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For some reason, an old lawsuit attempt has resurfaced again as "news". The original lawsuit information appeared in January 2005. Thomas William Slattery has filed a class action suit against Apple Computer Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging Apple is guilt of violating federal antitrust laws and California's unfair competition law by requiring users...

Several people linked to an article that discusses the possibility of Apple buying Palm. This doesn't even qualify as speculation, but simply as wishful thinking on the part of some Palm investors calling for Palm to be put up for sale. Apple reportedly did have some interest in purchasing Palm a number of...

Flickr photo has been circulating which claims to be an invitation to an Apple Event on February 22, 2006. The image appears to be of the status light of the AirPort Express. No official confirmation of this image has been provided, and it is widely suspected of being a fake at this...

One user reports that Apple's German Store and UK Store have already removed the 17" G5 iMac from their listings. The price of the 20" G5 iMac was recently reduced by Apple in an attempt to clear...

Several sites have picked up on comments by Appleinsider that they continue to expect a special music event later this month. This was previously reported. No new information appears...

Macworld.co.uk reports on analyst notes from American Technology Research that SigmaTel may not be used by Apple for an upcoming entry-level iPod. There has been ongoing speculation that Apple's iPod shuffle will be replaced by a 1GB iPod nano in the...

Analyst speculation claims that the Shuffle will soon be replaced by a 1GB version of the Nano. Similar rumors/speculation appeared in late December prior to Macworld San...

Engadget publishes pictures which were sent in anonymously. The same photos were sent to a number of sites including MacRumors. According to Engadget the following is written on the blurry shots of what appears to be an Apple branded SIM card: xx/50 Test Unit [digits written in sharpie] Apple Computer Internal Test ...

Rumors of a Red iPod have been circulating after comments by Bono that a red Amex card and red iPod would be released to benefit AIDS research: The idea is that around 40 percent of the profits received from the sale of these special red products would go to the Global Fund to Fight Aids....

MacSpeedZone posts their benchmarks for the Dual Core Intel iMac and claims that Macworld's initial test were misleading: This is where the Macworld "First Lab Tests" article falls a little flat ... obscuring the processor capacity vs processor usage problem inherent with mutiprocessor machines (or multi-core ... same difference). Using Macworld's logic we could argue, given the data above, the...

Bear Stearns speculates that Google will create an iTunes competitor. Google recently entered the Video download market in early January. "We would expect Google to rollout a Beta service within 3 to 6 months. We note that Google has not confirmed our expectations, and that our thinking is based on Mosaic theory"...

Rob Galbraith has noted that Apple updated their site and will be offering all owners of Aperture a free update to the Universal Binary version. A Universal version of Aperture, which will run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Mac computers, will be available before the end of March 2006. New and existing owners of Aperture will be able to crossgrade to the Universal version at no...

TUAW points to the Cartoon Brew blog which claims that Disney will be adding "all its Oscar-winning (and Oscar-nominated) shorts" to iTunes. The films will reportedly be released in waves onto iTunes and also as a DVD boxed...

After Apple issued the iTunes 6.0.2 update last week, which introduced a feature called the MiniStore, complaints surfaced that Apple had added the equivalent of spyware, by having iTunes transmit and react to the songs you click on whenever the MiniStore is open. Apple has now changed the MiniStore so that iTunes users see an explanation and are asked to confirm use of the MiniStore before it ...

Now available via Software Update: iPod Updater 2006-01-10 delivers: - iPod Software 1.1 for iPod - iPod Software 1.1 for iPod nano - iPod Software 1.2.1 for iPod with color display - iPod Software 1.4.1 for iPod mini - iPod Software 3.1.1 for iPod with Click Wheel For all other iPod models, iPod Updater 2006-01-10 contains the same software versions as iPod Updater 2005-11-17....

iTunes 6.0.2 is now in Software Update: With iTunes 6, you can preview, buy, and download over 2,000 music videos and hit TV shows on the iTunes Music Store and sync your music and purchased videos with iPod to enjoy on the go. To watch purchased videos, you must have QuickTime 7.0.3 or later and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. iTunes 6.0.2 includes stability and performance improvements over iTunes...

Now in Software Update for affected PowerBooks: This update aids the 15-inch Aluminum PowerBook battery in performing at full capacity. It installs a PowerBook G4 Battery Updater utility, used to update battery firmware to "improve the performance of batteries that may develop short run times." Details are in the discussion thread....

Ynet.co.il (Hebrew) posts about Apple utilizing the Viiv platform for an upcoming computer (Translation by odedia): ...According to rumors, Intel will introduce on Sunday for the first time its new VIIV technology. Apple computers deniced rumors that they will introduce the first intel based laptops in the CES show. However, a source close to Apple agreed to confirm off the record that a first Mac ...