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Thinksecret publishes more information on Filemaker 7... which has been rumored for some...

Rumors of an Apple-Nokia collaboration appears to be unfounded... according to one seemingly reliable source. An Apple-branded Phone -- and specifically a Nokia collaboration -- has been rumored in the recent past. This, despite Steve Jobs' ongoing denials that Apple would enter this market. According to the source, Nokia has no current projects with Apple. (Of course this does not...

This forum post claims that some future iTunes songs may be published without one or more tracks to allow for playing along by the listener Today I put together different mixes from the new band Damage Plan (formerly Pantera) to be sold on iTunes. The neat thing is each track has the song without certain instruments. Track one is without vocals, track 2 is without drums, track 3 is without...

ThinkSecret as well as independent reports indicate that Apple pulled the Mac OS X 10.3.3 seed due to an issue with 20" iMacs. Apple warns "Please do not install Mac OS X v10.3.3 Build 7F24 on a 20-inch...

According to Appleinsider, Apple retail may be seeing some new display changes. The new displays involve "pre-constructed wall-displays" which house 30-inch plasma displays. The display is reportedly already in place in some...

AnandTech reports that the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 will find its way into one major manufacturer in about a week: There is one BIG notebook manufacturer that has not announced along side with ATI, but will do so and ship in approximately a week. We can't say more than that for the moment, but it is definitely a design win that ATI will be touting. We will cover more on it when the time comes....

Of somewhat uncertain significance, IBM announced that they were merging their Semiconductor (PowerPC) and Server groups together with "hopes that by working closer together the two will help each other improve their product...

Curiously, Apple's web server hosts this image -- which claims 16GB of ECC RAM in the new G5 Xserve... while the "official" image and specs list only 8GB...

The Register.co.uk points to this Team XBox post as possible information about the upcoming Xbox PowerPC Processor... but the information appears to be questionable. Meanwhile Mercury News does report on some minor details of the upcoming...

Since this is getting submitted every day... I thought I'd point out that yes... Apple did have a 20th Anniversary Mac... 7 years ago. The 20th Anniversary Mac was released on Apple's (not the Mac's) 20th anniversary and retailed for...

MacBidouille claims that IBM is charging Intel more for SOI (Silicon on Insulator) technology licensing than other companies Intel, just as AMD and Nvidia did, would have asked for an SOI license. Whereas the two others pay close to nothing, IBM would have asked Intel to pay US$ 500 Millions plus US$ 45 per manufactured processor....

According to the same source of the Feb 3rd PowerBook revision rumors, the 15" and 17" PowerBooks should also see $300 price drops on the same date as the updates. The update date has wavered between Feb 2nd and 3rd. Regardless, this information remains uncertain due to the absence of a history of reliable reports from this particular source. Should this prove to be true, further...

Appleinsider posts that according to some documents, the upcoming PowerPC revision (90nm?) is indeed called the 970FX as previously claimed. The "Momentum Computer Maple Evaluation System and board" document notes that it utilizes PowerPC 970FX processors that can operate at up to 2.4GHz. Any further details are unclear...

This AVSForum post claims that Apple will be entering the high-end projector market. Apple will be announcing a new FP. He said the launch is part of their 20th anniversary and they are launching a new product line and will get aggressive entering the market. He saw a demonstration of this projector and said it was one of the best hes seen, he was really blown away. He would not go into detail on ...

According to some reports... Apple may be releasing display updates tomorrow. No details available, but previous rumors have included a 30" display....

A few uncertain rumors floating around indicate that PowerBooks will see minor speed bumps to up to 1.42 GHz in the 17" High End come Feb 2nd. 15" PowerBooks are also reported to be increasing to 1.25 and 1.33GHz, while the 12" remain...

Sources familiar with Apple Retail's Graphics and Visuals plans have indicated that January 19 or 20 will bring an updated look to at least some of the graphics in the U.S. retail stores and the possibility of new products to go along with these visual changes. (Readers are reminded that some items are posted to Page 2, not due to questions of reliability, but due to lack of...

Appleinsider reports that Apple will be announcing a new version of Logic Platinum at NAMM -- which kicks off...