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WWDC 2008 Rumour Roundup
As promised here is a roundup of all the rumours leading up to this years Worldwide Developers Conference, anything directly related to the iPhone has been included in a previous article . World of Apple will be offering live coverage of tomorrows keynote presentation by…
Mac OS X 10.6 to Include PPC Support After All?
Contrary to reports late last week , Gizmodo writes that PowerPC support will most likely live on in the next major version of Mac OS X. The source who reported to Gizmodo claims to have used a seed of Mac OS X 10.6 and early…
Apple Retail Receiving Shipments of Secret Packages
Ars Technica is reporting that multiple Apple retail stores gave received "unidentified shipments" as well as new marketing material to go up Monday. According to the report London's Regent Street Apple Store has received a single box which is padlocked and under orders to be…
Images Depict Multiple iPhone Colours, Video Conferencing?
Mac Rumors , Crunchgear, and Engadget have all posted photos from an unknown source purportedly showing promotional materials for the new iPhone. The images are widely being considered fake due to many glaring omissions but many of the sites have published them for interests sake…
Gallery: Ahead of WWDC 2008
With WWDC 2008 kicking off next week it is only natural that World of Apple offers a gallery of images from around Moscone West in San Francisco. Photos courtesy of Adam Jackson. View the gallery.
WWDC 2008 iPhone Rumour Roundup
At 10 am pacific time on Monday Steve Jobs will address a hall full of thousands of eager developers who are waiting to see what Apple will unveil at this years Worldwide Developers Conference. World of Apple has offered rumour roundups leading up to Apple…
In Brief: T-Mobile to Cease iPhone Sales June 30 [Update]
As O2 and AT&T run dry of iPhone stock T-Mobile in Germany still seems to have plenty of stock even though it slashed the price to just €99 . The official carrier of the iPhone is now indicating that it will no longer sell the…
Apple Set to Show off new Multi-Touch Device?
Shaw Wu, analyst for American Technology Research noted to clients earlier this week that he believed that there was a 50/50 chance that Apple will introduce a new form factor multi-touch device at WWDC. Our sources indicate 4-inch and 7-inch touchscreen devices beyond prototype stage…
Australian Resellers Receive Mystery Package
MacTalk.com.au reports that Australian resellers have seen the arrival of mysterious boxes marked with the following warning: SUBJECT TO TERMS OF NDA DO NOT OPEN UNTIL TUESDAY JUNE 10TH, 2008 June 10th (in Australia) is the day of Steve Jobs' keynote presentation which kicks off…
Staking out the iPhone, Mystery Boxes!
Fortune's Brian Caulfield has been playing a game of espionage at a Quanta Computer distribution centre. Acting on previous reports that Apple shipped 19 deliveries from Quanta the reporter went about staking out Quanta's distribution facility in Fremont, California. The building although designed for product…
Apple Adds Two Additional Exec Positions
Over the past week Apple has gone about extending the number of executives present in the company, Apple has increased the previous ten executives to twelve by adding an additional position for iPhone software and Mac hardware. Scott Forstall, previously vice president of platform experience…
WWDC 2008 Banners Spotted
Crunchgear has posted a photo of just two of the banners that have started going up at Moscone West in San Francisco ahead of next weeks Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). In the photos two banners can clearly be seen, the first reading "OS X Leopard…
O2 Plans Free 3G iPhones
Macworld UK is reporting that O2 is planning to offer the new iPhone free to customers who sign onto the top tariffs. The article also concurs with a rumour last week that the iPhone will cost £100 and be sold with an 18-month contract. But…
First Build of Mac OS X 10.5.4 Hits Developers [Seed Notes]
Just one week after releasing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Apple has seeded a build of Mac OS X 10.5.4 to developers. Build 9E6 of Mac OS X 10.5.4 currently contains no known issues and only five bug fixes but this is likely to change over…
Native iPhone Apps to Debut at WWDC?
According to CNET , native iPhone apps will see an official unveiling next week at WWDC. The information which reportedly comes from a firm developing iPhone software alludes to the launch of the App Store which would be necessary to install native iPhone applications.
Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" Coming at Macworld 2009? [Updated]
TUAW reported yesterday that Apple could be seeding developers an early build of Mac OS X 10.6 at WWDC next week. TUAW also reports that Mac OS X 10.6 will ship in January 2009 and that Apple will drop PowerPC support from OS X making…
Softbank to Deliver iPhone to Japan
Softbank mobile announced today that they will bring the iPhone to the Japanese market "later this year". SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple® to bring the iPhone to Japan later this year. Softbank Mobile is a 3G only carrier…
Movie Downloads and Rentals Arrive on UK and Canadian Stores [Updated x 2]
As per rumours last week Apple today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate UK are now available on the iTunes Store…
MobileMe to Feature iPhone Over-the-Air Contact, Photo, Calendar Syncing?
TUAW is reporting on what they believe to be an accurate view of what Apple's revamp of .Mac will hold for current and future users of the online service. TUAW notes that .Mac "will no longer be sold by Apple after WWDC" and that existing…
.Mac Outage Causes Stir
After much rumour over the l ast few days that .Mac will be re-branded and revamped at WWDC next week, a long service outage has sparked further speculation. At around 5.30pm Eastern time on Monday .Mac mail went offline for around 6 hours. During last…