TheStreet's Troy Wolvetron claims that Apple has filed a trademark for the brands "Mac Pro" and "MacPro". The trademark was actually filed in the New Zealand's Patents and Trademarks Office:

MacsimmumNews provides an interesting analysis of Apple's recently filed "Accelerometer" and "Universal Container for audio data".

As notes MacRumors, Apple is hiring a Finder engineer for development related to Finder:

According to AppleInsider, Apple is going to add the Front Row feature to its next generation, Intel-based iBook line.

According to AppleInsider, Apple has seeded the first builds of Mac OS X 10.4.5 (Tiger) Update. The builds, numbered 8H3 and 8H5 focus on the following areas :

Apple has filed a trademark for "iWeb" at the U.S. Patents & Trademarks Office. The trademark was filed on January the 17th with the following description (Goods & Services):

As it has been rumoured earlier this week, it is now reported that the board members of Disney have agreed today to buy Pixar for about $7.4 billion.

As MacRumors notices, TimesOnline reports that Apple's next generation iPods will be able to "connect wirelessly to the internet".

Apple has released its financial results for the first (financial) quarter of 2006. The company has earned $565 million for a revenue of $5.75 billion. Last year, Apple had earned $295 million for a revenue of $3.49 billion.

Here is some recently noticed patents and trademarks Apple has filed at the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office.

Microsoft announced that it is stopping the development of Windows Media Player for the Mac platform.

The U.S. Patents and Trademarks office reveals that Apple has filed the trademark "Mobile Me" on January 5, 2006.

The four patent files' descriptions (Goods and Services) are the following:

Apple has released iPod Updater 2006-01-10 through the software update utility. Here is the description provided by Apple for this update:

Google has officially released Google Earth for Mac which has been made available on their web site.

Requirements to run Google Earth for Mac are the following:

Mac OS X (10.4)
500Mhz
256M RAM
400MB disk space
Network speed: 128Kbits/sec
3D-capable video card with 16Mbytes of VRAM
1024x768, "16-bit High Color" screen

Mac users have been waiting several months after the Windows release but now, the piece of Software is available as a final 3.1 version for Mac OS X. About a month ago, a beta version

Apple has posted its new Intel Mac ad on its web site. The ad shows Intel employees in an Intel factory and explains that the Intel chip is now set free from these "dull little boxes" (PCs).

Here it is.

Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.4.4 update through the Software Update utility. The 27.6MB update brings the following improvements, according to Apple:

The 10.4.4 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.

It includes fixes for:

- SMB/CIFS and NFS network file services
- Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, RAW camera support, including updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers
- Spotlight indexing and searching
- AppleScript, iChat, DVD Player, and Safari applications
- Dashboard widgets: Calendar and Stocks

Apple has just made available today's MacWorld SF 2006 opening keynote as a webcast.

It's here!

Apple has posted updates for both iTunes and QuickTime through the Software Update , bringing them respectively to versions 6.0.2 and 7.0.4.

Apple has annnounced its first Intel-based Macs today, during MacWorld SF 2006 opening Keynote. The two first Macs to go Intel are the iMac and the Mac Book Pro (former Powerbook).

Apple has announced iLife '06 and iWork '06 during MacWorld SF 2006 opening keynote today.

During MacWorld SF opening Keynote, Steve Jobs announced today that Apple has sold over 14 million iPods and generated record revenue of $5.7 billion for the holidays quarter.

Here is the live transcript provided on MacScoop during today's MacWorld SF opening keynote:

MacosXrumors should be able to provide a live coverage for MacWorld Expo's opening keynote which is performed by Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs. The event starts at 9 a.m (PST) and the coverage will be provided in the form of a text live transcript.

Apple has posted an update for the Powerbook Aluminium 15" through the Software Update utility.

The update provides the following improvements, according to Apple:

This update aids the 15-inch Aluminum PowerBook battery in performing at full capacity.

A reader has sent us a link to a picture of what could be Apple's rumoured giant plasma displays. It reminds recent rumours claiming that Apple will release 42" and 50" plasma displays during MacWorld Expo.

The picture is small and seems to have been taken with a mobile phone. This could be a fake of course but we would hate ourselves if it was real and not published.

UPDATE: As readers report, this is a fake.

Unconfirmed reports reveal some details about iWork '06, iLife '06 and .Mac improvements which are expected to be announced tomorrow during Macworld Expo 2006. According to the reports, Apple will mainly bring multiple-media web-publishing features to its consumer-oriented software and services this year.

