Apple(R) today announced that this year is the lst year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center January 5-9, 2009.

Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com websiteenable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.
Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple Expo in Paris.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Evernote, a free application that allows users to capture information in any environment making it accessible at any time, has been updated to version 1.1.5. The software is still in beta, but now adds AppleScript support, as well as support for exporting and importing notes to and from XML.

Evernote lets you capture stuff like webpages, whiteboards, scribbles, to-dos, even photos and music. As soon as you add a file to your account, you can assign it a name, or a tag, or more names and tags, and you'll be able to find it later on without any trouble, even if you can only remember a few characters. It brings up everything you might have once stored for safe keeping using tags and even text recognition. All you have to do is just search for an inside Evernote just like you remember it. The text recognition technology allows you to search for text within images, even handwritten text. If there's but one thing you can remember about a certain item, you'll most likely get to it as Evernote is an expert at narrowing down a search. Best of all, the service is available for all your devices, Mac, PC and mobile phone, as long as you can connect to the Internet with them.

Evernote 1.1.5 Beta brings the following new enhancements:- Support for exporting and importing notes to and from a well-defined XML format.
- AppleScript support.
- Fix a bug where note parsing errors could overwrite note content with the error message.
- When plain-text is pasted into a note it is no longer surrounded with a tag.
- List, Mixed and Thumbnail view should all remember their layouts between application launches now.
- Fix a bug where creating a tag with just a double-quote (") for the name would cause a crash.
- Some spiffy new toolbar and sidebar icons.

A native iPhone client for Evernote has also been released via the iTunes App Store. Evernote for iPhone is location-aware, it lets you send e-mails from within the app, it securely decrypts notes and it provides to-dos and clickable URLs and e-mail addresses. Evernote for iPhone is currently at version 1.3 and can be acquired here.

To upgrade your desktop client, use the link below.

Evernote 1.1.5 Beta for Mac (Free Download).

According to softpedia.com, a NoNewbsDotCom poster claims to have stumbled upon a download link to the new iTunes 8 from Apple. Touting the new version as a “HUGE upgrade,” the forum user, however, failed to note any specific new feature. Nonetheless, what looks like a genuine screenshot of Apple's site at the time iTunes 8 was available for grabs accompanies the “breaking” news.

To the left, you have the alleged screenshot of
Apple's site at the time iTunes 8.0 was available. Pointing out to Opera's tendency of misplacing objects on pages (something we can also vow for), the poster claims to have been intrigued by the URL's mentioning of iTunes 8.0, thus going forth with downloading and installing the new software. An excerpt from the original NoNewbsDotCom post is available just below.
ITUNES 8 ACCIDENTALLY LEAKED!!!

I reinstalled windows xp pro and decided to go ahead and upgrade to iTunes 7. When the page loaded I immediately noticed that the download button was out of place. I didn't think anything of it as this happens in Opera quite often. I hovered over it for a few seconds and noticed that the URL was something about iTunes 8.0. I clicked and of course a download dialogue box appeared -- as one would expect. When the download finished I started the install process and sure enough, the splash screen read iTunes 8.0. I'm still exploring the software. It's a HUGE upgrade from my previous 6.0 version. I'm not sure about the legality of releasing it to you guys yet. I don't want any trouble from Apple.

As you can see from this user's post, few details are being dished out as to what iTunes 8 actually sports in extra. Since it's difficult for anyone to put his finger on the nature of these allegations, we will let you, the readers, give the verdict on this one.

It is worth noting, however, that reliable sources have recently publicized details of iTunes 8.0 claiming that the new features also address some changes occurring with Apple's iPod line, including the iPod touch. As the above screenshot reveals, iTunes 8 is all about the touch (should it be the real thing).

Besides talking about the major facelifts for the entire iPod line, digg founder, Kevin Rose, declared that iTunes 8.0 would be accompanying these changes, making recent iTunes 8 rumors consistent with those reported earlier. More details are available here and here. Be sure to share your thoughts on this one.

Apple Computer yesterday announced that their iTunes online music store will now offer new movie releases from premier film studios for purchase on the same day as their DVD release. Movies purchased from iTunes can be viewed on video iPods, iPhones, Macs, Windows PCs, or wide-screen TVs with Apple TV.

The interesting part: new releases and catalog titles will be available from the likes of 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment, and First Look Studios. Titles like "American Gangster", "The Diving Bell", and "The Butterfly" will be available this week on iTunes, right on the day of their DVD release. Other latest titles such as "Juno", "Cloverfield", "I Am Legend", "There Will Be Blood", "Alvin and the Chipmunks", and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" are already available on iTunes, Apple said.New releases are priced at at $14.99 while most catalog titles are available for $9.99. Users need iTunes 7.6.2. to get them started with the process of purchasing movies.

And now the catch: If you're living in India or for that matter anywhere other than the US, you won't be able to avail this facility -- at least not now!

Back in August, Nokia revealed its new "Internet service multimedia platform," called Ovi. Ovi is designed to be a web portal for accessing sites, services, and content, including music and games. The service was quickly derided for its use of Windows Media content, but Nokia seems to have been listening. According to Gizmodo, the company's multimedia maven, Anssi Vanjoki, has invited Apple to join the portal and provide iTunes Store content to Nokia owners.