Here's the Apple news from the last few days. Steve Jobs is back at work after his 6 month leave of absence for medical reasons. Apple announced that it sold 1 million iPhone 3GS units in the first 3 days of the product release. The iPhone OS 3.0 was also downloaded by over 6 million customers. Memphis Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’ Liver Transplant (with Jobs’ Permission) (via Mac OS Ken). The jailbreaking ...

Apple released a press release saying that in the first 3 days of the release of Safari 4 they had 11 million downloads. 6 million of them were on Windows based machines. From Apple's press release: “Safari 4 is an incredible success on Mac and Windows with more than 11 million downloads in the first three days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari use ...

It appears that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has shown up at the company's Cupertino headquarters according to Italian news site setteB.IT. Sources within the company say Steve Jobs returned to the company briefly yesterday to attend a meeting with directors. No details about the meeting are known. Also Steve Wozniak said a few days go in the All Things D conference that Steve Jobs sounded healthy. He told a report ...

Orange France has announced that they have sold one million iPhones since the launch of the first generation iPhone in November 2007. To celebrate this, Orange is offering unlimited viewing via the Roland-Garros iPhone application to all customers with an iPhone plan or option Via iPhone Alley. ...

JD Power and Associates (a global marketing information services firm) released the results of their consumer smartphone survey. The results show the iPhone winning 5 of 6 categories, losing only in the battery category. The other 5 categories that the iPhone beat the competition in are: Overall Satisfaction, Physical Design, Ease of Operation, Features and Operating System. ...

In order to help communicate with the rest of the Apple community in Saudi Arabia we have created a Facebook page for SaudiMac. You can join by following this link. ...

Apple posted what they call the best non-holiday quarter in history. Reporting revenue of $8.16 billion and profits of $1.21 billion! Apple sold 3.79 million iPhones, 11 million iPods, 2.22 million Macs. "International sales accounted for 46 percent of the quarter’s revenue". Unfortunately no more details about International sales. You can listen to the 2009 Q2 conference call on Apple's website. Read more: ...

After nine months of the release of the iTunes App Store one billion apps has been downloaded. The one billionth app was Bump, a free contact information swapping app. The person who downloaded the billionth app (and won a few prizes from Apple) was a 13-year-old Connor Mulcahey. ...

According to Beszeljukmac (Hungarian Mac news website) "Apcom" will be the new Apple distributor and resellers will be re-qualified (to meet some demands). The Apple Hungary website apple.hu will be transfered to Apple Inc. Using Google Translate: [Almalap] In Hungary Apcom company under the name of Apple products will continue with its activities and will fit into the structure of Apple Inc. distribution. ...

On Wednesday Apple introduced the new iPod shuffle. It is available at 4GB and cost $79 (300SR) and very small (45mm x 17mm x 7.8mm). It features a VoiceOver interface that announces the song's name and spoken menus. It is available in black and silver and available now on the Apple online store. Apple's press release. ...