World of Apple

The grand opening of the Apple Store Summit Sierra in Reno, Nevada will take place this Wednesday, March 15 at 10 am PST.

Rumour has it that the Store is opening to coincide with the Grand Opening of the mall itself.

As usual we want to feature your pictures, movies and even write ups.

ITV bosses in a recent interview with a UK newspaper have confirmed that they have considered plans to make Coronation Street and ITV shows available on the UK iTunes Music Store.

On a similar note both the BBC and ITV already have a scheme that is capable of supplying IPTV and a select number of users are already enjoying such services.

Although not in full swing yet, Apple today introduced Season Pass for weekly TV shows.

“Buy a Season Pass and get a whole season of a TV show, past or present, at a discount.”

Both Multi-Pass and Season Pass are buy-to-own systems which means when you are no longer an active subscriber your content will still work.

We’ve just received information regarding the upcoming Apple Store in the Freehold Raceway Mall in New Jersey.

The official Mall website lists the store as upcoming but sources close to World of Apple stated that the store could open in just 4 weeks time.

The Store appears to be in the position where a Disney store used to stand and is said to be of a prominent size.

Well here it is, a major leap for Apple. Today they introduced a form of subscription service that they are calling Mulit-pass.

“iTunes is launching the service in partnership with Viacom Inc.’s Comedy Central Network, which is rolling out “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” on the service.

The subscription allows users to buy 16 episodes for just $9.99. Four episodes of the show air a week and the shows will be available for download shortly after being aired.

Right now this just looks like a bulk buy discount but it could shape up to be a major step in the right direction.

This is a bit unusual but it is relevant, in the upcoming days we’ll be launching a new section of the site which will hopefully focus on the print aspects of Apple over the last 30 Years. Watch this space.

Click on the thumbnail below to view Apple’s latest ProCare promotional leaflet (PDF).

Apple today announced when it intends to hold the 2006 WWDC in San Francisco, the dates are set as the 7 to 11 of August of this year, early registration ends June 23rd.

Intel Corporation today disclosed details of its forthcoming Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, a new industry–leading foundation for Intel’s multi–core server, desktop and mobile processors for computers later this year. The first Intel Core microarchitecture products built on Intel’s advanced 65nm process technology will deliver higher–performing, yet more energy–efficient processors that spur more stylish, quieter and smaller mobile and desktop computers and servers that can reduce electricity and real–estate associated costs, and provides critical capabilities such as enhanced security, virtualization and manageability for consumers and businesses.

“The Intel Core microarchitecture is a milestone in enabling scalable performance and energy efficiency,” said Rattner. “Later this year it will fuel new dual–core processors and quad–core processors in 2007 that we expect to deliver industry leading performance and capabilities per watt. People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills.”

Several advances mark the new microarchitecture:

• Intel Wide Dynamic Execution –– Delivers more instructions per clock cycle, improving execution and energy efficiency. Every execution core is wider, allowing each core to complete up to four full instructions simultaneously using an efficient 14–stage pipeline.
• Intel Intelligent Power Capability –– Includes features that further reduce power consumption by intelligently powering on individual logic subsystems only when required.
• Intel Advanced Smart Cache –– This includes a shared L2 cache to reduce power by minimizing memory traffic and increase performance by allowing one core to utilize the entire cache when the other core is idle.
• Intel Smart Memory Access –– Yet another feature that improves system performance by hiding memory latency and thus optimizing the use of data bandwidth out to the memory subsystem.
• Intel Advanced Digital Media Boost –– Now all 128–bit SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 instructions execute within only one cycle. This effectively doubles the execution speed for these instructions which are used widely in multimedia and graphics applications.

QuickTransit is the software engine that essentially runs Rosetta the emulation software that runs on Intel Macs and emulates PPC code. Well today the company that makes the technologies has announced that it plans to fully support Intel’s upcoming Itanium 2 and Xeon Platforms.

Hopefully this shows that development for Apple’s server lineup may be in full swing.

Over the next few days we’re going to get a lot of this, IDF (Intel Developer Forum) begins tomorrow, usually we wouldn’t be fussed but obviously this year it directly affects the Mac World.

Well rumour has it that Intel is on track to release the next gen mobile processor which we all know as Merom which is widely expected to support 64-Bit.

As reported quite a few months back, Apple has showed interest in this particular processor but due to its timeframe has obviously began shipping mobile computers with Yonah CPU’s.

We’ll keep you updated of IDF this week.