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Jobs to Deliver WWDC Keynote

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote address at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference June 7 in San Francisco. The announcement by the Cupertino, Calif. company unleashed further speculation Jobs will unveil a new version of Apple's iPhone. At the 2009 WWDC, Apple introduced the iPhone 3GS.
The consumer electronics giant noted the 2010 WWDC [...:]

Worstphoneever.com Tabulates iPhone User Data To Be Used In Class-Action Lawsuit

Dismayed enough by AT&T's woeful service that you're considering hiring a shyster? The Worstphoneever website offers up a helpful class-action lawsuit generator against AT&T that uses your actual call drop data to tell just such a shyster just how bad (and actionable) your service actually is, and help him sue Ma Bell on everyone's behalf.
The [...:]

Morgan Stanley Increases Apple Stock Target to $310

Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty Monday morning raised her target price on Apple to $310 a share, up from $275, and also increased her prediction for iPhone sales in 2011 to 61.5 million device, a 25 percent premium on Wall Street consensus.
Huberty told investors her more bullish predictions are based on the following insights: [...:]

How to Jailbreak your iPad [How To]

The iPad is all the rage right now. You see the ads on the back of almost every major US magazine. Every tech blog has some sort of story on the iPad at any given time. Yes, the iPad is good. But you haven't seen the full potential of the iPad hardware until you jailbreak [...:]

Relive 5 Years of "Get A Mac" in Five Minutes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8OKFle2gGk
Having long hated Apple's Get a Mac campaign, I was surprised to find myself getting sentimental as I watched this three-minute tribute to the whole Mac vs. PC saga, as put together by OneMoreThing. Minimize Justin Long's lugubrious smarm and what you're left with is the core strength of the campaign anyway: John Hodgman's consistently [...:]

Cadence Finally Makes it Easy to Get Started

As you might recall, I reviewed Cadence for iPhone several months ago. I found it a useful app and a fun way to browse your music collection by tempo, not title. It did, however, have a near-killer flaw: a setup process that consumed hours as it added (with lots of errors) tempo data to the [...:]

Two Cool Ways To Carry Your iPad By Urban Tool [Review]

I have been enamored with Urban Tool ever since I stumbled upon their booth at Macworld. The Austrian company sells a range of super-hip gadget bags, slings and holsters that are as unique as they are hip. Their bags have a modern and sleek look to them.
The company recently released a pair of carriers just [...:]

Free Movies On The iPad, But Without The Terror-Inducing On-Demand Slant

Raise your hand if, like me, you think iPad apps like Netflix are far too blithe about letting users indulge their every movie-viewing whim, allowing access to videos whenever they damn-well please.
Put your hands down. You're not like me at all. But I know there are movie purists out there for whom cinema is an [...:]

FTW! Hippo Remote Pro Adds A Game Controller

We've raved about Hippo Remote Pro so enthusiastically, one would think it were made of gold-pressed latinum; that's because it's probably one of the (if not the) best soft-remote app currently available for the iPhone.
And now it's better: Its developers have added a heavily customizable gamepad function — cool for watching the life being sucked [...:]

Daily Deals: App Store Freebies, JetBall for iPhone, iWork or iLife for $41

We close out the week with a trio of software deals. A new crop of App Store freebies were released, including "Message in a Bottle Pro," a random messaging application. Also on tap is the iPhone/iPod touch game "JetBall," a brick breaker. Finally, whether you want to work or just handle life's daily tasks, there [...:]