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Apple Inc

• Apple pulls plug on Authorized Business Agent program - Apple Inc. last week began informing partners that it plans to end its Authorized Business Agent program at the end of the year. AppleInsider
• The Pros and Cons of Secrecy - There is no question about it: Apple is a very secretive company. If you need proof of this, try a Google search for “Apple rumors.” Okay, now try a search (read more) Applematters
• THIS DAY IN APPLE HISTORY November 21, 2005: Apple Announces Long-Term Supply Agreements for Flash Memory - One of the most oft-heard arguments about Mac pricing concerns economies of scale. The theory is that Dell’s huge volume allows them to purchase mass quantities of PC components and (read more) Applematters
• Parents are winners in Leopard vs. Vista - special feature Microsoft and Apple have made major improvements to parental controls in the OSes--but do people know how to use them? C|Net News
• AABA being axed - Apple abruptly pulling plug on independent evangelists Insanely Great Mac
• Ready. Set. Shop: Apple to hold annual one-day only Black Friday shopping event - "Ready. Set. Shop," Apple's online Apple Store Website reads... MacDailyNews
• Apple Retail Stores Publish Extended Hours for Holidays - Apple announced special extended hours for their retail stores for the holiday weekend and have also published special hours well into January. Mac Observer
• Apple's Annual Black Friday Sale: Ready. Set. Shop. - Apple holds a one-day sale event annually on the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. This year's "Ready. Set. Shop." sale will be on Friday, November 23, also known as "Black Friday." Mac Observer
• Apple's Black Friday Promo: Ready. Set. Shop. - Apple sent out promotional emails to customers tonight confirming their plans for a Black Friday sale on November 23. MacRumors.com
• Apple holds ‘Ready. Set. Shop’ event for Friday - Apple has announced a “Ready. Set. Shop” event for its stores this Friday, Nov. 23. The company says you can shop online anytime and enjoy extended hours in its retail stores. Special holiday specials will be offered on what is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year. MacimumNews
• Apple to open 13th UK retail store this weekend - Apple will open a Apple retail store in Exeter this weekend. The company’s 13th UK shop, it will be situated in the Princesshay redevelopment of Devon’s county town, according to Macworld UK. MacimumNews
• Exeter is lucky 13 as Apple opens new store - Apple will open the doors at its 13th Apple retail store in the UK, in Exeter this weekend, prizes and free T-shirts greet first store visitors. Macworld UK

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Mac Hardware

• Dualy Adds 802.11b/g/n to USB Macs - QuickerTek announced the immediate availability of its USB-based 802.11b/g/n Dualy wireless network adapter on Tuesday. The adapter includes two 500 milliwatt transceivers, dual 3 dBi antennas, and can potentially offer better signal strength than a Mac's built-in AirPort hardware. Mac Observer
• Amazon Enters Gadget Market with Kindle, an eBook Device [Update: Details] - Newsweek provides an early scoop for a device coming from Amazon called "Kindle". The $399 device attempts to deliver a complete eBook solution, unlike existing products, and is described as "the iPod of reading". MacRumors.com
• Dualy brings 802.11b/g/n wireless to any Mac - QuickerTek has released the US$324.95 Dualy, which lets any Mac with a USB port take advantage of wireless networking, whether the Mac has an AirPort wireless network card or not. Dualy also seeks out more distant wireless signals and locks them in with two 500 milliwatt transceivers, coursing wireless across two antennas. MacimumNews
• Amazon Kindle is new use for 3G - Amazon is using Sprint Nextel's 3G network to deliver content to Kindle owners, who pay 3G access costs within the price of content. Macworld UK

