Apple’s U.S. Mac market share rises to 8.1 percent in Q3

Apple Inc.’s share of the U.S. personal computer market for the third calendar quarter of 2007 was 8.1 percent, up from 6.2 percent during the same period one year ago, according to results released from Gartner just minutes ago.[...] Thanks to lnfiniteLoop for providing this nice story on Digg.

Apple’s got a new 13-inch laptop prepped for Leopard launch?

Nothing like a wild and unsubstantiated Apple rumor to keep us entertained in the run up to Apple’s Leopard launch on the 26th. The latest comes courtesy of TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz, who says Apple will have a new 13-inch ultraportable laptop ready to coincide with Leopard’s launch party, and the laptop will be aluminum like the MacBook Pros.[...] Thanks to 1KrazyKorean for providing this nice story on Digg.

The 16GB iPhone? Nope, don’t be a fool

While we’re pretty certain a 16GB iPhone is on the way given the recent emergence of the 16GB iPod touch — this ain’t it. Posted in the user forums at MacRumors and making its way around the interwebs is this supposed 16GB iPhone purported to have just arrived at an Apple store.

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iPhone report: most owners left Treos, Sidekicks behind

While we’ve seen a variety of surveys pitting the iPhone against its most notable rivals, a recent study conducted by the NPD Group breaks down the numbers behind who left what phone (and what carrier) to acquire an iPhone…

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Leopard release: October 26th

If you’re one of the many speculating the release date for Apple’s next version of OS X, Leopard, you can tick the other 10 of the remaining 11 business days left on the October calendar because it’s finally official: Mac OS 10.5 launches Friday, October 26th at 6.00pm, and may we just say friggin finally.

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OMG: Apple to Open the iPhone?

An official software-development kit may finally be announced at January’s Macworld. Why the wait? It may have something to do with Leopard

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Leopard: One big page listing all 300+ new features

All 300+ new features on one page over on Apple.com, this is new. And yes, it’s coming this Friday too.

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Leopard: Final Features and Further Upgrade Details

We got a chance this morning to pose a few queries to Brian Croll, Senior Director of Mac OS X Product Marketing, about today’s Leopard release announcement. Here’s some of what he had to say, as well as some of the new features we’re looking forward to in the next release….

Also: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html

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iPhone Dev Team announces free unlock for iPhone 1.1.1

The iPhone Dev Team has announced AnySIM 1.1. According to the announcement by netkas, the software has been tested with both 1.0.2 and 1.1.1.

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Apple Answers Leopard Questions

Here’s the information we managed to eke out, including Leopard’s demands on MacBook Pro battery life, the possibility of Widgets on iPhone, and whether or not that cool R2D2 iChat hologram effect survived. (Care to place bets?)

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