Giant Macworld News Round-Up: Day 1

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While Steve Jobs may not have been in attendance, it was still a huge news day for the annual Macworld Conference & Expo. Here are the highlights..

Apple News:

• Watch the Keynote, delivered by Phil Schiller
• Apple introduces iLife ’09
• Apple introduces iWork ’09
• Mac Box available – OS X Leopard, iLife ’09, & iWork ’09 all for $169 (40% value)
• iWork.com announced – Online Suite of iWork apps, in beta
• 17-inch Unibody Macbook Pro with improved battery available
• iTunes Music goes DRM Free
• iPhone users able to download music via 3G Networks
• Three Pricing tiers to iTunes music, starting in April

3rd Party News:

• Filemaker Pro 10 released
• Things 1.0, from Cultured Code is released
• Squirrel, a Mac OS X finance app, released an iPhone client
• Google Releases Picasa for the Mac
• ChronoSync 4 released & ChronoAgent 1.0 Released
• Marketcircle introduces Daylite Touch
• Skype for Mac 2.8 beta with Screen Sharing released
• Macworld Discount for TextSoap
• BusyCal, from the makers of BusySync, is released
• New EyeTV Hybrid
• Toast 10 is released
• AOL releases a slew of new versions of their iPhone apps
• Axiotron introduces Modbook Pro
• Transcriva 2.0 released
• Lacie introduces the 2big Quadra
• Checkout Server is introduced
• Griffin releases the SmartShare USB

There’s much more going on at Macworld Expo, and the following sites have great coverage:

• The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• MacNN
• Macworld

Whew!