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OS X & Software

• Firefox 3 beta 1 - Better security, easier to use, improved developer tools. Better get it now... Insanely Great Mac
• Apple: Boot Camp Could Mean Fewer Mac Apps - But the threat is exaggerated. Insanely Great Mac
• NTFS for Mac OS X - Mount Windows volumes like a big boy... Insanely Great Mac
• Leopard's Unix conformance is spot on - Both the desktop and server versions of Leopard have been awarded a certificate of conformance to the latest Unix standard, making these the first operating systems derived from the open source BSD base of historical Unix products to meet the certification requirements.itwire
• Survey shows IT pros considering Apple’s Mac OS X vs. migrating to Windows Vista - The results of a new survey conducted by King Research could launch a thousand chairs... MacDailyNews
• PC Magazine posts steamy Apple Porn slideshow - Like looking at pretty pictures of sexy tech? MacDailyNews
• ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley: Could Leopard drive some switchers to Vista? - Apple advocates are doing the unthinkable: They’re complaining publicly... MacDailyNews
• Apple launches new ‘Get a Mac’ Web ad: ‘Give Up On Vista’ (with video) - A clever new Apple dual-banner campaign, "Give Up On Vista," was spotted by MacDailyNews readers... MacDailyNews
• Apple warns ‘Boot Camp’ could lead to fewer Mac apps - Apple is conceding that its decision to include a utility in its new Leopard operating system... MacDailyNews
• Tales from the Adobe world - Users of Adobe applications can be in for their own peculiar brand of headache after upgrading to a new system, such as Leopard. The chief problem here is that, even though applications on Mac OS X are now bundles and we've all got quite a lot of hard disk space, so that each application can very easily hold all the resources it needs within itself, nevertheless, even what should be a relatively small and simple application, such as Adobe Photoshop Elements, so far from being self-contained, insists on installing bits and pieces all over your computer. The likelihood of something going wrong with one of these bits and pieces during the system upgrade process is very high - something won't get migrated into place, or it will have the wrong permissions, or whatever - and then when you try to start up your Adobe application, it balks, without any clear explanation of what the problem is. Plus, Adobe doesn't use the standard Mac installers, so getting an idea of what is supposed to be installed where is pretty much a hopeless task. MacFixIt
• iChat in Leopard -Leopard users are reporting various problems with iChat communications. MacFixIt
• Display glitches in Leopard - Several users are reporting display glitches of various kinds in Leopard. Reader Jonathan writes: MacFixIt
• Leopard Matches Vista's Parental Controls, Parents Win - Vista was ahead of Mac OS X Tiger in the control parents have over their kids' computers. However, Leopard has caught up and matches Vista, according to C|Net on Tuesday. The winner is ... parents. Mac Observer
• djay 2.0 Sports New Audio Engine - algoriddim announced the immediate availability of djay 2.0 on Tuesday. The new version of the DJing application for the Mac includes a new audio engine, a redesigned interface, and new mixing capabilities. Mac Observer
• Microsoft's Path to the Minority OS World - Hot Forum Topic - Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 has been certified as UNIX 03 compliant, which means a much broader part of the Unix market may take an interest in Leopard. Microsoft's Windows is proprietary, and plenty of organizations are looking to get away from vendor lock-in. Today TMO readers are discussing whether or not Windows is on its way to becoming a minority OS. Take the reader poll and let us know what you think. Mac Observer
• Review: Toon Boom Studio 4—it just gets better and better - If you’re into animation, Toon Boom Animation’s Studio is a must-have tool for your arsenal. And version 4 ups the ante with a redesigned user face and support for Adobe Illustrator layers. MacimumNews
• Apple addresses European .Mac problems - In the UK< Apple has responded to .Mac critics and implemented improvements that should speed up European users upload and download speeds, at least when using the .Mac Web Gallery, according to Macworld UK. MacimumNews
• RouteBuddy tweaked for Leopard - RouteBuddy Ltd has updated RouteBuddy, the GPS mapping program for Mac OS X, to version 1.5. This release addresses several compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) and improves performance during routing calculations. MacimumNews
• Glide lands on the Mac desktop to crunch numbers - Glide Crunch Spreadsheet for Mac OS X users is available today for download. With it you can work locally or online on your spreadsheets. MacimumNews
• Smart Blogger’s Guide: A blog for everyone - These days, you can find a blog for just about anything. In fact, according to the blog-tracking service Technorati, there are some 70 million active Weblogs. And for good reason: blogs are a fun and easy way to communicate. No matter what your reasons for blogging, there are plenty of tools that can help you get started and keep readers tuned in. But not all blogging services are the same. Mathew Honan gives you the inside scoop on five great online services that appeal to different types of bloggers. Macworld
• Easy online backups - You know you should back up your data. So wouldn’t it be great if you could click on a few buttons and ensure that your data was backed up regularly? In the latest edition of Working Mac, Joe Kissell urges you to forget juggling discs and safeguard your data off-site. Macworld
• Apple acts on Euro .Mac speed problems - Apple's .Mac team has finally begun to address reported snail's pace up- and download speeds afflicting European users of the subscription-only service. Macworld UK
• onOne Software snaps Photo Tools 1.0 - Photo Tools 1.0 is described as 'Photoshop Actions on steroids', vastly increases the number of effects users can apply within Photoshop. Macworld UK
• OpenBox web apps combo is killer punch for mobile users - OpenBox offers the facility to work with Autodesk, EchoSign, eFax, Myxer, Picnik, Scribd, Zazzle, Thinkfree and Zoho. Macworld UK
• Internet could be 'used up' within two years - The internet could run out of capacity in about two years, according to a new study, predicts 'brown-outs' and failures as video and media content pushes capacity limits. Macworld UK
• Leopard is true Unix OS - Mac OS X Leopard (and Server) are true Unix systems that conform to the Open Group's Unix 03 standard, a milestone for Apple and for Unix. Macworld UK
• UK policy 'threatens data privacy' says commissioner - Information commissioner Richard Thomas names ID cards, DNA testing and electronic health records as part of group of threats to UK privacy. Macworld UK
• Google lets users edit Maps locations - You can move house at the flick of a mouse, at least you can on Google as changing inaccurate data is simplified. Macworld UK
• Firefox 3 Beta 1 Arrives! - After months of waiting, it's out. Go get your localized version of Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone, which is available now in over 20 languages from Mozilla. We'll have a full review up on Wired News in about an hour,... Wired

