MACMYDAY NEWS BLOG:

5/13/08

MacMyDay Helps Sponsor Haven House.

On May 12, MacMyDay helped sponsor Haven House again by volunteering their time and money to the Haven House 5th Annual Golf Classic. This event is a fundraiser. Not only is MacMyDay a Tee Green Sponsor but also designed the sponsorship book. Haven House was founded in 1964 to shelter abused women and children, making it the oldest shelter in the country. Serving over hundreds of families, their mission is to help battered women and their children on their way towards a life free of violence by providing a safe haven for them. Click here to learn more and to help Have House. www.havenhousela.com.

5/13/08

Sopranos, Deadwood, Sex And The City... on iTunes.

HBO and Apple today announced that customers can now purchase and download original HBO shows including: such Emmy Award-winning programs as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwood, and Rome iTunes.

5/1/08

New Movies Available on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release

Today Apple® announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes® Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios. Movies purchased from iTunes can be viewed on an iPod® with video, iPhone™, Mac® or PC or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV®, with new releases priced at $14.99 and most catalog titles at $9.99.

New releases available for purchase on the iTunes Store this week, concurrent with their DVD release, include “American Gangster” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” Other popular titles now available for purchase include “Juno,” “Cloverfield,” “I Am Legend,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.” Movie purchases and rentals from the iTunes Store for Mac or Windows require iTunes 7.6.2, available as a free download immediately from www.itunes.com.

4/28/08

The iMac Screams and gets a 3.0GHz jolt!!!

Apple® today updated its all-in-one iMac® line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors (up to 3.06 GHZ) and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac. With prices starting at just $1,199, iMac includes faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models (up to 4GB of 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory). The 24-inch iMac now offers a 3.06 GHz Intel processor and the high-performance NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics as options, extending iMac’s lead as the ultimate all-in-one desktop computer for both consumers and professionals. For the first time, the 24-inch iMac features an optional NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB of video memory. Click the banner to below to learn more.

4/23/08

Apple Posts Record Second Quarter Results

Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter ended March 29, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share. Revenues are up 43 percent year-over-year. These results compare to revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.

Apple shipped 2,289,000 Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10,644,000 iPods during the quarter, representing one percent unit growth and eight percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,703,000. Click here to learn more.