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As even Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs admits, the digital living room has been a tough nut to crack. All of us have tried: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, TiVo, Vudu, Netflix, Blockbuster, Jobs said at the Macworld conference Jan. 15. We've all missed. No one's succeeded yet. The notion is intriguing: finding a way to move video from the Web and from the PCs in consumers' home offices to the big-screen TVs.

Apple TV: Trying to Make Itself Comfortable in the Living Room

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The latest iPhone controversy comes courtesy of a grade-school math problem: If Apple reports that 4 million iPhones have been sold, and AT&T reports that 2 million iPhones have been activated with AT&T accounts, and current estimates peg iPhone sales in the UK, Germany, and France in the neighborhood of 350,000 to 400,000, and if 20 percent of all iPhones sold are hacked and unlocked, how many iPhones are left unaccounted for?

Apple Minus AT&T Equals Lots of iPhones Somewhere Else

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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs continued his tradition of taking home only $1 in salary in 2007, when he also gained $14.6 million on paper by exercising stock options that were about to expire, according to an SEC filing. Jobs has taken a $1 annual salary since returning to the company in 1997 and has hoarded his shares of Apple stock since then, accumulating about 5.5 million.

Another Year, Another Buck for Steve Jobs

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Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. is in the early developmental stages of its first Mac-bound GPGPUs, AppleInsider has learned.

Short for general-purpose computing on graphics processing units, GPGPUs are a new wave of graphics processors that can be instructed to perform computations previously reserved only for a system's primary CPU, allowing them aid in the speed of non graphics related applications.

Nvidia working on first GPGPUs for Apple Macs

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Usually, on days when Apple reports earnings, giddy investors have a chuckle about the company's famously conservative forecasts and proceed to load up on the stock -- confident that Apple's closely guarded pipeline of new products will keep sales and profits on the rise. However, investors found little to laugh about in Apple's latest forecast.

Was the Apple Sell-Off Savvy or Senseless

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Apple posted a strong holiday quarter Tuesday, with record profit powered by Mac sales growth and more expensive iPods, but disappointed with a weaker-than-expected outlook that investors used as a reason to punish the company's once high-flying shares. Apple stock quickly plunged more than 11 percent in after-hours trading Tuesday, in the wake of the earnings release.

Apple Shares Nosedive on Limp Outlook