Engadget reports that Apple has already started filming new ads featuring the next generation iPhone. The new ads are reportedly being directed by Sam Mendes.

According to the site's source, the new iPhone is referred to internally...

AP News reports that Wal-Mart will be cutting the price of the iPhone 3GS down to $97 with contract starting on Tuesday. The company presently sells the 3GS for $197.

Apple is widely expected to introduce a next iPhone on Jun...

Apple's yearly Back to School promotion is due to kick off tomorrow (Tuesday, May 25th). Apple will be offering a free iPod (up to $199 value) to students and faculty purchasing a qualifying Mac. Discounts do not extend to iPads or iPhones.

Behind the scenes at Quintessa Winery in Napa Valley, California, iPhone is helping staff track vineyard data, craft elegant presentations, and bring the beauty of the estate to their customers.

Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from the Apple Online Store in all nine countries beginning Monday, May 10.

PCMag.com reviews the 27-inch iMac, calling it “an excellent multimedia-oriented all-in-one desktop” computer and making it the Editors’ Choice in its class.

Global IT consultancy Unisys provides critical security services to a select list of government agencies and multinational corporations. Now the company can deliver these leading-edge services with greater speed, reach, and flexibility than ever before, thanks to iPhone.

FileMaker, Inc. announced the latest FileMaker Business Productivity Kit, an easy way for businesses selling both goods and services to become more productive and tackle everyday business tasks. Optimized for FileMaker Pro 11, the new Business Productivity Kit offers ready-to-use templates for businesses that streamline a variety of operations.

Reporting on Apple’s announcement that it sold its one millionth iPad just 28 days after the product’s introduction, Jim Goldman (cnbc.com) notes: “iPad reached the sales milestone far quicker than the company’s iPhone, which took nearly three months to sell 1 million units.” Goldman concludes: “All of this data seems to bode well for Apple.”

Starting today, you can buy the magical and revolutionary iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G at your favorite Apple Retail Store or from the Apple Online Store with free delivery to your door.

In a statement today on Apple.com, Apple CEO Steve Jobs described the company’s position on Flash: “I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads.”

Apple today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through June 11 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. The five-day conference includes the first ever iPad development sessions and hands-on working labs for iPhone OS 4, as well as Mac OS X core technology labs.

With its new Popular Science+ app for iPad, publisher Bonnier is changing the way we interact with and experience magazine content. It’s the first example of a new concept they call Mag+ that takes full advantage of Multi-Touch technology on the iPad.

Reviewer Mike Prospero (Laptopmag.com) makes the “drastically” improved 13-inch MacBook Pro an Editors’ Choice (4/5 stars), concluding that it “offers the best combination of performance, endurance, design, and smart software.”

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter ended March 27, 2010. The Company posted revenue of $13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 per diluted share. “We’re thrilled to report our best non-holiday quarter ever, with revenues up 49 percent and profits up 90 percent,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve launched our revolutionary new iPad and users are loving it, and we have several more extraordinary products in the pipeline for this year.”

Laptopmag.com makes the new 15-inch MacBook Pro an Editors’ Choice, writing that “if you want a big screen, excellent battery life, and plenty of muscle in a compact package, no other system comes close.”

Citing “phenomenal battery life” in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro, Computershopper.com concludes: “Apple has once again taken what was already an impressive machine and made it even better.”

CNET editors award the 15-inch MacBook Pro an Excellent/4 star rating and write that “it now feels like the line’s powerhouse flagship model.”

If you’ve thought about using a stand for your MacBook but flinched at the price of some of the commercial offerings then check out Taylor Beseda’s neat solution - a kitchen cookbook stand.

Read the details (and see the pics) on Taylor’s blog. Good thinking, TB!

Are you tired of Tiger, weary of Windows? Why not install Ubuntu on your MacBook?

What’s Ubuntu? There are two answers to that:

Ubuntu is a social and spiritual philosophy that serves as a framework for African society. Its essential meaning is conveyed in the Zulu maxim “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”— in essence, “a person is a person through other persons.”

or

Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

In the truest spirit of ubuntu, Christer Edwards has written a tutorial on installing Ubuntu on a MacBook. You can find it, and other Ubuntu tutorials at ubuntu-tutorials.com.

Jambo!