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Bloomberg quotes an analyst who speculates that Apple may be planning to act as its own connectivity provider for its as-of-yet unannounced, unconfirmed mobile phone. “To operate as a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, Apple may partner with Cingular Wireless LLC to provide wireless service for a so-called iPhone, Benjamin Reitzes, a UBS analyst in New York, said today in a note.” More …
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Apple has released a wireless update for its current-generation Intel-powered portables. AirPort Update 2006-002 improves AirPort compatibility in the following computers:
• MacBook Pro (15-inch Core 2 Duo)
• MacBook Pro (17-inch Core 2 Duo)
• MacBook (13-inch Core 2 Duo)
Macworld UK reports that Apple has responded to blossoming rumors that iTunes sales have plummeted 60 percent since January. Although the mothership has broken its usual studied silence, its response is nonetheless terse.
“The conclusion that iTunes sales are slowing is simply incorrect,” Apple reportedly said in a statement. More …
The update announced yesterday was acknowledged by Microsoft to have been released premature: .
We’ve seen some questions from customers about some security updates that posted for a while today for Office for Mac that they didn’t see any security bulletins for. I wanted to let you know that these weren’t security updates related to this month’s release or the two Word issues we’ve written about in Security Advisory 929433 and on our weblog: those investigations are still underway and we’ll release updates for those issues once we’ve met the appropriate quality bar. The updates posted in error were pre-release binaries that had been staged internally as part of our testing for an upcoming release. Due to human error, they were accidentally published to the public websites before our full testing release process was complete. As soon as we discovered the error, we moved quickly to address it and remove the pre-release binaries from our public sites.
Once our investigation into this issue is complete and we have security updates that meet our quality bar for release, we’ll release those final security updates for all products affected along with a security bulletin. We’re also taking steps to ensure a mistake like this doesn’t happen again. We recommend that anyone who may have installed these pre-release updates to uninstall them. [...] More …