Apple news

If you’re a college student or a faculty or staff member at any grade level and you buy a new Mac with Apple education pricing from May 25 through September 7, 2010, you can get a free 8GB iPod touch.

Beginning Friday, May 28, at 8 a.m. (local time), customers can buy iPad at their favorite Apple Retail Store in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, or the UK and get free Personal Setup.

Students who download a free 30-day trial of Bento 3 for Mac by Filemaker also receive The Bento 3 Student Survival Kit, a set of ready-to-use templates for organizing lecture notes, group projects, special events, classes, and job searching.

Behind the scenes at Quintessa Winery in Napa Valley, California, iPhone is helping staff track vineyard data, craft elegant presentations, and bring the beauty of the estate to their customers.

Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from the Apple Online Store in all nine countries beginning Monday, May 10.

PCMag.com reviews the 27-inch iMac, calling it “an excellent multimedia-oriented all-in-one desktop” computer and making it the Editors’ Choice in its class.

Global IT consultancy Unisys provides critical security services to a select list of government agencies and multinational corporations. Now the company can deliver these leading-edge services with greater speed, reach, and flexibility than ever before, thanks to iPhone.

FileMaker, Inc. announced the latest FileMaker Business Productivity Kit, an easy way for businesses selling both goods and services to become more productive and tackle everyday business tasks. Optimized for FileMaker Pro 11, the new Business Productivity Kit offers ready-to-use templates for businesses that streamline a variety of operations.

Reporting on Apple’s announcement that it sold its one millionth iPad just 28 days after the product’s introduction, Jim Goldman (cnbc.com) notes: “iPad reached the sales milestone far quicker than the company’s iPhone, which took nearly three months to sell 1 million units.” Goldman concludes: “All of this data seems to bode well for Apple.”

In a statement today on Apple.com, Apple CEO Steve Jobs described the company’s position on Flash: “I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads.”