Apple expected to unveil mobile software

Apple chief executive Tim Cook is expected to show off new iPhone software, updated Mac computers and provide more details on future releases of Mac software when he kicks off the company's annual conference for software developers Monday.

The announcement of new software for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has been confirmed by banners that appeared at the Moscone conference center in San Francisco on Friday, reading "iOS 6." Apple has used its Worldwide Developers Conference to announce new iPhone software for the past few years.

What's not known is what new features will come with iOS 6. Usually, the new software becomes available for download around the time a new iPhone model appears. Apple-watchers expect the next version of the iPhone, the iPhone 5, to appear this fall, about a year after the launch of the 4S model.

Cook is expected to announce new Mac models, which haven't had a major update in a year.

The biggest mystery surrounds Apple's ambitions in television-making. Late company founder Steve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that he wanted to remake the TV. While there's much speculation that Apple plans to make a full-blown TV set, integrated with iTunes, few company watchers expect Apple to reveal such a set at the conference. -- AP