July 9, 2008, 8:59 am

Telstra and Apple to bring iPhone 3G to Australia on 11 July
06.30.2008
Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, and Apple today announced that the highly anticipated iPhone 3G will be available to Telstra’s over 9 million Australian customers on 11 July.


Award-Winning Television Programming Now Available on the iTunes Store in Australia
06.25.2008
Apple today announced that television programming from Australia’s top networks including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Seven Network and Nine Network, along with US- produced programs from The Walt Disney Company’s ABC Studios, Disney Channel and MTV Networks, is now available on the iTunes Store in Australia (www.itunes.com/au).


iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs Sold
06.19.2008
Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com).


Apple’s First Retail Store in Australia Opens in Sydney on Thursday, 19 June
06.18.2008
Apple’s first retail store in Australia will open on George Street in Sydney on Thursday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m. Located in the heart of the city’s shopping district, the Apple Store Sydney features two floors dedicated to Macs and iPods and a third floor entirely dedicated to service, including the world’s largest Genius Bar for free advice and personal training through Apple’s popular One to One membership.


iPhone SDK Downloads Top 250,000
06.09.2008
Apple today announced that downloads of its iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) have topped more than 250,000 since its launch on March 6.


Apple Introduces MobileMe Internet Service
06.09.2008
Apple today introduced MobileMe, a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the "cloud" to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. MobileMe also provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser.

 

Last 10 News Links for July 2008




07.04  MacNN  Apple explains iPhone 3G upgrade process, Staff: Apple this week began posting information for iPhone users intending to update their device to the new iPhone 3G.

07.04  Low End Mac  Wouldn’t Life Be Great with an iSlate?, John Hatchett: Combine Apple’s know-how with touch screen tech from the iPhone and the iPod touch, and you can see how such a device would also be able to collect information and notes for data collections.

07.04  Apple Matters  The iPhone 3G Guided Tour Under a Microscope, Aayush Arya: Furthering a trend that has been going on for well over a year now, Apple released the iPhone 3G Guided Tour to give us a fairly detailed sneak peak into what the new version of the iPhone is going to bring to the table.

07.04  CNN Money.com  Axel Springer’s 10,000 employees switching to Mac, Philip Elmer-DeWitt: Axel Springer AG, one of Europe’s largest newspaper publishers, with 10,000 employees and more than 150 papers in 30 countries, including its flagship Die Welt, announced on Friday that it is switching its entire operation from PCs to Macs.

07.04  MacDailyNews  Happy Independence Day!, Staff: If you’re celebrating today, too, we wish you a happy and safe Fourth!

07.04  CNET  My Mac problem: Too many and too alike, Matt Asay: Here in the Asay home we have a growing problem: Each year we add a Mac to the fold, making it increasingly more difficult to tell them apart.

07.03  Low End Mac  The Macintosh Portable Started a Notebook Revolution, Carl Nygren: We often forget where portable Macs first started: the Macintosh Portable. Sure, there were laptops before the Mac Portable, but they were ugly, slow, and not user-friendly.

07.03  Macworld  Will higher data plan costs hurt iPhone 3G sales?, Hadley Stern: Nothing stirs the imagination like an major Apple product update such as the iPhone 3G. Weeks before its July 11 release date, people will talk excitedly about its new features, thrill to its touted benefits, and dream of the day they can finally hold one in their hands. Very little, it seems, can dim people’s enthusiasm. Until the pricing information gets released, and the cold, hard sting of dollars and cents sets in.

07.03  CNN Money.com  All eyes on the iPhone App Store, Philip Elmer-DeWitt: The great scramble among software developers to write the first iPhone killer app is coming to a head.

07.03  APC  Why OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard should leave PowerPC in the cold, Seamus Byrne: If Snow Leopard is all about a bedrock for the future of computing, why do so many people still call for their legacy hardware to be supported?