Apple Inc. will probably begin selling a lower-priced version of the iPhone in the first half of next year, tapping a new chipmaker for a key component, according to Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. ...more

January 1, 2009

Apple's MacBook laptop, the company's low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn't just any old product. It's the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the United States overall. And, according to the sales-research organization NPD Group, the midrange model of the MacBook has been the single best-selling laptop of any brand in U.S. retail stores for the past five months. ...more

October 27, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Apple To Open In Brandon The Apple retail store at the Westfield Brandon mall opens at 10 a.m. Saturday. It is the second to open locally, complementing the one at International Plaza, and is the 14th in the state. The hands-on store will give customers a chance to test-drive Apple's product line, which includes the popular iPhone and iPod and the new MacBook Air, the world's thinnest notebook computer. ...more

May 22, 2008

My McAfee firewall wants to know whether it should block or unblock something named "BackWeb-8876480." What is this? ...more

January 21, 2008

I have a refurbished MacBook and have yet to back up any of my files. Can you recommend an external hard drive that is idiot-proof? ...more

December 10, 2007

Can I use both Windows Media Player and iTunes with the same music collection? I have an iPod, but I can't use iTunes in my PC's Media Center interface. ...more

September 24, 2007