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Movies Now Available from iTunes in Australia and New Zealand
Apple today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, MGM, Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate are now available on the iTunes Store in Australia and in New Zealand. "Movie fans in…
Mac OS X 10.5.5 Build 9F13 Released [Seed Notes]
One week after build 9F9 Apple has released a new build of the upcoming update to Mac OS X 10.5. Build 9F13 of Mac OS X 10.5.5 includes a further ten bug fixes but unlike previous builds contains no known issues. Mac OS X 10.5.5…
Analyst: Apple to Sell 4.47 Million iPhones in September Quarter
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster stated in a note to clients Wednesday that he has increased his estimate of the number of iPhones he expects Apple to sell worldwide in its 4th quarter, from 4.1 million to 4.47 million. In contrast, Apple sold only 1.12…
HSBC Considering Using iPhone?
ZDNet Australia is reporting that large banking corporation HSBC is planning to ditch its current fleet of Blackberrys and switch it staff over to the iPhone. The bank has around 330,000 members of staff worldwide which could equate to over 200,000 iPhone orders. "We are…
Fire Breaks Out at Apple HQ
It is being reported this morning that fire fighters have contained a fire which burned for around three hours at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. The Santa Clara County fire department received a three-alarm fire notification from 20605 Valley Green Drive, at a building known as…
Best Buy to Sell iPhone 3G
Best Buy has today announced that it will sell the iPhone 3G across the USA starting on September 7th. The announcement means that the iPhone 3G will be available to buy from over 970 stores across the country. "We had a lot of work to…
SingTel Bringing iPhone 3G to Singapore
In an email to subscribers today SingTel confirmed that it will bring the iPhone 3G to Singapore on August 22 along with 20 other countries . In the email to customers SingTel vice president of consumer marketing Wong Soon Nam wrote "Thanks for your patience…
Rumours of September Event Stack Up
Last week analyst Gene Munster wrote a note to clients informing them that Apple would most likely hold a Special Event in September to refresh its iPod lines and MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. At the time the report was mainly pinned as speculative but…
60 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Apple CEO, Steve Jobs has revealed some facts and figures about the App Store which has now been live for one month. According to Jobs more than 60 million applications have been downloaded for the iPhone and…
Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F9) Seed Notes
Late last week Apple released the second build of Mac OS X 10.5.5 to the developer community, here are the seed notes that accompanied that release:
Second Build of Mac OS X 10.5.5 Reaches Developers
Just one week after Apple seeded the first build of Mac OS X 10.5.5 to developers the company has released a second build of the next update to Mac OS X Leopard. The latest build labelled 9F9 packs a further 24 bug fixes pushing the…
Analyst Predicts September Special Event
This week Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has sent a note to clients speculating on past years. The reports states that for the last three years Apple has held a Special Event in September and the analyst is predicting the same. Munster in particular expects…
20 Countries Receive iPhone 3G on August 22nd
During last months financial conference call Apple announced that the iPhone 3G would debut in additional countries on August 22nd but gave no further details. Today a slew of carriers began announcing that they'd be offering the iPhone 3G. So far the following twenty countries…
LED Apple Cinema Displays at Macworld 2009?
Mac Rumors is reporting that those interested in buying a Apple Cinema Display should wait until Macworld 2009 in January. The rumour site has heard from a source of unknown reliability that Apple is preparing Apple Cinema Display refreshes. The new Cinema Displays are expected…
Steve Jobs' Email on MobileMe in Full
After this mornings report from Ars Technica that Steve Jobs had sent an internal email explaining the issues with MobileMe the site has now published the email in full. Team, The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour. There are several things we could…
Steve Jobs Admits MobileMe Mishaps
According to Ars Technica, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has recently sent out an email to employees admitting the issues with MobileMe saying that the services launch was "not up to Apple standards". In the email Jobs reportedly acknowledges many of MobileMe's flaws and explains how…
Apple Posts iPhone 2.0.1 Software
Apple has today posted version 2.0.1 of the iPhone OS software. The description of the update only states that it includes "Bug Fixes" but after using an iPhone with the new software World of Apple can confirm that noticeably improved is iTunes backing up and…
O2 Announces Q2 Financial Results, Orange Not Receiving iPhone in UK
O2 announced during their Q2 financial results last week that the company has gained over 137,000 new subscribers who are on a monthly contract. The new subscribers were reportedly gained solely from the iPhone. The figure represents a 80.8% increase in subscribers for the same…
iPhone nano Before Christmas?
UK newspaper the Daily Mail has posted that a "nano" version of the iPhone could be shipping in time for Christmas. The newspaper offers very few details on the device itself although notes that the iPhone nano could be released at a £150 ($300) price…
Apple Advises Resellers of Mac and iPod Shortage
Last week Apple issued an advisement bulletin to its channel partners noting a production decrease of iPods and certain Mac models. The resulting decrease in production will cause a supply shortage in the coming weeks. Apple informed resellers that they should place orders for approximately…