Vern Seward offers his tour of this week's free offerings on iTunes, including Samurai Girl, Empire Shaolin Kung Fu Classic Films, The Life and Times of Tim, the Democratic and Republican National Convention highlights, and much more

Microsoft gets no soup, no respect, and an ad about nothing in their new advertising campaign which launched during Thursday Night Football. I formed a theory a while back that the ad would mirror Microsoft?s corporate culture, and I think my prediction was fulfilled

If you?re like me (or more correctly, like I used to be), you may be saying: "Huh? Best Buy? Who would want to go there to buy Apple products?" Indeed, over the years, my opinion of Best Buy had sunk so low that you'd have to open a storm drain to even hope to find it. But times change

John C. Dvorak and some others have been asking why in the hell Google would bother releasing a new browser in this day and age. When it comes to Google, the super short answer is, "Why not?" For a longer answer, we have only to look at the lessons that Apple...

Nokia is citing stiff competition, sluggish growth due to the global economy and a production glitch as contributors to a weaker third quarter. The company also announced that it would lose market share, and the news sent Nokia's stock tumbling 9 percent lower

Aspyr Media announced on Friday that its game "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" will ship for Intel Macs on September 15. The game was originally scheduled to be released earlier in the year

<a href="http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/09/05.6.shtml"><img src="http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/08/apple_flatline.png" class="teas_thumb" alt="Apple" width="80" height="80" border="0"/></a>Some iPhone users are experiencing syncing problems or slow performance when connected to the Mac via a USB 2 hub

TUNEWEAR announced the immediate availability of a line of clear, polycarbonate and silicone shell cases for the iPhone 3G on Friday. Clear, protective films are also available

MTS, Russia's largest mobile phone operator, has announced that they will carry the Apple iPhone, according to the Associated Press on Friday. Previously, Vimpelcom and Megafon in Russia made similar announcements

<a href="http://www.macobserver.com/stockwatch/2008/09/05.1.shtml"><img src="http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/08/20080828aaplstock.jpg" class="teas_thumb" alt="" width="80" height="80" border="0"/></a>American Technology Research's Shaw Wu published a note to investors on Friday and outlined his low expectations for a break-through announcement by Apple at the September 9 event. The focus is likely to be iPod specific, and new notebooks aren't expected to be introduced. However, there are...

Microsoft's first commercial featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates aired last night, and today TMO readers are sharing their take on the ad

TweakerSoft announced the immediate availability of AroundMe 1.0 for the iPhone and iPhone 3G on Friday

Most people never think about the Domain Name Servers their ISP provides, and for the most part they probably handle their part in serving up Web pages just fine. If you want more control over content the Internet feeds you, however, your service provider's DNS services may well fall short. That's where...

Optima System announced the immediate availability of CamSpinner 2.0 on Friday. The new version of the webcam image publishing application offers faster FTP uploads, and can schedule webcam actions in iCal with AppleScript

Microsoft aired the first of its pro-Windows commercials featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Thursday evening, although there was no mention of Microsoft's operating system in the ad. Instead, the ad focused on the interaction between Seinfeld and Gates in a discount...

Google's Chrome is based on advanced technologies like SquirrelFish enhanced Javascript. Even so, developers should just skip the browser framework and write Internet apps that use Webkit directly, according to Tom Yager at Infoworld.

Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, explained that Chrome was designed to stop Microsoft from Balkanizing the Internet in ways that favor its own services, according to the Financial Times

<a href="http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/09/04.7.shtml"><img src="http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/08/20080827iph3fb.jpg" class="teas_thumb" alt="" width="57" height="81" border="0"/></a>The IT manager of a major law firm believes that the iPhone will eventually supplant the BlackBerry as the smartphone of choice for attorneys, according to <em>ITWire</em>

Apple has been in deficit mode lately with respect to customer perceptions. A botched MobileMe launch, perceived problems with the iPhone 3G, and the endless wait for new notebooks have Apple customers in a bit of a funk. It's time to really rock

Apple's multi-touch technology can go a long way towards basic operations on an iPhone or MacBook trackpad. However, a new Apple patent filing posted on Thursday shows that Apple intends to create a complete UI with the aid of secondary sensor data