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Apple Slashes iPhone Price
Apple today announced that it is on track to sell its one millionth iPhone before the end of September, and to make iPhone affordable for even more customers this holiday season, it is lowering the price of the most popular iPhone model with 8GB of…
Apple and Starbucks Team Up on Mobile iTunes Store
Apple and Starbucks today announced an exclusive partnership that lets customers wirelessly browse, search for, preview, buy and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks onto their iPod touch, iPhone or PC or Mac running iTunes while at a participating location. When…
Apple Shows Off iPod Touch, iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
Apple today introduced the new iPod touch featuring Apple's revolutionary multi-touch user interface that enables users to find and enjoy all of their music, videos and more on its gorgeous widescreen display with just the touch of a finger. First introduced on iPhone, the multi-touch…
Live Coverage of Apple Special Event [Coverage has begun]
In a short time Apple will be hosting a Special Event at Moscone West in San Francisco, the event begins at: 7:00AM - Hawaii 10:00AM - Pacific 11:00AM - Mountain 12:00PM - Central 1:00PM - Eastern 5:00PM - GMT 6:00PM - BST 6:00PM - London…
iPhone Outsells Other Smartphones in July
iSuppli notes that Apple's iPhone outsold all smartphones in July. July was the iPhone's first full month of sales and sales accounted for 1.8% of US mobile handsets. The data was collected through a survey of 2 million participants across America. Cellular-news offers some additional…
Apple Spent $720,000 on Lobbying in 2007
According to Forbes.com Apple has spent $720,000 lobbying the federal government in the first half of this year. The computer company reportedly lobbied Congress on legislation designed to update the United States patent system. Trade groups for high-tech industries favor legislation that would help weed…
NBC Openly Disputes Apple's Pricing Claims
In what is turning out to be a very public and ugly disagreement, NBC has offered a rebuttal to Apple's press release from Friday. NBC Universal never asked to double the wholesale price and insists NBC shows will be sold by the iTunes Store through…
Apple to Stop Selling NBC Shows
Apple has announced via press release that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on the iTunes Store. The move follows NBC’s decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple declined to pay more than double the…
NBC Universal Pulling Out From iTunes Store
NBC Universal is reportedly unable to come to an agreement with Apple over iTunes Store pricing so has decided not to renew its contract to sell TV shows on iTunes. This means a loss of the following NBC Universal shows available for sale on iTunes…
TV Shows Hit UK iTunes Store [Update: Apple PR]
Apple has just unleashed TV shows onto the UK iTunes Store. Individual episodes are available for £1.89, the store is currently offering shows from ABC, Disney Channel, Nikelodeon, MTV, Paramount Comedy and Playhouse Disney. [Update] - Apple today announced that hit television programming from ABC…
Apple Confirms Sept. 5 Special Event
Apple has confirmed the rumoured September 5th Special Event this evening. Apple confirmed the event by sending invitations to select members of the media. The invitation features a cover flow style front with the foremost album cover containing a silhouette iTunes dance holding an iPod…
Newest Leopard Build Continues Interface Tweaks
Over the weekend Apple seeded another build of Mac OS X 10.5, just days after releasing an update to the previous build. The increased pace of development shows that Leopard is nearing completion. Builds 9A527 (Client) and 9A528a (Server) show increased system performance once again…
Jobs Joins California Hall of Fame
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is one of the latest to be invited to the join the California Hall of Fame. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced the inductees for the 2007 California Hall of Fame last night. Jobs joins a growing…
In Brief: Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2144)
Mac Rumors points out that Apple had released another seed of Mac OS X 10.4.11 to developers. The seed reportedly lists only one known issue which is the system hanging during shutdown. Fixes reportedly address the following areas; USB modem, modem driver, CoreAudio and m4a…
Jobs Swallows Up 120,000 Apple Shares
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs increased his stake in Apple Inc. by 120,000 shares when he purchased them on Monday. Jobs purchased the additional shares on Monday for $5.75 each, making the total purchased worth around $15 million. Following the transaction, Jobs stake in Apple…
Another Step Towards The Beatles; Lennon Joins iTunes
Yesterday Apple announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes Store. Sixteen of Lennon's solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the “Lennon Legend” and “Acoustic” collections making their worldwide digital debuts…
Apple Gives AppleWorks EOL Status
Macworld.co.uk is reporting that Apple has official given AppleWorks an EOL (End of Life) status. Apple told resellers of the demise of AppleWorks last week, announcing that the software had reached "End of Life" status. It will no longer be sold. The AppleWorks website now…
Apple Calls on Developers Opinions Regarding Leopard
Apple has emailed Premier and Select ADC members asking them to complete a survey with their feedback about the latest Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build (9A499). The survey asks developers to compare the features and usability of Leopard to the current Tiger. This survey…
In Brief: iMovie 6 HD Available to Download
Apple has made it possible for purchasers of iLife '08 to download iMovie 6 HD . The move has been made as the new version of iMovie in iLife '08 lacks some backwards compatibility and many users seem to prefer the older version. iMovie 6…
In Brief: Apple Posts Special Event Video, Mac Pro PCI RAID Card Available
Apple Posts Special Event Video Apple has posted a video of yesterdays Special Event on its website. Yesterday Apple released many new products and refreshed others, here is a summary. New iMacs iLife '08 iWork '08 Some .Mac improvements Mac mini receives update Airport Extreme…