Apple’s store websites have jumped the gun on Apple’s announcement, posting images and an October 14th release date. The Japanese site has posted the release date on its site and there have also been images leaked that show an ‘iPhone 4’-like device with iOS 5 running on it. Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam. Meet with the leaders of Picnic, Miro, Carbon Equity and more during this exclusive event dedicated to Scaleup Founders!...

Details of a secretive Apple meeting with retail store staff on Sunday have begun to leak, indicating that Apple intends to launch a new business support plan on March 2, the day of the Apple event that is likely to unveil the iPad 2. Rumors of asecret Apple retail meeting were coveredby TNW last week, with most assuming the topic of the meeting would be the new iPad. According to AppleInsider, the name of the service will be Joint Venture, and will cost around $500 a year....

Apple threw open the doors ofits store in Shanghaion Friday, welcoming Chinese customers and fans to its largest retail outlet in the country, according toa report by M.I.C. Gadget. Situated onNanjing Street in Shanghai, the five-story building houses 300 employees and can serve over 40,000 customers on a good day. As with the launch of every Apple Store, there were enthusiastic Apple employees welcoming perhaps even more overjoyed customers as they came to celebrate the launch of the store, which was on a grander scale than most other launches....

Prominent leaker Marc Gurman is at it again with another Apple rumor. This time around he’s corroborating earlier reports of a new Mac Mini with a few more details: it’ll come with more ports, a new design, and the M1X processor. And it’s coming “in the next several months.” The information comes fromGurman’s Power On newsletter; here’s the relevant quote in full: The Mac mini is used for more basic tasks like video streaming, but many people use it as a software development machine, as a server or for their video editing needs....

Apple is celebrating a birthday today, the tenth birthday of its popular Mac OS X desktop operating system. Launching onMarch 24 2001, Mac OS X v10.0 (codenamed Cheetah), was the first Apple operating system based on the UNIX platform but also the first to bear the “big cat” naming convention that we know and love today. Mac OS X, the tenth major version of Apple’s operating system (hence the “X”), evolved from Apple’s traditional Macintosh platform, answering calls for the Cupertino-based company to create a next-generation operating system....