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• The world's thinnest notebook. Macbook Air - MacBook Air is ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else. But you don’t lose inches and pounds overnight. It’s the result of rethinking conventions. Of multiple wireless innovations. And of breakthrough design. With MacBook Air, mobile computing suddenly has a new standard. Apple Inc
• iPhone January Update. Watch the guided tour - New update. More feature. Same iPhone. Map yourself. Make Web Clips of your favorite websites. Rearrange your Home screen. And more Apple Inc
• Now there's even more to touch. iPod touch - Great new applications come to an already amazing iPod Apple Inc
• Apple tv. Movies and much more. Watch the guided tour - Coming to a widescreen TV near you. Available in 40GB and 160GB models, starting at $229 Apple Inc
• Introducing Time Capsule. A leap forward for backup - Introducing Time Capsule. Automatic wireless backup for your Mac. Available in 500GB and 1TB models. Apple Inc
• Apple introduces new Apple TV software, lowers hardware pricing - Presenting at the Macworld Expo on Tuesday, Apple unveiled an all new version of its Apple TV software that allows movie fans to rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from their widescreen TV, and also lowered the price of Apple TV hardware to just $229. AppleInsider
• Apple premieres iTunes Movie Rentals - As expected, Apple on Tuesday announced iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema. AppleInsider
• iPhone Software v1.1.3 enhances Maps, SMS, more... - At the Macworld Expo on Tuesday Apple announced a free software update for its iPhone handset that allows users to automatically find their location using the redesigned Maps application; text message multiple people in one message; create Web Clips for their favorite websites; customize their home screen; and watch movies rented from the new iTunes Movie Rentals right on their iPhone. AppleInsider
• Coming to the Mac in 2008: 'Spore' - Electronic Arts plans to release the much-anticipated new game on several platforms at the same time, including the Mac C|Net News
• Jobs: Movie rentals for iTunes, thin laptop - Apple CEO also discloses new thin laptop, software for iPhone and wireless backup device CNN Money
• Google updates iPhone experience - Google has streamlined the user interface of its suite of web applications for the iPhone. itwire
• It's a Mad, Mad Macworld - As one of Silicon Valley's most innovative companies, Apple has created a virtual industry around making consumers guess what its next move will be. Fans of Apple products follow, praise and criticize the company the way they would a local sports team. Part of the buildup is Apple's knack for keeping secret its direction. The suspense ends Tuesday morning when Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs takes to the stage at the 24th Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco to unveil his company's latest gadgets and gee-whiz announcements. MacNewsWorld
• Apple Intros Time Capsule Backup Appliance - TMO at MWSF - During his Macworld Expo keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced Time Capsule, a backup appliance for Time Machine that includes an AirPort Extreme base station and a hard drive. Mac Observer
• MWSF: MacBook Air is ‘world’s thinnest notebook’ - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air, which he called “the world’s thinnest notebook,” during his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference & Expo. MacimumNews
• Apple introduces MacBook Air - During his Macworld Expo keynote address on Tuesday morning, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air Tuesday, a computer that the company billed as the world's thinnest notebook -- small enough to fit inside an interoffice mailing envelope. It's priced starting at $1,799. Macworld
  
• Apple introduces iTunes Movie Rentals - Apple on Tuesday introduces iTunes Movie Rentals, a new feature of the iTunes Store that enables users to download movies and watch them for a short time rather than having to buy them. They will be priced at $3.99 for new releases, $2.99 for "library titles." Macworld
  
• Apple TV untethers from Mac - Apple on Tuesday introduces iTunes Movie Rentals, a new feature of the iTunes Store that enables users to download movies and watch them for a short time rather than having to buy them. They will be priced at $3.99 for new releases, $2.99 for "library titles."Macworld
  
• Maps, SMS lead new iPhone features - Apple expanded the iPhone's capabilities Tuesday with a software update that adds a location finder to the Maps feature, customized home screens, multi-person SMS chats, and Webclips. In addition, video playback on the phone now supports chapters, subtitles and languages, while the music playback adds support for lyrics. Macworld
  
• Apple rolls out Time Machine companion hardware - Taking the keynote stage at Macworld Expo on Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs wasted no time in introducing Time Capsule, a new product designed as companion hardware to Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard's" Time Machine backup technology. Macworld
• Apple Announces MacBook Air - Apple made four announcements at MacWorld Expo: the new MacBook Air, new features for the iPhone and iTunes, and movie rentals via iTunes from a TV without a computer involved. The new portable gets most of the attention. It is 0.76" thick at the thickest part, tapering to 0.16". It weight 3 pounds and has a 13.3" screen and full-size, backlit keyboard. Its Intel chip is the diameter of a dime and the thickness of a nickel. The MacBook Air will cost $1799 and up. Its storage is either 80 GB disk or 64 GB solid-state drive. 2 GB of memory. It has no optical drive (an external one is available for $99) and features a way to wirelessly use the optical drive of any nearby Mac or PC with the proper software installed. Slashdot
• It was the MacBook Air subnotebook - Macworld Expo The rumour mill was right: the world's thinnest notebook The Register
• Apple to charge $20 for iPod Touch update - Macworld Expo But latest iPhone firmware will be free The Register
• Google tidies up iPhone apps for Macworld - Showing what's possible online The Register
• MACWORLD 2008 - Will New MacBook Air Design Move You to Tear(drop)s? Wired
• COMPILER - Google Apps Embrace the iPhone With Mobile Makeover Wired
• Jobs reveals tiny new laptop - SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop at Macworld Tuesday, unveiling a personal computer less than an inch thick that turns on the moment it's opened. Yahoo! NEWS
  
• Apple to rent movies on Web, shows thin notebook - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc will start renting movies over the Internet, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Tuesday, moving the iPhone and iPod maker into a very competitive market. Yahoo! NEWS
  
• Apple says has sold 4 million iPhones - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's chief Steve Jobs said on Tuesday the company had sold 4 million iPhones and he announced updated services for the device. Yahoo! NEWS
• Apple's Jobs unveils wireless backup device - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc chief Steve Jobs unveiled on Tuesday a wireless backup device for Macintosh computers called "Time Capsule," with models costing $299 and $499. Yahoo! NEWS