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Intel Announces New Mobile Core Processors For Ultrathin Laptops Like The MacBook Air

The MacBook Air is likely to get a speed boost soon, thanks to freshly shrinked versions of Intel's Core processors.
Today, Intel announced the expansion of their processor family with six new chips designed for ultraportable notebooks, promising to make MacBook Air sized notebooks thinner and lighter while yielding a 32% performance bump over the last [...:]

MONDAY GIVEAWAYS: iPad and iPhone Apps That Will Blow Your Mind

It's that time again for us to show our philantropy to our loyal readers and give back in the form of some sweet applications. Today, we've got some great iPad and iPhone apps to give out. This week, we'll be doing something a little different when it comes to giving out the app [...:]

Neal Stephenson to Bring His Metaverse To The App Store With "The Mongoliad"

When people first started playing with the iPad, a common comparison was to the interactive, tablet-like book (, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion) featured in best-selling author Neal Stephenson's steampunk sci-fi novel A Diamond Age, so it seems like a natural fit that Stephenson will soon be coming to iPad with an [...:]

Daily Deals: $300 iBook G4, $999 iMac, App Store Freebies

We start off another week with a deal on an iBook G4 machine running at 1.33Mhz for $300. Also on tap: a number of iMacs, starting with a 3.06GHz 22″ model for $999. We round out or top trio with the latest batch of App Store freebies, including "LightWriter – Photography Effects."
Along the way, we'll [...:]

Harbor Master for iPad Is Boatloads Of Fun [Review]

If you're a fan of Flight Control HD, you'll love Harbor Master HD for the iPad from Imangi Studios. It shares the same principles as Flight Control, although instead of planes you've got boats, which you must guide to their corresponding colored docks by drawing their route with your finger, ensuring the boats do not [...:]

Report: Sprint May Also Land iPhone

Along with speculation that Verizon may sell the new iPhone expected to be announced at next month's WWDC, comes rumors of the most tenuous nature that Sprint might also be part of Apple's widening use of American carriers. Adding the iPhone to its stable of cell phones would certainly boost Sprint's stature, but is it [...:]

Pic of the Day: Apple Love Seat Fanboy Furniture?

Not sure you'd have to be an Apple fan to buy this rattan love seat for your summer lollygagging, but it probably helps.
Spotted by Eirik Nilsen, it retails for about $1,500 (9,900 Norwegian Kroner).

AT&T Almost Doubling iPhone ETF Fees Ahead Of Rumored Verizon iPhone Launch

If rumors of a Verizon iPhone in September (or a Sprint iPhone later this summer) are true, AT&T is going to have a hard-time keeping iPhone customers on their network after their exclusivity is up. One great way of keeping subscribers would, of course, be to offer better rates and improve their service… but since [...:]

Behold the Little Black Cocktail iPad Dress

Holly Golightly probably wouldn't wear her iPad in a front pocket pouch, but in a pinch it may be better than a toting a bulky bag.
As much as we're crazy about the iPad, carrying it around is still kinda awkward — remember the condom case? — but an Australian company has come up with an [...:]

More Shots of White Fourth-Gen iPhone Leak

With Apple's factory leak in China seemingly spurting iPhones by the palletful into Vietnam and other south-east Asian countries, it's looking less and less likely that, hardware-wise, Jobs will have anything to surprise us with when he officially unveils the fourth-generation iPhone in four weeks. We know what it looks like, we know its hardware, [...:]