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Apple has released Pro Applications Update 2008-01. This update improves reliability for Apple's professional applications and is recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Server, Logic Studio, and Shake. Apple's release notes specify that the update is a revision to Final Cut Studio 2.0 and includes Final Cut Pro 6.0.3, Compressor 3.0.3, Apple HDV Codec 1.4, and PluginManager...

Stuff.tv claims to have heard from a Nike spokesperson that Nike is working to bring Nike+ to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The first piece of news is that Nike+ will definitely be extending its compatibility beyond the iPod Nano to the iPhone and iPod Touch. No surprise there really, but the interesting detail is that it could also make use of both devices Wi-Fi (and, ultimately for the iPhone,...

Apple has released a new Get a Mac ad entitled Office Stress. The ad features PC giving Mac a stress toy, as Mac now has Microsoft Office 2008 and would supposedly be doing more "work." PC then demos the stress toy, as depicted...

Apple has seeded a new version of the iPhone 2.0 Beta OS for developers enrolled in the beta iPhone Developer Program. Also available today to all ADC members is an updated version of the iPhone SDK (Beta 3). The updated iPhone beta firmware, version 5A240d, includes a number of fixes and new features centered on Exchange support, including the additional abilities of receiving and accepting...

Apple is now shipping Final Cut Server. For the past few months weve been using a beta of Final Cut Server to manage our entire workflow pipeline, 24/7, and it held up beautifully, said Evan Schechtman, CTO of Radical Media. Best of all, Final Cut Server integrates seamlessly with our home-grown solutions so its actually adding new value to systems weve relied on for years. Announced nearly one...

9to5Mac points out that Walt Mossberg may have confirmed the release timeframe of the 3G iPhone, expected to be in June. In an online video (about 6:50 in), Mossberg casually but confidently says that the iPhone will be 3G in 60 days. It is unknown whether Mossberg made the claim using additional knowledge or simply from circulating rumors, however his closeness to Apple and Steve Jobs...

Unity Technologies has announced they are porting the Unity engine to the iPhone platform. The Unity engine is used by desktop and web developers to create 3D games. The engine's port to the iPhone promises to allow rapid ports of games already developed using the Unity engine and expands its platform agnostic reach. A beta program is available for interested developers. Unity...

A MacBook Air running an up to date installation of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard was the first laptop to fall in last week's CanSecWest PWN2OWN contest, casting the spotlight once again on the Mac's security. The contest pitted a MacBook Air against a Vista laptop and a Ubuntu Linux laptop, all fully patched. While all 3 laptops did not fall the first day which only allowed attacks against the base OS ...

The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced that there are now more than 32 million Mobile Broadband connections worldwide compared with just over 3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2007. Recent figures from Wireless Intelligence, a comprehensive database covering the global mobile market, indicate that global Mobile Broadband connections have risen by more than 850 percent year-on-year (Q1 ...

The Commercial Times is reporting that electronics maker Hon Hai is competing to make the next iPhone (via MarketWatch). The news comes as Gartner is clarifying recent claims that the new phone has already been ordered by Apple. Via Information Week: That report later got circulated on the Web, where the comments were misinterpreted as a Gartner prediction, Dulaney's boss, Bob Hafner, said. ...

Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney claims to have heard "from sources in Asia" that Apple has placed a 10 million unit order for 3G iPhones, according to an interview by the iPod Observer. This order for 10 million 3G iPhones would reportedly be above and beyond the original 10 million Apple had planned to sell of the initial version of the iPhone in 2008. The analyst goes on to speculate that the...

Apple has released Plugin Manager 1.7.3 for Apple's professional applications. This update improves reliability for Apple's professional applications and is recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, Aperture, Logic Studio and related SDKs....

Apple has released iPod Reset Utility 1.0.3 for Mac and Windows. Use iPod Reset Utility to restore the following iPod models back to their factory settings, when iTunes is unable to do so: iPod shuffle (1st Generation) iPod shuffle (2nd Generation) The restore process completely erases all music and data on your iPod, and installs current iPod software on it. Apple has also posted a suppo...

ModMyiPhone posts two claimed leaked screenshots of the iPhone's upcoming iTunes App Store. He was just bored pressing buttons on his phone and suddenly instead of getting the normal "cannot connect" message that he had previously encountered, appstore launched revealing the appstore UI. Browsing around he found that the Genres and Top 50 categories contained a few apps. The screenshots aren't...

John Hodgeman, known as "PC" to viewers of Apple's Get a Mac ads, was viewed to have an iPhone on Wednesday's Daily Show with Jon Stewart (iTunes link). Perhaps to add to the irony and humor, Hodgeman then used the iPhone upside down when he seemingly answered a call. In real life John Hodgeman is a professed Mac user, however TV depictions of him using Apple products can be...

An anonymous source is claiming that Hulu.com and Apple will be launching an iPhone/iPod Touch compatible version of the site as early as this Thursday. Anonymous sources tend to be inaccurate more times than not, but lending some level of credence to the rumor is that it appears that Hulu's base encoding is H.264 which would make such a version of the site at least technically feasible....

DigiTimes is reporting that Intel will be set to launch its mobile quad-core processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX9300, in the third quarter of this year. The processor will carry a hefty price tag at US $1,038 in thousand-unit quantities, and DigiTimes says Intel does not expect demand to really pick up until the second half of 2009. Intel had previously demoed the chip at their Fall Developer...

While Apple's formal requirements for the iPhone SDK is an Intel Mac running Mac OS 10.5.2 or later, one enterprising individual managed to get the environment working more or less on his PowerPC iBook. Image courtesy of 3by9.com The only oddity Ive encountered so far is that you get 1 Warning when you build, because the target architecture doesnt match (PPC vs. i386) but thats to be...

The Inquirer posts what it claims is more evidence that Apple is planning to adopt Intel's Moorestown architecture for a future iPhone model. DigiTimes was first to make such a claim in October 2007 citing the usual "OEM sources." The Inquirer now posts a slide from Intel's CeBIT presentation which depicts the iPhone as a Moorestown smartphone. Image courtesy of The Inquirer Of...

Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that Disney CEO Robert Iger announced today at the Digital Hollywood Media Summit that the company has sold 4 million movies on iTunes since the movie store launched in 2006, along with 40-50 million videos. The site extrapolates that the total revenue from these sales is just under $123 million USD. Disney recently announced a $1 billion digital sales goal...