I just downloaded my first Beatles song from iTunes – The Beatles – Revolution. What are you waiting for? Just search The Beatles in iTunes and you’ll be well on your way to downloading!
It appears that there is a rising number of complaints from users who purchased the new MacBook Air with regard to kernel panics, video problems, and other issues that could be related to defective logic boards. On Apple’s discussion boards there have been several posts about issues with both the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air models.
Apple Discussion forum user, DanRyb, basically stated that his 11-inch model would randomly display “weird colors in vertical lines” extending across the entire screen and the machine would freeze. He was forced to power cycle the computer in order to recover.
Another forum user, Hobokendippy, reported that his 13-inch model had crashed three times twice with a blank screen and once with the screen distortion reported by DanRyb.
Today, the Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac team announced the availability of Office 2011. According to their blog post, you can now officially get your copy of Office for Mac 2011. The software is available in a variety of places including, Apple, Amazon.com, Best Buy and MacMall.com as well as OfficeforMac.com.
Office enables users across platforms to work anywhere, anytime – to build their ideas into reality. Office 2011 includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Messenger and now for the first time in the suite, Outlook for Mac (which I’ve heard some good things about).
Amazon just released a brand new free iPad app called Amazon Windowshop. The app which is optimized specifically for the iPad to make browsing through the online store easier is very similar to Amazon’s website. It includes several categories to browse through such as, “Featured”, “Bestsellers”, “Recommendations”, “New Releases”, and “Movers & Shakers”.
Windowshop displays products through a grid-like interface, but also includes pop-outs of specific products with high-resolution images, user reviews, descriptions and videos related to that product (which includes 30 second samples for the music items).
This morning Apple updated their Apple Store app for the first time. And guess what? Version 1.1 has a little surprise. That’s right, in the ‘Reserve Products’ screen, the much anticipated white iPhone 4 is supposedly available (sort of). It appears on the list of available iPhone’s to reserve, however, when you try and select the white iPhone 4 option, it doesn’t actually work.
It’s still unclear whether this is just a glitch in Apple’s system or if they plan to make it available soon. Either way, it’s clear Apple hasn’t completely forgotten about the white model of the iPhone 4. We’ll have to wait and see if this becomes a reality. Until then, there’s always the black model.
Screenshot courtesy of Engadget.
According to a report by Pocket-Lint, there was a white iPhone spotting in New York City. A white iPhone 4 in the wild, you ask? Yep. It also appears that there are boxes of them over at Apple HQ in Cupertino. So why haven’t they been released to the public?
As reported in the article by Pocket-Lint, the man spotted with the white iPhone has close ties at Apple and according to him, the delay is because the home button does not correctly match the rest of white casing around the device. Which would make sense and go along with the other design defect rumors.
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For the first time in Apple’s history, their stock price has opened above $300 per share. Apple’s stock (AAPL) has risen 25% since late August and 42% since the beginning of the year. Apple has also surpassed both Wal-Mart and Microsoft with regard to market capitalization becoming the second largest company in the United States. Only behind Energy giant, Exxon Mobil, who is also doing very well as of late.
Apple has expanded its lead over Microsoft in market capitalization to nearly $50 billion as of today. Apple is also expected to announce their June-September earnings on Monday. Analysts are predicting revenue in the $20 billion range, which would surpass (for the first time in 15 years) Microsoft’s revenue.
October 20th, 2010 at 10AM Pacific Time. Mark your calendars for an Apple event. But this event is a bit different than the ones we have seen as of late. Back to the basics (or the Mac) we go.
Apple wants to talk about “what’s new for the Mac,” which could mean some new/updated hardware — but I’m betting they definitely want to discuss software too. See that lion hiding behind the event logo? It appears Apple is preparing to announce the next version of OS X. Perhaps named Lion? We’ll find out.
The latest update of iTunes 10 was released earlier today. The update (iTunes 10.0.1) included many bug fixes, but most importantly, it improved the integration of Ping within iTunes. While this may be considered a small incremental update, it has huge implications and shows that Apple is in fact serious about Ping.
As you may remember, Ping was announced back on September 1st during Apple’s press event. It gathered quite a bit of discussion around the web, but quickly faded into the distance even with the 160 million potential Ping users. The problem with Ping was that it was too cumbersome. It also took too much effort to do the things you wanted to do; such as share or like a song or album. But that is no longer the case.
Hot on the heels of the iPad, Apple’s iPhone 4 will be released in China on September 25th, 2010 starting bright and early Saturday morning at 8AM.
In terms of pricing and availability, the iPhone 4 will be available across China in retail locations as well as China Unicom shops, with off-contract pricing set for CNY4,999 (16GB model) and CNY5,999 (32GB model) — that’s roughly $743 and $892, respectively.
Full Press Release below:
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