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iLounge reports that Apple has kicked off a new ‘Back to School’ promotion that offers students a free iPod nano after mail-in rebate. Apple said students who purchase a new Mac before September 16, 2006 are eligible to receive up to a $179 rebate to cover the educational customer price of a nano, or use toward the price of any other iPod model. More …

This applies to all Universal Mac software that use plug-ins which may not all be Universal.

This Apple Knowledges article covers an important issue where some QuickTime media will not play back properly on Intel-based Macs because certain components required for their playback are not written using Universal (Intel-compatible) code. The problem is that QuickTime runs as an Intel-native application, disallowing the operation of PowerPC-only plug-ins and other add-on components. The solution is to run QuickTime in Rosetta, by selecting its icon in the Finder, press the Command-I keyboard combination to access the “Get Info” function, then selecting “Open using Rosetta”.] More …

DigiTimes reports that both Samsung and Hynix have booked large flash orders from Apple. In connection therewith, it’s expected that NAND memory-module prices will bottom out in June. Most …