http://www.apple.com/nz/hotnews/ Hot News provided by Apple. en-au Copyright 2009, Apple Inc. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:19:11 EDT Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:19:11 EDT Apple In house http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.apple.com/nz/imac/ Apple today unveiled an all new iMac line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminium enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at NZ$1999 inc GST, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the performance. Every new iMac ships with a wireless keyboard and the all new wireless Magic Mouse, the world’s first mouse with Multi-Touch technology. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:18:34 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/magicmouse Today Apple introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch surface. Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac and will be available as a Mac accessory at just NZ$119 inc GST. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:15:56 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/macbook/ Apple today updated its popular MacBook with a new, durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch trackpad and Apple’s innovative built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, the new MacBook is an ideal consumer notebook for students and new Mac users, and is available for NZ$1699 inc GST. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:14:56 EDT http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/10/19results.html Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. “We are thrilled to have sold more Macs and iPhones than in any previous quarter,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:12:33 EDT http://www.filemaker.com.au/products/bento/overview.html FileMaker, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Bento 3, a breakthrough new version of the popular personal database for the Mac. For the first time ever, Bento 3 integrates with iPhoto from Apple allowing you to store more info about your photos and link them to contacts, projects, events and other information stored in Bento. The popular Mac database integrates with iPhoto, provides multi-user sharing, new security options and a limited NZ$30 rebate for existing Bento users Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:56:10 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/iphone/apps-for-iphone/ Apple today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:50:22 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/itunes/ Apple today introduced iTunes 9, the latest version of the world’s most popular software application to purchase, manage and play media, packed with innovative features such as iTunes LP, Home Sharing and Genius Mixes, as well as a redesigned store and improved syncing. iTunes 9 makes it easier than ever to discover, purchase and enjoy your music, movies and apps for iPhone and iPod touch from Apple’s revolutionary App Store. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:11:31 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/ipodnano/ The new iPod nano adds a video camera, mic and speaker to the world’s most popular music player, allowing you to shoot video wherever you are, view it on your iPod nano and use your computer to easily transfer your videos to YouTube. The new iPod nano—available today in an 8GB model for NZ$259 inc GST and a 16GB model for NZ$318 inc GST—features an ultra-thin and sleek design with a larger 2.2-inch colour display and gorgeous polished aluminium and glass enclosure in nine brilliant colours. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:10:42 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/ipodtouch/ The new iPod touch, starting at just NZ$349 inc GST, gives you a great iPod, a great pocket computer, a great game player and access to Apple’s revolutionary App Store with over 60,000 applications. iPod touch features Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, a gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a built-in accelerometer and speaker in an amazingly thin metal design that slips easily into your pocket. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:08:56 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/ipodshuffle/?sr=hotnews The iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player and the first music player to talk to you, is available now, starting at just NZ$99 inc GST, in five great colours. iPod shuffle’s intuitive controls are conveniently located on the headphone cord, letting you navigate and enjoy music without even looking. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:07:52 EDT http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,26005569-5019123,00.html Judges from Vogue, GQ and news.com.au along with 18,000 users voted and Apple products dominated both the judges’ and people’s choice awards, with the iPhone 3GS taking out the grand prize as well as the Vogue award. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:22:29 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/macosx/ Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday 28 August through Apple Authorised Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users for NZ$59 inc GST. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:41:10 EDT http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320654497&mt=8?sr=hotnews If you subscribe to MobileMe, you can now use your iPhone or iPod touch to view and share Pages documents, Keynote presentations, Microsoft Office documents, PDFs and more. To view documents, simply select them. To share them with others, just tap the share icon and choose your recipients. iDisk will send them an email with a download link. Get the free MobileMe iDisk app from the App Store. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:03:44 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/logicstudio/ The new version of Logic Studio introduced today offers major upgrades to Logic Pro and Mainstage and more than 200 new features that simplify tasks. “The new Logic Studio is ideal for professional musicians, live performers and GarageBand enthusiasts who want to take their music to the next level,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. Available today, Logic Studio sells for NZ$999 inc GST. Current Logic Studio and Logic Pro users can upgrade for NZ$399 inc GST. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:00:29 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/finalcutstudio/ Apple today announced a significant update to Final Cut Studio, offering more than 100 new features and new versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, and Compressor. Final Cut Pro 7 expands Apple’s ProRes codec family to support virtually any workflow and includes Easy Export for one step output to a variety of formats. At NZ$1999 inc GST, the new Final Cut Studio is $300 less than the previous release and is also available as an upgrade for just NZ$599 inc GST. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:00:09 EDT http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/07/21results.html “We’re extremely pleased to report record non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings and quarterly cash flow from operations of US$2.3 billion,” said Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer. For its third fiscal quarter, Apple posted revenue of US$8.34 billion and a net quarterly profit of US$1.23 billion, or US$1.35 per diluted share. Apple sold 2.6 million Macintosh computers, 10.2 million iPods, and 5.2 million iPhones during the quarter. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:15:36 EDT http://www.apple.com/nz/iphone/apps-for-iphone/ In just one year, customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion apps from the App Store, Apple today announced. The largest application store in the world, the App Store now contains more than 65,000 apps. It provides the 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer program an easy way to reach iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries around the world. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:54:47 EDT http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/04/22results.html?sr=hotnews “We are extremely pleased to report the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in our history,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, in announcing the company’s March quarter financial results. In its fiscal 2009 second quarter, Apple posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share. Gross margin was 36.4 percent, up from 32.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:51:44 EDT http://www.smartmoney.com/breaking-news/on/?story=ON-20090420-000583-1455 “Since it opened 10 months ago,” reports Dow Jones’ Ben Charny (smartmoney.com), ”the App Store has been a runaway hit selling a host of software that turn the smartphone into everything from a carpenter’s level to a virtual change purse.” Showing “no sign of letting up,” the success of the App Store has made Apple “‘the platform of choice‘ in the consumer smartphone area,” according to Gartner analyst Mike McGuire. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:50:56 EDT http://www.apple.com/business/theater/?sr=hotnews/#tutorial=conservingenergy The Mac is energy efficient by design, but you can help conserve even more energy by taking advantage of Energy Saver options. Using the Sleep pane, for example, you can set the Display to sleep after your Mac has been inactive for a specific amount of time. But don’t make your Mac wait to get some sleep. Find out how to team Energy Saver with Exposé to put your Mac to sleep immediately. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:50:24 EDT