Month of May , 2008

Two new countries join the iPhone fever todaya as Hutchison Telecommunications Limited has announced it will carry the iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau.

Apple is progressively making video content available in more countries as the French iTunes store has opened this morning with a dozen of TV shows and rumours of movie download offerings in the U.K. and Canada start spreading on the Internet.

Apple has posted an update for Digital Camera RAW Compatibility bringing it to version 2.1.

UPDATEx3: Apple has also posted the Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.3 Update as well as Admin Tools 10.5.3 and a Security Update labeled "2008-003" for both Client and Server versions.

UPDATEx2: The Google sync feature appears to work only on Macs with an iPhone configured. The iPhone sync triggers Yahoo and Google sync with Address Book.

UPDATE: First user reports indicate Apple has added Google/Address Book sync on this update, you can find the new feature in Address Book's preferences.

Apple has posted the anticipated Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 Update fixing over 200 bugs and improving performance in several areas.

TeliaSonera will carry the iPhone in 7 countries of the European continent, a very brief press release published on its web site claims.

UPDATE: Mac OS X 10.5.3 is now available, it weights 420MB

Apple has seeded several builds of its Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 update to developers during the past few weeks and just seeded yet another one numbered "9D34" earlier today.

Here is a brief news and rumours catch-up for this week.

Orange announced today it will carry the iPhone in several countries in addition to France.

Swisscom has confirmed recent rumours that it has signed a deal with Apple over the distribution of the iPhone in Switzerland.

UPDATE: The SP1 update for Office 2008 has been made available. A bug fixing update for Office 2004 has also been released.

Microsoft is on the verge of realeasing a major update to its profesionnal Office suite for the Mac platform, Office 2008.

UPDATE: Another ad called "Sad Song" has been posted on Apple's "Get-A-Mac" page on Wednesday.

As if Macs were still not selling enough for Apple, the company has posted two three new "Get-A-Mac" ads on its web site.

The rumours on an Apple and HBO deal were true, the two companies have agreed over the distribution of HBO's TV shows on the iTunes Store.

UPDATE: The HBO deal is now official, the U.S. iTunes Store now features TV shows from HBO.

Here's a brief catch-up with the latest news and rumours:

UPDATEx2: Telecom Italia's VP Luigi Licciardi revealed during an interview that TIM will distribute the iPhone "with 3G capability" in June.

UPDATE: SingTel announced it will carry the iPhone in Singapore, Philippines, India and Australia. The two last are already covered by Vodafone.

México Móvil announced today it will carry the iPhone in Mexico.

Vodafone announced today that it signed a distribution deal with Apple, allowing it to distribute the iPhone in ten countries.

Here's a brief news catch-up of the latest Apple news: