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2022 posts filed under Apple News
Sugababes Live Gig at Regent Street Tomorrow
In continuation will Apple's 'Live from London' gigs, Sugababes will be playing live at the Regent Street Store tomorrow. The act will start at 9pm and space is said to be strictly limited and is allocated on a first come first served basis. For those…
First Pictures of Meadowhall Opening [Update 1]
Remember Nik from the Trafford Store opening? No I didn't think so, well this time he's at the front of the line and has snapped some pictures of already. The Store opened an hour ago so expect some more pictures to arrive within the next…
Want Delivery by December 24?
Apple has kindly posted a page that lists estimated delivery times of all their products. The chart should help those who often have trouble getting presents in time for Christmas. View it here.
iTMS Europe hits 100 Million Milestone
Apple announced today that the iTunes Music Store has made 100 million downloads in Europe. "Congratulations to Ken Reist from Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, the 100 Millionth Song Grand Prize Winner. Ken purchased the 100 millionth download in Europe ? the album Die Zauberflöte by Mozart ?…
Mayer - “IBM decided not to take the G5 into the laptop”
A very interesting article has appeared containing an interview with Michel Mayer CEO of Freescale. The article finally offers proof that IBM decided to simply ditch the G5 and pushed Jobs over the edge thus making the switch to Intel. Read the article.
Apple Store Meadowhall Opening This Saturday
As previously predicted by World of Apple , it has been confirmed that the Meadowhall Apple Store in Sheffield, UK will be opening on 10th December.
Apple Updates Video Offerings
Early Tuesday morning Apple updated its iTunes Music Store service to include more television shows from NBC, Sci Fi and USA, as before all content is available in the US only and for $1.99. Some of the programming from NBC consists of episodes and clips…
Re-inventing The Wheel
Think Secret has posted an article claiming that Apple has "tapped" Synaptics to supply click wheels for the iPod nano. Earlier in the year World of Apple reported on Apple creating their own proprietary click wheel for the nano, but is evidently having supply issues.
PowerMac Quad G5 with nVidia 7800 Card Ships
Reports have emerged that Apple began shipping some of its high-end Quad G5 systems containing the nVidia GeForce 7800 GT graphics card. It had previously been stated by Apple that systems ordered with the high-end graphics card may not ship until late into December but…
AppleCare Coming to Florida
As of December 9th Apple customer in Florida will be able to purchase AppleCare in any retail store or third party retailers. Up to now Floridian laws have prevented the sale of AppleCare.
iTMS Europe Counts Down to One Hundred Million
Apple announced today that it has started a promotion counting down to one hundred million songs being sold on iTMS Europe. Apple has the following to say about the promotion; Music fans in 17 countries around Europe are clicking their way to 100 million downloads…
Steve Jobs to Deliver Macworld SF Keynote
IDG announced today that Steve Jobs will deliver the Macworld keynote that will kick off the whole event. The Keynote is on Tuesday 10th of January at 9.00am. World of Apple will be in attendance and offering live coverage through our specially designed facility, more…
How Much Does That Advertising Cost?
In 2004 Apple spent $206 million on advertising this year they spent $287 million, that's a 40 percent increase. And for the record in 2003 Apple spent $193 million, this information has been release in Apple's annual report filed to the Securities and Exchange Commision…
Apple Unleashes Security Update 2005-009
Apple has posted the ninth security update of the year, weighing in at around 6MB and requiring a restart, it contains the following components: apache_mod_ssl CoreFoundation CoreTypes curl iodbcadmin OpenSSL Safari sudo syslog For the more advanced individuals here is the full information:
The iPod Bar
Apple has begun testing of a new section to its Retail Stores, the iPod Bar is very much like the Genius bar but focuses solely on helping customers with iPod problems. As another Mac site has kindly pointed out, this seems like a fair waste…
On the Brink of $70
Over the past few weeks Apple's stock has bee steadily rising and today it came very close to moving over the $70 dollar barrier, with a few more hours left of trading it is likely that it will surpass the figure this afternoon. Deutsche Bank…
Apple Releases Broadband Tuner 1
Apple yesterday released a new freeware application that allows you to take full advantage of your broadband connection, its generally for connections with high latency (5Mbps or greater) but will work with those that are slower. The applications simply adjusts the size of the send…
Apple Offers Gift Cards
Apple today began selling gift cards via its online store, the cards can be redeemed at any Retail Store or online. The cards can be purchased in any denomination from $25 - $2500 and are sent via post to the recipient, an optional personal message…
Reverse Engineering FairPlay
A company by the name of Navio which specialises in digital-rights management have taken it upon themselves to reverse engineer Apple Fairplay DRM format. The format is used to protect songs bought from the iTunes Music Store. The company plans to allow other online music…
10.4.4 Seeds Again
Around one week after the first seed emerged Apple has reportedly released another seed of its upcoming Mac OS X update 10.4.4. The build is labelled 8G9 adds more fixes to the previous seed including Bluetooth and the MS DOS filesystem. Right now testers are…