Bare Bones Software on Thursday released BBEdit 9, a major update to the venerable text editor. This new version adds several significant features, including a rewritten project manager, improvements to its search and document-comparison features, and a new text-completion interface.
The new text-completion feature prompts users with a list of items they might want to enter. [...]

Earlier this week, Russian communications company VimpelCom announced their intention to bring the iPhone to Russia, the first company to do so. The particulars aren’t available yet, but VimpelCom representatives said they hope to be selling the iPhone “…later this year.”
Earlier rumors were pointing to this announcement. Last week, Reuters reported on a rumor about [...]

It looks like Steve Jobs sent an e-mail to one of their readers. The email was in response to a complaint that AT&T is not offering a tethering option for the iPhone, even though it is offered on other smartphones as a $30/month add-on. The response acknowledged Apple and AT&T were discussing the option:
We agree, [...]

Apple today released ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0, which allows Mac and PC users to view Apple ProRes files through QuickTime. ProRes, released as part of Final Cut Pro 6 in April 2007, is a post-production format targeted at video editors and offering uncompressed high-definition quality at standard-definition file sizes.

The Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder software allows [...]

The Guardian reports that a television ad for the Apple iPhone has been banned by the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority after receiving complains about misleading claims.
The television ad which can be viewed online claims that ‘all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone.’ The complaints about the ad pointed out that the [...]

A source at TechCrunch says that Apple is doing verry well with its 3G iPhone and will sell its 12 millionth this week. That means that it will soon match its whole 1st year in sales. in other words, those are more sales than the first gen iPhone! in less then two months.
Foxcon is producing [...]

The 248.7MB update is available through iTunes and comes just two weeks after version 2.0.1.
In traditional Apple form, no specific issues are identified in the current release notes, which only indicate “bug fixes” for the mobile operating system.
If we know anything more, we will update this post.

oday Twenty08 released a new instant messaging client for the iPhone/iPod touch. MobileChat (iTunes Link) allows you to connect to multiple IM services, including:

AIM/ICQ/.Mac/MobileMe
Windows Live/MSN
Yahoo
GTalk
Jabber

In many ways, this application for the iPhone looks like a cross between Adium and AIM for iPhone. This application is feature rich, allowing you to take and send images or [...]

A new analyst report from Piper Jaffray claims that Apple’s September announcement will reveal a new iPod Touch and new MacBooks.
Analyst Mike Olson predicts that the iPod Touch will be tweaked to resemble Apple’s new iPhone 3G and also raises the possibility of price drops and/or capacity increases. Recent Firmware hints have suggested the iPod [...]

Intel has announced that the upcoming Nehalem processor will be officially known as the Core i7.
Nehalem has been the code name for Intel’s upcoming processors first due in Q4 2008. Nehalem represents a major overhaul of Intel’s processor technology and introduces a number of improvements over existing process bottlenecks.
Intel’s choice of name seems to be [...]