Stories about: Apple Computer

After a brief period of little growth this spring, The Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox Web browser is again gaining ground on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).

Apple Computer on Wednesday launched an iMac dual-core desktop PC designed and priced for students and teachers.

With a show of hands, French lawmakers approved a new copyright law on Friday, in a move that could have profound consequences for online music stores, open-source programmers, desktop Linux users and P-to-P (peer-to-peer) file sharers.

Paul Messias knows a thing or two about stretching a buck, and using open source software is one of his main techniques. As network engineer for the Needham Public Schools in Massachusetts, he is constantly looking to get more for less, given that his budget is lean at US$32,000 a year (notwithstanding the roughly US$300,000 earmarked for network gear for the town's high school, which is being renovated starting at the end of this year).

Parallels, a Virginia-based startup, has released the final version of its Mac virtualisation software, two months after it began testing.

Apple Computer extended the courtesy of meeting with me one day after my column on the closing of the OS X x86 kernel source code was published online.

Pressure is mounting in Europe for Apple Computer to loosen the ties between its iTunes music store and its iPod music players, with activity in Norway and the U.K. this week demonstrating opposition to Apple's policies.

Google plans on Tuesday to release a free online spreadsheet program that signals the company's increased incursion into the office software space dominated by Microsoft.

One year after Apple Computer announced plans to use Intel processors in its computers, Apple is pushing the world's largest chip maker into new directions, a top executive said Monday.

Yahoo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Terry Semel will receive just US$1 as salary, along with at least six million stock options to soften the blow.

The next release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to concern Google, which nonetheless has no plans to develop a competing browser, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday.