Apple yesterday updated the software for the iPod Touch and its AppleTV. The Touch update adds five new applications; Mail, Maps, Weather, Notes, and Stocks. At least two of these, Mail and Notes should have been on the original, yet Apple is charging $20 for the update.

Meanwhile, the AppleTV software has been completely overhauled and […]

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1. It’s a stunning feat of engineering.
2. It would never have been possible had Apple not moved to Intel.
3. Apple clearly has some clout in the Intel boardroom.
4. The lack of an optical drive, Ethernet port and Firewire port don’t matter to most people.
5. The SSD version will become the standard inside two years. Goodbye […]

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Not for the first time, The Guardian has shown itself up when reporting on Apple and the Mac.
From today’s paper
Hype surrounding the phone, which has touch-screen keys rather than buttons, has contributed to a revival in demand for iMac notebook computers. Sales of iMacs took off by 34% in the final quarter to 2.16m, beating […]

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Quarter Four
Quarterly revenue $6.22bn - up from $4.84bn
Quarterly net profit $904m - up from $542 m
Earnings per diluted share $1.01 - up from $0.62
Gross margin 33.6% - up from 29.2%
Mac sales 2.16m - up 34%
iPod sales 10.2m - up 17%
iPhone sales 1.12m
All increases against Q4 2006
Fiscal Year 2007
Annual earnings $3.5bn
Annual revenue $24bn

Cash $15.4bn

Q1 forecast
Earnings per diluted share $1.42
Revenue $9.2bn
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Another Apple product, another bandwagon rolls onto view. This time it’s over the panels used in the new 20in iMac.
You’ll remember that back in the summer, Apple was sued for claiming that the screen in its MacBooks and MacBook Pros displayed ‘millions of colours’ when, say the claimants, they can display only a few thousand.
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Just grabbed from the wire:

‘BT announced today that it has agreed to acquire Brightview Group Limited (‘Brightview’), the internet service provider (ISP) owned by Brightview plc for approximately £15.8m in cash, subject to approval from Brightview’s shareholders.
Established in April 2001, Brightview is a small consumer ISP with a strong reputation for high-quality customer and technical […]

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Oh dear. Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field was on full power during yesterday’s WWDC keynote speech and as usual, the Mac press’ bullshit detectors were posted missing in action.
The story goes like this. Ever since the iPhone was announced, one of the biggest criticisms of it has been the lack of a platform for third […]

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Microsoft has, as promised, released a beta version of a file format converter to convert Office documents saved in Office 2007’s native format, the XML-based docx, to RTF, so that they can be read in Mac versions of Office.
The announcement was made on Mac Mojo Microsoft’s MacBU blog. There are a few key things to […]

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As predicted by Think Secret, Apple today updated its MacBook range. Also as predicted, the update was largely uninspiring. MacUser got in early with the news.
Slightly faster processors, bigger hard drives, more RAM in the low-end model, and 802.11n (technically pre-n as 802.11n is still a draft and yet to be ratified) wireless networking.
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Years ago when Toast was still owned by Adaptec, or was it Astarte, it had a sister product called Jam. Toast. Jam. Geddit?
Now Roxio has followed through on the metaphor with Crunch, its not-yet-announced but soon-to-be-launched media encoding application. From what we know so far, Crunch looks like Toast without the burning (the origin of […]

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