It seems the recent 1.1.3 iPhone update does more than simply add a few nice features and enable movie rentals. Users are reporting that upon attempting to update a bricked iPhone to the new firmware, the phone comes back to life. [Read more →]

Sony isn’t taking the release of the Macbook Air lightly, though it may have something to do with Jobs taking shots at the Sony TZ series during the keynote. [Read more →]

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Steve Jobs gives some candid responses to questions about the recently released Amazon kindle, the Macbook Air, and his thoughts on a CableCARD integrated AppleTV. [Read more →]

It seems a number of users have reported that rented movies cannot currently be transfered to a 5G/5.5G video iPod. When you attempt to transfer a rented movie to your 5G iPod, iTunes will give you an error message stating that the movie “was not copied to the iPod because it cannot be played on this iPod”. [Read more →]

Now that Macworld has had a chance to sink in, it has become evident that users are definitely unhappy about a number of things, and the $20 iPod Touch apps just seem to add insult to injury for many Apple customers. As expected, people have come up with a way to put pressure on Apple in the form of an online petition. [Read more →]

The reaction to Apple’s package of five new “native” applications for the iPod touch, at a cost of $19.99 USD or about 12 euros/pounds sterling, has been mixed to say the very least. [Read more →]

As the executives and marketroids did their thing in San Francisco, Apple’s network engineers and software update team were hard at work posting several new packages to the SWU servers….. [Read more →]

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 to see today within 3-4 months at the outside)…..it was most definitely one of the most action-packed keynotes we’ve seen in 13+ years of making the pilgrimage to the Moscone Center.

One of the accurately predicted rumors, the “January Update” to the iPhone’s firmware, v1.1.3, has been released with all of the predicted features we’ve seen in various developer/beta releases of the firmware leading up to the Expo. [Read more →]

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 that we had predicted. [Read more →]

A streamlined, wireless backup device designed to complement Apple’s “cable-free 2008″ initiative, about which we have been under heavy embargo due to the very small number of people aware of the project. Though the concept of an 802.11n-based wifi storage device is not new by any means, Apple has brought a number of innovations to the project — not only in the hardware, which is excellent, but in the software which is ground-breaking, and goes well beyond the Time Machine we’ve known to date. [Read more →]