New 16GB iPhone Image Leaked, China Unicom in Talk with Apple

iPod Observer is reporting that Apple is preparing to roll out an updated version of its 16GB iPhone 3G. An image that they received from their source shows a new back design and a new model number A1303. The new case appears matte black and not glossy black found on present generation iPhone. Read More

Intel’s 2009 Roadmap: Add More Cores, Decrease Manufacturing Size and Invest in Fab/R&D

This week Intel has been talking about upcoming processor technologies at ISSCC in San Francisco. At the event, Intel showcased its first 8-core processor prototype designed for servers. The new Nehalem 8-core processor will join the Xeon family later this year and feature 16-thread and 64-bit processing. Intel also talked about its plans to salvage usable part from a defective chip by disabling the core or cache region, which is found defective. Read More

Google Releases Free Push Calendar and Contact Services for iPhone

Google has announced new beta Google Sync for iPhone. The service synchronizes built-in calendar and contacts on your iPhone with your Google account using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol. The use of push protocol keeps your calendar and contact in sync whether you access them from your iPhone or from your computer. You can add or edit contacts or calendar entries right on your device or on your Google account on the web and the changes will be immediately pushed to you various devices. Read More and Watch Video

Sony Unveils XB-Series Headphones

Sony today unveiled five new XB “eXtra Bass” series headphones designed to create a heavy club vibe with rich, powerful bass, while reproducing crystal-clear midrange vocals and high frequency sounds. Three of the headphones are over-the-ear style and two are in-ear style with brushed metal accents. The top of the line MDR-XB700 is a premium over-the-ear headphone with extra-large 50mm dome type driver optimized for bass. Read More

Amazon Introduces Kindle 2

Amazon today announced new slim Kindle 2 with longer battery life, faster page turns, over seven times more storage, sharper images, and a new read-to-me feature. More than 230,000 books are now available for about $9.99 each, many US and international magazines and newspapers plus more than 1,200 different blogs are also available for Kindle 2. Read More

BlackBerry Storm 9530 Available on Amazon for $99

Verizon is trying everything in its power to increase sales of BlackBerry Storm. On Friday, Verizon started buy one get one free program through its stores and website. And, now Verizon is selling the BlackBerry Storm on Amazon for $99 with two-year contract. It looks like BlackBerry Storm sales are falling down fast, after initial high sales at launch and Verizon is taking all possible measures to keep the sales up. If you are a BlackBerry fan you can’t get a better deal on Storm anywhere else.

Intel and NVIDIA Going for Each Other’s Core Business

It is a known fact that Intel will launch their first ever dedicated GPU codenamed Larrabee this year. And on the other hand, rumors are that NVIDIA is heavily recruiting x86 engineers for making its own x86 processor. So, why suddenly both the companies are gunning for each other’s core market? The reason might lie in Intel’s decision to develop a dedicated graphics card. Read More

Analyst: Three New iPhone Models in 2009

Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek claims, “Three new iPhone could be coming in 2009. The first is a 32GB iphone in multiple colors that is likely to arrive during the next six months. Next up is a lower-cost handset based on the 2.5G iPhone, which is targeted for China and India. Third is a smaller version – about one-third the size of the 3G iPhone – that costs 40 percent less and is also likely before year-end.” Read More

Microsoft Leaks My Phone Online Mobile Backup Service

Microsoft has accidentally launched My Phone (aka SkyBox) mobile backup service, which they were going to announce at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain on 16th February. The My Phone service offers 200MB of storage that can be used to backup contacts, calendar, tasks, photos, videos, text messages, music and documents directly from your mobile phone to the online service. Read More

Microsoft Developing Smartphone for Second Half of 2009

Research Firm Broadpoint AmTech claims that Microsoft is planning to release a smartphone of its own in second half of 2009. Research analysts Mark McKechnie and Rob Sandserson say that multiple industrial sources have confirmed Microsoft’s smartphone development plan. With the new smartphone, Microsoft will tightly integrate hardware and software like the iPhone does. Read More

Apple to Include Location and Multitouch Services in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

The upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will include geographical location and multitouch apps support. According to AppleInsider, people familiar with the Snow Leopard beta released few days back say that the OS includes CoreLocation framework and a Cocoa based programming interface for leveraging the multitouch function. Read More

Microsoft Explains Windows 7 SKUs

Microsoft has posted a closer look at Windows 7 SKUs on The Windows Blog, to explain you “exactly which edition of Windows 7 is right for you and help you understand how we approached addressing the large amount of feedback we received. According to Microsoft the SKUs are based on feedbacks from the customers and addresses the following: Read More

