Yesterday, a poster in our forums claiming to be a Best Buy employee reported that the company's internal inventory system had been updated to show that all MacBook Pro models had been "deleted", preventing Best Buy stores from ordering any new units...

Our MacBook Pro update sensors are on high alert and, with that in mind, we're posting this screenshot which may mean that updates are indeed coming soon.
Our Best Buy spys have forwarded us a screenshot of their inventory system that shows all current MacBook Pros in the system as "deleted". Perhaps an update is coming sooner rather than later? The real question: Will they have 3G?

Valleywag reports that The Wall Street Journal's online executive editor Alan Murray posted to his Twitter account last Thursday, claiming that that he had done so from an iPad. The tweet was quickly deleted, however, and it appears that it had been...

A new study has found that 14 percent of iPhone users upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1.3 in less than a week of availability, while a new hack to exploit Apple's latest update has been released.

Apple may introduce new model MacBook Pro models tomorrow, just in time for the opening of Macworld Expo, we?ve learned this evening.This is yet another leak coming at us out of France, and while we?re not utterly convinced at the source we do note revelation last weekend of an all-new MacBook Pro configuration making an appearance on GeekBench.French website Nowhere Else claims Apple will introduce the new models tomorrow, citing ?an anonymous source who works at Apple?.The GeekBench tale this weekend shows a MacBook Pro with a Core i7 M 620 clocked at 2.66GHz running an unreleased build of Mac OS X 10.6.2 scoring an impressive 5260.The scarlet pimpernel of the GeekBench was also running an unreleased version of Mac OS 10.6.2 (Build 10C3067) and Bios MBP61.88Z.004C.B00.1001251657.And as one final note, don?t neglect MacRumors? claims MacBook Pro inventory has been dwindling...

Amazon is being forced to rethink many of the design decisions of its Kindle e-book reader after the introduction of Apple's iPad.

New pictures claimed to be parts for a prototype fourth-generation iPhone show a front panel slightly taller than the current model, along with some other minor internal design tweaks.

iPhone 3GS on left, claimed fourth-generation iPhone on right
iPhone repair site iResQ has posted photos of what it claims are parts for the fourth-generation iPhone presumably due for launch later this year. Among the most notable fe...

If the market does not respond well to the iPad and its price range of $499 to $829, Apple executives have reportedly said they could be "nimble" on its cost.

The Wall Street Journal reports on a research note from Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope based on meetings with Apple executives revealing that the company has apparently left the door open to future price cuts on the iPad should customer demand not ...

TamsIJungle reports (via Engadget) that it received word from wireless carrier Hutchison Austria that the company is planning to offer subsidized iPads for users willing to commit to a two-year data contract with the company. According to Hutchison ...

Despite a highly publicized public debut, potential customers lost a great deal of interest in Apple's new touchscreen iPad after it was unveiled, a new study has found.

Amazon and publisher Macmillan finalized their agreement for higher-priced e-books over the weekend. The deal is expected to serve as a template for other publishers, and the new prices should take effect in March, when Apple's iPad goes on sale.

Apple's new iPad debuts a new VGA-style video output option, a first for the company's mobile device lineup.

Macworld Expo 2010 kicks off this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The significance of this year's Macworld Expo has been significantly reduced due to Apple's decision not to participate. Apple cited the diminished i...

One of the major announcements alongside the Apple iPad launch was the fact that Apple is now in the chipmaking business. The Apple A4 is a system-on-chip that includes an ARM based processor that is believed to have been designed by the engineers A...

While the iPad was officially announced in January, the iPad will not be available for purchase until late March. However, it seems some iPads have been seeded into the wild as David Vogler claims to have seen one in a New York City Starbucks (phot...

A benchmark report for an unreleased Apple MacBook Pro sporting Intel's upcoming dual-core 2.66GHz Core i7 mobile processor was published online this week, suggesting a refresh to the professional notebook line may be imminent.

Apple on Friday evening equipped developers with yet another build of its upcoming maintenance and security update for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that includes few changes from an earlier build distributed two weeks ago.

A Geekbench result posted to their site on February 4th has generated a lot of excitement. The report seems to reveal the results for an unreleased Arrandale MacBook Pro running at 2.66GHz. Intel officially unveiled the new latest mobile c...

Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to developers today. The last seed was released on January 22nd. According to reports, the newest version provides a number of enhancements and bug fixes for QuickTime X, 64-bit Logic, printing and ...

MacNN points to a blog post written earlier this week by Phil Bellaria, a director in the National Broadband Task Force at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), expressing concern over increasing cellular network congestion and citing App...

More than 60 percent of physicians who participated in a new survey have shown interest in Apple's recently announced iPad, and one in five already intend to purchase one.