According to a vague anonymous report, the iTunes mobile platform could add support for iTunes videos in the near future while Apple could be in talks for an "iTunes deal" with a second mobile phones maker.

In a similar deal as with Motorola, the new partner will be allowed to sell iTunes enabled mobile phones but with support of iTunes videos as well. Meanwhile, Motorola and Apple should continue with their partnership.

We also learned from older unconfirmed reports that while Apple and Sony Ericsson had failed to find a deal, Apple had also been in talks with Samsung and Nokia.

We h

According to PowerPage, Apple will release 42" and 50" displays that will use the newly announced Intel Viiv technology during MacWorld Expo next Tuesday.

The site even provides pricing for these new displays. The 42" one will cost $2599 and the 50" one will cost $3299. The resolution of these displays isn't known but they're cited as HD displays.

ThinkSecret has recently mentioned the possibility that Apple releases a new display that is larger than the current Cinema Display 30" HD.

MacRumors notices that Apple has accidentally leaked some information on iLife '06 on its own web site.

The page shows that GarageBand will provide podcast recording and maybe even video podcast support. It also mentions iWeb in the list of the iLife '06 applications. Maybe a simple to use web editor? We don't know more about it.

Apple has since replaced this page with the former version but MacRumors has kept a

According to Digitimes, Apple's forthcoming MacTel based laptops will feature very improved boot performance that will use an Intel technology called Robson.

Robson uses NAND memory to store system data needed for boot so as to dramatically accellerate boot time. This technology could also decrease power consumption during restarts.

Digitimes has not proved to be a reliable source in the past but we can hope this will really happen considering Apple has recently secured NAND supply with most of the NAND manufacturers in multi-billion agreements.

According to ThinkSecret, Apple will unveil several video products during NAB 2006 which takes place on April the .... The new products expected to be released include Final Cut Pro 6, Final Cut Extreme, an even higher definition 30" display and an improved XServe RAID.

No details are given about Final Cut Pro 6.0, but ThinkSecret claims that Apple is going to launch a new product called Final Cut Extreme. This new product will be very high-end and will directly compete with AVID products while it will be similarly priced at around $10 000.

Apple has posted a firmware update for Airport Express (to version 6.3) and Airport Extreme (to version 5.7).

Fixes for Airport Express 6.3 and Airport Extreme 5.7 firmware:

-Resolves issue with Audio dropout when playing to AirPort Express with AirTunes
-Resolves issue with Wireless Disabled mode for AirPort Express
-Resolves issue with AirPort Extreme LAN Performance

Apple has posted a firmware update for Bluetooth on its web site.

Here is the description of the update provided by Apple:

The Bluetooth Firmware Update 1.2 improves Bluetooth performance and reliability issues.

When the update package is downloaded, the Bluetooth Firmware Updater application will be launched. Follow the on screen directions to update your Bluetooth Firmware.

The Bluetooth Firmware Updater supports D-Link USB Adapters and Apple internal Bluetooth modules on the following CPUs:

According to reports, Apple will add more USB 2.0 ports to its Mac line-ups along with the switch to the Intel architecture this year at the request of its customers. The company is however expected to keep at least one FireWire port on each of its MacTel products.

Last month, Jason D. O'Grady reported that Apple may be abandoning FireWire on its entry-level laptops in the near future. The news shocked the Mac community as Mac fans hardly believed this could be possible.

Commenting on O'Grady's report, sources denied the recent rumours and said that the company will add more USB 2.0 ports to its Macs as it's a major request from customers but it is also claimed that Apple won't remove totally FireWire "from any existing product line". We'll let you draw your own conclusions on the use of the word "existing" in one of their comment.

Tuaw.com reports (dated 31/12/2006) that Apple has enabled a monthly bandwidth of 1TB a month for each .Mac member. A screenshot is available at World of Apple blog.

The Mac-centric web scpeculates that this could have something to do with a recent report from ThinkSecret claiming that Apple is planning to launch an online video on demand service, with content stored remotely, during MacWorld Expo 2006.

MacosXrumors wishes a happy new year to all of its readers. Year 2005 was big for Apple and there is no doubt that 2006 will definitely be “the year of Apple�, less than 30 years after the company was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

As was 2004, this year was big for MacosXrumors as the site received, for the third consecutive year, a dramatic referencing and traffic boost (check out last year's report). We have some plans for major changes and improvement to the site for 2006 and we hope that you will appreciate our efforts.