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Apple Has Stopped Mac Mini Shipments, Finally Discontinued?

Gizmodo is reporting that according to two retailers in Europe, Apple has stopped shipping the Mac Mini, and told them not to expect any new units.

According to Giz, the Mac Mini may be pronounced dead (finally?) as soon as today’s Apple Q4 Earnings Call. The Mac Mini is currently Apple’s least successful computer, in terms [...]

Apple Tops 9% Market Share, Outperforms PC Market (Again)

Proving analysts were right about Apple’s cushy market position, the Cupertino tech firm continues to increase its market share, closing in at 9%, ranking third in the US market.

According to recent data from Gartner, Apple has posted an around 30 percent increase in market share over third quarter sales numbers from the previous year holding [...]

Leaked RIM Documents: Blackberry Media Sync App for Mac

According to the Boy Genius Report, RIM is finally releasing a native Media Sync application for mac users.

Apparently the application is in a very early stage, and currently it can only sync iTunes playlists to a memory card or the device itself. In its full version you’ll be able to sync music, photos and videos [...]

People Love Windows: As Long As It’s Running On A Mac

Sales of virtualization software Parallels and VMware Fusion are up 50% so far this year. Both pieces of software allow Mac users to run Windows applications side by side with OS X, making it a huge selling point for Mac holdouts, or those interested in making the switch.

A lot of business users need to run [...]

Analyst: Slumping Economy Leads to Trimmed Mac Sale Estimates

American Technology Research analyst, Shaw Wu, maintains that even Apple is susceptible to downturn due in part to the severe economic situation, as he has cut his December and March quarters as well as 2009 revenue and EPS estimates.

Wu notes that while September quarter Mac sales could potentially remain healthy due to the school season [...]

Registration for Macworld 2009 Officially Begins; New Cinema Displays?

According to MacWorld.com, the IDG World Expo has opened attendee registration for MacWorld Conference & Expo 2009, set to take place (once again) in San Francisco, California at the Moscone Center, on January 5-9, 2009.

The MacWorld Conference & Expo is an annual even for Apple where, historically, important announcements have been made. It’s where Steve [...]

Apple Snags 8% of Home Notebook Market Share, Fourth Place

According to a survey recently done by research firm MetaFacts, Apple has snagged the number four spot among the home notebook market.

The research firm reports that Apple’s market share is increasingly driven by its “success at attracting younger, more highly educates, and higher-income households, as well as the self-employed.” Metafacts conducted a survey of [...]

iMacs to Recieve Speedbump Before the Holidays?

Apple has plans to update a massive part of its product line over the next two months. Latest in the round of rumors is a speed-bumped iMac.

Nothing radical or revolutionary, just some minor speedbumps.
“Separately, Apple is also planning to refresh its line of 20- and 24-inch iMac seasons ahead of the holidays. People familiar with [...]

Overhauled Apple Notebooks Due Next Month. Quad Core Possible.

Apple is expected to release a completely overhauled line of notebooks within the next month or two that should take advantage of major advancements in mobile computing technology. With Intel having announced Mobile Quad Core chips, and machines like the Lenovo W700 already utilizing the technology, it may only be a matter of time before [...]

[Videos] Three New ‘Get a Mac’ Ads; Apple Gets Ruthless on Windows and Vista

Three new ‘Get a Mac’ Ads by Apple show their undying love for Microsoft, Windows PC’s and Vista.

Pizza box

Calming Teas

Throne

Microsoft has launched “The Mojave Experiment” in hopes of turning around Vista’s image.
The original commercials can be viewed on Apple’s website.

[via MDN]

Mac and iPod Drought; Apple Says BUY NOW

Following speculation by online sources that suggest Apple is preparing new models of both the iPod nano and the iPod touch, as well as reports into the company’s redesign of MacBooks and MacBook pros, Apple is now advising resellers to be prepared for product shortages in the next few months.
In recent days, Apple has issued [...]

Mac notebook sales up 61%.

“Apple has been receiving a lot of press lately, and it’s not just related to the iPhone 3G. Mac sales are increasing. This past April Mac sales increased by 50%. Apple also beat out Dell; it is now the number one seller of notebook computers to those within higher education.”
“According to market research by DisplaySearch [...]

Alliance unites to promote Macs in the workplace.

Five enterprise software companies have recently joined forces to to promote the use of Macs within corporate environments that are currently managed with Microsoft Windows.  Members of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA), as they are called, include Atempo, Centrify, Group Logic, LANrev, and Mac virtualization veteran Parallels who together believe that they can show businesses [...]

Survey shows 80% of businesses now on Macs.

Yankee Group Research Inc. has recently conducted a survey showing that nearly 80% of businesses are running Macs in-house, almost double the percentage of two years ago.
“Then, we were talking about onesies and twosies,” said Laura DiDio, a research fellow at Yankee Group Research Inc. who conducted a survey of more than 700 senior IT [...]

WALL•E video game coming to a Mac near you.

Imagine life after all humanity has left you behind to clean up their mess.  Well you won’t have to wait long as Disney/Pixar have announced that they will be releasing a WALL•E video game that will be available on the Mac platform in the months following the release of the feature film on June 27th.  [...]