Apple [AAPL] today is expected to introduce its super-fast, voice-savvy,revolutionary fifth-generation iPhone. The company is also expected to unleash the file-sharing amnesty-like services of iCloud and iTunes Match – on a day which ironically also marks the tenth anniversary of the founding world’s first legal P2P music-sharing service, Wippit.

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Since its introduction in 2001, Apple’s [AAPL] iTunes Store has led the business, eventually becoming the world’s biggest music store. For a decade, the service has seen no great threat, but if the rumors from Facebook’s f8 conference have weight, the social network may give the iTunes hegemony its biggest scare yet.

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Get set for your next upgrade, because the iPhone 5 (range?) is set to reveal itself next month on October 4, All Things Digital claims today, at last ending months of speculation. The date makes sense because it is one of those time-honored “Apple Tuesdays“.

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Those Apple [AAPL] iPhone 5/4S images are appearing everywhere as we enter the final days of the long wait for the new product(s), but what of the iPad 3, can we really expect that device this year?

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The iPad invasion has devoured the netbook business and driven the PC industry into the ground, so expect a price war this Christmas as PC manufacturers, led by Acer [ACER INC] and Lenovo [LNVGY], struggle to woo new customers with a PC price war. But, with a reputation as a top-tier computer maker which does not compete on price, can Apple’s [AAPL] Mac sales survive the onslaught of the PC price cuts?

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Just a short note rather than a full-fledged post, but PocketGamer is claiming the iPhone 5 launch event’s gearing up to take place on October 5 (?) **This is a Wednesday, rather than Apple’s favorite launch day, Tuesday**, with shipping of the new stuff set for (about) a week later. Expect a press conference and everything, and, of course, this is all broadly in line with the mulitude of rumors and leaks which now point to mid-late October shipping. With two models, including the low cost device, this is shaping up to be an iPhone Christmas by the looks of things.

What can you expect? Faster, slimmer, lighter, iOS 5, A5, 8MP camera, HD video, Smartcovers, and more. The big discussions will be on NFC and/or LTE. The latter I think makes no sense right now, the former, well, I remain convinced there’s an iPhone wallet plan, but NFC may not yet be part of it…

The Internet. Cloud-based computing. The PC. The Apple [AAPL] mobile vision. iPads and iPhones. These technologies are transforming relationships at a rapid rate. Sometimes it’s nice to slip into something historical and evocative, so here’s some solutions to steampunk your Apple kit.

First I came across the Old Time Computer iMac covers. This transforms your Apple desktop into an object that doesn’t just look like it came from another world with better designers, but another world entirely, via some wormhole in the space-time continuum.

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See this Steampunk in action at The Eugene Mac Store! Compromised of a 1980′s Macintosh computer and an 1897 Standard Model 7 Remington Typewriter, this mix-media assemblage made by Steve La Riccia is fully functional!

Apple is now selling more than one iPad every second, every minute, of every day. (An estimated 1.22 iPads per second, in fact). No one else in the space comes close, nor, in the current comptitive component supply chain fandango, is it possible to.

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Apple [AAPL] introduced Final Cut Pro X last week to a huge response — the majority of which exceedingly negative. Video pros were furious at key features missing from the software, dubbing the release ‘iMovie Pro‘. Now Apple has published a statement promising those missing features aren’t missing at all, but on the way — eventually.

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The ex-Apple [AAPL] employee network continues to extend its reach. Most recently, Apple’s iCloud product manager, John Herbold, quit Cupertino to create digital products designed to boost health. What kind of apps might he help create? READ MORE

Get set for an Apple [AAPL] revenue revolution in China, as the country goes insane for the company’s solutions while COO Tim Cook tours the state to seal the iPhone 5 on China Mobile deal. Where iPhone goes, iPads and Macs follow, and this is the beginnings of a new growth story.

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Tell your IT department the old days when they could say Apple [AAPL] products are too hard to support on your corporate network are gone. Apple continues to explode across the enterprise — and there’s a rapidly growing list of enterprise class management and secure environment tools designed to make deployment of any Apple product easy, affordable and secure.

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iPhone 5 is scheduled to show itself in September, just in time for the introduction of iOS 5. As described, the device matches up nicely with all the previous claims as to its specifics: an 8-megapixel camera alongside the A5 processor, which as we know from iPad 2 product marketing runs “twice as fast” as the A4 chip used inside iPhone 4 and iPad 1.

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Apple [AAPL] video expert, Randy Ubillos has struck again, with the introduction of true 64-bit pro-video editing super-hero, Final Cut Pro X, introducing important changes in the way the software handles, ingests, encodes and manages video production workflow. And its available only via the Mac App Store.

“The first time I saw Final Cut Pro X, back in February, this quote from the title of Stephen Ambrose’s book on the transcontinental railroad flashed into my head,” said video expert, Larry King. “Just as the transcontinental railroad permanently changed 19th century America — in a wide variety of ways — Final Cut Pro X has the same capability.”

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There’s a market segment that’s desperately needing a little slice of Apple [AAPL] product marketing magic, and it’s 3DTV. Introduced with much brouhaha as a ‘must-have’ killer new feature, the technology has rapidly been relegated to just another spec, consumers like it, don’t love it. Does Apple have an iPad plan to make the technology interesting?

Glastonbury Festival is an international institution, and if you’re lucky enough to get a ticket then get on down — there’s no event next year as the fields get a well-earned rest….making the best of such a large-scale event can be a challenge, so perhaps Orange’s newly-available Glastonbury app will help you through.

Orange in association with the Guardian Guide have created the official app for  for iPhone, Android and Nokia which is available for free.

There’s some cool features, I particularly like the as it happens line-up upates and interactive map. There’s also some social networking integration, but I still see a long way to go before that becomes what it can be.

Feature as per Orange:

Schedule and programmable ‘My Planner’ in association with the Guardian Guide allowing the user to customise their own line up for the weekend.

Interactive map with one click ‘now and next’ listings for stages and ‘mood map’. 

News section featuring up to date content from Glastonbury Festival and The Guardian including direct updates from the festival over the weekend

Ability to share line-ups via Facebook before and during the festival

Clicking on individual stages will bring up acts playing now and next; clicking on a band currently playing will offer the option to share to Facebook and clicking on a variety of on-site locations will enable you to share how you’re feeling and be a part of a real time ‘mood map’.

Apple’s music cloud looks a lot finer than Amazon or Google’s attempts, and comes with two added extras: track bit rates will be improved, and there’s a chance the labels may get a little cash back from file-sharers — but who owns your data in the cloud?

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