08:30 AAPL Apple Computer to roll-out iTunes movies and 'one more thing' - AppleInsider (68.38 )
AppleInsider reports Steve Jobs plans to summons the worldwide media to a special event this month in which he'll usher in a new chapter in the co's digital media strategy. Although the semi-official word out of Apple Americas is that invitations to the event have "not been sent" out, a seemingly inadvertent leak out of Apple Europe last week pinned the affair for Tuesday, September 12.
Jobs will have much to talk about during the event, sources familiar with the chief exec's plans have said, including new iMacs and a much-anticipated update to the iPod nano. But the real push, they say, will be tied to the big screen. After what has seemed like nearly two years of rampart speculation and unbridled enthusiasm on the part of its fans, Apple is ready to introduce its al la carte feature film download service as part of iTunes.
For some time now, published reports have insinuated that Apple and Jobs would be unwilling to launch a movie download service without a wide, touch-screen video iPod player to coincide. Jobs many months ago commissioned an elite group of Apple engineers to get the ball rolling on an intuitive hardware solution that would more closely tie the co's digital media strategy to the living-room. And so AppleInsider has been told, Apple has been quietly developing a video streaming device that will interface with an updated version of its iTunes jukebox software.
