February 21, 2007: Apple has settled with Cisco over the iPhone trademark, which Cisco legally owns but Apple wants to use. Under the agreement, the two companies can use the iPhone trademark on products worldwide. The two companies also dismiss pending lawsuits against each other and agree to “explore opportunities for interoperability in security and … Read more
February 20, 2004: Music is small as the launch of the iPod mini brings the redesigned digital audio player to Apple stores. Released with 4GB of storage and five colors, the tiny device features a new “click wheel” that integrates control buttons into a touch-sensitive solid-state scroll wheel. It also shows Cupertino’s growing fascination with … Read more
February 18, 2004: Apple CEO Steve Jobs sends an internal message to employees revealing that the company is completely debt-free for the first time in years. “Today is a historic, fateful day for our society,” he writes. It’s a big turnaround from the bad old days of the 1990s, when Apple was carrying more than … Read more
February 16, 2000: Apple introduces the PowerBook ‘Pismo’, the best of its G3 notebooks. In the eyes of many, it is one of the best Apple laptops ever. The Pismo PowerBook is the first model without a SCSI or Apple Desktop Bus connector. Instead, it uses Apple’s Emmy Award-winning USB and FireWire ports. Optional AirPort … Read more
February 5, 2008: Six months after the first generation iPhone went on sale, Apple is releasing a new version with a whopping 16GB of storage. “For some users, there’s never enough memory,” says Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of worldwide iPod and iPhone marketing. “Now people can enjoy even more of their music, photos and … Read more
February 4, 2008: Apple CEO Steve Jobs is reportedly considering buying the search engine Yahoo. Apple is one of several companies interested following reports that Microsoft offered $44.6 billion for the Web portal last week. In the end, nothing came of it, but Apple’s interest is later confirmed in Jobs’ authorized biography. Is Apple buying … Read more