T-Mobile Officially Launches Samsung Memoir the 8-Megapixel Camera Phone

T-mobile today announced the launch of Samsung Memoir – a full touchscreen mobile phone with 8-megapixel camera and many multimedia features. The Memoir is the highest megapixel camera phone available in US via a carrier. The main feature of the phone is its 8-megapixel camera. The phone is designed to look, feel and work like a point-and-shoot digital camera. The camera has Xenon flash, 16x digital zoom, auto focus and five shooting modes. Read More

Next Gen iPhone in June with Support for 3rd Party Background Tasks

In an interview with Dow Jones, Mark Davis, Program Director for iPhone at Etisalat, has revealed “next version of the iPhone, which is due out in June will be launched in the UAE at the same time”. This news along with iPhone 2,1 code string found in latest iPhone firmware almost confirms that Apple has next generation iPhone ready for summer release. Additionally, Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief has also said at WWDC that Apple will follow the June release cycle for its iPhone updates. Read More

Toshiba Announces iPhone Competitor TG01 Smartphone

Yesterday, Toshiba announced their new smartphone based on Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon QSD2850 chipset in London. The super slim phone is only 9.9mm (0.38-inch) thick and features a 4.1-inch resistive touchscreen with 800 x 480 resolution. Toshiba says that the screen uses many of the technologies like color matching, dynamic gamma correction and LCD backlight control present in their HDTVs, resulting is more colorful and crisper images. Read More & Watch TG01 in action.

Nikon Unveils One Ultra Zoom P-Series, Three L-Series and Four S-Series Digital Cameras

Nikon today announced eight new point-and-shoot cameras that will ship before March 2009. The top of the line CoolPix P90 has 12.1-megapixel sensor, 24X (26-624mm) ultra zoom, 15fps burst mode, 3-inch LCD screen, image stabilization, motion detection, face detection and ISO up to 6400. The camera will ship in March for $399. Read More

Mac OS X and Safari Online Market Share Continues to Grow

Net Applications has released their latest data for online OS and browser market share in month of January. Mac OS X continued its growth whereas Windows continued its decline in operating system market share. Similarly in browser market share, Safari and Firefox continued to grow, while Internet Explorer lost market share. iPhone’s market share also rose to 0.48 percent and it looks like iPhone will surpass Linux by end of 2009. Read More

Palm Pre Video with Detailed Information About Both Software and Hardware

Palm’s VP of design, Peter Skillman shows various features of the upcoming Palm Pre touchscreen phone in a video. The Pre is one of the most impressive smartphone after the iPhone. The video shows how Palm differentiates the Pre from the iPhone, but it also shows how much the Pre is influenced by the iPhone. In fact the design of the shipping box for the Pre is also almost similar to the box iPhone ships in. Read More & Watch Video

Fujitsu Working on Android Platform For Multiple Devices

Fujitsu has started a new initiative called “Service Built for Android” that will focus on home electronics based on Google Android platform. Through the new program Fujitsu will offer consulting, engineering and other expertise to its partners for running devices based on the open-source Android platform. The company is planning to use the platform in various devices like cellphones, portable media player, GPS devices, set-top boxes and netbook like PCs. Read More

India to Showcase $10 Laptop on February 3rd | TechzTalk

A $10 laptop with 2GB RAM, WiFi, Ethernet, expandable memory and 2 watts power requirement would be showcased in Tirupati, India on February 3rd. The $10 laptop has been developed by Vellore Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Science and IIT Madras as an answer to Nicholas Negroponte’s $100 laptop that Indian government rejected two years back. Read More

Apple Working on Next Gen iPhone Model

Code Strings in Apple’s latest iPhone Firmware have revealed that Apple already has a working version of next generation iPhone. MacRumors has discovered and posted the portion of code on their website (shown above) that is designated as “iPhone2,1”. According to MacRumors, the first generation iPhone that was released in 2007 had “iPhone 1,1” label, whereas the iPhone 3G has “iPhone 1,2” label indicating a minor hardware revision. The use of 2,1 in the label implies that the next generation iPhone will see major hardware revision. Read More

Verizon Reports 15 Percent Increase in Revenue, Keeps Quiet about Storm Sales

Verizon today reported that it has added more than 1.2 million new customers in Q4 2008 bringing total number of customers to 72.1 million, which is up 9.9 percent compared to last year. With increase in number of subscribers Verizon also saw 15 percent increase in revenue. The company credited this rise to growth in wireless market. According to Verizon 37 percent of all cellphones sold were high-end devices and revenue from data plans for smartphone’s jumped 41.4 percent. Read More

Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Still Lagging in Performance and Web Standards Compliance

Microsoft has been promising that the upcoming IE 8 browser will be more web standards compliant and perform faster on standard web technologies. But the tests performed by ZDNet on IE 8 RCI that Microsoft released yesterday show otherwise. ZDnet took the latest build of IE 8 and benchmarked it using Acid3 test, Sunspider and Google V8. Read More

Apple Releases NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 with Improved Graphics Performance

Apple has released NVIDIA graphics update that addresses issues with Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter and also improves HD performance on Mac notebooks using NVIDIA’s GeForce 9400M chipsets and Mac desktop using NVIDIA’s graphics chips. The update is available via Software Update feature on Mac and it is 3.2MB in size. Apple provided no other details. So we decided to test the update ourselves. Read More

Microsoft Releases IE8 RC1 for Public

As expected, Microsoft today released IE8 RC1 (release candidate 1) for Windows XP and Windows Vista users. This is the third major public beta release of the IE 8 and Microsoft has already said that it will give one more build to testers before finally releasing the complete product. Read More

iPhone’s Design Influence on Palm Pre | TechzTalk

In our previous article about Palm Pre we wrote that Palm’s design philosophy is very similar to what Apple did with the iPhone two years back. And, the latest detail about Pre’s design that was reveled by product manager Matt Crowley in Facebook chat confirms Apple’s influence on Pre’s design. Read More

Microsoft Sees 54 Percent Drop in Zune Revenue

Microsoft’s Q4 2008 filing with Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that the company’s Zune sales revenue was down by $100 million compared to same period in 2007. This is 54 percent drop in Zune product related revenue from last year. Lower sales of new Zune models have been blamed for this decrease. Microsoft introduced new Zune models for 2008 holiday season, but than also sales have gone down. Read More

SecureMac Releases Free iWork Trojan Horse Removal Tool

Yesterday, we reported about pirated Apple iWork ’09 installer available on sites offering pirated software that is laced with a Trojan horse. The iWork ’09 download contains an additional package called iWorkServices.pKg, which is actually OSX.Trojan.iServices – a Trojan horse discovered by Intego. SecureMac has released iWorkServices Trojan Removal Tool – a free utility that will scan and remove the iWorkServices Trojan from infected Macintosh Computers. Read More

HTC Announces Touch Cruise with Geotagging App Called Footprints

HTC announced their new Touch Cruise smartphone that is both smaller and sleeker than the previous Touch model. The phone will feature a 2.8-inch touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, 512MB Flash ROM, 256MB RAM, microSD card slot, HSPA (900/1200MHz), Quad-band GSM/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi b/g and A-GPS. Hardware-wise it’s just an ordinary smartphone, but HTC promises that its new HTC Footprints feature will make the phone special. Read More

Pirated Apple iWork ’09 Laced with Trojan Horse

Intego, an anti-virus maker has cautioned Mac Users to not download pirated Apple iWork ’09 installer from sites offering pirated software. According to Intego, the download contains an additional package called iWorkServices.pkg, which is actually OSX.Trojan.iServices – a Trojan horse discovered by Intego on Wednesday 21 January. Read More

Apple Files Patent Application for Audio Sensor and Self-Cleaning Audio Jack

Two audio related patent applications from Apple were published today. In the first patent application, Apple proposes use of audio sensors to automatically adjust audio output based on surrounding environments for devices like TV, laptop and mobile phone. “For instance, a user who adjusts the volume of a mobile phone ringtone for a loud environment may later move to a quieter environment, where the loud ring will be disruptive,” Apple explains in the patent application. Read More

Apple Posts Record $1.61 Billion Profit in Q1 2009

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 first quarter ended December 27, 2008. The Company posted record revenue of $10.17 billion and record net quarterly profit of $1.61 billion, or $1.78 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 34.7 percent, equal to the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 46 percent of the quarter’s revenue. Read More

Asus to Add HyperSpace Instant-on OS to Its Mobile Lineup for a Annual Fee

Asus has formed a partnership with Phoenix Technologies to provide HyperSpace instant-on operating environment for its mobile PC lineup. HyperSpace will offer Asus notebook and netbook users fast access to Internet based applications while Windows optionally continues to boot in the background. After Windows has booted users can then switch to Windows or keep working in HyperSpace. Read More

