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The After Mac

Archive for the ‘Apple News’ Category

June 19th, 2008

5 Billion and Counting

Yep, that’s how much songs have been sold through iTunes. It’s changed the way we buy and listen to music. At least I know it has for me. This is according to a recent report at MarketWatch.
Just the other day I found myself the happy recipient of several iTunes gift cards from my dad. I […]

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June 11th, 2008

My Thoughts On The WWDC 2008 Keynote

First, pardon me if this is a couple of days late. I spent two days at the hospital and wasn’t able to watch the keynote live. I downloaded it via iTunes today and watched it. Chris posted his own recap of WWDC 2008 Keynote and now I’m posting mine.
To sum it all up in […]

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May 27th, 2008

67 And Counting

That’s the number of countries that have been counted as the iPhone’s destination before 2008 ends. TeliaSonera is the latest company to be announced and it will bring the iPhone to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Lativa and Estonia.
TeliaSonera is the largest Nordic and Baltic State mobile phone operator. It has a total of 115 […]

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May 20th, 2008

Mac Sales Sky Rocketing

According to an AppleInsider Story, Mac sales are soaring. It posted a 50% year on year growth for the month of April. A staggering figure compared to 17% for the PC market.
It’s not only the numbers that show it. Even in everyday life you see the Mac gaining popularity. I’ve been seeing more and […]

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May 13th, 2008

Your Fave HBO Shows Now Showing On iTunes

HBO and Apple have teamed up to bring your favorite HBO shows on iTunes. Shows like “Sex In The City”, “The Sporanos”, “Rome” and “Deadwood” will be made available via the iTunes Music Store.
A quote from the Apple press release says
“We’re very excited to make these legendary HBO programs available on the iTunes Store,” […]

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April 29th, 2008

Canada To iPhone, Rogers!

Forbes reports that the iPhone is coming to Canada and the provider of choice is Rogers Communications. Rogers made this announcement today together with the release of its first quarter results.
Rogers is Canada’s leading carrier. It will give Apple access to around 6 million post paid subscribers.
The article hints about the fact that […]

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March 31st, 2008

Corporate Customers Satisfied With Leopard

PC World’s Gregg Keizer writes in his column that users of Leopard are five times more likely to say that they’re “very satisfied” with the OS than users of Windows Vista. This is according to a research done by ChangeWave Research.
Quoting from the article
In a February survey of 2,200 U.S. corporate computer users, 53% of […]

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March 28th, 2008

Aperture 2.1 Out Now

Available as a free download, Apple has just released Aperture 2.1. What’s new with this version? Well the most notable addition is the introduction of an open plug-in architecture that will enable third party developers to create plug-ins for Aperture.
Apple has included it’s own plug-in, Dodge & Burn. Other plug-ins from third party developers are […]

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March 18th, 2008

Adobe To Develop Flash Player For iPhone

CNNMoney reports that Adobe is working on getting a Flash Player for the iPhone. It was reported awhile back that Apple has decided not to support the Flash Player on the iPhone because of technical concerns. Apple also suggested to Adobe to develop a player suited for the iPhone.
During a conference call last Tuesday […]

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March 5th, 2008

Facebook Plus iTunes Equals Social Music

[via CrunchGear ]
Facebook wasn’t really that big before here in Manila, until recently. So it’s only been a few months since I’ve been a Facebook user. However in that few months that I’ve been using Facebook, I’ve grown to like it a lot.
Facebook just announced that it’s partnering with Apple in selling music via […]

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