By Graham K. Rogers

With a couple of hours to go before the keynote presentation at this year's WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, the appearance of the multi-language, "We'll be back," sticker on the online Apple stores, does suggest that there may be some new hardware after all.

Of course, it may just be a coincidental reorganisation. . . .

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.