Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

Apple said Friday that Chief Operating Office Tim Cook was awarded nearly 22 million in stock- and cash-based compensation for his performance running the company during Steve Jobs’ absence last year.

When Apple enabled in-app purchases for iPhone applications, it seemed as though the days of “free” and “paid” versions of any given app were coming to an end. Soon, I thought, everything in the store would start out free as a teaser and then charge for an upgrade. That hasn’t exactly panned out universally, but [...]

The current trend on the SSD market follows the scheme we were expecting: one of side 100 € SSD models offering low capacity and one the other side models with more storage space and higher performance levels thanks to top notch controllers. While OCZ was mostly offering products belonging to the second category beside entry [...]

In its annual list of the world’s billionaires, Forbes this year ranked Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a tie with six others for 136th place with a net worth of $5.5 billion. Jobs’ net worth is up from $5.1 billion in an October 2009 Forbes ranking…

Cisco unveiled yesterday new routing systems able to revolutionize the worldwide network edge: the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System. According to the company, the new system is designed to serve as the foundation for the next generation internet, and should support for the next decade and beyond the fast growing demand linked to online video streaming/download, [...]

Digitimes announced that the price of Blu-ray drives dramatically dropped over the past weeks, reaching a price range of 70 to 80 USD. It remains more expensive than the DVD burner drive; however it could help computer companies to integrate such optical drive more often in their models, of course for Apple one would need [...]

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least eight Mac applications for $19.95 (over $280 value if all purchased separately) including: …

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least eight Mac applications for $19.95 (over $280 value if all purchased separately) including: …

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was in attendance at the Oscars Sunday night, and during the telecast the first iPad ad revealed, upon closer look, prices for some titles in the new iBookstore.

The new features in Apple’s makeover of its image editing and archiving program Aperture appear to be a hit among photographers, even though the initial release of the application was so flawed an upgrade had to be released within two weeks of its launch. Aperture 3.0 ($199) has more than two hundred new features, including [...]

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