New Apple iPhone expected next week

June has arrived and for Apple fans and investors that means just one thing — a new iPhone.
The encore to the original iPhone, which launched nearly a year ago amid unprecedented industry buzz, is widely expected to be the main attraction when Chief Executive Steve Jobs takes the stage at Apple’s developers’ conference next Monday.
The [...]

The OS X desktop as music video

A digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu has made an amazing video for The Bird And The Bee’s lovely song “Again & Again”. The set? His Mac desktop. You sort of have to see it for yourself to understand; luckily, Dennis has dropped it on YouTube so that the world can see it in low-res glory:

Innovative, [...]

Apple promises iTunes movies same day as DVDs

Apple on Thursday announced that new movie releases will be available for purchase on the iTunes Store the same day as they’re available as their DVD release.
New releases and catalog titles are coming from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment [...]

First Psystar Mac Clones Ship

According to Gizmodo, Psystar has begun shipping its Macintosh clones, thus proving that the company is not a hoax. Initial impressions seem to be positive, though Software Update does not work.

BlackBerry vs. iPhone: The smartphone battle hots up

The New York Time’s Brad Stone has a very interesting Sunday story about RIM (Research In Motion) communicating how much the iPhone is a threat to RIM today. But how real is the threat?

Lightning Fast iPods and iPhones Coming Soon - Apple Acquires Obscure Processor Company

Forbes reports that Apple has agreed to purchase chip manufacturer P.A. Semi for $278 million. The company, founded in 2003, focuses on sophisticated, low-power chips that could possibly used in future models of the iPhone.
The decision to center the iPhone design around a chip that Apple could own marks a significant strategic choice by Apple [...]

PayPal: “No intention” of blocking Safari

There were strong rumors in the net and blogsphere about PayPal blocking Safari browser from its site.
PayPal public relations have clarified their position as below:
PayPal is developing features to block customers from logging into PayPal when using obsolete browsers on outdated or unsupported operating systems. An example of such a browser/OS combination might be, for [...]

Meet The Mac-Clone Mystery Man from Psystar

How’s this for a deal. At a fraction of the cost of a comparably equipped machine from Apple, a Web-based company dubbed Psystar is offering a computer you can have loaded up with just about any operating system you choose, including Apple’s OS X Leopard.

Wow! OpenMac for $399 — a PC white box running *unmodified* Leopard. How long can Apple let them go?

Wow! OpenMac for $399 — a PC white box running *unmodified* Leopard. How long can Apple let them go?
Read on this site… And no, I am not selling for them!
Update (17/4): see this related post: $399 Psystar Mac clone draws angry response

OpenMac

Price per Unit (piece): $399.99

The highly extensible OpenMac [...]

Latest iPhone 2.0 beta reveals 3G chipset

Hidden away in the latest test firmware for iPhone developers is the mention of the chipset that will power third-generation cellular Internet access in Apple’s next generation of the device.
Discovered by the creators of the popular ZiPhone jailbreak and unlocking utility, a small, nondescript entry in the new firmware used to identify the phone’s chipset [...]