Music from The Beatles could be incorporated into a video game before it ever appears on iTunes.

Representatives of the band's back catalogue have reportedly had meetings with Activision and MTV Games about creating a title similar to the respective company's Guitar Hero or Rock Band franchises.

The Financial Times reports that the surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, remain cautious about issuing their albums on new platforms. They have still not allowed Apple to sell their music through its online iTunes store.

A new series of malware threats have emerged which attach to the Mac operating system.

Security firm Intego has discovered two new Trojan applications and a remote code execution vulnerability, reports vnunet.com.

The firm has identified a new threat which is found to pose as a poker game, which steals user names and passwords off the Mac and uploads them to a remote server.

Intego claims that the attackers would then "have the ability to remotely access and control the system".

Apple has revealed that iTunes is now the world's most popular online movie store, with customers renting or purchasing over 50,000 movies every day.

It follows the news earlier this year that data from market research firm NPD's Music Watch survey found that iTunes became the largest music retailer in the US during January and February 2008.

Apple has also announced that over five billion songs have now been downloaded from its iTunes store.

The new version of Apple's Mac operating system has been previewed to developers.

OS X Snow Leopard is designed to work with multi-core processors and utilizes the power of modern graphic processing units (GPUs), according to the company.

The operating system has been designed to enable enhanced support for all forms of modern hardware using open computer language.

Apple claims this allows applications to utilize the computing power of GPUs which had been previously reserved for graphics applications.

Apple has officially launched the new iPhone 3G after weeks of speculation.

The company says that the new device is a combination of the existing iPhone and the networking powers of 3G, which it claims is "twice as fast at half the price ".

Apple announced that the new iPhone will be priced at $199 for the 8GB model, with the 16GB version available for $299.

The new software integrated into the iPhone 3G will provide users with faster access to the internet via quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA, according to the company.

Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, said: "iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, runs the incredible third party apps created with the iPhone SDK, and will be available in more than 70 countries around the world this year."

Apple also announced that over 250,000 developers have downloaded its iPhone Software Development Kit since its launch at the beginning of March.

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Apple is expected to announce the arrival of the new iPhone at its developer conference.

The company's chief executive, Steve Jobs, is likely to reveal the product at the exhibition in San Francisco which runs from June 9th-13th, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The newspaper reports that industry analysts believe that the future of the company may depend on the success of the new device.

How successful the new iPhone is could depend on the price upon release, with rumors circulating that Apple may cut the price to improve sales.

Apple has announced that major films titles are now available for iTunes users in Canada and the UK.

The company has signed deals with major Hollywood film studios including 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney and Universal to allow iTunes customers to buy or rent their films through its store.

Apple's iTunes movie rental service downloads the film from the online store and gives the customers 30 days to start watching it. Once the movie has started to be played the renter has 48 hours to view it before it is automatically erased.

Apple is rumored to be considering powering the iPod using solar energy.

Website MacRumors has revealed a recent patent application. It claims that the company is planning to use solar power cells in its handheld devices.

The solar panels are believed to be placed behind the LCD screen of the iPod, which would "absorb ambient light that passes through the screen of the device".

An entire iPod will be hard to power completely by solar energy due to the "wasting" of space and "limited area" that is available for the panels.