Sling Media clarified reports that its SlingPlayer iPhone application was modified in collaboration with AT&T to be "more bandwidth sensitive" and less taxing on the carrier's 3G network.

Yesterday, AT&T announced that it had finally decided to allow Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile to stream video over the carrier's 3G network. As part of the announcement, AT&T claimed that it had "worked with" Sling Media to develop a version of th...

The iPhone will inevitably be available on multiple carriers in the U.S., one analyst believes, though 2010 is not likely to be the year Apple ends its agreement with AT&T.

Looks like everyone has a few reservations on the post-Warnock/Chizen Adobe, as a few more details concerning Apple CEO Steve Jobs? feelings about the creative software company have seen the light of day, thanks to our French connection.Jobs slammed Adobe as ?Lazy?, telling Apple staffers this during a town hall meeting last week. Sure, Adobe has denied this. Now HardMac cites an Apple exec who has given a few choice cuts as to the root of Apple?s disappointment with Photoshop company."Like Microsoft, Adobe has become a stodgy and conservative company, they've lost their focus - they are stuck in the middle,? Jobs told Apple staff.Hardmac then helpfully lists a few complaints:?Adobe completely missed the transition to Cocoa, and tried to extend the use of Carbon, causing problems for both users and Apple. They have only now started to work within the programming environment, however, the first beta of the new Creative Suite 5 remain incomplete and unstable.?Adobe is reported to be very slow to react when Apple sends them bug reports, especially about Flash. Apple sent them description of 410 bugs, identified as important for Flash on Mac OS X, but Adobe has only fixed 25 of them so far. Jobs has also slammed Flash for being unstable, that it wasn?t originally included on iPhone not out of choice but because what Adobe delivered just didn?t make the grade (as he said at the time).HardMac: ?Apple is also upset about Adobe Software Activation, their anti-piracy protection. This system forces CS users to validate their license online. In order to prevent any bypassing by software-based debuggers, the ASA shunts the system in order to directly access the deepest layer of the CPU and the RAM, without considering the protection of such components built into Mac OS X. As a consequence it would increase the risk of crash and fragmentation, making Mac OS X unable to manage or better control them. So, every time the ASA is modified or updated as it has already been hacked a certain number of times, Adobe asks Apple to take measures on its system to let the ASA work efficiently, without creating too much instability.?We?ve noticed this too - how inefficient and time-wasting Adobe upgrades are on a Mac. To the extent at least one 9to5Mac writer keeps their creative apps on a second computer, because they claim it ?bugs out? their primary machine. (This is anecdotal).HardMac again, ?Last but not least, Apple thinks that the user interface of current Adobe applications is now getting too old, and did not move to a more user friendly version; and finally the price of the Creative Suite are just too high according to Apple's ranking.?We?d agree about price. And we have heard reports of Adobe leaning on major publishers to ensure criticism of its prices is not too strenuously made, particularly its extremely exploitative European prices. HardMac then speculates Apple may in future plan to use some of the many Carbon elements inside its software to deliver more Mac-native creative applications capable of doing the work of Adobe?s creative packages. Meanwhile, Adobe has published a video showing how to create an iPhone application in Flash, compiling it to run on the Apple device.

Last weekend, book publisher Macmillan won out over Amazon in a battle over eBook pricing, switching to an "agency model" in which book prices are set by the publisher with retailers receiving a percentage (30% in Amazon's case) of the sales price. ...

In this clip Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, talks engagingly about how he added color to computing.
For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve has won numerous accolades, including the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985.
In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for "single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers."
See more clips at Fora TV. (Looks like this may have taken place late last year, but this video's only been in circulation a few hours, far as we can tell).

An iPad's sales job isn't over with the event announcement. Steve Jobs has been working his magic around New York, hitting the big media companies, selling his iPad vision to the big players. Yesterday, he made a whistle stop tour of both the Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Times' Newsroom.
Last night, he stopped to have dinner with 50 executives of the New York Times, apparently arriving in a tall hat.
When Apple recently booked the cellar dining room at Pranna for a talk with 50 top executives from the New York Times, even restaurant higher-ups didn?t know who their VIP guest would be. But last night, Jobs came strolling in wearing what our source calls ?a very funny hat ? a big top hat kind of thing.?...
Jobs, who sat at the head of the "intimate, family-style gathering" with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, demonstrated the iPad and its functions, and spoke about how it could serve the future of media...
Jobs confessed that, although he reads the Times online every day, even he likes to hold the Sunday edition in his hands.
If anyone has a picture, real or fake, of Jobs in a tall hat, we're all eyes.

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently traveled to New York City in recent days to meet with executives at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for discussions about bringing their content to the iPad.

