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The end of the year may mean a slow down for many industries as people leave work and spend the holidays with their families, but this is the time of the year where Mac rumors really start to heat up, as people begin to anticipate what Apple may have in store for MacWorld Expo. MacWorld events were traditionally the place where Steve Jobs would drop hardware and software bombshells, but that has waned in recent years as Apple has incorporated more and more special events throughout the year to showcase new products.
Steve Jobs’ keynote is still over a month away, and the rumors are starting to pick up. Bloomberg anticipates a new ultra-thin portable along with a higher capacity iPhone, while Fortune wonders if flash storage will be coming to the MacBook line. We will be looking forward to the new announcements, but also guess that the most significant product releases will come later in the year. Best bets are that this year’s keynote is heavy on Leopard and iPhone, but 2006 brought us Intel Macs, 2007 brought us the iPhone, and so the possibility for something really big still exists.
— Joe Fahs
Those of you that have followed Mac rumors since before blogs ruled the Internet universe are probably familiar with ThinkSecret. Started by Nick Ciarelli, ThinkSecret quickly became one of the most trusted sites on the Internet for timely and accurate news about Apple and their upcoming plans. ThinkSecret became so good at what they do that they became tangled in an Apple lawsuit over the release of some of that insider information and the site’s intent on keeping its sources a secret when Apple and the MIMH lawyers came to investigate.
A settlement has been reached in the dispute, and as a result, ThinkSecret will no longer be published, but their sources remain safe. We wish Nick and the rest of the ThinkSecret crew the best of luck as they pursue other endeavors.
— Joe Fahs