Month of August , 2005

Apple and Motorola will announce the iTunes phone next week, during a special event that will take place on September the 7th at the Moscone Center, SF. The company started sending invitations to the press earlier this week.

As CNET News reports, Apple has sent invitation to the press for a special music related event scheduled on September the 7th at the Moscone Center, SF. Apple is expected to make major announcements for music related products during the event.

Apple has released through the Software Update utility an update for Safari, bringing it to version 2.0.1.

In a SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) Form published on August the 26th Apple announced that it had signed an agreement with its PowerPC G4 chips supplier, Freescale (former Motorola chips (division). The terms of the agreement are more flexible for Apple than for Motorola though.

Along with the revelation of some details on some upcoming features of Adobe Creative Suite 3, ThinkSecret hints at the possibility that Apple will launch their own professional photo editing application, potentially competing with Adobe Photoshop.

MacRumors and AppleInsider have analyzed Apple's recent job listings. The company is looking for several engineers, designers and managers for the Mac OS X development team and for some hardware projects.

During IDF (Intel Developer Forum), Intel announced a quite clear and detailed roadmap for its future processors. The details revealed tend to confirm the arguments that Steve Jobs used during WWDC 2005, justifying Apple's move to the Intel architecture. Among them, the impressive power per watt ratio that Intel promisses for its future processors.

As reports EETimes, Apple is buying 40% of Samsung's flash memory supply for the 2nd half of this year.

AppleInsider posted some ineresting documents revealing details on the forthcoming iTunes phone, which is to be released by Motorola before the end of the year.

Apple has trademarked "Made For iPod" at the US Patents and Trademarks Office. The trademark was filed on August the 10th and also includes a logo.

Citing the Chinese Commercial Times, Digitimes reports that Apple will launch 4GB and 6GB iPod shuffles later this year. However, Digitimes has not been very reliable in the past and it would sound a bit surprising if Apple released a 6GB iPod shuffle.

According to MacRumors, Apple could release new XServes soon. The report comes from an anonymous source, claiming that he has received an order status update for an XServes order, saying "Replaced with new product".

Taloussanomat.fi published earlier today an article claiming that Nokia's N91 mobile phone would work with iTunes. However, Reuters reports that Nokia denied that there is any agreement with Apple.

Apple has posted version 1.1 of the Security Update 2005-001 through the Software Update utility. The first version (1.0) which was released on Monday had broken 64 bit support, preventing some applications such as Wolfram Research's Mathematica from running.

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

According to NBC 17, Chatham County Schools have chosen Apple's iBooks for their teachers and students. The deal involves the delivery of 1000 to teachers for this year. Then, within the next several years, each of the 7400 students will have their laptop.

Here's a catch up with recent news we didn't report:

Since Apple released a Mac OS X Intel Developer Kit on WWDC 2005, several hackers have obtained a copy of this kit and have been trying to work-around the protections added by Apple, making the system unusable on hardware other than Apple's Intel Developer kit.

Apple has released a Security Update for Mac OS X, numbered "2005-007". The security update is available through the Software Update utility.

Apple's shares (AAPL) hit all time high, on Friday, on rumours that the company may partner with Google on online music. The stock closed at $46.10 (up 4.77%) and traded at as high as $46.30 after market close.

AppleInsider reports that Apple may be planning to release new Powerbooks at AppleExpo which takes place in Paris in September.

Apple has released a firmware update for Powerbook G4 15" and 17" @ 1.67Ghz. The update is available through the Software Update utility and requires Mac OS X 10.4.2.

Apple has made available on its web site a new preview release of QuickTime 7 for Windows (Preview 3). Changes on this new preview release are not provided by the company though.

According to MacBidouille (1, 2), Apple's Mac OS X x86 developer kit can run on any Intel based PC. However you have to make some mods or use VMware which will emulate the proper environment required by Apple’s developer kit.

As notes MacGeneration, MacWorld.de reports today that the release of a of MSN Messenger 5.0 for Mac OS X is imminent.

Four days only after the launch of its iTunes Music Store in Japan, Apple announced that it had sold over 1 million songs, becoming the first online music store in Japan in record time.

Apple launched today its iTunes Music Store in Japan with one million songs and the same features as in other countries. Songs are priced 150 Yen ($1.35) and 200 Yen ($1.8) per song.

Here is a catch-up with some recent news we missed:

Apple released today its first multi-button mouse called the "Mighty Mouse". The company has always been making mono-button mouses but finally releases a four-button mouse that does not look like other PC mouses though.