kill and later demanded to control. The project is, of course, the original Mac. There isn’t much (read more) Applematters
• Intel Extends Market Lead - AMD falls, mobile chip outlook bright. Insanely Great Mac
• Air: First reviews are in - Levy, Baig, Mossberg weigh in on Apple's ultra-thin portable Insanely Great Mac
  

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OS X & Software

• Leopard 10.5.2 update to add surprise improvements? - One thing Steve Jobs failed to mention in his Macworld keynote speech, is “surprise improvements” that may be coming any day in the Leopard 10.5.2 update. Remember when Apple announced Leopard and advertised 300+ new features? Well, some were omitted because apparently they weren’t quite ready for prime-time. So is Apple about ready to redeem itself? MacimumNews
• Netflix plans streaming video service for Mac users - Netflix is planning to roll out a Web-based streaming video service some time in 2008—and it will support the Mac, according to a ZDNet report. MacimumNews
• NAMM: MOTU announces Digital Performer 6 - MOTU has announced Digital Performer 6, the latest version of the company’s high-end, Mac OS X compatible, audio application, at this week’s NAMM show. MacimumNews
• UK: First Direct offers online banking to Mac users - First Direct has joined Lloyds TSB to offer full online banking services to Mac users in the UK. The company has confirmed its online banking services now fully support Safari browser, “a significant move given recalcitrance on the part of UK banks to furnish Mac support in their online banking properties,” notes Macworld UK. MacimumNews
• O’Reilly Media releases ‘Wikipedia: The Missing Manual’ - Want to be part of the largest multilingual, free content, everyone-can-chip-in encyclopedia project in human history? O’Reilly Media’s new release—Wikipedia: The Missing Manual ($29.99) by John Broughton—can show you how. MacimumNews
• NAMM: Digital Performer 6 unveiled - Digital Performer 6 offers powerful new improvements across all its elements, including a new interface, easier usability and much-improved support for Audio Units. Macworld UK
• First Direct open for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch - Mac, iPhone and iPod touch users can now use online banking services from First Direct. Macworld UK
• Apple 'breaks' Sun developer app - DTrace features limited in order to protect iTunes DRM, open source advocates say, accuse Apple of "undermining" the software. Macworld UK
• UK ID card roll-out 'delayed until after election' - Last November the government said the 10-year cost of providing ID cards for British nationals from October 2007 to October 2017 would be £5.4bn - but admitted costs were not fixed. Macworld UK
• Mozilla says that flaw could lead to data leak - Firefox developers are working to fix a low-severity bug that lets an attacker read JavaScript code used by the browser. Macworld UK
• KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X - klblastone writes "The KDE desktop environment is going cross-platform with support for the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. In addition to porting the core KDE libraries and applications, developers are also porting popular KDE-based software like the Amarok audio player and the KOffice productivity suite. New KDE binaries for Windows were released yesterday and are now available from KDE mirrors through an automated installer program. The Mac OS X port is made available via BitTorrent in universal binary format." Slashdot
• Macgamestore Releases Azkend for the Mac - Mac Gaming News - Macgamestore.com announced the immediate availability of Azkend for the Mac on Thursday. The puzzle game takes players through the Far East to break the curse on an archaeological relic they uncovered. Mac Observer
• Personal Trader 3.1 Improves Indices and Currency Support - Coladia announced the immediate availability of Personal Trader 3.1 on Thursday. The updated version of the stock management application added support for indices and currencies in watchlists. Mac Observer
• TrailRunner 1.6 Adds GPSies Support - Berbie Software announced the immediate availability of TrailRunner 1.6 on Thursday. The updated version of the route planning and journaling application added support for the GPSies Web-based community. Mac Observer
  
• Discussion Over Apple's Modification Of Sun's DTrace - One of the most anticipated features of Mac OS X Leopard amongst the technical community was the port of Sun's DTrace utility for application and system profiling. DTrace is a powerful, low-level dynamic tracing framework that allows system administrators and developers to trace applications for tuning or troubleshooting purposes. MacRumors.com
• Inexplicable slow-down? Check for hanging processes - As we've noted a number of times, checking Activity Monitor (located in /Applications/Utilities) for stalled, processor hogging or otherwise unruly processes can be a great routine for eliminating inexplicable system slow-down (see our tutorial for information on using Activity Monitor to this end). Essentially, you're looking for processes that are displayed in red, or that are using large swaths of processor time though they aren't performing any activities. MacFixIt
• Workaround for Photoshop/Leopard inaccuracy problems - As previously reported, there exists a significant issue in Photoshop CS3 when running under Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) where various tools are wildly inaccurate, using values different than those expressed by the tool or otherwise entered by the user. When you enter values in numerical fields to set sizes for the brush, crop, marquee, lasso, type, and other Photoshop CS3 tools, those values revert to previously entered values when you try to apply them. MacFixIt