Apple’s App Store Growing Exponentially, Can Reach 1 Billion Mark before May

Last Friday, Apple announced that App Store has hit the 500 million download mark in just six months. Apple also said that more than 15,000 apps were now available for download on the App Store. Apple didn’t give any information about ratio of free versus paid apps downloaded from App Store, 500 million in six months is impressive. Read More

Intel Lowers CPU Prices, Launches Low-Power Quad CPUs and Plans to Introduce Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage Platform

Intel on Monday introduced three new high-efficiency quad-core processors. The new processors will use just 65W of power versus the usual 95W required by desktop processors. According to Intel, low energy requirement of the new CPU will not only make them eco-friendly, but also more space efficient. The top of the line 2.83GHz Core 2 Quad Q9550s will have 12MB L2 cache and will be priced $369. The second processor in the lineup will be 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q9400s that will have 6MB of L2 cache for $320. The last in the lineup is 2.33GHz Core 2 Quad Q8200s with 4MB L2 cache and it will be priced $245. Read More

Review Roundup: Apple’s New Aluminum 13-inch MacBook (Unibody)

In October 2008, Apple launched their completely redesigned 13-inch MacBook. The laptop was made using the new unibody manufacturing process developed by Apple. The 13-inch MacBook came in two models, the $1,299 models with 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 160GB hard drive and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics, whereas the $1,599 model came with 2.4GHz processor, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 250GB hard drive, GeForce 9400M graphics and illuminated keyboard. Below we have added links to eight most comprehensive MacBook Reviews. Read More

Next Generation Hard Drives to Use Laser Heads for 100X Capacity and Speed

Read-write head mainly limits the speed and capacity of a hard drive, as they are reaching the maximum accuracy and speed they can achieve. To increase the speed and capacity of the hard drive a new head technology is needed which can be more precise and faster. Two scientists, Dr. Daniel Stanciu and Dr. Fredrik Hansteen have discovered a way to use laser to write and read data on magnetic platter. Read More

Apple to have Press Event in About a Months Time

According to the latest information that we received from our sources, Apple is planning a press event for late February or early March. Our sources didn’t give much information about what Apple is planning to announce at the event, but they said it would be a Mac related event. Read More

Nokia Announces N79 Bundle with Bluetooth Heart Rate Belt

Nokia today announced Nokia N79 Active – bundle that includes N79 handset and wireless Polar Bluetooth WearLink heart rate belt. The N79 will use the A-GPS tracking along with a new version of Nokia Sports Tracker application to record and publish your exercise route and fitness data on the web. N79 Active owners will also be able to share the tracks they listen, as well as upload and geotag route images they follow for workout. Read More

Steve Taking Leave of Absence Due to Health Reasons from Apple

Apple has issued a letter stating that Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence due to health reasons till summer of 2009. Steve has sent out an email to all Apple employees. It was rumored for past few months that Steve’s health was deteriorating. And, now the email confirms it. There is no information about how bad is Steve’s condition. But the email shows that he is looking forward to come back and work as CEO at Apple in July of 2009. We hope that he recovers fast and come back at Apple as soon as possible. Read More

Palm Pre Does it Compare with the iPhone?

There is no doubt that the new Palm Pre will be compared to the number one touchscreen smartphone on the market, the iPhone, as well as T-Mobile G1, which is slowly becoming the second best smartphone platform. If you look at the external design of the new handset, Pre is definitely better than T-Mobile G1, but it comes nowhere close to the slim and sexy design of the iPhone. Pre is shorter, rounder and thicker than the iPhone. The software demo that Palm showed of the new OS was very impressive. Read More

Sony’s New High-End VAIO P Series Netbook and Its First Impression

Almost two weeks before the CES, Sony started a teaser website for its upcoming netbook. Now, Sony has officially launched its new VAIO P series netbook. Specification-wise the new VAIO P comes with 8-inch LED backlit LCD screen, 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor, 2GB DDR2 RAM, Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 with up to 760MB shared graphics memory, Intel’s High Definition Audio, 60GB hard drive (option of 128GB SSD), WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth, integrated 3G, GPS, built-in webcam, multimedia card slot and 82 keys QWERTY keyboard. Read More

Apple Introduces iWork 09

Apple today introduced iWork ’09, the latest version of Apple’s popular office productivity suite, which adds powerful new features without sacrificing Apple’s legendary ease of use. Keynote ’09 introduces advanced object transitions, which automatically animate objects with a choice of effects and Magic Move, an innovative way to create sophisticated animations just by applying a simple transition. Pages ’09 features a new Full Screen view that helps you focus on your writing and an outline mode to organize your thoughts. Read More

