ifo Apple Store reports that Apple will open its Nagoya Sakae retail store in Japan this Saturday, January 22. The grand opening event will include T-shirts for the first 1,500 persons, a music DJ, but no Lucky Bag sale. In related news, Apple Stores in the United States will open one hour early on Saturday for the debut of the Mac mini, iLife ’05, and iWork ’05.
Read MoreBare Bones Software said today that it received three awards for TextWrangler 2.0 at last week’s Macworld Conference & Expo, including a Macworld Best of Show award, a MacMinute Showtime award, and a Macsimum award.
Read MoreMike Wendland of the Detroit Free Press gives high marks to Apple’s iPod shuffle. “Apple’s new iPod Shuffle is about to be the next must-have product,” writes Wendland. “Worn around the neck on a white-stringed lanyard–like the sales folk at the Apple stores at Somerset and Novi did all weekend for the crowds of early shoppers–the diminutive little music player is about to be a fashion statement… Way to go, Apple. You did it again. The Shuffle is one hot new product.”
Read MoreThe Washington Times’ Mark Kellner says the biggest news from Macworld Expo last week wasn’t the iPod shuffle or Mac mini–it was Apple’s new iWork suite. “The big news might well be a $79 software package that received somewhat less attention: iWork combines Apple’s already-sound Keynote presentation software (now called Keynote 2) with a new word processor/document publisher called Pages.
Read MoreWired magazine has announced the nominees for its sixth annual Wired Rave Awards, which honors leading innovators in 14 categories. Apple CEO Steve Jobs was nominated in the Business Leader category, while the Apple industrial design team was nominated in the Industrial Designer category for the iMac G5 and iPod shuffle. “These nominees are an eclectic mix of people who are changing the world by doing something truly new,” said Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired.
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