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MacWorld Dispatch III--The iPhone

Next up, the iPhone. Apple says on the 200th day, the company has sold 4 million to date, or 20,000 a day on average. The company, according to Gartner data from third calendar quarter, shows RIM has 39% US market...

MacWorld Dispatch IV--iPod Touch

The iPod Touch gets some updates, but at a cost: $20. The updates will give you mail, stocks, , weather and maps with Wi-Fi. News Touches will come with the updates for free....

MacWorld Dispatch V--iTunes Movie Rentals

As expected, Apple is launching a movie rental service. The surprise: every major studio is onboard. That's Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lions Gate, New Line, Fox, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony. Looks like the model is rentals that expire after...

MacWorld Dispatch VI--The Battle for the Big Screen

It's Apple TV redux. Says Jobs: "We've all missed. No one has succeeded yet. We tried with Apple TV. Apple TV was designed to be an accessory for iTunes and your computer. It was not want people wanted. We learned...

MacWorld Dispatch VIa--The Battle for the Big Screen, part II

The new software will be a free upgrade in two weeks to current owners. The new boxes will ship about the same time, at a lower $229 price point instead of the previous $299....

MacWorld Dispatch VII--The BIG announcement

What's "In the Air?" Today, the company is introducing the MacBook Air. In a sentence, it's the world's thinnest notebook, beating the 3 pounds, 0.8 inches to 1.2 inch thickness of current gen thin and lights. Jobs says they can...

The MacBook Air

It's 1.6 gigahertz standard, with option to go to 1.8 gigahertz. The Intel chip comes on a very small package, 60% smaller than previous. "It's one of the reasons we could build a MacBook Air," Jobs says. Intel CEO Paul...

AppleTV + Rentals Is The Big News

Just back from the keynote, and I'm convinced that AppleTV and movie rentals was the major headline today, trouncing even MacBook Air (cool as it is, um...wow) as the major strategic announcement today. This little box is suddenly capable of...

Hands On With New Apple TV

Just had a meeting with Apple VP Phil Schiller and got to play with the Apple TV while it was connected to a beefy Denon sound system and a gorgeous HD TV. It operates exactly as described. I played some...

No iPhone SDK

The iPhone software development kit didn't appear today, and that disappointed some people, but Apple appears to be sticking to its original plan of releasing it in late February. No SDK means no appearance of the hotly rumored Slingbox client...