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iPods & iTunes

• Amazon's Kindle: the iPod of spin - Could Amazon's new e-reader do for books what Apple did for music? Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt isn't convinced. CNN Money
• Sony BMG, Yahoo ink online video deal - Recording company allows music and video uploads on the search engine and will receive a cut of ad revenue. CNN Money
• iTunes Store freebs for 11 / 20 / 07 - Sin Amino De Lucro has concocted a pop song that has a relaxed Mediterranean air Insanely Great Mac
• Shock! Zune Outsells iPod - We'll restore your sanity in just a moment. Insanely Great Mac
• Microsoft’s Zune 80 ‘sold out’ - so are Edsels - Microsoft this week can exult in the fact that the hard drive-based... MacDailyNews
• First iTunes Movie Premiere: Purple Violets - 9to5mac reminds us that the first feature film to be launched exclusively on iTunes is opening today. Written and directed by Edward Burns, Purple Violets is a romantic comedy starring Selma Blair, Debra Messing, and Patrick Wilson. A preview page is already available on iTunes (though ordering is currently unavailable) along with a trailer. MacRumors.com
• Mary J. Blige iPod + iTunes Ad - Apple debuted a new iPod + iTunes ad tonight on television. The ad continues the silhouette dancer theme of Apple's long running iPod ads. The ad is featured on Apple's iTunes product page. (direct QuickTime link) MacRumors.com
• Study: digital sales not enough to save music industry - JupiterResearch projects that although digital music spending in the US will account for more than a third of US consumer music purchases by 2012, it will not compensate for lost CD sales anticipated during that time. Detailed in a new report, “US Music Forecast, 2007-2012,” digital spending will grow to US$3.4 billion over the next five years, while CD sales will continue to decline. MacimumNews
• Proporta releases new iPod touch cases - Proporta has released new iPod touch cases. The US$67 Alu-Leather Case (shown) is hand crafted and features a “Screen Saver System” that uses a sheet of rigid, lightweight aircraft grade aluminium to line the case. MacimumNews
• iSkin introduces iPod touch protector - iSkin has introduced the iSkin touch for the iPod touch. Made from premium silicone, it features smooth lines, textured surfaces and two-tone color arrangements. According to the folks at iSkin, the iSkin touch protector is designed to encapsulate the iPod without adding bulk or affecting overall aesthetics and usability. MacimumNews

