We're now just a few short days away from getting our hands on Apple's latest smartphone, and iPhone 4S hysteria is reaching fever pitch!
Minutes after Apple released iTunes 10.5 to the paying (well, it's free, but you get the idea) public, they have now gone out and released a completely new beta to developers. That's right, iTunes 10.5.1 Beta 1 is in the wild folks, and it's all iCloud-tastic.
As is always the case with an influx of new updates, Apple has updated iTunes to 10.5 in preparation for iOS 5, iCloud, and the new iPhone and iPod touch devices, all of which are being released this week.
It appears that the iPhone 4S has already started shipping out, as one lucky bloke in Germany has already received his pre-ordered unit.
Unless you have been living under a rock, without an internet connection or cellular signal, then you should by now know that the most influential man in modern personal computing history passed away a few days ago. His death certificate has officially been released by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department in San Jose, California. See details after the jump.
With iOS 5 set to be released this week, the focus is now firmly drawn towards the when, if, and how of an untethered jailbreak.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has shared an emotional e-mail amongst Apple employees which not only tells of how he has dealt with a turbulent week, (to put it mildly), but also invites company employees to a private celebration of Steve Jobs' life, scheduled for the 19th October.
Word on the Internet super-highway is that Apple neglected to raise the amount of memory in the upcoming iPhone 4S. What that means is, the visually-untouched, internally updated iPhone 4S will only come with 512MB of memory.
Most Successful iPhone Launch Ever: iPhone 4S Was Pre-Ordered Over a Million Times In First 24 Hours
According to a press release posted just a few minutes ago, the iPhone 4S is Apple’s most successful iPhone launch ever as over 1,000,000 units of the upcoming smartphone were pre-ordered in the first 24 hours alone.
Apple has filed a patent for in-app purchases that, if granted, could be used against competitors like Google and Microsoft, Redmond Pie has learned.

