New and Noteworthy: 10 year anniversaries, Steve Jobs' return to Apple and MacBU formation; Wall St. underestimating the Mac?;

10 year anniversaries, Steve Jobs' return to Apple and MacBU formation Ars Technica points out that yesterday and today mark two major anniversaries for the Mac community: the formation of the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit and the return of Steve Jobs to Apple, respectively. "(T)oday is the 10-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' return to Apple, but this week also signifies another 10-year anniversary: the 10-year anniversary of the formation of the Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) at Microsoft! Incidentally, this anniversary (February 6, 1997) falls just one day before the Jobs return (February 7, 1997). What did the Mac BU do to celebrate? Well, they nerded it the hell up, it seems. One ambitious employee, Joe LeBlanc, and two cohorts, Jessica Lambert and Matt Elggren, arrived at the office at 6am yesterday to set up giant, pixelated designs in the windows, made entirely out of sticky notes." More.

Blogging Stocks: Is Wall Street underestimating iMac? A Blogging Stocks column opines that while many investors are focused on the iPod and iPhone, others are looking squarely at the Mac as a profit generator. Independent investment advisor Nate Pile writes: "These products (iPod, iPhone) are not our primary reason for being in the stock. That honor goes to the company's iMac line. I do believe that there are a number of forces coming together in the world of the digital consumer that suggest it may be possible for Apple to recapture perhaps as many as 4 to 8 percentage points of PC market share in just a couple of quarters." More.

Watchdog hits back at Jobs' DRM dream Silicon.com reports that one of the European regulators "slammed" in Steve Jobs' open letter on DRM has hit back, "rebutting the Apple chief's position that music companies and not hardware makers are responsible for locking systems down." [For more on Steve Jobs' open letter, see this article] "Torgeir Waterhouse, senior advisor of the Norwegian Consumer Council, said: 'Our concern is of course that it's Apple and iTunes Music Store [which] should be addressing the issue of record companies and DRM themselves if it needs to be addressed - and as we've stated earlier it's iTunes Music Store that's providing a service to the consumers and therefore has the responsibility to offer up a consumer friendly product.' Waterhouse added that while record companies must bear some liability for the situation, Apple is still the company responsible under Norwegian law." More.

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• AirPort Extreme 802.11n (#4): How to tell if you have enabler installed; problems with HP printers for new Base station
• Odds and Ends: Steve Jobs thinks DRM should be abolished; Knowledge Base updates

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