Month of January , 2007

The long battle between Apple and the rumour sites community started two years ago with the "Asteroid" case and took end this week with rumour sites at the winners' side.

Luxembourg's finance minister gave the hint earlier today, Apple may start selling movies on the iTune

Along with the release of the iPod shuffle new flavors, Apple has quietly made

Apple has released four new flavors for the second generation of its entry-level iPod, the iPod shuffle.

UPDATE3: Store open, Apple releases four new iPod shuffle flavors.

According to various reports on the Internet, Apple may be readying to launch new products as soon as this Tuesday.

Lately, it looks like Apple is more and more interested in markets outside the USA and especially Europe if we consider the company's latest moves.

Apple has reportedly seeded a new build of Tiger to developers this week.

Here's a quick catch-up with the news we missed this week, busy us :).

Apple has posted a Security Update labelled 2007-001. It is described as below:

Security Update 2007-001 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components:

In a FoxNews interview of January the 19th, the founder of PoliticalDerby.com suggested Steve Jobs could be a "dream horse" for the democrats.

According to a report MacScoop has obtained, Apple will charge current users of Mac OS X Tiger for the final version of Boot Camp that will be released at the same time as Mac OS X Leopard, this Sprin

An Apple rep has confirmed that the company will release a Firmware update for the 802

Apple has reportedly seeded a new build of Mac OS X Leopard to developers. The build labelled "9A343"

According to a Toronto Sun report, Apple will start selling the Beatles discography on iTunes st

Apple has reportedly seeded another build of Mac OS X 10.4.9, labelled "8P2120".

Apple has just released its Q1 2007 financial results. The company has posted a profit of $1 billion and revenue of $7.1 billion, easily beating even the highest analysts' estimates.

Sources that have proven to be reliable in the past informed MacScoop that the use of the patented multi-touch technology introduced last week with the iPhone may be just a starting point in Apple's secret product pipeline. Other devices are said to be in development in Apple labs. Among them, a true video iPod and... guess what? A Tablet Mac.

Apple will webcast its Q1 2007 financial results on Wednseday, after the markets close.

Here's a brief catch-up with this week's->recent software related news:

802.11n driver update

Apple has released a few new ads in the "Get-A-Mac" section of its web site.

Since Apple revealed its long-awaited mobile phone which uses the "iPhone" trademark, all the IT-centric web is talking about Cisco's

On Monday, MacCulture and Coladia announced that 500 licenses o

According to a Reuters report, Cisco, the networking equipment maker sues Apple for trademark infringement over the use of the iPhone trademark.

Apple's shares closed at all time high today after analysts weighted positively on the announcements made during MacWorld SF 2007 opening keynote yesterday.

Among the announcements, the long-awaited iPhone which converges the iPod, a PDA and a mobile phone in a same device and the Apple TV which connects to your big screen TV and brings iTunes and iPod content on your living-room wirelessly.

Apple has made available a stream of the MacWorld SF 2007 opening keynote, which took place earlier today at the Moscone Center, San Fransisco.

The link to the stream is available on this page. Notice that, due to very high demand on the stream, you may encounter difficulties if you try to connect to it at the moment.

At the end of today's MacWorld SF 2007 opening keynote, Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, announced that the company would change its name so as to better reflect what it does.

The company formerly names "Apple Computer Inc." will now be named "Apple Inc.".

Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, announced during the MacWorld SF 2007 opening keynote that the company had crossed the 2 billion songs sold on iTunes. He also announced that Paramount Pictures is bringing its content to the iTunes store and showed the audience some new iPod ads.

Along with the announcements made during MacWorld SF 2007 opening keynote, Apple has quietly updated its Airport Extreme wireless base.

The main feature the new version of the Airport Extreme base brings is the support of the 802.11n wireless standard.

Along with the historic announcement of the iPhone, Apple has also released the Apple TV, formerly code-named "iTV", when the company unveiled the product in September 2006.

The Apple TV is a living-room entertainment appliance that focuses on very powerful streaming capabilities.

During MacWorld Expo opening Keynote, Apple announced the very anticipated iPhone. Although analysts and Mac-centric sites have been speculating on the device for a while, the company announced a product that goes well beyond expectations.

A CNNMoney report claims that Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures could start selling movies on the iTunes store.

Never a MacWorld event has been so much surrounded by rumours and speculations.

Tipsters told MacScoop that Apple has been developing and will include a stripped-down version of Mac OS X in its forthcoming "iTV" home entertainment appliance and on its next generation of iPods.

Readers noticed on MacWorld Expo's web site that the description of a conference drops a hint at the announcement of the use of the 802.11n wireless standard in Apple's Airport technology.

On a session named "PI: Advanced Wireless", we can indeed find references to "Airport Extreme X2" and Airport Extreme X4" as well as the "802.11n" standard which allows high bandwidth wireless communications.

Sources indicated to MacScoop that Apple does not plan to release iLife '07 during MacWorld SF - as it's been doing every year - but next Spring, alongside Leopard.

The consumer software suite, which includes iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb and GarageBand will extensively use Leopard's latest core features but will keep backwards compatibility with Tiger, according to the our sources.

The New York Times' John Markoff provides his take on what Apple could announce to

The field is ripe for speculation and this is no more than another educated guess, but have we been missing some things because we've been fixated on the wrong kind of devices? Have we really been "thinking different" enough? By seeing the new Apple phone as a phone and the set-top box as a set-top box, have we missed the point?

UPDATE: The rules of this giveaway have changed, read more here.

For months now, all of the IT ecosystem is waiting for Apple to release a mobile phone and a living-room entertainment appliance. The last one has already been officially announced under the temporary "iTV" name back in September 2006. But if the latest report MacScoop obtained is true, then it looks like no one has guessed the definitive names that Apple will give to these devices yet.

MacScoop will provide live coverage for the MacWorfld Expo 2007 opening keynote which takes place on January the 9th at the Moscone Center, San Fransisco at 9 A.M. Pacific (or 5pm GMT).

. The coverage will be available from http://keynote.macscoop.com.

ThinkSecret reports that Apple will release a spreadsheet application with the '07 edition of iWork office productivity suite.

Adobe Premiere back to the Mac

Adobe announced today that the next version of its Production Studio professional video editing and production suite, which includes Premiere, will be released for both Mac and Windows platform.

Apple has reportedly chosen LED-based backlight technology for the LCD screens of its future notebook line-ups.

The LED-based backlight technology provides better colors and contrast ratio. It may allow Apple and HP to make notebooks with much higher quality displays.

The MacCulture Network, MacosXrumors and MacScoop wish you a Happy 2007 with plenty of success, good times and fun.

2006 has been a big year for us as the initial MacosXrumors.com project, which started in 2002, has evolved into a network of sites, which now includes MacScoop, MacosXrumors and the MacCulture Forums.