Apple iPod Touch Upgraded

By Edmund Dantes Hamilton

Editor & Publisher, MyIWN

iPod Touch, the Wi-Fi enabled music player from Apple, has been upgraded with a host of new features. Beginning today you can customize the home screen and watch iTunes movie rentals. The new software upgrade costs 20 dollars. 

New iPod Touch Features:

• Mail
• Maps
• Weather
• Stocks 
• Notes

Mail can now be configured using popular web-based email accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Google's Gmail. POP and IMAP email are also supported. View mail in rich HTML displaying text and graphics attached to the email.

Maps now can find your location based on where your Wi-Fi connection originates from. You can get hybrid views combining satellite and map graphics.

Use the notes feature to jot down things your need to remember, or better yet write the first iPod Touch authored book using this feature. Also receive real-time stock and weather information.

Apple Introduces MacBook Air: World's Thinnest Notebook

By Edmund Dantes Hamilton

Editor & Publisher, MyIWN

Apple introduced a brand new, smaller laptop called MacBook Air, designed to compete with Sony TZ series notebooks. Price wise, the newer model sits between both MacBook and MacBook Pro series laptops.

MacBook Air Specs:

• Thinner than thinnest part of Sony
• Green Friendly with packaging that is 56% less than MacBook; aluminum casing good for recycling
• Fits inside typical office memorandum clasp envelope
• 0.16" - 0.76"
• Looks like the size of a plate when closed
• 1.8" hard drive
• 80 GB hard disk standard
• 1.6 GHz Standard, 1.8 GHz Option
• Intel Core 2 Duo
• 802.11n + Bluetooth 2.1/EDR
• 45 Watt MagSafe
• 1 USB 2.0 port
• Micro DVI
• Headphone Audio Out
• Multi-touch gestures on trackpad
• iPhone like screen features: pinch-zoom, and more
• 5 hours battery life
• 2 GB Memory standard
• 13.3 inch widescreen
• LED backlight
• Built-in iSight
• Full size keyboard
• USB powered SuperDrive $99
• Costs: $1,799.00
• Pre-orders today, ships in two weeks

Source: Apple MacWorld 2008 and MacRumorsLive.com

Apple TV Take 2: No Computer Required, Price Lowered

Edmund Dantes Hamilton

Editor & Publisher, MyIWN

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced today during MacWorld's keynote address the company is relaunching Apple TV. This time it will not require a dedicated computer. The goal here is for people trying to get movies on their flat screen Apple TV no does the trick.

All in DVD quality with HD and Dolby 5.1. Also:

• Rent movies on Apple TV
• HD Movies with Dolby 5.1
• Podcasts - audio and video
• Photos from Flickr
• YouTube - over 50M videos
• Buy TV shows and music
• Watch movies instantly within 30 seconds of download (with broadband connection)
• HD rentals $4.99, over 100 titles
• Library titles $2.99; New releases $3.99
• Reduced price from $299 to $229
• New software out in two weeks

Source: MacRumoursLive.com and Apple at MacWorld 2008

Apple iPhone Commands Nearly 20 Percent U.S. SmartPhone Marketshare

By Edmund Dantes Hamilton,

Editor & Publisher, MyIWN

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, announced today that iPhone has sold four million units, about 20,000 per day. According to Job, this places Apple's iPhone just behind RIM in the market:

• RIM = 39.0%
• Apple = 19.5%
• Palm = 9.8%
• Motorola = 7.4%
• Nokia = 3.1%
• Other = 21.2%

Source: Apple, Inc. Macworld 2008 Keynote Address