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Macworld 2008: First Macbook Air Ad

by Ken Allen on January 15, 2008

Despite all of the commotion around the Macbook Air at Macworld, our guys James, Vincent, and Ewdison still managed to get a video of the Macbook Air's first advertisement up on YouTube in a fashionable manner. Hopefully this isn't the 56% reduced packaging Steve was talking about! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkMMQRKqB0[/youtube] continued »

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Macworld 2008: Macbook Air

by Ken Allen on January 15, 2008

All the Rumors were true, the Macbook Air has been released today at Macworld. Boasting a weight of 3 pounds, .76 -.16 inches in size from front to rear, a full size backlit keyboard, 13.3-inch display, mult-touch gestures for the trackpad, iSight built in, 1.6GHz (1.8Ghz optional) Core 2 Duo , 2GB RAM, 80GB HDD (64GB SSD Optional), 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, USB 2.0. Mini-DVI, and a 5+ ... continued »

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Macworld 2008: iTunes Movie Rentals

by Ken Allen on January 15, 2008

09:37 PST: Steve announces a long awaited iTunes Movie Rental service. Apple has come a long way in movie and song downloads via iTunes, but Steve explains that their current numbers certainly aren't enough. Apple has sold 7 million movies, 125 million TV shows, and last week Apple sold their 4 billionth song. Today Apple will be releasing iTunes movie rentals for use on all of their video playing devices. ... continued »

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Macworld 2008: iPhone Firmware v1.1.3

by Ken Allen on January 15, 2008

09:24am PST: Steve Jobs announces new features for the iPhone along with an already known iPhone SDK release in February. iPhone v1.1.3 features include Google Maps cell tower triangulation called Skyhook Wireless for virtual GPS to pinpoint your general location and give directions to where ever. Skyhook Wireless has driven all around the USA in their vehicles and collected physical location data for triangulation. Google Maps also allows you to ... continued »

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SlashGear Livecast the Macworld Keynote 2008

by Chris Davies on January 15, 2008

Less than half an hour until Steve Jobs' Macworld Keynote, and over at SlashGear Vincent & James are waiting to go in to livecast the whole event.    Will we see an ultraportable MacBook Air?  What about a 3G iPhone?  Check out the Livecast and find out! continued »

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Macworld Keynote rumors go wild as hours tick down

by Chris Davies on January 14, 2008

With the Macworld Keynote mere hours away - and our boys Vincent and James on their way to LiveBlog the whole thing for SlashGear - the rumor mill has not only spun up to a high milling-speed but practically consumed its own grinding wheel (yes, I'll leave that metaphor alone now).  Central to the bloghype has been a purported leak of Steve Jobs' keynote itself (reprinted in full below) in which ... continued »

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Apple receives go-ahead from FCC on their Bluetooth headset

by Chris Scott Barr on June 15, 2007

Remember that thing that Apple announced back at Macworld? No, not the iPhone. I'm not talking about the Apple TV either. Yes, they did actually announce something else. That's right, the Bluetooth headset. continued »

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