A small Macintosh software developer has renamed an application it had been calling iWork, lending credence to rumors that Apple plans to introduce office software of the same name.
IGG Software, which has marketed a time-billing application as iWork, has changed the program"s name to iBiz. The change, which is reflected on the company"s Web site, follows reports on rumor sites that Apple plans to offer its own suite of word processing and presentation software.
Enthusiast site ThinkSecret reported last week that a product from Apple called iWork would include an updated version of Apple"s presentation software, Keynote, and a new word processing program, which the site says will be called Pages. The site predicted Apple would unveil the product at next week"s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Such a program would be an interesting move for Apple, which has for years kept its office software ambitions limited, counting instead on Microsoft to produce a Mac version of Microsoft Office.