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Apple Inc

• Apple, Jobs, AT&T sued over iPhone price cut, rebates - Apple Inc., along with its chief executive and exclusive U.S. iPhone wireless partner AT&T, have been hit with a new lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who charges the trio with a variety of offenses stemming from the recent iPhone price cut. AppleInsider
• Apple names Oracle exec new General Counsel - Apple said Friday that Daniel Cooperman, general counsel and secretary at Oracle Corporation, will join the company as its new top legal aid reporting directly to Steve Jobs. AppleInsider
• Third San Francisco Apple Store may be ready by December - Progress updates on the construction of a new Apple retail store in San Francisco's Marina District suggest a building well on its way to completion, albeit at the last minute. AppleInsider
• Apple names new general counsel - The consumer electronics maker taps Daniel Cooperman to take over as the company's top lawyer. (more) CNN Money
• Mac fever grows - AAPL hits new highs on falling component prices, rising sales Insanely Great Mac
• Daniel Cooperman to join Apple as General Counsel [UPDATED] - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 08:53 AM EDT Apple today announced that Daniel Cooperman, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Oracle... [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• Daniel Cooperman to join Apple as General Counsel - Dennis Sellers Sep 28, 2007 at 10:34am
  Daniel Cooperman, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Oracle Corporation, will join Apple as the company’s senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Cooperman will begin at Apple on Nov. 1. MacsimumNews

Mac Hardware

• iPhone to Further Influence Future Apple Devices And UMPCs - by Tanner Godarzi Sep 28, 2007
  The iPhone marked the beginning of a revolution, a change in how people interact with computers and each other. But as we progress through the technological food chain, the iPhone (read more) Applematters
• An Ode to the 30" Cinema Display - by Devanshu Mehta Sep 27, 2007 Dear 30" Cinema Display,
  Your maker chooses to call you simply an accessory, but for me, you are the reason to have a computer. The reason to own a digital (read more) Applematters
• USB 3.0 in Pipeline: Where's FireWire? - But will it deliver on its 4.8Gb/ps promise? Insanely Great Mac
• OWC cuts memory prices - Modules for iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac mini Insanely Great Mac
• Apple releases firmware updates - For the Mac Pro, iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook, Xserve... Insanely Great Mac
• Return of the Newton? - Back in the lab, Apple engineers are working on more touch technology. Insanely Great Mac
• Computerworld: Why Apple’s ‘new Newton’ will dominate the small-computer market - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 01:40 PM EDT Events in the past 30 days lead me to conclude something unthinkable... Why Apple's 'new Newton' will dominate the small-computer market [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• Can't install EFI Firmware Update? Check partition scheme; disconnect peripherals - As we reported earlier, many people (especially MacBook Pro owners) are finding that although, according to the descriptions at Apple's Web site, their computer should be eligible for the recently released EFI firmware updates, nevertheless they get an error message informing them that the update can't be installed, or a flat-out denial from the installer that the machine requires the update. MacFixIt
• Latest Updates - Week of September 23 - The grapevine is increasingly excited about a series of Apple Events between now and mid-December, introducing no less than five all-new products including at least one entirely new Mac product line -- almost certainly the much anticipated Macbook Nano. Mac OS Rumors

OS X & Software

• Intuit says work begun on new Mac Quicken, QuickBooks offerings - Intuit, which launched QuickBooks 2008 for Windows PCs this week, said a new version for Apple's Mac platform is currently under development with a released planned for sometime next year. Meanwhile, future development of Quicken on the Mac is also reportedly underway. AppleInsider
• THIS DAY IN APPLE HISTORY
  September 29, 2001: OS X Puma Released - by Chris Seibold Sep 29, 2007
  Mac OS X 10.0 was of interest to Mac users. After all, it had been promised for over a decade, but the actual product was less than compelling. Printing, scanning, (read more) Applematters
• iLife '08 - Part 3: iWeb, GarageBand, and iDVD - by Chris Howard Sep 26, 2007
  After my rather monstrous reviews of the new iPhoto and iMovie, and a little interlude while other things were going on in the Apple-verse, I’ll finally finish my (read more) Applematters
• Apple drops another bundle of updates - Yesterday's batch of updates for Apple's iLife suite has been followed with one for iLife's iWeb, a set for iWork, a bunch of firmware updates, and a new version of iTunes for Windows. itwire
• iWork '08 applications get fixed - Keynote, Pages, Numbers have their turn, as well as iWeb Insanely Great Mac
• Wii Transfer 2.5.1 released; movies, music, and pictures on your Nintendo Wii - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 12:34 PM EDT Wii Transfer can share your movies, music, and pictures directly to your Nintendo Wii... [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• Fusion 1.0: New kid on the virtualization block - You may need (or want) to run Windows, or other operating systems, alongside Mac OS X, and Parallels Desktop is the best-known of several programs on the market for that purpose. A new-to-the-Mac player now brings a formidable challenger to the arena, however. Like Parallels, VMware’s Fusion 1.0 allows you to run many versions of Windows and other operating systems from within OS X. Rob Griffiths finds that Fusion 1.0 is a viable competitor to Parallels, and for consumers, that’s a good thing. Macworld

