Year: 2010

Amp (http://www.ableton.com/amp) is a new Ableton 8 audio effect designed to add warmth and drive. Co-developed with Softube, Amp delivers the sound and simplicity of legendary amplifiers and cabinets, according to the folks at Ableton.

Amp comes with Cabinet, a separate effect that provides a selection of classic guitar cabs, with optimized mics and mic positioning. Ableton has also included a range of sounds that transform Ableton’s instruments and effects with Amp’s new sonic character. These include Instrument and Effect Racks, Live Clips and over 400 presets.

Analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro with Susquehanna Financial Group said in a note to investors — as reported by “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com) — that Apple is expected to build its first three million Verizon-compatible CDMA iPhones in December. If true, this underscores rumors that Apple is eyeing an early 2011 launch for a Verizon-compatible CDMA iPhone.

Quoting “contacts in the company’s overseas supply chain,” Fidacaro adds that the device is on track for an early 2011 launch. The analyst puts total GSM and CDMA iPhone production for the quarter at between 21 and 22 million.

Sales of the iPhone passed one million within about nine months of its debut in South Korea, reports “Yonhap News” (http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/techscience/2010/09/19/8/0601000000AEN20100919001600320F.HTML). KT Corp., the local carrier for the iPhone, said that 1.02 million iPhones were activated as of Aug. 16.

Furthermore, KT says it expects iPhone sales to reach 1.2 million in early October. The company received 350,000 advanced orders for the iPhone 4, the latest model from Apple, which arrived in the country Sept. 10.