News headlines

• Macworld Expo 2009 keynote video now online
• Expo: Keynote Remote now available on Apple App Store
• Apple releases 2009 proxy statement
• Zavvi shut 22 UK stores, cut staff and prices as administrators act
• Smash it up: destroy discarded hard drives, warn researchers
• CES: Greenpeace rate green electronics except for Apple
• Expo: Paragon Software offer ‘talking’ dictionaries for Mac OS X
• ITV joins BBC, C4 on Virgin Media on-demand catch up TV service
• CES: Nvidia closing in on 2 teraflops with graphics card
• CES: PC is just one of 'three screens,' Microsoft's Ballmer says
• Dell to lay off 1,900 staff in Ireland
• Expo: Intuit prepping native app for Quicken.com users

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Blogs

>> Thursday, 08 Jan 2009

Macworld Team: Expo: DRM-free announcement is music to consumers' ears

By Dan Moren

Maybe Phil Schiller didn’t introduce a new Mac mini, or the mythical iPhone nano, but for my money the most important announcement of the keynote came shoved in the last ten minutes or so of Tuesday's presentation: the news that Apple had struck a deal with the other three major labels to finally offer—eventually—iTunes’s entire song catalog without Digital Rights Management.

Macworld Team: The history of the Mac, told by those who were there

By Rob Griffiths

This year’s Macworld Expo is unique in a number of ways—it’s Apple’s last Expo, Steve Jobs didn’t give the keynote, and there are not one but two separate premieres of Macintosh-related feature-length movies.

Macworld Team: Expo: Google wants to charge your iPhone

By Scott McNulty

One of the hardest things about having a booth at Macworld Expo is getting people to actually check out your booth. You need to get people in there, and have them stand around for a few minutes so you can leap on them and make sure they will never forget your products. Ever.

Macworld Team: Expo: Surf across Google Earth

By Derik DeLong

If you're at the show, be sure to stop by the Google booth. They have an interesting hack that let's you surf across the world. As you stand and lean on a Wii Fit, you watch as a little truck on the screen slides across the landscape, controlled entirely by your movements.

>> Wednesday, 07 Jan 2009

Macworld Team: Exploded iPhone on a T-shirt

By Cyrus Farivar

While it may be too late to order up this fine set of threads for the Philnote, you probably can still sport it while poking around the rest of Macworld Expo this week.

Macworld Team: The amazing vanishing Mac desktop machine

By Rob Griffiths

A couple years back, after the introduction of the iPhone at the January 2007 Macworld Expo, I penned a little reaction peace entitled iDisappointed, expressing my dismay at the lack of Mac hardware updates - it is, in fact, called Macworld Expo. (I should also point out that I was also amazingly prescient with that piece, when I wrote “My gut reaction is that Apple has hit a huge home run with the iPhone.” I love it when I luck into being right!)

Macworld Team: Skype 2.8 beta for Mac released

By Cyrus Farivar

Just in time for Macworld, those ridiculously talented Estonian engineers have come out with the latest version of everyone's favorite Internet phone and video calling software the Skype 2.8 beta.

Macworld Team: iLife '09 Guided Tours

By Scott McNulty

Words can only take you so far, dear readers, and Apple knows this. That's why they have posted two video Guided Tours that show off all the new bells and whistles in iPhoto '09 and iMovie '09 (the page is called 'iLife '09 Guided Tours' and only those two apps are showcased, but perhaps more will be added with time.)

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