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New Hexacore Mac Pros Next Tuesday?
ZDNet reports that it has received information from tipsters claiming that Apple will release new Mac Pro models next Tuesday, adding a hexacore Core i7-based model to its lineup.
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New iPad SDK Adds Gesture Tools, Removes Video Chat Icons
Apple yesterday released the fourth beta version of the SDK for iPad developers, and observers have started to find a few differences popping up in the latest update.
9 to 5 Mac reports that Apple has added support for "3Tap" a...
Six Months Later: 'iTunes LP' Format Performance Remains Lackluster
GigaOM provides an interesting reexamination of Apple's "iTunes LP" format for enhanced album content six months after the format's debut. While iTunes LPs were touted at its launch as a means to reignite sales of albums as opposed to indivi...
Verizon Viewing iPad as Opportunity to Push MiFi Service
Engadget reports on a leaked internal memo from Verizon to its staff members promoting Apple's iPad as an "opportunity" to sell its data plans, seeking to encourage customers to purchase a Wi-Fi iPad model and pair it with Verizon services su...
Apple Reportedly Disrupting iPhone Competitors With Legal Threats Backed Up by HTC Suit
Fortune reports on a new research note from Oppenhiemer & Co.'s Yair Reiner claiming that Apple in January began high-level talks with major phone manufacturers expressing its displeasure with what it con...
iPhone Developer Agreement Revealed by Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday announced that it had obtained a copy of Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement and published it for public consumption. While the contents of the license agreement, which govern...
Apple Releases iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 for iPad
Apple today released iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 via the iPhone Dev Center, offering developers updated tools for building applications for the iPad. The last update to the SDK was issued two weeks ago, continuing a trend of biweekly revisions.MacHeist nanoBundle: 8 Mac Apps for $19.95 [Updated]
A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least eight Mac applications for $19.95 (over $280 value if all purchased separately) including:
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FileMaker Pro 11 Brings Streamlined Database Creation With New Reporting and Collaboration Features
Gruber: No 'Widget Mode' for Minor Applications on iPad
Last month, speculation that a number of minor iPhone applications such as Stocks, Weather, Voice Memo, Clock, and Calculator "missing" from the iPad could reappear in some sort of "widget mode" similar t...
Valve Officially Announces Steam and Game Library Coming to Mac in April
Valve Software today officially announced that it is bringing its Steam game distribution platform, as well as its own library of games, to Mac OS X next month.
Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team ...
Apple Cracking Down on "Cookie Cutter" App Store Applications?
TechCrunch discusses a picture that is being pieced together from reports from App Store developers suggesting that Apple is looking to crack down on "cookie cutter" iPhone applications that offer little...
Apple Airs First iPad Commercial During Oscars, Steve Jobs at Event [Ad Video Posted]
Apple just aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. A description of the ad by Doju:
The commercial was just on, depicted a person using the iPad on their lap, going through the various features (iBook...
Valve's Portal 2 Confirmed for Mac
After Valve's series of teaser images, it's now been revealed that their upcoming sequel Portal 2 will also be coming to the Mac. The above image comes from a series of scans from the latest issue of Gameinformer magazine which carries a cov...
According to Jobs: No iPhone-to-iPad Tethering, 10 Hour Battery Life Reaffirmed
Swedish site Slashat.se reportedly emailed Steve Jobs asking the simple question "Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?" Steve Jobs' reply was a simple "no" and was sent from his iPhone.
Tethering is t...
iPad Poised to Grab Significant Portion of e-Reader Market
Last week, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky released the results of a survey showing pent-up demand for the iPad exceeding that of the original iPhone, highest customer demand for low-capacity Wi-Fi-only and high-capacity 3G-enabled ...
Slight iPad Shipping Delay Due to Software, Not Hardware?
Daring Fireball's John Gruber claims to have heard from his sources that the slight shipping delay (about a week in the U.S. and on the order of a month in the first batch of international markets) for the Wi-Fi iPad is due not to hardware pr...
Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D567 to Developers
Apple today seeded yet another version of Mac OS X 10.6.3, termed Build 10D567, to developers. iPhone in Canada offers some details on the new version, which has seen only minor refinements as development appears to be wrapping up. Develope...
Apple Patent Application Reveals Flexible Integration of Advertising Viewing in Video Files
Patently Apple points to an interesting Apple patent application published yesterday describing methods of incorporating commercials into video content such that viewing of the commercials interspersed throughout the video presentation would ...
Apple Announces April 3rd Launch Date for Wi-Fi iPad in the U.S.
Apple today announced that Wi-Fi models of the iPad will go on sale in the United States on Saturday, April 3rd. 3G-capable models in the U.S., as well as both Wi-Fi and 3G models for a number of other countries, will be available in late Ap...
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Apple Store in Freehold, NJ
The latest Apple Store to open in New Jersey will have its grand opening on Saturday, May 27th at 10am. The first 1000 people to visit the Apple store receive a free Apple T-shirt. They will be having educational presentations, demonstrations, and workshops all week long after the opening. They even have a “Grand [...]
Fifth Avenue Apple Store Opening Friday
The new Apple Store in NYC will be opening tomorrow. Word is that it will be open 24/7, 365 days a year. And they might be giving away a Macbook every hour for the first 24 hours starting at 6PM tomorrow. The article also mentions that the next store will be in Freehold, NJ. [...]
Apple Unveils MacBook
“Apple today unveiled the newly designed MacBook, the world?s most advanced consumer notebook featuring the Intel Core Duo processor and a gorgeous new 13-inch glossy widescreen display, all in a sleek design that is up to five times faster than the iBook and up to four times faster than the 12-inch PowerBook.” The MacBook takes the [...]
Apple Developing iPod Phone
Japanese Web and telecom conglomerate Softbank Corp. is working with Apple Computer Inc. to develop mobile telephones with built-in iPod music players, Nikkei reported Friday. The music-playing phones can download songs from Apple’s iTunes Music Store, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said in an article posted on its Web site. The report said Apple and Softbank have agreed [...]
Get A Mac Campaign
Apple has just launched a new “Get Mac” ad campaign, along with a new website to go along with it. The ads feature two people, one is a PC and one is a Mac (you may notice the Mac as Justin Long from Ed, Dodgeball, and Waiting). They are some great spots spotlighting a [...]
Apple Introduces 17-inch MacBook Pro
Apple today unveiled its new 17-inch MacBook Pro notebook computer featuring the Intel Core Duo processor and an all new system architecture that delivers up to five times the performance of the PowerBook G4. The new 17-inch MacBook Pro includes a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processor that delivers dual-core performance in a breakthrough power-efficient design, [...]
17? MacBook Pro Soon?
Lately I’ve been trying to not report on rumors, but I just had to mention this one. AppleInsider is reporting that Apple will unveil the 17-inc MacBook Pro at the National Association of Broadcasters conference next week. They say the notebook is expected to run at speeds faster than the 2.0GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro [...]