Apple strengthens iPod, iTunes offerings,
reveals living room strategy

Something strange is going on at Apple these days. First there was that un-Job’s like shared performance at WWDC’06, then Apple releases a new high-end 24″ iMac with little fanfare a week before a scheduled press event. Now we have Steve Jobs trotting out on stage wearing a black dress shirt? [...]

Apple’s patent play. Something big this way comes?

MacNN today posted a fairly in-depth summary of a new patent application filed by Apple computer with the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2006 for a “Multi-functional hand-held device”. This patent makes reference to technologies first identified in previous patent applications for “Proximity detector in handheld device”, a “Virtual Scroll-Wheel Interface” and [...]