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Hope you all had a good two weeks, we definitely did! We shall be back to reporting from tomorrow and we told you nothing major would happen!

We’re taking a break for around 2 weeks from NOW. There will be limited (if any) news and rumor posting during this time. We don’t expect much to happen whilst we’re away anyway - August will be the month to look out for. Take care!

Update: We’re back! Sorry it was a few days more than 2 weeks. We needed a few more days to top up our tans. Did any of you go away anywhere exciting?

So this took ages to finalize but CUPS today announced they have been purchased by Apple. Apple has also hired CUPS author Michael Sweet to continue work.

In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS. CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.

Apple just released some little update to fix some little bug in iTunes and then big update for QuickTime bringing full-screen functionality without having to have a Pro license.

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple’s upcoming iMac revamp will come with snazzy new keyboards similar to the MacBooks. They say:

Tapping the wizardry of industrial design chief Jonathan Ive and his team, the Cupertino-based Mac maker has reportedly crafted a super-slim external keyboard for the new Macs. It’s said to draw upon the aesthetic and feel of the low-profile keyboard which was first integrated with the company’s 13-inch MacBook portables in May of 2006.

The Guardian is reporting that Vodafone has dropped out of negotiations with Apple over the iPhone because of “extortionate revenue share demands”.

Apple is understood to be demanding that its European mobile phone partners hand over a significant proportion of revenues generated by the iPhone and restrict the content that users can access.

The iPhone is expected to reach European shores by Christmas time and is rumored to be 3G capable. Other networks rumored to be carrying the iPhone include T-Mobile in Germany, Claro in Italy and O2 in the UK.

ThinkSecret is reporting that they believe Apple will launch their longly awaited new generation of iMacs this August. They describe the new iMacs as:

The iMac, based on similar internals as the recent MacBook Pro, will sport a brushed aluminum enclosure and will measure just 2″ thick.

Wall Mossberg answered some visitor questions and said this on Flash support:

At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple of months.

Yes, we’re sick of it. Hence why we haven’t been posting anything for the past few days - everything’s been on the iPhone! Can we have some new rumors and news please? We might as well mention this nugget of info though:

Each iPhone gives Apple $320 in profit and they sold around 500,000 last weekend. So that equals around $160,000,000 profits in 3 days.