Apple Unveils iLife 09

Apple today introduced iLife ’09, which features major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, and includes iDVD and an updated version of iWeb™. iPhoto ’09 builds on the ability to automatically organize photos into Events by adding Faces and Places as breakthrough new ways to easily organize and manage your photos. iMovie ’09 expands on the revolutionary super fast movie creation introduced in iMovie ’08 by adding the depth users want through powerful easy-to-use new features such as the incredible new Precision Editor, video stabilization, advanced drag and drop, and animated travel maps. Read More

Apple Announces New 17-inch MacBook Pro with 8 Hours of Battery Life

Apple today unveiled the new 17-inch MacBook Pro featuring a durable and beautiful precision aluminum unibody enclosure, and a revolutionary new built-in battery that delivers up to eight hours of use and up to 1,000 recharges for more than three times the lifespan of conventional notebook batteries. The new 17-inch MacBook Pro has a high-resolution LED-backlit display and the same large glass Multi-Touch trackpad introduced with the new MacBook family in October. In addition, the new 17-inch MacBook Pro includes state of the art NVIDIA graphics and the latest generation Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors. As part of the industry’s greenest notebook family, the new 17-inch MacBook Pro is made of highly recyclable materials, meets stringent energy efficiency standards and is made without many of the harmful toxins found in other computers. Read More

Live Coverage of Apple’s Final Macworld Keynote on Tuesday, 6th January at 9:00AM PST

• Thanks for joining us today. We will be adding detailed posts on all products announced today.
• That's all from Apple today. Just hope that Tony's song rings true. We'll be waiting...
• Tony is on stage singing "The Best is Yet to come".
• The last keynote is ending with performance by a music legend - Tony Bennett!
• The iTunes music store is now available on 3G also and all songs are DRM free yippee!!!
• New pricing available in two tiers - $0.69 and $1.29
• It about iTunes, Apple sold six billion songs and has the largest music library.
• Phil says " We do have one last thing"
• So the base configuration will be 17-inch LED backlit screen, 2.66GHz processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, Nvidia 9400M GT chipset, 512MB Nvidia 9600M GT graphics, 320GB hard drive and super drive for $2799. 
• Now he is showing ad for the new 17-inch MacBook Pro.
• If you run the new 17-inch MacBook Pro on 9400M graphics card it will give 8 hours battery life, if you use 9600M graphics card it will give 7 hours battery life.
• He is talking more about the battery, Advanced chemistry, intelligent monitoring and adaptive charging.
• Now he is showing the video of the battery making process.
• Apple says says the new battery on the laptop is not removable and hence Apple was able to create a 40 percent larger battery in the same space. the battery will last 8 hours on a single charge and can be charged 1000 time. The lifespan of the battery cells are three times the industry standard.
•  The laptop will be almost same as the new 15-inch MacBook Pro.
• The laptop will come with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz up to 2.93GHz, 6MB L2 cache and up to 8GB DDR3 memory.
• There will be $50 anti glare option also.
• The new laptop will have 1920 x 1200 display with 700:1 contrast ratio and 60% color gamut.
• It is the worlds lightest and thinnest 17-inch laptop.
• One more thing: And its the new 17-inch MacBook Pro. What?!?
• You can use the iwork.com for Pages, Numbers and Keynote applications. Beta will be free but eventually it will be a paid service.
• You can edit the document on the iwork.com just like you do it on Google Docs.
• You can just upload the document from pages to iwork.com. it will generate a link which you can send by email to the person with whom you want to share the document.
• Apple is now talking about iwork.com a beta release, it help you to share and get feedback on documents that you are working on.
• The iWork 09 will be priced $79 for single license, $99 family pack and $49 if bought with new Mac. Ships today.
• Other features include advanced chart options such as mixed charts multiple axes charts, trend lines and error bars.
• Next up is Numbers 09 and Apple has added new features such as new Table categories and 250 functions along with the appropriate mouse overs and color coding.
• He shows various new Page templates and themes for Pages 09.
• Next is Pages with fullscreen view.
• Like the iTunes Remote for the iPhone and iPod touch there will be a Keynote Remote App but it won't be free. it's priced $0.99.
• The Keynote 09 will have Magic move, object and text transitions, chart animations and more themes.
• Phil is demoing the new Swing transition for Keynote 09.
• The second on list is iWork. it looks like there will be only one hardware announcement today.
• iLife is coming in late January for $79 and family pack will be priced $99.
• Each artist lesson for a song is $4.99, now he is showing video of various artist lessons.
• The feature will include 9 basic lessons for guitar and piano. the feature also allows artists to help you play... it is called artists lessons. John Fogerty, Fallout boy and Sting!
• He is now demoing the feature. he plays a snippet and an instructor in video shows how to play the snippet.
• He is talking about just one feature "Learn to Play". it shows users how to play an instrument.
• He now talks about Garageband 09.
• Phil is back on stage.
• He is now showing real time video effects like cartoon, X-Ray and aged film. he now shows addition of Map to the video. when the video is played back the map comes in a cool animated form.
• Merging clips and image stabilization looks awesome.
• Randy Ubillos, chief architect, Video applications is now demoing in detail the features of the new iMovie 09.
• A new dialogue feature allows you to put audio only clip on top of other clips just by dragging it on.
• Now Phil is demoing iMovie 09.
• iMovie will have context sensitive menus for clips, animated travel maps both in 2D and 3D, auto stabilization for shaky video and of course dynamic themes.
• Phil says that this new version will blow away your minds as it has features for every customer.
• It's iMovie 09.
• It's getting boring, what's next?
• Now Phil is showing the Geotagging feature of iPhoto.
• Phil is now doing live demo of all the iPhoto features.
• Apple uses face detection to properly position pictures, the pics are flipping in and out like iPod commercial, you can now use the same slideshow theme on your iPhone too.
• Now Phil is demoing new slideshow themes in iPhoto. He says that now you can customize the slideshow further.
• Apple is also adding inbuilt support for Facebook and Flickr.
• Maps for this feature comes from Google. it provides street maps as well as satellite images.
• Places uses geotagging, Phil is now demonstrating geotagging. for example iPhoto will provide information such as Eiffel Tower Paris based on the lat / long.
• The second addition is Places: where iPhoto will organize photos based on locations where they were taken.
• It can recognize same person in different photos automatically.
• Faces will let you organize photo by people and it uses face detection technology, you can tag photos just like you do on Facebook.
• Talking about iPhoto 09, the Event feature is well received by the customers and they are adding two new event features one is called faces.
• Three new things today, first is iLife 09
• Last year Apple sold 9.7 million Macs and Mac business is growing twice as fast as the rest of the industry.
• He says that today he is going to talk about Mac business.
• He says that Apple is having a very exciting time, people are lining up for the products.
• Lights are down and Phil is on stage welcoming everyone.
• Looks like Phil is about to come on stage.
• We have been asked to silence our cellphones now
• We are in the hall and there is lot of noise.
• What do you think will Steve come on stage?
• Well we have been waiting inline for about three hours now and the line as started moving.

