Month of November , 2004

According to AppleInsider, Apple has already started airing iTunes Music Store TV commercials on Canadian television networks.

According to The Globe & Mail - Report On Technology (reported by MacMinute), Apple is on track for the launch of the Canadian iTunes Music Store. The article quotes Natalie Kerris, Apple's director of products and technology PR: "It's still November; we'll launch in November". By the way, iTunes Music Store is expected to be launched in Canada by next Tuesday. Currently, Canadian users can no longer browse any of the c

MacosXrumors wishes to all readers in the United States a happy Thanksgiving.

According to AppleInsider, Apple has seeded build 7S206 of Mac OS X 10.3.7. This is the second beta seed since Mac OS X 10.3.7 was started.

According to TheRegister, SigmaTel, which is said to be Apple's rumoured iPod Flash controller chips supplier, has updated its revenues forecast to $65 million from $60 million. The updated revenue forecast is due to a contract with a new customer but the chip-maker would not say which company it was.

Apple has just made available, through the Software Update utility, an update for Bluetooth firmware to version 1.2. The update provides performance and reliability improvements.

On a volume of more than 45 million trades, today Apple's stock price (AAPL) has closed to a four years high at $61.35 (up 11.2%). During the trading session, the stock price has even reached $64.00.

An update of iCal has just been made available by Apple. This update brings iCal to version 1.5.4 and has the following description:

Source reveals that Apple resellers in Canada have just received the following email, announcing the company's plans to open an Apple retail store in Toronto, mid year 2005 :

Recent rumours expect Apple to release an entry level iPod based on Flash memory late this year. Sources not only confirm a possible release of an iPod based on Flash-memory, some of them also claim Apple will also have a hard drive based iPod mini priced $199 in its line of MP3 players.

Apple has updated its iPod and iPod mini software respectively to version 1.2 and 3.02. This update is only for click wheel iPod and iPod mini.

A reader has sent me a link to a little video extract of "Naked News"

ThinkSecret has just published an interesting article claiming that Apple is planing to use a new low-power and single-core G5 processor, called PowerPC 970GX, for a future generation of Powerbooks that should come late next year.

In response to the article about iTunes 5.0 features, new sources have reported additional information about the next releases of iLife and Keynote.

It's not really a rumor, not really breaking news either but it's really fun. Engadget has found a way to play video content with sound on an iPod Photo.

Microsoft has released, today, an update for Virtual PC that brings compatibility with G5 based Macs which have more than 2GB of RAM.

Mac OS X 10.3.6 update is now available through Software Update. This update provides the following improvements:

According to ThinkSecret, Apple has seeded new builds of Mac OS X Panther 10.3.6 Client/Server (builds 57R28) and Tiger Server (build 8A297).

Sources are continuing to report new features in Tiger 8A294 build. The latest reports reveal USB webcams compatibility on video snapshots, details on TextEdit impovements, parental controls and Windows sharing.

New reports on build 8A294 reveal some features and improvements on iChat, Safari, network assistants, OpenType and more.

Appleinsider took a closer look on build 8A294 of Tiger and found an interesting "burnable folders" feature as well as some slight improvements to smart folders.

As reported on Saturday, Apple has widely seeded to developers the build 8A294 of Mac OS X Tiger 10.4. Here is a quick review of this build.