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Apple introduced the world’s thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. It measures an unprecedented 0.16 inches at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. In addition to a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, MacBook Air offers a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support, letting users pinch, rotate and swipe. (more…)

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  • iTunes Digital Copy

    Twentieth Century Fox and Apple today announced iTunes Digital Copy for iTunes, which provides customers who purchase a DVD of a Fox movie title with an additional Digital Copy of the movie. The iTunes Digital Copy can be transferred effortlessly to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod with video, iPhone or on Apple TV—just like a movie purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store. (more…)

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  • Available as a free automatic download later this month, the new software announced today lets movie fans rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from their widescreen TV. With iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV—and with no computer required—customers can effortlessly rent movies just by clicking a button on their remote. (more…)

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  • With the installation of this major software upgrade, the best iPod becomes even more: the world’s best Wi-Fi mobile device. The upgrade—available from iTunes for just $19.99—adds five more great mobile applications to iPod touch: Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather, and Notes. It also includes such new features as Web Clips, a customizable home screen, and the ability to watch iTunes Movie Rentals on iPod touch.

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  • Software update for iPhone

    iPhone Software Update 1.1.3, a free software update available today via iTunes 7.5 or later, brings significant new features to iPhone. After installing the update, iPhone customers will be able to automatically find their location using the redesigned Maps application; text message multiple people in one message; create Web Clips for their favorite websites; customize their home screen; and watch movies rented from the new iTunes Movie Rentals right on their iPhone.

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  • A backup appliance that works seamlessly with Time Machine to automatically and wirelessly back up everything on one or more Macs running Mac OS X Leopard, Time Capsule combines an 802.11n base station with a server grade hard disk in one small package. “Bring Time Capsule home, plug it in, click a few buttons on your Macs and voilà—all the Macs in your house are being backed up automatically, every hour of every day,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. When it ships in February, Time Capsule will be available in models featuring 500GB and 1TB hard drives for $299 and $499, respectively.

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  • Apple GPS at Macworld?

    One of tomorrow’s announcements might be a GPS product with Apple’s mark on it, sources say. Rumours about such a device hit the Net last summer, but there are no official infos until now. This is a highly dinamic market - just like mobile phone industry, and could be the next frontier for Steve Jobs. Let’s wait and see.

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  • Apple’s founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, is expected to announce new great things at Macworld, tuesday. It’s one year since it showed iPhone and Apple TV. Until now, many rumours have taken over the Internet. First it was a 3G iPhone, now it’s not. It seems it will be posponed since summer time. Altrough, Jobs is expected to show an online movie rental service, an ultra light laptop and some other news. (more…)

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  • Light Apple laptop almost official

    Next week’s annual Macworld event in San Francisco is the favorite venue of Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs to roll out new products and chart the company’s course for the year. No 3G iPhone, but they will launch a new slim laptop.  New products are seen more as enhancements to Apple’s current offerings. (more…)

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  • iPhone 3G: details at MacWorld

    The 3G IPhone, with HSDPA, is coming on january 15th at MacWorld, sources close to Apple. This will be shown when Steve Jobs gives his annual “state of the Mac nation” at the event. In 2008 this will be on January 15, 2008 (9:00 AM - 10:30 AM). (more…)

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