online.wsj.com - 12/30/2008
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BEN CHARNY | Dow Jones Newswires SAN FRANCISCO Apple Inc.'s eye-catching logo - an apple with a bite taken from it - has come in many colors in the past. Now, the iconic computer company is trying to prove its commitment to the color green. In recent advertising, the Cupertino, Calif., company ...
apple.com - 1/5/2009
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apple.com —
January 5, 2009 Letter from Apple CEO Steve
Jobs Dear Apple Community, For the first time in...
a decade, I m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote. Unfortunately, my decision to have ...
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Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
apple.com - 1/5/2009
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apple.com —
January 5, 2009 Statement by Apple s Board
of Directors It is widely recognized both inside and...
outside of Apple that Steve Jobs is one of the most talented and effective CEOs in the world. As we have said before, if there ever comes a day when Steve ...
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Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors
alleyinsider.com - 12/30/2008
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alleyinsider.com —
Apple's (AAPL) iPod touch is a hit ,
and PC makers like Dell (DELL) and Asus are...
doing good business selling cheap, small "netbook" laptops. It's time for Steve Jobs to smash them together into a killer multi-touch tablet. We're calling ours the iPod ...
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It's Time For An Apple Tablet: Where's My iPod Touch HD? ...
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Dell's "Carbon Neutrality" Is Really a Bunch of Cow Poop [Dell]
Gizmodo —
... The consumers, and how they use Dell products, Dell shouldn't really have to count. But, anything that goes into making the computers up until the point they hit your door, on the other hand, should totally be on Dell. So calling themselves carbon neutral at this moment feels at least a little bit disingenuous, even if they are trying really hard to be green. That said, they still might be doing better than Apple, according to a different WSJ report. ...
Study: Consumers view Apple as world’s greenest company
MacDailyNews —
... 2009, and removing mercury and arsenic from its products' displays." Charny reports, "Apple also has taken steps to release more information about its environmental policies, which have helped its image. A recent survey by the Diffusion Group, a Dallas research company that studies the impact of green products on consumer decisions, found consumers view Apple as the world's greenest company." More in the full article, including criticisms of Apple's record from the usual sources, here . Apple's new MacBooks: the world's greenest family of notebooks. Direct link to video via ...
Last Bytes: Steve Jobs' Health, Yahoo, and Google
Tech Observer —
Apple's trendsetting ways fall short when it comes to the environment. [WSJ] How much are hot domains going for? YellowPages recently paid $3.85 million, in cash, for YP.com. But AT&T, YellowPages' parent, paid $100 million for YellowPages.com in 2006. [TechCrunch] Seems Kara Swisher's more antsy about getting a new CEO into Yahoo than its board is. [AllThingsD] Lots of hullabaloo around a report by Gizmodo that Steve Jobs' health is in fact behind the cancellation of MacWorld appearance. Here's the original report. [Gizmodo ...
Report: Dell’s Claim of Carbon Neutrality Less Green, More PR
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
... took a swing at Apple’s “green laptop” claims. The WSJ also ran a similar story about Apple on Tuesday. Apple’s claims of greenness appear to be as much about marketing as Dell’s. So perhaps Dell doesn’t have to feel quite so bad.
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daringfireball.net 10/16/2008 — One thing Apple knows is what it does. Apple designs and produces very nice things. All this hubbub over low-cost laptops is outside the realm of what makes Apple Apple .
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Apple media server rumored for Macworld Expo —
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In yo' face, HP The pre-Macworld Expo rumor machine has been in low gear this year - perhaps due to Apple's SVP Phil Schiller taking over keynote duties from His Steveness - but thanks to 9to5Mac, we have a new bit of speculation to report: an ...
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