?We've got two strong legs on our chair today ? we have the Mac business, which is a $10 billion business, and music, our iPod and iTunes business, which is $10 billion. We hope the iPhone is the third leg on our chair, and maybe one day Apple TV will be the fourth leg.? ? Steve Jobs in 2007
If you still don't believe the iPad is that big of a deal to Apple ?maybe an Apple TV-class hobby ? note that Apple's homepage has been all about the iPad since last week's launch. That's for a product that doesn't ship for another seven or more weeks, a product you can't even pre-order right now. We don't even know if all of the hardware and software specs have been finalized.
Apple has huge plans for iPad.
Apple fully intends transforming the iPad line into the fourth leg of its business: Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Note that three of these legs use the iPhone OS and at the end of this year, three of these product categories seem very likely to use Apple's own chips, thanks to that PA Semi purchase. It would be no surprise if the Apple TV isn't gifted with its own iPhone OS/Apple-ARM chip implementation as well.
To put all of this into perspective, remember that less than three years ago, Apple only had the Mac business and classic-type iPods that ran a derivative of the PortalPlayer OS that still lurks inside the iPod Classic and Nano. The traditional iPod business is shrinking, according to Tim Cook at last week's earnings call. The only iPod gaining ground is the iPod touch.
This should paint a pretty good picture of where Apple is going. And if you were wondering about OS 11? Look to your iPhone for a little inspiration.

?We've got two strong legs on our chair today ? we have the Mac business, which is a $10 billion business, and music, our iPod and iTunes business, which is $10 billion. We hope the iPhone is the third leg on our chair, and maybe one day Apple TV will be the fourth leg.? ? Steve Jobs in 2007
If you still don't believe the iPad is that big of a deal to Apple ?maybe an Apple TV-class hobby ? note that Apple's homepage has been all about the iPad since last week's launch. That's for a product that doesn't ship for another seven or more weeks, a product you can't even pre-order right now. We don't even know if all of the hardware and software specs have been finalized.
Apple has big plans for iPad.
Apple fully intends transforming the iPad line into the fourth leg of its business: Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Note that three of these legs use the iPhone OS and at the end of this year, three of these product categories seem very likely to use Apple's own chips, thanks to that PA Semi purchase. It would be no surprise if the Apple TV isn't gifted with its own iPhone OS/Apple-ARM chip implementation as well.
To put all of this into perspective, remember that less than three years ago, Apple only had the Mac business and classic-type iPods that ran a derivative of the PortalPlayer OS that still lurks inside the iPod Classic and Nano.
This should paint a pretty good picture of where Apple is going. And if you were wondering about OS 11? Look to your iPhone for a little inspiration.

As Apple struggles with flickering and yellow-tinting issues on the displays of its 27-inch iMac models, Gizmodo has been continuing to closely follow the situation and has learned that Apple has been offering refunds of 15% of the machine's purchase...

Research firm IDC today issued a report highlighting fourth quarter and full year worldwide sales numbers of "converged mobile devices", more commonly known as smartphones, revealing continuing outstanding growth for Apple's iPhone above the overall ...

AT&T today announced that it has decided to allow Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone application to stream video content over its 3G network. SlingPlayer Mobile allows users of Sling Media's "Slingbox" hardware to control and stream live and re...

TechCrunch reports that Apple has expanded its browser-based 'iTunes Preview' functionality to include pages for App Store applications.To see this for yourself, open any direct link to an iPhone app (example) in your favorit...

Here?s an interesting blog entry for any Apple watcher: Rob Janoff?s account of the design of the ?rainbow? Apple logo in the 1970?s.Way back then of course, things were different for designers. there were, ?No Computers, no Adobe InDesign, Photoshop or Illustrator. Layout ideas were shown rough,? as he puts it. Flash to 1977 and her tells us the story of the two ?Steves? (Jobs and Wozniak).?I knew right then that working on the introduction of a new product as complex as a computer named after something as simple as a piece of fruit was going to be fun. I had no idea that working on that account would soon become a major turning point in my career,? he writes.?The head of the company was Steve Jobs. He was not your typical CEO. He had long stringy hair, wore jeans and came to meetings wearing sandals. Steve loved blowing people?s minds with his ?counter culture meets business world? look and attitude.??I had no Idea that this logo was the beginning of what would later become the international rock star in the world of logos.,? he explains, moving into dispel some of the myths about that same logo while telling us how the creative story went.?The bite doesn?t symbolize getting smart or anything like that. The bite gave the apple the correct scale. The bite also keeps the shape from being confused with any other piece of round fruit. In addition, I think taking a bite out of an apple is a universally shared and pleasant experience.?It?s an interesting read Mr Janoff posted online yesterday - we?re going to leave it to you to explore the rest of it.

