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Apple announced today that it would adjust it's UK pricing to fall more inline with EU countries.

Apple in the UK justified the higher download prices because of the higher overall wholesale cost in the UK. Apple has stated that it "will reconsider its continuing relationship in the UK with any record label that does not lower its wholesale prices in the UK to the pan-European level within six months."

The change comes after European Union regulators had begun investigating iTunes pricing practices after complaints had been filed in 2004. The pricing move is intended to equalize the market across Europe.

A XML based iPhone trojan has been identified, the trojan which targets Jailbroken iPhones, as it requires the software exploit that allows 3rd party applications; to be installed, the file known as "Prep 113" installs perfectly and when launched just displays the words "Shoes" on the screen, upon uninstalling, the application removes several critical OS files from the /bin folder and hinders the iPhones usability.

This Trojan is said to have been created by an 11-yr old by editing an XML file, and as such is just evidence of why Jailbraking your iPhone isn't recommended.

Apple is said to be preparing iTunes 7.6 for release at Macworld on the 14th and 15th of January, this update to the media / music manager will add Movie Rental support, with movies being available from 20th Century Fox and Walt Disney Studios.

The movies are said to be time limited, in that they expire 24hrs after the time of purchase, and should retail for between $2 - $5 (£1.04 - £2.60 Approx').

Also some DVDs are beginning to ship with iPod / iPhone compatible copies one such DVD is Family Guy, as shown on Macrumors.com 

Apple today unveiled it's new Mac Pros and Xserves based on the new Intel Penryn core

The standard 8-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of $2,799 (US), includes:

• 2x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors with dual-independent 1600 MHz front side buses;
  
• 2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM memory, expandable up to 32GB;
  
• ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory;
  
• 320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
  
• 16x SuperDrive(TM) with double-layer support (DVD+/-R DL/DVD+/-RW/CD-RW);
  
• two PCI Express 2.0 slots and two PCI Express slots;
  
• Bluetooth 2.0+EDR; and
  
• ships with Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse.

Apple also revised the Xserve today with the same architecture. Xserve standard configuration, with a suggested retail price of $2,999 (US), includes:

• 64-bit 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processor with 12MB of L2 cache and a 1600 Mhz front side bus;
  
• 2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM RAM, expandable up to 32GB; -
  
• a single 80GB SATA Apple Drive Module;
  
• dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board; -
  
• internal graphics; -
  
• two FireWire(R) 800 and three USB 2.0 ports; and
  
• an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard.