Jobs will do the WWDC Keynote: Apple has just announced a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10am. on Monday, 9 June, 2008 at San Francisco’s Moscone West convention centre.

This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations of OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system.

The five-day WWDC event (9 June to 13 June), will feature the first ever iPhone track for mobile developers with in-depth sessions and hands-on labs to fully explore the capabilities of the OS X iPhone 2.0 software, including the iPhone SDK and the App Store, a breakthrough way for developers to wirelessly deliver their applications to iPhone and iPod touch users.

Visit Apple’s WWDC website for registration and complete session details here. Members of the media and industry analysts are invited to attend the keynote presentation and can register by contacting Simon Pope.

Microsoft Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2008 for Mac: designed to add stability, security, and performance enhancements to the Office:Mac suite, the update features suite-wide fixes, as well as improvements to the individual applications.

Office 2008 was launched at this year’s Macworld Expo in San Franciso, and sales for the productivity suite continue to soar, selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years.

The service pack should improve performance when you type text into a text box, shape, or chart element. A more-intelligent Remove Office tool will no longer search for copies of Office in a Time Machine backup, and another fix provides for proper layer positioning with inserted PSD files.

Office 2004 applications could quit unexpectedly when users tried to copy content into them from Office 2008 programs; Service Pack 1 fixes this bug. Most suite items have had fixes to printing.

Microsoft Office Excel now has improved compatibility with files exchanged between Excel 2008 for Mac and Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 for Windows and the formatting option on the Error Bars panel for data series has been restored.

Microsoft Office Word gets improved accuracy when orienting tables with cell shading, improved reliability and responsiveness to select items, updated formatting and recording status and a variety of new display options in Notebook View.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint gets mobile viewing with the ability to view Mac .PPTX files on Windows Mobile phones and the ability to use the PowerPoint selection object in AppleScript to implement custom scripts that operate on the current selection in PowerPoint.

Microsoft Entourage gets significant enhancements to improve calendar view and all-day reminders with reoccurrence, overall improvement to synchronisation support in Exchange Server and support for editing the contents of Exchange Server messages via AppleScript and synchronising the changes to the server. There’s also the ability to send and view images in Entourage from third-party tools.

Read more at Macworld. Office 2008 SP1 is available as a 180MB (!) download from Microsoft's Web site (scroll down to make sure you get the 2008 update, not the 2004 one) or via Microsoft Auto Update.

Checkout sales software speeds up: MYOB US has announced the release of Checkout 2.1, an update to its point of sale software for Mac OS X. A free update for registered users, Checkout costs US $399.

Intel’s Chinese plant back online after quake: Intel's test and assembly plant in Chengdu remained off-line on Tuesday, as the region in south-western China reeled from the effects of a devastating earthquake that struck on Monday afternoon.

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