Cody Taylor

The points Wozniak makes about Apple’s product pipeline, and how they have long roadmaps sometimes stretching 1 or 2 years ahead, may be enough to reassure people that whatever products are released over the next 6 months, have been planned for quite a while. They aren’t being rapidly conceived and developed without Jobs’ overseeing vision.

A Chinese-language blog with a debatable track record claims Apple is working on a 15-inch MacBook Air with more information to come in the “second half” of this year.

A banner on Apple’s front page proclaims that the App Store has surpassed 15,000 available applications and 500 million downloads. The milestones come just over six months after the App Store’s debut.Apple last reported on December 5th, 2008 that they had surpassed 10,000 available applications and 300 million downloads.

theodp writes “Most of America’s largest publicly traded corporations and Federal contractors — including those receiving billions of dollars from US taxpayers to finance their recovery — have set up offshore operations that could help them avoid paying US taxes, according to a GAO study released yesterday. Of the 100 largest public companies, 83 do business in tax-haven hot-spots like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and the British Virgin Islands. The report found that Citigroup, a recipient of B in bailout funds so far, has set up 427 subsidiaries in tax-haven countries, including 91 in Luxembourg, 90 in the Cayman Islands, and 35 in the British Virgin Islands. Household names on the lists from the tech sector include Apple (1 tax haven subsidiary), Cisco (38), Dell (29), HP (14), Intel (6), IBM (10), Microsoft (8), Motorola (4), and Oracle (77).”

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Apple’s “OS X” (without the “Mac”) trademark filing reveals an intention to distance the OS from the Mac realm, indicating Apple’s desire to use OS X on a much broader array of gadgets in the future. Some Apple watchers are convinced we will see more OS X software platforms beyond current desktop and mobile OS X. Like a game console, for instance.

Back before Apple Inc. made computers that fit in your pocket, it made computers that fit on your desk. Some were big-box machines, others were not so portable portables and still others were — literally — cube-shaped. But the first Macintosh, the one that started Apple’s rise to iconic status, is to the computer industry what the wheel was…

Apple Inc. founder and chief executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming.

An e-book submitted to Apple’s App Store has been approved after the author removed language that apparently offended Apple.

When Steve Jobs recently announced that he would be taking a leave of absence from Apple, a number of critics began shouting that Apple and Steve Jobs deliberately withheld relevant information from the public. But to what extend did Steve Jobs and Apple have to disclose his health condition to the public?