News Roundup for November the 7th

It looks like we’re into the slow part of the news cycle now. In fact, after Apple told us their holiday line-up is now complete, even the wrongheaded speculation seems to have died down. Sure, a change may be coming, but not to the iMac any time soon. Frankly, your best bet is to hop over to the latest page of our Apple-themed comic iTeam.

Muscling in on our territory, the single blogger allowed in Cupertino — ‘MobileMe’ — has posted again. This time he’s explaining what IMAP is. Wow. You know there’s no news around when even the guy on the inside can’t think of anything interesting to write about.

AT&T — which I think is American for BT — has confirmed that tethering is coming to the iPhone. This is good news for iPhone owners, particularly those who also own an iMac or new MacBook Pro with flaky WiFI. It also gives them another reason to be insufferably smug. They can already tell anyone who’ll listen that Apple is the world’s no.2 smartphone vendor, and that the iPhone tops a JD Power survey of business phone users. And it looks like over-the-air podcast downloading in OS 2.2 is definitely going to happen. So pity the poor South Koreans, who won’t be getting theirs until next year.

Elsewhere, Mac Rumours has stepped outside its mandate by reporting the fact that the new MacBook Air brings improved low-power movie playback. Somebody throw these guys a bone. Make something up. The new Mac Pros will have 32 cores. The new Mac Mini will include a fondue bowl. When AT&T say that tethering will be available for the iPhone they’re talking about the helium-filled 4G model. Anything.

And One World Computing has announced some RAM upgrade kits for the new MacBooks. Really? That’s what passes for news at the moment? Right, I’m off to see if psystareclectic.com is taken. At least those guys are interesting.