Giant Macworld News Round-Up: Day 1
Tagged Articles by John Fuller on January 6th, 2009
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:
Whew!
