First Macworld banners spotted at Moscone

Just when you thought there wasn't anything more we could bring you about Macworld in advance of the show, it turns out that there's another fact-let for your wandering Mac-minds to compute. Ars Technica has published the first photos from the Moscone Center setup work-in-progress. Caught in the sneaky snaps is a banner simply reading "2008. There's something in the air." -- admittedly not at all revealing.

Perhaps Steve's levitating office chair, or floating Jobs-pod is being revealed. Or maybe we made those two things up. Either way, we've already posted our predictions for Macworld so we'll let you get back to whatever you may, or may not, be doing to shut out the impending keynote until next week.

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Source: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/01/11/macworl…

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grinder

Probably over the air download capabilities via FLASH for movies, etc.. ON2 (the current provider of FLASH 9 codec) demonstrated this app on a Nokia phone a year or so ago- we'll see......extends battery life by some 70% (less intensive processing and much less CPU usage) lower bandwidth, yada yada........

January 13 2008 at 1:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Unregistered

What if...

you could access iTunes Music Store on all Virgin flights? you cld rent your own Fox movie too!

January 13 2008 at 5:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

New "Airport Extreme RDF models" with Reality Distortion Field built right in. No need to go to the Stevenote.

January 12 2008 at 5:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Timothy Post

My prediction is that "There's Something in the Air" refers to Adobe's AIR platform and that Apple will announce their acquisition of Adobe at Macworld.

The Adobe AIR platform will be the method by which Apple can "license" its programs to Windows users without having to mess around with other hardware manufacturers.

Windows users will be able to use AIR versions of Apple programs like iPhoto, Mail, Address Book, etc. directly through the net.

This announcement will also be supplimented by another announcement that Apple will leave Akamai and go with Google for their storage needs. People using AIR will store their data online.

January 12 2008 at 3:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

speedfreak

Something in the air? Like a 3G iPhone? Last I checked, 3G signals travel over the air.

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T.S. Melo

To this moment, the most insightful guess I read was the one by BabyFaceMagee at http://www.macuser.com/events/apple_fuels_the_hype_first_mac.php

Amazing technology and the timing is perfect... Very Apple-like solution...

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Sam Williams

This is about climate change... Steve commits Apple to becoming the world's first carbon-neutral computer company by 2009. Special appearance by Al Gore.

January 12 2008 at 7:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Robert

Jan 2005: "Life is Random"
Product: iPod shuffle (yawn)

Jan 2006: What's the intel chip doing in a Mac? A whole lot more than it ever did in a PC
Product: Intel machines show up early

Jan 2007: "The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007."
Product: iPhone

Jan 2008: "There's something in the air"
Product: ???

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Murray Stevens

Where are all the Beatles rumours this time around?

January 11 2008 at 9:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh

3G iPhone. tho we all know that is coming in '08 already.

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