Steve Jobs and Apple Execs Cleared of any Wrongdoing: "An internal investigation at Apple has cleared Steve Jobs and other Apple execs of any misconduct regarding stock-option grants. News has sent the stock up 4% in pre-market trading."
(Via diggdot.us.)
Report: Apple executives faked stock option documents: "Apple's probe into its stock options backdating mess has determined that documents were falsified, according to report."
(Via CNET News.com.)
Have you yet tired Aperture? I'm really beginning to enjoy the workflow and adjustment tools. If you're a serious photographer (or serious hobbyist like me) it's definitely worth a look. -TG
Filed under: Software, Apple Professional
Aperture is Apple's tool designed for professional photographers who take lots and lots of pictures. As such, handling metadata is an important part of any workflow involving Aperture. James Duncan Davidson has some tricks to help you get the metadata you need into Aperture as quickly as possible. I'm sure this will save someone some time out there.
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While MacBooks and iPods have already been unwrapped the world over during this holiday season, retailers are also taking the wraps off some of their own presents in the form of sales numbers. In a press release containing interesting holiday sales trivia and a hot sellers list for all of their many departments, Amazon announced the 13-inch MacBook (in both white and black) and 15.4-inch Sony VAIO notebook as the top sellers in the PC aisle. Interesting - maybe some of that 'non-PC PC' marketing paid off after all.technorati tags:Apple, Macintosh, MacBook
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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple Financial, Bad Apple, Apple
We have written about the Apple stock options story before, but things just keep getting worse. The Associated Press is reporting that former Apple execs forged documents in order to maximize options payouts. The article also goes on to say that Steve Jobs has retained his own legal counsel, apart from Apple's, which is never a good sign (though I would retain my own legal counsel if I were involved in something of this nature).Filed under: Switchers
There are switchers, and then there are Switchers. Robyn Peterson, executive product director/executive producer at Ziff Davis, is a capital-S-Switcher; when the guy who's responsible for PCMag.com jumps the tracks to a Mac, there's a serious movement afoot.technorati tags:Macintosh, Switcher, Apple
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Filed under: iPod Family, iTS, iTunes
AppleInsider reports that not only did iTunes get swamped yesterday (as expected), but visits to Apple.com/iTunes, presumably to download software, were up by four hundred percent over last year's Christmas rush. Think about that. Apparently a gadzillion people got new iPods this year, and a good number of them clicked over to Apple.The article goes on to say that visits to the Apple iTunes webpage outnumbered visits to Zune.net by about thirty-to-one. Given that iPods presumably outsold Zunes by a far heftier margin, I'm guessing that the Zune.net visits had something to do with technical support by confused new owners, but I have no evidence whatsoever to back up that guess.
