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One rumor circulating around the internet is a claim that Apple will offer a Product (RED) iPhone for the holidays. The original source of the rumor is a site called iPhone Savior. This site, however, is a humor and satire site so it's hard to take it too seriously. The rumor has been republished across a number of...

MacDailyNews republishes an unconfirmed rumor submission about what Apple might be up to for later this year. Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi....

Apple's stock has plunged over 10% in after hours trading since Apple announced record and expectation beating 3rd Quarter results, currently sitting at just under $150 after closing at $166.49. Apple's stock price is notoriously volatile after quarterly conference calls due in part to Apple's habit of understating estimates for future quarters which they routinely beat. In addition to a low...

HP delivered new printer drivers (version 1.1) to Mac OS X users last week via Software Update. The 405.1MB download is only available if an HP printer is connected to your system. It includes "the latest drivers for printers you have used on your system." Apple has started delivering updates to 3rd party printer drivers in the recent past with Brother and Canon updates similarly released in ...

AppleInsider reports that the preview version of Snow Leopard provides users with a quick way to review audio files within Finder: One person familiar with the pre-release software notes that hovering the mouse pointer over an audio file in Snow Leopard's Finder will trigger a triangular 'play' button to appear on the icon itself. Clicking the button will allow the audio file to play within the ...

The Inquirer speculates that all G84 and G86 graphics chips are affected by the GPU failures announced by NVIDIA earlier this month. According to NVIDIA a significant quantity of NVIDIA chips have been failing at higher than normal rates but has not yet provided a breakdown of...

Though it's not been a secret, a NYTimes article has prominently outed the fact that I have quit my job as a physician in order to continue to work on MacRumors and other web projects full time. As the article reveals, MacRumors has been a hobby and perhaps a passion of mine for the past 8 years. As I had said in the...

In delving into the XML file that Software Update uses to check for available updates, edibiase found that a MobileMe Updater is online. Forum member, FreeState installed it, and found that it changes all instances of ".Mac" to "MobileMe" and also provides a pretty new icon for the MobileMe service. Apple is launching MobileMe tonight and we expect this updater to be officially available...

This morning the MacRumors forums crossed the 200,000 member threshold. The rate of new registrations reached a peak of nearly 10,000 per month in January and February 2008, in the wake of the MacBook Air launch at Macworld San Francisco. While the rate decreased in the months following, it has recently spiked again to nearly 8,500 in June due in part to excitement over the iPhone 3G launch at ...

According to Segway forums, Segway Chief Technology Officer and designer Doug Field has up until now lead their entire engineering team is apparently leaving the company to become Vice President of Product Design at Apple. Doug has been the driving force in making the Segway what it is today and will be sorely missed at the company. However, with every change comes good and bad. So while it's bad...

FridgeDay reports that the Me.com mail servers are now online. This means that you can actually send mail from your @me.com email address. The outgoing mail server is "smtp.me.com" and the incoming server is "mail.me.com". Otherwise, you enter your usual credentials (username@me.com) and password. Incoming...

Apple has posted instructions to .Mac customers to sync their .Mac Bookmarks by July 6th ahead of the MobileMe launch. While MobileMe will allow bookmark syncing between computers, it will remove the online web access to them. In order to preserve your bookmarks, you need to make sure they are synced to your Mac. Apple's July 6th deadline opens the door to the possibility of an early...

In addition to other updates detailed earlier, Apple today released Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station (802.11n) Firmware 7.3.2. Apple provides no details on the update, specifying only that it includes "bug fixes." The firmware update requires AirPort Utility 5.3.2 or later and weighs in at 4...

Microsoft's MacBU has announced that it is working to bring Solver to Excel 2008 as part of a future update. Today, the best option for people who need Solver is to run Excel 2004 and Excel 2008 side-by-side, and switch to the 2004 environment for workbooks that require Solver. However, we have been hearing loud and clear from our customers particularly in education that the side-by-side...

Apple has released two software updates related to their professional creative packages. Final Cut Server Update 1.1 requires Mac OS X 10.5.3 and weighs in at 50.1 MB. This update addresses issues with the check in/check out process for Final Cut Pro projects, fixes issues with double-byte character sets, and improves the general reliability of the software. It is recommended for all Final...

Gizmodo claims that the iPhone 2.0 Firmware could hit Golden Master this Friday. The Golden Master version is the final shipping version of a product, which means we could also see the 2.0 Firmware released as soon as this Friday. Gizmodo warns that the date is tentative, but falls in line with Apple's original plans to deliver the 2.0 Firmware by late June. At WWDC, however, Steve Jobs revised ...

Gartner has announced that more than 1 billion personal computers are in use worldwide, and the number should double by 2014 driven largely by emerging market sales. "Mature markets such as the United States, Western Europe, and Japan currently account for 58 percent of the worlds installed PCs, but these markets only account for 15 percent of the worlds population," said George Shiffler, research ...

Apple today released Xserve EFI Firmware Update 1.1. About Xserve EFI Firmware Update 1.1 This update fixes several issues to improve the stability of Xserve computers. To complete the firmware update process, perform the following steps: 1) Locate Xserve EFI Firmware Update.app in /Applications/Utilities and double click on it. 2) Follow the onscreen instructions. If you will be doing...