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iPhone

• T-Mobile Germany ordered to allow iPhone use on rival carriers - A court order handed down Monday against Deutsche Telekom mobile arm T-Mobile demands that iPhone be sold in Germany unlocked and without a two-year contract, the Wall Street Journal clarifies. AppleInsider
• Holster that tinfoil hat - Further testing reveals Apple not spying on iPhone users Insanely Great Mac
• A slick iPhone unbrick trick - My unlocked iPhone had just turned into an iBrick and I was facing the ultimate iPhone nightmare. Here's how the free iPhone unbrick trick helped me - and can help you too! itwire
• Despite Vodafone’s sour grapes injunction, T-Mobile continues selling iPhone Germany - A German court has granted telecoms group Vodafone a preliminary injunction... MacDailyNews
• Black market Apple iPhones are China’s newest ‘Ai Feng’ (’Love Craze’) - Despite rampant rumors of a deal between Apple and China's largest cellphone carrier... MacDailyNews
• Please remove your tinfoil hats: iPhone does not send IMEI info to Apple - OK, you can take your tinfoil hats off now. German site Heise Online... MacDailyNews
• Vodafone obtains restraining order on T-Mobile’s Apple iPhone sales in Germany - The German unit of Vodafone Group PLC has obtained a restraining order against... MacDailyNews
• The iPhone's Uphill Road in Europe - The must-have gadget of the year, Apple's iPhone, has finally launched in Europe. The verdict? According to one reviewer, it's "like buying a Ferrari and finding that the only thing you can do with it is power your lawn mower." Apple fans argue that iPhone's software -- and especially its elegant design -- still leaves rivals in the dust. However, there's no question that the more jaded European market will provide Apple more of a challenge. The coolest and most feature-rich models are generally available here long before they show up in the United States. MacNewsWorld
• iPhones Likely Tracking Apps, Not Users - iPodObserver - Following a report that Apple's iPhone may be using unique identifier codes to track user activity, some clever iPhone users in Germany started tracking the data that their handhelds were transmitting. The verdict: It looks Apple is receiving generic application identifiers, not user-specific information. Mac Observer
• Year-over-year U.S. mobile phone sales revenue increased 47 percent - According to The NPD Group, a consumer and retail information company, mobile phone sales to consumers in the U.S. reached 38 million units in the third quarter of 2007. This number represents an increase of nearly 16 percent compared to unit sales figures from the previous quarter; however, the second quarter is traditionally a slow sales quarter for mobile phone retailers. MacimumNews
• iPhone 'phones home' to Apple - Experts dismiss the 'iPhone phones home' notion, but agree iPhone does have a specially coded identity in case of loss or theft Macworld UK
• iSuppli seminar goes deep on iPhone plans - What is the iPhone's potential impact on the mobile and multimedia entertainment industries, iSuppli will explain in its 28 November online seminar. Macworld UK
• iPhone users get AT&T discount, quiz O2 over call charges - AT&T data discount move and O2's tight iPhone tariffs underscore expense of using handset Macworld UK
• Vodafone sues T-Mobile over German iPhone - Vodafone doesn't want exclusive handset deals or revenue sharing model to threaten its business, cites consumer choice as it sues T-Mobile over iPhone. Macworld UK
• Kindle Versus The iPhone - Bernie Campbell writes "Forbes takes a look at the recently announced Kindle ebook from Amazon, and considers the possibility that Apple may have beaten them to the punch. 'Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has a not-so-secret weapon when it comes time to load up the iPhone with content: Google ... Google's Book Search project has already pumped much of the world's printed matter into Google's servers. Downloads of classic titles, such as Bleak House, can already be had for free. Mix Apple's iTunes content distribution smarts with Google's vast storehouse of content, and you'll have an instant competitor to Kindle -- one with a touch interface and the ability to play movies and music, too.' Slashdot
• Mobile: Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI? - ariefwn writes ""As I sit here applying a new layer of Reynolds tin foil to my international hat of conspiracy, its been proven that Apple tracks iPhone usage and tracks IMEI numbers of all their iPhones worldwide. Hidden in the code of the 'Stocks' and 'Weather' widgets is a string that sends the IMEI of your phone to a specialized URL that Apple collects. I wonder if there will be any implications to owners of hacked iPhones..." Slashdot
• Vodafone blocks iPhone in Germany - It's a 'pretty poor experience', so you can't have it The Register
• Vodafone Balks at T-Mobile iPhone Deal - NewsFactor - A German court has ordered T-Mobile to change its marketing campaign for Apple's iPhone and has issued a restraining order prohibiting the company from selling the Mac-maker's handset. Yahoo! NEWS
  
• T-Mobile, Vodafone tussle over iPhone - AP - BERLIN - A German court has ordered a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG to alter how it markets Apple Inc.'s iPhone by Wednesday. Yahoo! NEWS
  
• Vodafone Protests T-Mobile iPhone Sales PC World - T-Mobile continued to sell Apple's iPhone in Germany on Tuesday, despite a legal challenge filed on Monday by rival Vodafone. Yahoo! NEWS
• Germany iPhone deal irks Vodafone, Debitel - FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) mobile unit T-Mobile is coming under fire from competitors over its exclusive sales deal for Apple's iPhone in Germany. Yahoo! NEWS
• Vodafone challenges exclusive German iPhone deal - FRANKFURT (AFP) - British telecommunications operator Vodafone wants a court to decide whether Deutsche Telekom can have exclusive rights to German distribution of the iPhone mobile telephone, a press report said Tuesday. Yahoo! NEWS
• Get smart: a guide to spiffy phones - AP - Apple Inc.'s iPhone has shaken up the "smart phone" business and set other manufacturers scrambling to add features and make it easier to get e-mail, surf the Web and enjoy music and movies on a cell phone. Yahoo! NEWS

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