Apple announced in December that Steve Jobs won’t be presenting the Macworld 2009 keynote and Phil Schiller will take his place. Apple also announced that this would be their last MacWorld Expo making this Macworld 2009 keynote one of the most talked about keynotes in Macworld history. We will be doing live coverage of the keynote starting at 9:00AM Pacific/10:00AM Mountain/11:00AM Central/12:00PM Eastern /5:00PM London on Tuesday, January 6th. Please join us tomorrow on live.techztalk.com for live coverage of the Macworld keynote.
Before the keynote starts you can go ahead and read our Macworld 2009 rumor roundup.

Rumor Roundup: Macworld Expo 2009

Rumor for Macworld Expo 2009 started in early December when XSKN leaked images of silicone case design for the new iPod nano. Initially, iPhone nano was the most talked about item for Macworld Expo 2009. But soon Mac related products started taking the center stage. Read More

iMac Rumors: New Cooling Module and Magnesium-Aluminum Chassis

MacWorld Expo is just a week away and rumors about new Apple products are flying high. Today, a Chinese language newspaper, Economic Daily, claimed that Foxconn has secured a contract with Apple to manufacture the upcoming iMac all-in-one desktops. The Economic Daily says that Foxconn Group’s Foxconn Precision Components and Catcher Technology will produce the new “magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis” for the upcoming iMac. Read More

Review Roundup: MacBook Pro (Unibody)

Apple launched their new MacBook Pro in October 2008 and while Apple updated the CPU, RAM and GPU, their main focus was on the new unibody design. In fact, Apple has posted a video describing the complete manufacturing process. If you look at the design of the new MacBook Pro, it is just stunning. The new unibody design has put Apple in a league of its own. There is not a single laptop maker who can even come close to the design of the new Macbook Pro. Below are the seven best online reviews available for the new MacBook Pro: Read More