Briefly: Apple event at Photokina
updated 11:50 am EDT, Thu September 14, 2006
New Apple special event
In brief: Apple has indicated that it will host a special event on September 25th, one day prior to the start of Germany's Photokina event via an invitation with the phrase "Start photokina a little early this year".... Apple has filed for a "Method and apparatus for filtering email" patent application, which is noted as a continuation application of co-pending U.S. patent application No. 09/881,986, which was filed in June of 2001.... Virgin Atlantic is the third airline to ban passengers from using Apple and Dell laptop batteries on its flights, asking those users to remove the battery from their notebook.... The Iconfactory today released a new family of icons dubbed "Renaissance," bringing the number of unique styles of icons to 19.... Apple has set end-of-life prices for its remaining stocks of older (pre-Showtime) iPods.... PC Magazine has posted a list of steps to take should users encounter a "white screen of death" when downloading video clips onto a video iPod, a problem that has reportedly appeared in various forums around the internet. [corrected]






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Apple's even is the 25th, not the 24th.