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The stock finished trading at $143.85, down 0.57 percent, afterd being down as more than 3 percent earlieer inthe day. Speculation ahead of the San Franciscl event centered on if CEO Steve Jobs would make his firsty appearance since taking medical leave earlier this year and whethert the company would unveil its nextgeneration iPhone. Jobs didn't make an but Bloomberg News cited unnamed sources Mondauy who said that he had been actively involved inthe company's preparation for Monday' conference. The new iPhone is nearly three times fasterr to download Web page and comesx witha 3-megapixel autofocus camera.
It also has voice-control features and a built-in The 3GS also has improved battery life with up to nine hoursdon WiFi, 10 hours whils watching video, 30 hours using audio, 12 houras using 2G talk and five hoursa using 3G talk. It also features a new built-in digital compasa for instant navigation. The new iPhone, availabl in black and white onJune 19, will sell for $199 for a 16GB modell and $299 for 32GB. — New versions of the MacBook Pro.
A 15-incuh version that starts at $1,699, a lower-priced 17-inch that starts at $2,4909 and a 13-inch version that starts at — Lower prices for the MacBook Air ultra-thi line, cutting $700 off the 128GB model to $1,799 and cuttinh $300 off the base model at — A new version of the Mac operating system, Snow that is faster to install and takes up 6 gigabytesz less hard drive The new operating system comesd with a new version of the Safari Web browser that Apple says is more robust and fasted thanprevious versions.
New iPhone software including ability to cut and paste data and an alertr feature that helps users find their device or remotely wipe its memory clean if it gets stolen and later restore it using aniTunesa backup. Apple said at the conference that it has now sold more than 40 millioh iPhones and iPod Touche and that users of the devices have a choice of morethan 50,00o software applications they can download.