iPods & iTunes

• Report: iPhone sales at AT&T stores remain higher than expected - Sales of Apple's slick touch-screen handset at AT&T retail stores, which saw an immediate spike following a $200 price cut earlier this month, appear to have stabilized at levels much higher than one analyst had anticipated. AppleInsider
• The iPod touch Coming Up Short? A Thorough Analysis. - by Chris Seibold Sep 25, 2007
  The iPod touch has created a remarkable schism in the Apple community. There are those who feel certain that the device is as compromised as a Pontiac Aztek, something trying (read more) Applematters
• Amazon delivers - iTunes Store finally gets some real competition Insanely Great Mac
• Amazon Opens, Virgin Closes - One door closes, another one opens. Insanely Great Mac
• Target offering 'Special Edition' iPod shuffle - Get a player and a $15 iTunes Store card for the usual $79, and make a donation to fight breast cancer Insanely Great Mac
• Amazon’s new MP3 store is anything but bad for Apple - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 06:25 PM EDT What's that? Amazon opened a music store? Oh, OK. (Resumes snoring) [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• Apple preps 3 new iTunes Visualizers in Mac OS X Leopard - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 04:41 PM EDT
  Apple has added three new visualizers in the version of iTunes that is built into... [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• Free on iTunes - 'Beautiful Places' and 'Long Island Acoustics' - Saturday - September 29, 2007
  One of the best things about high-definition TV is that you can get to see things with such startling detail that it almost negates any desire to ever leave the comfort and safety of your home. Let's say you've just come home from a tough day at the office. You don't want to watch police drama or lawyer drama or doctor drama on your new 50-inch plasma TV, but you do want to watch something while you sip a glass of wine, nibble some cheese, and maybe browse the mail that came today. [More...] MacNewsWorld
• Apple iPod Nano third-generation - Review Is video a feature too far? The Register

iPhone

• No 90-day unlock from AT&T - Call and complain to FCC, says phone support rep. Not all Apple Store Geniuses will help 'unbrick' nonfunctional iPhones... Insanely Great Mac
• Geniuses 'Unbricking' iPhones? - Shhh.Insanely Great Mac
• iPhone 1.1.1 update appears [updated] - Great, but will it brick my $599 $399 jesus phone? Insanely Great Mac
• Why does Apple.com have a page for iPhone among iLife ‘08 Guided Tours? - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 11:20 PM EDT MacDailyNews reader "Aaron" recently found a page on Apple.com that does not do... [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• Apple, CEO Jobs, AT&T sued over iPhone price cut, rebate - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 03:54 PM EDT Apple Inc., along with its chief executive and exclusive U.S. iPhone wireless partner AT&T, have been hit with a new lawsuit... [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• ZDNet’s Dignan: Apple’s unwinnable war with iPhone unlockers puts reputation at risk - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 11:32 AM EDT Apple is clearly in a war with hackers over the iPhone and... [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• Apple’s iPhone so easy-to-use even a baby can use it (with video) - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 09:29 AM EDT Apple's iPhone UI is so easy-to-use that a one year old can use device... [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• Piper Jaffray: iPhone demand up at sustained rate following new pricing - Friday, September 28, 2007 - 08:46 AM EDT Piper's channel checks show iPhone demand at AT&T stores is up at a sustained rate... [Full Story] MacDailyNews
• iPhoneSIMFree says no-brick for their unlock... - iPhoneSIMFree is claiming that because its unlock procedure from the iPhone is different from the free solutions available, it does not cause iPhones that were unlocked to go into a state where they cannot be activated with any carrier after the 1.1.1 firmware update. A post on the company's Web site reads "We have successfully completed a test of the 1.1.1 firmware update on IPSF unlocked phones. We are very pleased to report that the phones are still fully unlocked, and if you are using an original activated AT&T sim, you can activate and use the phone with no issues at all." macnn
  
• Apple update disables hacked iPhones - Robert McMillan
  Apple last night released the iPhone 1.1.1 update, fixing security, adding features - and making unlocked iPhones unusable. Macworld UK
• Apple posts iPhone update, bricks unlocked handsets - Minor update? The Register
• Apple drops iPhone 1.1.1 update, warns unlocked phones may not work - September 27 - Apple released the first substantial update to the iPhone's software Thursday and warned customers who have modified their iPhone software may find the update "results in your iPhone becoming permanently inoperable". Sources say updates to iWork '08 are set to arrive soon, as well. Think Secret
• Firmware Update Breaks Hacked iPhones - PC World - Sat Sep 29, 7:00 AM ET Users are reporting that a new update to Apple Inc.'s iPhone is making previously unlocked iPhones unusable. Yahoo! NEWS
• Software update disables hacked iPhones - AP - Sat Sep 29, 6:17 AM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Inc. has issued a software update that creates problems for iPhones modified to work with a cellular carrier other than AT&T Inc. and disables at least some unofficial programs installed on other iPhone handsets. Yahoo! NEWS