NY Times reports that Amazon has acquired the multi-touch company Touchco. Touchco is a startup company that was recently profiled in the New York Times for producing cheap, pressure sensitive, multi-touch panels: In contras...

New Media Age reports (via paidContent:UK) that Apple has hired two new managers focused on mobile advertising sales in its international markets as it seeks to takes advantage of its recent acquisition of Quattro Wireless.
According t...

Ars Technica reports on growing complaints from users of Apple's Nehalem ("Early 2009") Mac Pro models regarding heat and performance issues when performing audio processing tasks.The problem manifests as what has been described as e...

Earlier this week, a report briefly mentioned that Clayton Morris of FOXNews.com, who offered several reports about the iPad coming to Verizon in the weeks leading up to the device's introduction, had spoken to a Verizon source who claimed that Apple...

Google yesterday announced that it had begun to deliver over-the-air software updates to users of its Android-based Nexus One smartphone, offering a number of enhancements. Most notably, the update enables pinch-to-zoom multi-touch functionality in ...

Patently Apple reported yesterday that Apple has been granted a patent regarding the use of touch-sensitive bezels in electronic devices, primarily focused on portable devices. While the content of the patent is not new, having been previous...

DigiTimes today offers a series of reports involving Apple, revealing a number of claims from industry sources in Taiwan regarding the next-generation iPhone, Apple's possible plans for USB 3.0, and iPad component suppliers.
One report...

Another day, another Apple patent, this time seemingly bound for a future incarnation of the Apple TV.The patent describes a, "Remote Control System that can Distinguish Stray Light Sources" - think a Wii remote with built-in understanding of ambient light conditions.The focus of the patent centres on a new transmitter component that sits under a display or television in communications with the Apple TV console. The entire system could also be incorporated into a television itself, states the patent."In one embodiment of the present invention, console 30 can communicate with remote control using cable and/or one or more wireless communication protocols known in the art or otherwise. Console 30 also can communicate with transmitter using cable and/or one or more wireless communication protocols."The transmitter could be a separate component from Apple TV or integrated into a display, projector system or television. Other patents granted to Apple include one that covers the iTune's "Season Pass" feature and another covering the iPhone's touch based slide unlocking-mechanism interface, Patently Apple informs.

The Wall Street Journal tonight reports that Scrollmotion, a company we've profiled before and you can see at the WWDC 2009 event above, will be building eTextbooks for a number of publishers.

The Wall Street Journal tonight reports that Scrollmotion, a company we've profiled before and you can see at the WWDC 2009 event above, will be building eTextbooks for a number of publishers.
"People have been talking about the impact of technology on education for 25 years. It feels like it is really going to happen in 2010," said Rik Kranenburg, group president of higher education for the education unit of McGraw-Hill Cos. and one of the publishers involved in the project. Other publishers include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt K-12, which is a unit of Education Media & Publishing Group Ltd.; Pearson PLC's Pearson Education, and Washington Post Co.'s Kaplan Inc., known for its test-prep and study guides.
Scrollmotion has been involved with the App Store since its inception and has turned lots of big publishers books into apps. You can see in the video above how their textbook software works.
It's also unclear whether ScrollMotion will emerge as the leading applications provider, with many others in the works. A closely held New York-based firm, ScrollMotion has already developed applications for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. ScrollMotion takes digital files provided by publishers for the iPad, adapts them to fit on the device, and then adds enhancements such as a search function, dictionaries, glossaries, interactive quizzes and page numbers.
We had actually wondered if Apple had picked up Scrollmotion because their iBookstore looked very similar to Scrollmotion's Iceberg reader. The news is good for Apple and the book market as Apple doesn't seem to need to be the only player.

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that major textbook publishers have struck deals with Apple to bring their content to the iPad. According to the report, textbook publishers will rely on the technology of ScrollMotion, which a...

Engadget reports that an internal model number for Apple's next-generation iPhone ("N89") has apparently surfaced in the the new iPhone SDK 3.2 that was released alongside the introduction of the company's iPad tablet device....

In a statement to The Wall Street Journal regarding ongoing shipment delays for the company's 27-inch iMac models, an Apple spokesman has apparently refuted earlier claims that the company had halted production of the 27-inch iMacs as it has worked t...

Apple today released iPhone OS 3.1.3 for all iPhone and iPod touch models, addressing several specific bugs as well as offering fixes for a handful of security issues. This update for the iPhone and iPod touch contains bug fi...

Just prior to Apple's media event introducing the iPad last week, Engadget posted several photos of what did turn out to be the iPad, bolted down to a table and covered with a black cloth as Apple has been rumored to do with tightly-guarded pre-relea...