Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off of the long-awaited and highly anticipated Apple tablet today at the "Come See Our Latest Creation" media event.  The Multi-Touch device named the 'iPad', has a starting price of $499 and features a custom 1GHZ "Apple A4" processor, a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 color display, and 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB flash capacities.  The iPad weighs just 1.5 pounds and measures 0.5 inches thin.

Apple has released an update to Boot Camp that takes the utility to version 3.1.  The new release not only adds support for the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system but also addresses issues with the Boot Camp software.

On Tuesday January 19, Apple released the first security update for 2010 labeled, "Security Update 2010-001" for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard. The update addresses security issues with CoreAudio, CUPS, Flash Player plug-in, ImageIO, Image RAW, and OpenSSL.  Users can apply the update with Software Update or download the installers listed below.

Sites including Engadget and Arstechnica indicate that Apple has sent out invitations for a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco scheduled for 10:00 AM Pacific Time on January 27th.  Below the invite graphic the tag line reads "Come see our latest creation."

As we enter a new calendar year why not start off with a post that focuses on the Mac for the upcoming year?  Apple's Macintosh (Mac) line of computers have experienced phenomenal growth over the past several years and this trend is likely to accelerate in 2010.

In its December 13, 2009 review of Apple's latest iteration of the iMac desktop, Ars Technica states, "It has been just over two years since Apple last revamped the iMac's design, and the refinements are largely worth it."  

AdweekMedia, in their "Best of the 2000s" advertising awards, gave Apple top marks in six categories including "Brand of the Decade", "Marketer of the Decade", "Campaign of the Decade", and "Product of the Decade".

A CNet article on December 4, 2009 highlights a NPD Group report which details that Apple's Macintosh computers grabbed the top spot in both the desktop and notebook categories.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in a blog post on Fortune, highlights interesting Apple Mac growth analysis put forth by Charles Wolf, a Needham & Co.'s senior analyst.  The analysis explains how Apple's recent Mac growth was seven times the growth rate of the overall PC market.

Not to be outdone by their VMware counterpart (who released Fusion 3), Parallels has also released a new version of their Mac virtualization program, Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac.  The update includes over 70 new features and significant performance improvements.