Though today’s Macworld keynote has been a blend of pleasant surprises, vindication of one of MOSR’s longest-running rumors (the Macbook Air aka “Thin/Nano”), and excessive optimism that fell an bit flat (AppleTV 2.0 being a software-only, rather than complete, overhaul — though we still expect aTV 3.0 to include the features we had hoped [...]

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In somewhat of a let-down — at least relative to rumors posted here and elsewhere about a major hardware revamp which we still strongly believe is coming…..we were simply to optimistic on the timing, it would seem — Steve Jobs has indeed announced “AppleTV 2.0″ but it is not the Blu-ray equipped, totally overhauled device [...]

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The front page of www.apple.com now includes a teaser image for today’s Expo keynote with the tagline “There’s something in the Air”…..

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It turns out your iPhone could be running almost twice as fast! One of our Xerces sister sites, The Black Hole general-interest discussion forum, recently tackled a topic that has come up numerous times on Mac OS Rumors: Is the latest mainstrean media news about “Mac Malware” for real, or just greedy security companies looking [...]

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Apple has reported its best second-best quarterly financial results in the company’s history on very strong sales of Macs, iPhones and other iDevices.
If the AppleTV’s lack of an optical drive has been an issue for you, look no further than a soon to be announced update to the popular iDevice for that very issue to [...]

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Apple is reportedly having a growing number of iPhones that experience partial failures of the touch-input system — often starting from the top and sometimes moving down the screen vertically in “rows” roughly equal to the height of the application icons on the “Home screen.” Many users contact Apple and get replacements before the problem [...]

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As predicted by Rumors, the new iMacs sport Core 2 desktop CPUs that are substantially faster at a given clock rate than the mobile Santa Rosa chips used in the latest Macbook Pros.
An entry-level model clocks in at 2GHz, while the other standard models offer 2.4GHz — with an optional upgrade to a 2.8GHz Core [...]

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Could you be in danger from Electrocution by iPod? Full Article
As MOSR reported back in February, Apple acquired the powerful CUPS printing engine and hired its main developer….and now they have they have, at long last, officially announced the acquisition. Full Article
For those with a stake in Apple, or just the burning curiosity to know [...]

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With Steve Jobs’ MWSF keynote address fast approaching the grapevine has reached a fever pitch and is bursting at the seams with a whole spectrum of speculation and rumors about what will be announced at this year’s event.
Here is, in short order, a list of the most credible rumors about tomorrow’s announcements and a short [...]

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