Update Includes Faster Safari Performance, iTunes Home Sharing, AirPlay Improvements & New Personal Hotspot

iBookstore Now Features More than 2,500 Publishers, Including All Six Major Trade Publishers

Apple today updated its MacBook Pro family with next generation dual-core and quad-core Intel Core "i" "Sandy Bridge" processors and HD integrated graphics, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology (aka "Light Peak") and a new FaceTime HD camera

Apple today released a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, which takes some of the best ideas from iPad and brings them back to the Mac for the eighth major release of the world s most advanced operating system.

Apple today announced a new suscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store! , including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service that Apple recently launched with News Corp.'s "The Daily " app.

Record Mac, iPhone, iPad Sales drive highest revenue and earnings ever. Revenue grows 71 percent; earnings grow 78 percent

THE story of the week for both the Mac Web and financial media is Apple's announcement that CEO and guiding visionary Steve Jobs, 55, is taking another medical leave. There have been literally dozens of articles and commentaries reporting and analyzung this news. Here are links to ones that particularly caught our eye

Tim Cook is a proven steady hand at the Apple helm, having stood in for Jobs during the latter's previous medical leave for liver transplant surgery in early 2009, but expect a market reaction

On Thursday, Apple released the Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update, largely it appears to add support for the new Mac App. Store, with the usual slate of security patches, and a few minor bugfixes. THe Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes the Mac App Store, where you can discover and buy new apps for your Mac

The Mac App Store is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, download and install them in just one step. The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard users through Software Update as part of Mac OS X v10.6.6

The Mac App Store is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps

The Mac App Store is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps