Month of July , 2005

HP announced today that it is stopping reselling Apple's iPod. However, the company will continue to sell iPod until September. HP recently announced that it will add the iPod shuffle in its line of digital music players.

A reader with skills in computer hardware provided interesting comments on the new iBooks released this week. He claims that the new iBooks should be technically capable for CoreImage and CoreVideo technologies and that the maximum RAM capacity of the new laptops has been increased.

Apple announced today that the Florida Broward County Schools have chosen Apple's iBooks for its students and teachers. As much as 30 000 12 inch and 14 inch iBooks are involved in the program.

According to MacWorld, Apple Japan has sent invitations to the press for a special music related event that will take place at the Tokyo International Forum on August 4th at 10 a.m.

Apple has just released an update for iPhoto bringing it to version 5.0.4. The update weights 39.2MB and is available through the Software Update utility or on Apple's support web site

With today's release of new lines of iBooks and Mac minis, we noted Apple has slightly increased prices in Europe.

Apple just released new lines of iBooks and Mac minis with slightly faster processors, more RAM, more storage and other new features.

Tuaw posted a picture that is said to be taken from Apple's own site. The picture shows a 12 inch and a widescreen 14 inch iBook with the following text on the top: "See everything in widescreen".

During MOTONOW event, Motorola's CEO, Ed Zanders indicated that there would be no iTunes phone related announcement during the event but gave a timeframe for the official announcement date.

Apple has posted an update for GarageBand, which is part of the iLife '05 suite. The update brings it to version 2.0.2 and is available through the Software Update utility.

As AppleInsider reports, Apple seeded new builds of Safari and Mac OS X 10.4.3 update to developers late last week.

ThinkSecret claims to have sources providing part numbers for new iBooks and new Mac minis, found on Apple's databases.

As notes MacWorld UK, Seagate announced today its plans to release hard disks based on perpendicular recording as soon as early next year.

The Business 2.0 Blog claims that Apple is currently in talks with Disney to sell its video content on a future online video store.

ThinkSecret claims that Apple is planning to release new iBooks very soon. The site also speculates that the new iBooks could have wide screen displays, citing recent rumours. No other information is revealed about the new line of laptops.

Apple has posted an update for DVD Studio Pro, bringing it to version 4.0.2. The update is available through the Software Update utility or Apple's web site.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple plans to launch an iTunes Music videos store and video enabled iPods soon.

Apple announced it has hit the half a billion songs download mark on its iTunes Music store during the week-end.

Apple has just released a second Public Preview of QuickTime 7 (PR2) for Windows through its web site.

Apple has just posted an update for AirPort software through the Software Update utility, bringing it to version 4.2.

Apple announced its quarterly results today (Q3 2005), after markets close. The company's revenues have reached the historic level of $3.52 billion, up 75% from last year, so did net profit which reached $320 million, up 425% from last year.

Apple has just posted an update for iPhoto through the Software Update utility, bringing it to version 5.0.3.

In addition to the Mac OS X 10.4.2 update, Apple has also updated its professional software.

Apple has just made available Mac OS X 10.4.2 Update through the Software Update utility.

Apple has just posted an update for iSync, bringing it to version 2.1. It is available through the Software Update utility.

Here is the description of the update, as provided by Apple:

iSync 2.1 supports compatibility for more devices such as the latest Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic and Sony Ericsson phones. For a complete list of supported devices, please check http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices.html

MacRumors' readers noticed today that Apple has dropped the price of the iPod battery replacement program to $59 from $99. Apple was critisized for the quality of its first iPods and on the price of the battery replacement program during the first year of the existence of the device.

Last week we mentioned French Mac-centric sites that claimed to have received invitations from a press event organized by Apple on July the 7th. Reports claimed this event indeed hapenned but wasn't the occasion of any announcement.

Apple has posted a DVD Playback Update which brings the DVD Player application to version 4.6.1. The update is available through the Software Update utility.

Here is the description provided by Apple:

DVD Playback Update 4.6.1 addresses a disc validation issue some users may encounter when attempting to play a disc for the first time with DVD Player 4.6. This update is recommended for all users of DVD Player 4.6.

According to a press release published on its Japanese web site, IBM officially announced, today, the release of the PowerPC 970MP.

This processor has longly been rumoured (since last year) to be a candidate for Apple's next-generation high-end Macs. Some readers had even hinted clues on multi-core processors support in Apple's developer utilities.

The company has also announced the characteristics of its PowerPC 970FX, the low power version of its 970 processor. It consumes 13W in low clock speeds (1.2 and 1.4Ghz), and 16W at 1.6Ghz.

The Inquirer reports that the Mozilla foundation has succeeded in compiling FireFox on the "MacTel" platform.

A chief developer of the project, Josh Aas told on his blog that the Mozilla Firefox team has worked hands in hands with Apple engineers to accomplish this port.

Although this is not a final release and some bugs remain, it's quite good news for the Mac users community to see an important web browser project coming on the new platform.

Engadget posts new pictures of the iTunes phone. The pictures actually show a Motorola E790 model running iTunes which looks really different from the model revealed in earlier pictures.

Considering there will be several iTunes compatible phones, it is not necessary the first model that will be released and may simply be a prototype, according to the site.

UPDATE: As