Metric Halo has officially released Version 2.1 of the Mobile I/O operating system with updates to the firmware, driver, and MIO Console. This new version has been in general release for just over a month, and we are pleased to report that there are no general incompatibilities, and Version 2 is qualified for use with Mac OS X 10.2.6 onward, including support for Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger

French newspaper "Le Figaro" announces without doubt that Apple and Motorola will announce Tuesday iPhone, a mobile phone and mp3 player based on E398 mobile phone by Motorola. The iPhone will have the same white color of first iPod, and will come with a special version of iTunes software. iPhone will contain 100 songs on a 512 Mb Transflash memory card. A future iPhone model will come with a 1 Gb hard disc. iPhone will be available on July 4th, according to "Le Figaro".

More, Apple has asked media to be present for major announcements at a special press event on July 7th.

Version 1.3 of Receptor is now available. This update contains numerous new features, fixes, and improvements, including support for multiple outputs, new key command, MIDI CC display for plugins, and additional plugin support (Minimonsta, Oddity, Stylus RMX,...).

Wormhole has moved from ApulSoft Plasq, and has been updated to version 2.0, simpler and optimized. Wormhole2 allows for routing of audio between computers on a network allowing you to make use of all the processing power in your studio. This new version features : reduced latency and CPU use, new intuitive and informative user interface, auto latency compensation for round-trip connections, multiple channels can be "sample-locked", no more config application - it auto configures, and auto-negotiates connections.

Wormhole2 (VST, AU) costs US$49.95 and demo versions are available.

The Jack OS X team announces the release of a new version 0.7 of Jack OS X, a Mac OS X implementation of the Jack Audio Connection Kit (Jack). Jack is a low-latency audio server, that connects any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other. Jack also includes both AU and VST plugins, as well as the ability to send and receive low-latency audio over a network.

Jack OS X continues to be free and open source!