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Apple is moving its’ retail space into China starting tomorrow. It will the first official Apple store in the country, and looks quite impressive so far. The build will be situated in Beijing, at the Sanlitun entertainment district. The store will open at 10 AM.

Apple is looking to expand into China even further, saying they will be adding more stores in Beijing, Shanghai and beyond. The store will have almost the exact same features of other Apple stores. One big highlight missing when the store opens will be the iPhone. Apple is still in talks with China’s primary wireless provider to lay out plans for the introduction of the iPhone. The largest obstacle will be implementing the 3G iPhone as China has no standard 3G network as of now.

The 32 GB iPod Touch will be available when the store opens, which will retail for 4,488 Chinese yuan (USD $647.33). This will be a story to keep an eye on going into next week, to see how successful Apple is with their first official foray into the Chinese market.

Turning on the news without seeing something about our failing economy is about near impossible these days. Apple, unlike the overall economy is all smiles after they posted their first fiscal quarter earnings.

While just about every electronics company is smiling after the holidays, Apple’s grin is even bigger as they have posted improvement is nearly every single one of their product lines. Posting a net quarter profit of $1.58 billion compared to last year’s $1 billion, it’s safe to say Apple is going strong into the new year. Apple shipped over 2 million mac computers this year, representing an impressive 44% unit growth. Mac desktops represented the largest unit growth while iPods posted a 5% unit growth, and 2,315,00 iPhones were sold in the quarter.

According to a 6 month vulnerability report posted on CSO online - Microsoft Vista is far more secure than OS X. 

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The installation took about 4 minutes - that was actually the first time my Apple TV was booted since I got it back in March 2007. The box restarts a few times and flashes the only light it has and eventually it comes back to life with the great little Apple TV movie.

YouTube is added to the menu and you can access:

• Featured
• Most viewed
• Most Recent
• Top rated
• Favorites
• History
• Search
• Log in / Log Out

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Apple has uploaded their new TV advert for iTunes featuring Paul McCartney and his latest song “Dance Tonight” the title track from his latest album Memory Almost Full.

The advert features pastel backgrounds with a non-silhouetted McCartney singing and dancing along a traditional English street.

Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an iconic Academy Award– and Grammy Award– winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles.

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So it is official - the  iPhone will be in the market on June 29th as stated in the new TV commercials just released by Apple.

In the advert it is also stated “Only on the new at&t - use requires minimum new 2 year activation plan” so I guess that closes the speculation on unlocked versions for now.

The common theme across the adverts is a demo-style where you get to see just what iPhone can do that other phones cannot and how you use it.

Check them out for yourself from Apple’s site.

Download the free podcast (audio and video) featuring Bill Gates and Steve Jobs interviews together at the D5: All Things Digital conference.

In this historic conversation, Jobs and Gates are asked to comment on each other’s greatest contributions to digital technology, as well as what they perceive to be their lives’s legacies.

You can pick it up from the iTunes store.
The audio version is 85MB and the video is nearly 1GB.

The entire video (7 parts + an intro) from the much anticipated All Things Digital conference on May 30th 2007 featuring Steve Jobs and Bill Gates with some interesting views and a bit of great history.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Prologue

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During the All Things Digital conference on May 30th 2007, Walt Mossberg interviews Steve Jobs and there are some interesting topics covered - including the introduction of YouTube for Apple TV - see for yourself:

Source: Engadget

Apple® today announced that it’s bringing the Internet’s most popular originally-created content from YouTube to the living room with Apple TV™. Beginning in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV. Using Apple TV’s elegant interface and simple Apple Remote, viewers can easily browse, find and watch free videos from YouTube in the comfort of their living room.

“This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch, and it’s really, really fun,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “YouTube is a worldwide sensation, and Apple TV is bringing it directly from the Internet onto the widescreen TV in your living room.”

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