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Disney Short Films Available on iTMS
No less than 3 hours have the papers have been signed the iTMS has gained some new additions in the form of Disney Short Films, they are available for $1.99 and a total of 10 are available.
Apple Adds Further Video Content to iTunes
Apple has added the following shows the the US iTunes Store. ABC's "Wildfire" Season 1 and 2 NBC's "The Munsters" Season 1 ABC's "Ebert and Roeper at the Movies"
Brent Cross (UK) Store to Open Saturday
Apple has confirmed that it will open its 5th retail in the UK on Saturday, the Grand Opening is scheduled for 9:00am on Saturday 28th January 2006. World of Apple should be providing some coverage. London’s second Apple retail store will open at the Brent…
Macintosh is 22 Today!
On this day in 1984 Apple aired a commercial during the SuperBowl that would change the worlds perception of computing and to this day the Macintosh lives on. Happy Birthday old chap.
iWork Second Best Selling Office Suite
A report shows that iWork achieved a 2.7% market share in 2005 which is slightly more than Corels WordPerfect which holds 1.6% share. Naturally Microsoft Office covers 95% oh the share but the interesting fact is when we come down to Mac only stats where…
How to accurately determine your iPod battery life
An article has appeared on the internet pointing towards an Apple support page containing detailed instructions on how to determine your iPods battery life. Apple describe the page with the following paragraph; If you feel you aren't getting the most out of your iPod battery…
Apple Extends PowerBook G4 Warranty Extension
Customers who bought their PowerBook G4 between January 2005 and April 2005 displaying serial numbers W8503xxxxxx and W8518xxxxxx with the following symptoms maybe be eligible for replacement even though their warranty may have ran out the symptoms include, failure to start up, typically followed by…
Week Ahead on World of Apple
Well another week has gone and what an important week its been, the week up to and during MacWorld was naturally the busiest period for us and thus the most active period for the site. We experienced some amazing traffic and we expected it too…
MacBook Pro Images a Forgery?
We've just been tipped off with some very interesting information about the MacBook Pro on Apples website. The images are quite clearly of a Photoshopped PowerBook G4. This is obviously nothing amazing I'm sure many companies do it but this goes together with the rumour…
iPod Slated from Macworld lineup
AppleInsider has reported that Apple had plans to introduce iPod related products at MacWorld but for an unknown reason they did not. The report offers no details on what the product was but expects an announcement soon. This goes hand in hand with another rumour…
Logic Pro 7 Demonstrated on Intel
Taking place right now in Anaheim, California is NAMM, a music show that Apple is attending. Today Apple reps have been showing off Logic Pro 7.2 which runs natively on Intel machines and is due for release in February. The application is said to run…
Apple Updates Podcasting Spec
Apple has sent an email to podcasters letting them know that it has revised its Podcasting guidelines. "Since you’ve got an active podcast listed in iTunes, we would like to let you know about a few valuable new resources: First, the technical spec has been…
Apples Q1 Financial Results
Todays conference call has finished, announcing Apples Q1 Financial results, the last 14 weeks have been the best in Apples history. 14,043,000 iPods sold, 207% growth over the year ago quarter. 1,254,000 Macintosh computers sold, 20% growth over the year ago quarter. Revenue of $5.75…
Apple Intel Ad Not a Copy After All
It's been a big story over the last few days, Apple's new Intel ad was supposedly the same as some music video, well it appears the reason they look similar is because they are by the same Director. Sarah Moody of Sub Pop Records had…
Apple Denies Plans to Use UK Tax Loophole
Yesterday we reported on a story about Apple UK possibly using a VAT loophole that would allow the iTunes Music Store to sell VAT free songs. Apple has today denied this report by saying; "This report is not true"
Sony BMG Artists Now on iTMS Australia
The Australian iTunes Music Store has now begun selling artists from Sony BMG at the same price as other singles and albums. It looks like Apple got their own way on this one then...
Final Cut Products no Longer Stand Alone
AppleInsider is reporting that from March Apple will no longer sell its Final Cut products, such as Soundtrack, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and others as stand alone products but will instead only be selling the Final Cut Studio which encompasses them all. Naturally…
VAT Free iTunes Songs in the UK?
What appears to be an exploit in the tax loophole could allow Apple to sell songs through the iTunes Music Store without VAT tagged on. This could bring the price of songs down to 67p. All Apple has to do is move some operations to…
Jobs Suggests Dell to Eat His Own Words
Last Friday Steve Jobs sent a friendly email to his employees saying "Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may…
Q1 2006 Conference Call Wednesday
Just a reminder to all whom are interested, Apples first conference call of 2006 will take place this Wednesday at 14:00PT which is 22:00GMT. The call should bring some more details into the figures that Jobs presented last week in his Keynote. The webcast can…