Matthew Rothenberg

In another reshuffling of the Mac markets long-established trade-show calendar, IDG World Expo has pulled the plug on the 2003 edition of Macworld Expo/Tokyo. “IDG World Expo Japan made the executive decision to cancel the Macworld Expo Tokyo 2003 because of not receiving applications from major exhibitors by the time of the deadline,” a spokeswoman […]

Wheres Apple Computers answer to the Tablet PC? The Mac maker isnt talking yet, but I predict it will have plenty to say about Microsofts new portable-computing initiative next year—if the pen-driven slate takes hold in the market. Bill Gates pet project is now open for business, and a string of PC makers have lined […]

Apple Computer Inc. turned a new page for Mac OS X on Monday when it took the wraps off a new journaling feature for the Unix-based operating system. Apple delivered the journaling technology alongside the server configuration of Mac OS X 10.2.2; both client and server versions of Version 10.2.2 are available now for download. […]

Anyone who wonders why I like covering Apple and the Mac should consider the frenzy of speculation leading up to last Wednesdays tweaks to the companys notebook lines. What other vendor could inspire weeks of anticipation by its constituency over incremental speed increases, modest price cuts and a handful of new hardware features at the […]

Just in time for the holidays, Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday added new trimmings to both sides of its portable line with enhancements to its professional Titanium PowerBook G4 and consumer iBook lines. The new PowerBook reaches the 1GHz mark at the high end and features a slot-loading SuperDrive for burning CDs and DVDs as […]

Apples enterprise customers are apparently due for more stocking stuffers for the holidays: the journaling file system for the next interim rev of Mac OS X and a RAID system for Apples rack-mounted Xserve hardware. If my guess is correct, the two should roll out in a package aimed at upping the ante in the […]

The relationship between Apple Computer and Microsoft reminds me of an anecdote about the Cold War alliance between Albania and the Peoples Republic of China: At a bipartisan conference, Albanian representatives bemused their Chinese hosts by insisting that their tiny country was the natural leader of a bloc comprising 802 million citizens—2 million of them […]

eWeek has been tracking a couple of key Macintosh stories this past week: One has been publicized (in part), the other remains unannounced so far and both portend good things for enterprise users. The public news: At last weeks Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., IBM rang up the curtain (halfway) on its 64-bit PowerPC […]

The producer of Macworld Conference & Expo on Thursday made official its plans to move the summer installment of the show back to its Boston birthplace—but Apple Computer said it wont be along for the ride. IDG World Expo said that starting in July 2004, the annual East Coast event will be held at the […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—IBM on Tuesday touted the first in what it said will be a new line of 64-bit PowerPC chips, the 1.8GHz PowerPC 970, which the computer maker hopes to have featured in a future product by Apple Computer Inc. While neither Apple nor IBM would comment on whether the Mac maker has agreed […]

In my lengthy experience tracking the moves of the tech market in general and Apple Computer in particular, scoop news—especially scoop news about a company as rumor-averse as Apple—tends to arrive in fits and starts. Sometimes the Mac maker is playing its future moves so close to the drawing board, it seems like theres little […]

Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday delivered a new gift to the open-source community when it opened the code for Rendezvous, its hands-off networking technology. Developers can download Rendezvous as open source under the Apple Public Source License. The Cupertino, Calif., company simultaneously released Version 6.0.1 of Darwin for PowerPC- and x86-based systems. Darwin, Apples open-source […]