While we continue to wait for the next two major 2009 iDevice roll-outs — an iPod Touch “S” with specs similar to the iPhone 3GS and an entirely new large-screen device often referred to as “iTablet” — rumor and speculation about 2010 iDevices has already begun to ramp up with a vengeance. One of the [...]

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Click through to the full article using the “More” link below for streaming updates from the WWDC 2009 Keynote address; coverage officially begins just before 10:00 AM PDT/1:00 PM EDT!

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With time before today’s WWDC Keynote growing short and breaking rumors of Steve Jobs’ presence at the Moscone Center sending the grapevine into a frenzy, let’s take a quick look at some of the less certain, but no less exciting, possibilities that we might see emerge into the light of day this morning (PDT)/afternoon (EDT) [...]

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With the WWDC 2009 Keynote event nearly upon us, let’s taking a quick look at what we can expect from Apple’s next-generation operating systems: iPhone OS 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”. Although we’ve known for some time now that we’ll only see a ‘Final Beta’ of Snow Leopard this week, expectations for [...]

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There has been some debate in recent days as to whether all four (or more!) 2009 iDevices which have been hinted at with multiple references in the code of iPhone OS 3.0 as well as countless published rumor-mongering reports and our own conversations with sources, will actually be announced — no less ship — at [...]

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Although predictions of timing (such as whether any new hardware at all will be announced, no less released, at WWDC next month — or perhaps only the new iPhones and/or all-new iDevices such as the “iTablet” will ship then, leaving an updated iPod Touch release to wait until later in the summer) and features have [...]

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One of the hottest topics on the grapevine this weekend has been an emerging rumor based on multiple leaks (including more than one of our own sources) regarding the ability of 3rd-party apps being able to run in the background — rather than just displaying “background notifications” as announced for iPhone OS 3.0 this summer [...]

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Recently, Apple has made some particularly outrageous missteps with regards to its App Store approval process — approving obscenely offensive apps like “Shake the Baby” (only taken down after days of widespread condemnation), while denying apps & updates which are not themselves in violation of Apple’s (perhaps questionable) policies, but rather merely allow access to [...]

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Although short on details, several published reports appear to confirm what Rumors has been reporting for some time now: that Apple and Verizon, who originally rejected a partnership with Infinite Loop on the original iPhone in what is widely considered one of the cellular provider’s biggest mistakes of all time, are in talks to deliver [...]

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Despite the previous build of Mac OS X 10.5.7 code-name “Juno” appearing nearly ready for release within days (it’s now been over a week), Apple has delivered a new seed — build 9J56 — to developers, and it looks like a little bit of work still remains before we’ll see 10.5.7 in Software Update. Changelog [...]

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