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iPods, iTunes & Apple TV

• IFPI: Better music choice on iTunes than P2P - iTunes remains the world's leading digital music service, reveals the IFPI, urges ISPs to police what content their customers download. Macworld UK
• Last.FM offers 'celestial jukebox' - Last.FM has introduced a free full-track music streaming service which allows users to select and play back the entire track using their computer at no charge. Macworld UK
• IPod Slowing, Apple's Focus Forced To Shift - Investor's Business Daily - Apple shares continued to take a beating Wednesday, a day after the company reported disappointing iPod music player sales for the holiday quarter and offered a weak outlook for the current quarter. Yahoo! NEWS
  
• Apple's iPod Touch May be the Future for Mobile Devices - NewsFactor - Despite the hammering Apple's stock took because iPod sales did not meet analysts' expectations, its new iPod Touch may have a bright future. Yahoo! NEWS
• Netflix to Offer Mac Video Streaming in 2008 - AlleyInsider reports that during their Q4 financial results, Netflix confirmed that they were hoping to have a Mac web-streaming video solution available in 2008. An earlier Netflix blog entry from August had reported the same expectation. The core issue has been a lack of an available Digital Rights Management solution for the Mac: MacRumors.com
• Apple’s iPod Touch $20 update turns best media player into even better handheld computer than before - The iPod touch January '08 update is a bargain for $20, as it turns the nation's best music and video player into an even better... MacDailyNews
• Early Adopter Tax Resurfaces with the iPod Touch January Software Upgrade - There has been a lot of debate over Apple’s recent announcement of five “new” applications for the iPod touch, available for a price of $19.99. I recently wrote about it, (read more) Applematters
  

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iPhone

• AT&T profit up on wireless growth, iPhones - AT&T posted higher quarterly profit after better-than-expected wireless growth, sending its shares up almost three percent in pre-market trading (as reported by Reuters). MacimumNews
• AT&T expanding free Wi-Fi offer - AT&T will make its 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots free to nearly all of its broadband Internet customers starting early next week, reports the Associated Press. it makes iPhone more attractive in the US. MacimumNews
• Apple lowers iPhone shipment projections - Apple has lowered its projected iPhone shipments for the current quarter, reducing component purchases from its Far East manufacturers, a report claims. Macworld UK
• AT&T ends '07 with about 2 million iPhone customers - NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc , the exclusive U.S. carrier for Apple Inc's iPhone said on Thursday it ended 2007 with "just at or slightly under 2 million iPhone customers." Yahoo! NEWS
• DriveSavers Provides Pricing Data for iPhone Recovery Services - iPodObserver - At Macworld, DriveSavers announced its iPhone emergency data recovery service. Now, additional information has been provided to iPO on shipping and pricing. Mac Observer
  
• Apple iPhone powers AT&T to record mobile customer gains - AT&T Inc. on Thursday said fourth-quarter earnings jumped almost 62%, boosted by... MacDailyNews
  
• US iPhone carrier AT&T sees record subscriber boost - AT&T said Thursday that fourth-quarter earnings rose over 61 percent, helped largely by its acquisition of BellSouth and the addition of a record 2.7 million wireless customers, many of which are believed to have switched to the provider as a result of Apple's iPhone. AppleInsider
  
• Report: Apple reduces iPhone orders for second quarter - Slow European sales have caused Apple to reduce its iPhone shipment expectations for the second fiscal quarter ending March by as much as 50 percent, according to published report. AppleInsider
  
• AT&T to offer 'no-commitment' plans [updated] - Though iPhone customers may be too valuable to see free Insanely Great Mac
• Apple trims iPhone forecast - A 40% reduction 'caused' by disappointing European sales Insanely Great Mac
• AT&T to open hotspots - Premium broadband customers to get 'free' access at 10K locations nationwide Insanely Great Mac

 

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