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2022 posts filed under Apple News
In Brief: Apple Quietly Upgrades Airport Extreme
Apple has quietly updated its Airport Extreme base station. The original Airport Extreme released in January at Macworld featured standard 10/100 ethernet ports but today Apple updated it with Gigabit ethernet ports. Apple sneaked the following into today's iMac press release ; new Apple Wireless…
Mac mini Receives Quiet Update
Apple has today updated the Mac mini computer, the Mac mini was only mentioned briefly during a question and answer session held at the end of the Special Event. The update brings Core 2 processors to the Mac mini with a 1.83GHz model and 2.0GHz…
.Mac Receives Improvements
As well announcing the new iMac and revisions to iWork and iLife, Steve Jobs also noted some improvements to .Mac. .Mac Web Gallery lets members easily share photos and movies directly from iLife ’08 with anyone on a Mac, PC or iPhone™ in stunning quality…
Apple Introduces iLife ’08
During todays Special Event Apple showed off a new iteration of iLife, the most significant upgrade ever to Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, featuring a major new version of iPhoto and a completely reinvented iMovie. iPhoto ’08 automatically organizes photo libraries into Events…
Apple Shows off iWork '08
During todays Special Event Steve Jobs demonstrated iWork '08 a significant upgrade to Apple’s productivity software suite featuring new versions of Pages and Keynote word processing and presentation applications, and introducing an innovative new spreadsheet application called “Numbers.” Numbers introduces the concept of intelligent tables…
Apple Unveils New iMac
During Apple's Special Event today the company unveiled a new iMac. Featuring gorgeous 20- and 24-inch widescreen displays encased in elegant and professional aluminum and glass enclosures. The entire new iMac line features the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and a new, ultra-thin aluminum…
Live Coverage from Apple Special Event
Apple is about to begin its Special Event in Cupertino, World of Apple will place live updates in this post, so keep refreshing (descending).
Leopard Achieves UNIX 03 Certification
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has achieved UNIX 03 certification. The certification is granted by the Open Group who is an organisation that ensures conformity to recognised standards. Ars Techinca notes that Apple has always been keen to tout Unix as the base for Mac…
In Brief: Apple's 5.5G iPods Receive Price Cut at Some Retailers
It appears that over the last day or so a few major online retailers have cut the price of the 5.5G iPod. Currently you can get a 30GB or 80GB iPod for about $20 off at Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City and J&R online stores…
iTunes Store Passes 3 Billion Mark
Apple's iTunes Store has announced today that it has sold over 3 billion songs worldwide. iTunes Store song sales graph | Courtesy Mac Rumors iTunes is the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store featuring a catalog of over five million songs, 550…
Apple Reportedly Loses Energy Star Blessing [Update: Or Not?]
Although not confirmed by any official sources, multiple sites are reporting that a change in Energy Stars conditions could affect Apple's current line-up of computers. Energy Stars new conditions came into effect on July 20, the conditions aim to encourage use of more efficient power…
In Brief: Computer Warehouse Brings First iPhone to UK
Avid World of Apple reader Peter Neal has emailed us to let us know that Computer Warehouse based in Brentford has an iPhone on display for all to see. Details are very slim on how the iPhone is operating and how many models they have…
Notes from Third Quarter Financial Results Conference Call
At this very moment Apple is webcasting its conference call for all to listen. World of Apple will offer a breakdown of this key points and some of the Q and A's on this page. Call Notes Another record breaking quarter in Apple history Highest…
Healthy Mac Sales Push Apple to $818 Million Profit
Apple today announced its third financial quarter results. Profits of the company rose a staggering 73 percent to $818 million, or $0.92 per diluted share, on sales of $5.41 billion. The results compare to revenue of $4.37 billion and net quarterly profit of $472 million…
Apple Closes Internal Training Group
Think Secret reports that Apple has shut down its Worldwide Training and Certification department and laid off all trainers. The move means that Apple will no longer offer sponsored training and will only hand out certifications leaving other companies to deliver training which will be…
Ive Wins Prestigious Design Award
Apple's senior vice president of industrial design, Jonathan Ive has won a prestigious design award . Ive was named one of the top 10 designers in the US National Design Awards. He was awarded the accolade for designing the iMac, iBook and iPod products. The…
In Brief: LED Shortages Killing MacBook Pro Supplies? iPhone and iPod Consume 25% of NAND Flash
LED Shortages Killing MacBook Pro Supplies? AppleInsider posts that a supply shortage of LED-backlit displays are causing shipping delays for the new MacBook Pro models that employ the displays. According to the reported most third-party retailers have seen no stock in the units and the…
Apple Acquires CUPS
According to a post on the CUPS.org website , Apple has acquired the source code and the author of the CUPS modular printing software. In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of…
In Brief: Apple Denies Universal iTunes Pull-Out
Following yesterdays news that Universal Music Group was considering to not renew its contract with iTunes but to create a "short term" sales agreement. Apple has denied this stating; “We are still negotiating with Universal.” “Their music is still on iTunes and their not re-signing…
Apple Snaps Up iPhone.com for Seven-Figure Sum
Apple had made a last minute decision to snap up the domain name iPhone.com. Jay Westerdal of Name Intelligence has written on his blog that Apple has purchased iPhone.com from domain owner Michael Kovatch for what could be "at least a million dollar sale." Kovatch…