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Intuit today announced the release of Quicken Essentials for Mac (QEM), a complete rebuild of the company’s personal financial management application.

QEM launches a new era for Quicken on the Mac. It marks Intuit’s first Mac-…

Apple today announced that its iTunes Store has reached the significant milestone of 10 billion songs downloaded, as we noted yesterday. The company also revealed that the winner of its “Countdown to 10 …

Apple’s patent applications always generate a lot of interest as they are one of the few windows we have into the company’s research and development labs. Some patent applications are more interesting or relevant than others, but we knew thi…

There isn’t much more to say about these Mac OS X seeds, except that Apple is still at it. Tonight, Apple delivered Mac OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D561 for developers. iPhone Canada details the changes listed, which haven’t changed much since the previous…

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Apple’s iTunes Store today reached 10 billion music downloads since its inception in 2003, and along with the milestone comes the end of the company’s “Countdown to 10 Billion Songs” promotion. The winner of the promotion, who is yet to be a…

Apple yesterday began promoting on its home page the release of its annual Supplier Responsibility progress report, describing the company’s commitment to responsible business practices on the part of its suppliers and other partners around t…

Googlers are gobsmacked that an Italian court found three company executives guilty of violating Italy’s privacy laws over a video uploaded to Google Video. After all, the company quickly removed the video, of an autistic student being bullied, in 2006.

And none of the executives “appear in… film… upload… or review” the clip in question, says Google; in fact none are even based in Italy. The company called the Italian ruling “stunning” and “a serious threat to the web in Italy…. Common sense dictates that only the person who films and uploads a video” should be held responsible for a privacy violation. In other words, when you want something removed from the internet, you should send your attack dogs after the person who actually made it. And Google executives don’t just preach that principle, they live by it.

(Pic: The judge in the Google case, Oscar Magi, in a 2009 AP file photo.)

Just days after Apple removed over 5000 “overtly sexual” applications from the App Store, the company appears to have taken a curious turn that could result in the reinstatement of many of these applications.

Cult of Mac reports and Ma…

Unfortunately, we already know how this story ends. Apple introduced the iPad in late January and made no mention of a camera – either on the front or back of the device. So that means no video conferencing or even photos are possible on the first …