Overseas sales could revive Apple From bigtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/ Can Apple regain its status as a Wall Street darling? And Apple TV, the second incarnation of Apple's failed attempt to bring digital downloads to the television, doesn't seem to be attracting an iPod-like following either; While the Mac maker had an impressive holiday season in the U.S., ranking third in overall PC shipments behind Dell ( DELL ) and HP according to IDC, Apple came in seventh in the global rankings. On the phone from a Paris hotel, the iPod and iPhone marketing chief...

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Apple adds multi-touch to the Macbook Pro From infoSync World The professional-strength laptop gets the Macbook Air's trackpad, and all the laptops get an update to Intel's Penryn chip. Apple today announced an incremental update to their Macbook and Macbook Pro laptop lines. On the Pro side, the 17-inch Macbook Pro will be available with an LED-backlit screen, which provides instant-on brightness for the display, an cuts down on some of the nasty chemicals used in normal laptop screens.

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Apple's iTunes grows to No. 2 US music retailer From Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc's iTunes digital media store edged out Best Buy Co and Target Corp to become the second-largest U.S. music retailer, behind Wal-Mart Stores, according to data released on Tuesday from tracking firm NPD Group. Based on 2007 sales, legal music downloads now account for 10 percent of music acquired in the United States, but the increase failed to offset a decline in physical CD sales, NPD said.

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Review: Apple Aperture 2 From VNUNet.com Unlike Photoshop and other image-editing applications, Apple's Aperture is primarily a photo-management application aimed at helping professional photographers sort, compare, file and print photos. Though it works with JPEG, TIFF and other image file types, Aperture is primarily designed to work with RAW files, and this version has a new RAW conversion engine that interprets the image data to produce an RGB file. The one disappointment we experienced was that, in isolation at least,...

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Apple's Seeds of Discontent From CNBC If it were the latter, people would focus on the products Apple is selling, the pipeline it's developing, the innovation it's offering, and the market trends of which Apple continues to take advantage. Apple is in the midst of a product transition on the entertainment side, but strong Mac shipments, favorable component pricing and other factors in Apple favor should more than offset softness elsewhere. Even if you believe there's a slowdown in Apple sales, or that the company is bumping its...

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