The “Australian” newspaper Web site details the on-going bankruptcy actions in connection with Apple reseller Buzzle. The company’s lawyers now intend to claim that Apple was effectively in control of the company, and contributed to its amassing a large amount of debt. Read the details in the story. [In the story, the term "stock" means [...]

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The La Cantera (Tex.) retail store will hold its grand opening this Friday at 10 a.m., the same day the mall itself opens.

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CNET’s Michelle Myers visited the San Francisco Apple store to sample the buzz on the iPod nano.

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Back in mid-August it appeared that the Yorkdale (Canada) store might be expanding into the former shoe store next door. Now a podiatric-tipster says, "Not so."

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The standard black plywood has appeared in front of the future Staten Island Mall (NY) store, at the entrance near the Sears store. Brian points out an amazing coincidence–next to the store facing the outside is the “Apple Bank for Savings.” Perhaps the two can cooperate.

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Thanks to David for making a wry observation about Apple’s grand opening T-shirts: They have the store name on the front, which is sometimes the name of a city. On the back near the neckline is “Designed by Apple in California.” He quips, “I can state categorically that Annapolis was not designed by Apple in [...]

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A new logo has appeared to promote live in-store events–but only on the Japan version of the retail Web page. Some new store photos have appeared in the retail Web page rotation (South Shore & Manhattan Village), although it may depend upon from where geographically you’re surfing.

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A network of tipsters points to construction work on the 2-story former Border’s Books store at 1727 Walnut St. in Philadelphia, which was identified here as a potential Apple store site 13 months ago. Now unpainted plywood has been erected and workers are busy with renovations. Tipsters have photos and other intelligence info. [Later, doubts [...]

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Quite obviously, any possibility for an Apple store in New Orleans or along the southern coast has been eliminated with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The previous demographic, economic or real estate reasons for not locating a store in New Orleans now seem pretty insignificant. Obviously it will be years before the region’s economy [...]

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A MacNewsWorld Web site story is mainly a collection of previous general information about Apple’s retail store initiative. In another article, the Web site notes that Microsoft is looking for some prime Manhattan real estate to open a showcase store. You’ll recall that Microsoft had such a store inside the Metreon shopping center in San [...]

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The Villager has an on-line story about Tekserve, a NYC-based Apple reseller. The article quotes a co-owner saying, "We don’t sell all Mac products. We evaluate them and reject the losers so you don’t have to."

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Another 8 stores are now listed as "Opening in 2004" on the back of individual store calendar brochures.

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