Apple iPod and iPhone News for January-03-08
Next iPhone software update to allow copy-paste
Apple will release an iPhone software update during MacWorld Expo 2008, well informed sources confirmed MacScoop. But it appears that the unpolished iPhone sofware version recently leaked on the Internet doesn’t include all the features of the final release.
http://www.macscoop.com/articles/2008/01/02/iphone-software-update-allow-copy-paste
VoIP For iPod Touch is Here
The Touchmods team have released version 1.0 of SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch. This hack will allow the Touch to make phone calls over its WiFi connection. Although named version 1.0, it is most certainly still a beta, and will take some special magic on your part to get things going.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/voip-for-ipod-t.html
Music Industry Is Dead: Apple Launching Label w/ Jay-Z
Looks like there might another major announcement at MacWorld. BGR it’s confirmed” that Apple is launching a record label with Jay-Z, who’s set to step down from Def Jam.
http://gizmodo.com/339781/the-old-music-industry-is-dead-apple-launching-record-label-with-jay+z
Creatively Speaking: Model’s memoir written in Apple store
Isobella Jade, is getting national attention these days as the model who wrote a memoir without the use of computer. (Let me clarify: without the use of her own computer.) It may very well be the start of a new breed: books written in public spaces on public computers.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10853
Apple to use new processor from Intel for next gen handhelds
Interesting background on mobile PC’s and handhelds and their influence on Apple
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/02/will_apple_rescue_intels_silverthorne.html
Apple may offer external optical drive with new sub-notebook
Mac maker Apple Inc., which later this month will unveil its first sub-notebook design in over a decade, is likely to offer an external optical drive as an optional accessory, according to a new report.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/02/apple_may_offer_external_optical_drive_with_new_sub_notebook.html
The Apple Keynote Index Fund
Can you make money investing in Apple stock the day before a Macworld keynote and selling a day or two later? What if you did it every year before and after Macworld?
http://keynoteindexfund.com/
Mac market share breaks 8% mark in 2007′s final days
For December as a whole, Apple Inc.’s machines accounted for 7.3% of all systems that browsed the 40,000 sites monitored by Net Applications Inc., up significantly from 6.8% during November. At the beginning of 2007, Net Applications pegged Mac OS X’s share at 5.7%, putting the one-year growth rate at about 28%.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054798&source=rss_news50
Rumors: Ultraportable Macbook and the Multitouch Trackpad
Macrumors is reporting that the rumored ultraportable Macbook we’re hoping for at Macworld 08 is to have Multitouch trackpad and external optical. The optical makes sense, and is welcome.
http://gizmodo.com/339349/rumors-ultraportable-macbook-and-the-multitouch-trackpad