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Apple today announced an update to its full-sized iPod line. Among the enhancements are new games (Bejeweled, Cubis 2, Mahjong, Mini golf, Pac Man, Tetris, Texas Holdem, Vortex, and Zuma), Gapless playback (#1 request according to Jobs), a 60% brighter display, and longer battery life. The new iPod is available immediately in the following models: 30 GB: $249 -Black or White -14 hr music...

Apple today introduced its 2G iPod Nano, available in 5 colors depending on model. Apple claims the new model can get up to 24 hours of battery life, and the screen is 40% brighter. The new models are as follows, and are available today: 2 GB: $149 -Silver only 4 GB: $199 -Silver, Pink, Green, Blue 8 GB: $249 -Black only Alongside the new Nano, billboard and TV advertising...

Steve Jobs today unveiled a redesigned iPod Shuffle. The new shuffle resembles the iPod Remote control, and features a clip for easy wearability. The new model also features a USB 2.0 "dock" connector, which is required for connecting to a computer for synchronization and charging. The shuffle will be available in one 1GB model for US $79, and will ship in October. (A new iPod nano was...

Apple has posted an MPEG-4 video-on-demand stream of today's special announcement. It is unclear whether it will be broadcasting live or whether it will be a replay of the event as Apple has done in the past and as AppleInsider has claimed. Either way, MacRumors will be providing coverage of the event as it unfolds using our state-of-the-art MacRumorsLive service. Also, as many of you have...

The Inquirer believes that, contrary to previous rumors, Apple notebooks using Intel's Core 2 Duo mobile variant code-named "Merom" may be delayed until 2007 due to supply issues at Intel. ...Woodcrest is getting the lion's share of production, over 70% of Xeons will be new. Conroe is next in line with 20+%, followed by a syphilitic trickle of Meroms... What this means is Apple is faced with...

Apple has updated the Mac Mini to include all Core Duo models. Other than the processor upgrade, there does not appear to be any differences between the previous Mac Mini and today's release, including pricing. The Mac Mini is available in two offerings: 1.66 GHz Mac Mini 60 GB 5400-rpm SATA Hard Drive Combo Drive $599 USD 1.83 GHz Mac Mini 80 GB 5400-rpm SATA Hard Drive Superdrive...

One visitor to Apple's Tampa Bay International Plaza store has posted images to his flickr stream from what appear to be three new Get A Mac ads shown in-store. The ads have not appeared as of yet online or on the air, however the user describes the ads via his website as the following: 1) A unkempt cross-dresser stands with "the PC" while Gisele Bndchen stands with "the Mac" (symbolizing the ...

MacRumors has heard an unconfirmed tidbit that Adobe has sent out invitations to a special announcement at next week's IBC conference in Amsterdam. According to our source, the event will have "universal appeal". We are currently working to confirm this information. Only one Adobe application (Lightroom) is currently undergoing a universal public beta. Adobe had previously posted a PDF...

Several readers have noted that Apple's online store now has an estimated ship date of October for external iSight cameras. Slipping ship dates can be an indicator of updated or new product offerings, although other causes such as increased demand (perhaps due to increased Mac Pro and Display purchases which lack built-in iSights) can also contribute to longer ship times. The iSight was la...

Previously unheard of site macool is claiming that new iPods are shipping from Chinese factories. While some pictures are provided of trucks outside of a factory, none of the supplied pictures at this time can verifiably prove the claims made (hence this story's placement on page 2). If true however, an Apple announcement regarding iPods next Tuesday could be met with in stock models either...

Late last week, environmental watchdog Greenpeace released their Guide to Greener Electronics (pdf) which rates how eco-friendly different tech companies are based on publicly available information. Apple scored 4th lowest, beating only Leveno, Motorola, and Acer. Among the top-scorers were Nokia and Dell. For a company that claims to lead on product design, Apple scores badly on almost all...

Think Secret claims to have information on the rumored revision to the Mac Mini. According to the site, Apple will replace the existing Core Solo model with the existing 1.66 GHz Core Duo model, and add a 1.83 GHz Core Duo model, effectively eliminating all single-core CPUs from Apple's computer product line. The new systems are said to be "ready for production." Think Secret believes the...

Yesterday, Microsoft inadvertently released the pricing of its upcoming OS called Vista on their Canadian website. The prices were picked up by the NeoWin blog and are also neatly layed out at Wikipedia. Vista Home Premium will retail for $239, with upgrades available for $159. Additional licenses will be available for discounts as well. Vista Home Premium edition has evolved from XP...

An anonymous source claims Mac OS 10.4.8 has been seeded to developers. Among the preliminary list of changes in the new seed are fixes to AFP Server, WebCore, LoginWindow, CUPS and CDSASSL, and ImageCapture. Also reported is a list of known issues (including double reboots, long reboots, and no localization in some areas). Testers are asked to focus on the following: - AFP - DVD...

Apple has released a new iPod + iTunes Ad featuring Bob Dylan and promoting Dylan's new album Modern Times. The ad can be found via Apple's website, and Modern Times is available for pre-order via the iTunes Music Store (link). Apple has recently posted a number of ads including new Get a Mac Ads. The last new iPod ad was posted in May 2006 which used the usual silhouetted dancers. ...

Over the past month or so, there appears to have been an uptick in user dissatisfaction with Apple's handling of support incidents. While overall satisfaction is extremely hard to gauge due to the fact that typically only disgruntled users notify sites of issues and the uptick could also simply represent Apple's increased marketshare, it does come amongst reports of Apple firing its online forum ...

Carsguide.com.au reports that Pioneer spokesman Michael Broadhurst has claimed that Apple will be introducing a bluetooth iPod adapter that will allow music to be streamed to their new line of bluetooth-equipped car stereos (and presumably other bluetooth equipped devices supporting audio profiles as well). This is not the first time a 3rd party manufacturer has claimed Apple is working on...

According to a MacRumors developer source, ZFS has been added to the list of file systems in the vnode.h header file in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, which could indicate preliminary support for the file system. Apple had contacted Sun earlier this year about the possibility of porting ZFS to Mac OS X. Due to ZFS's high redundancy features, some in the technical community had wondered whether...

News.com is reporting that Apple has issued a recall for 1.8 million PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) batteries that used technology from Sony. Batteries with the Sony technology (used in Apple, Dell, and Sony laptops, among others) have recently been catching fire, with Dell recently recalling 4.1 million batteries. The recall effects a variety of machines manufactured from...

Apple and Creative have resolved their legal disputes which started on May 15th of this year when Creative and Apple sued each other claiming patent infringement. According to a joint-press release, Apple will pay Creative $100 million USD to settle all outstanding lawsuits. "Creative is very fortunate to have been granted this early patent," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "This settlement...