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Rumor: Verizon To Get Next-Gen iPhone By September

Swallow a mouthful of salt before you believe this one, but John Biggs over at Crunchgear is reporting a doozy of a rumor today: Verizon will be getting the fourth generation iPhone at the end of the summer.
According to Crunch's tipster, advertising firm Landor Associates is working on a branding campaign for Verizon for the [...:]

Apple Loses Another 4th Generation iPhone Prototype

Apple just can't seem to keep its hands on a prototype these days. Less than a month after Gizmodo released the first full teardown of the fourth generation iPhone, new teardown pictures of a different handset have been posted to Vietnamese forum Taoviet (link includes breakdown images, which are also mirrored at Apple Insider)










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Apple: iPhone OS Devices Still Dwarf Android Numbers Worldwide

The NPD claims that Android is outselling the iPhone and commands seven percent more of the US smartphone market than Apple, but now Cupertino, in a rare response, is saying "Not so fast."

"This is a very limited report on 150,000 U.S. consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than [...:]

50 Mac Essentials #6: GrandPerspective

So you're busy chugging away on your computer, downloading loads of video as you do, and suddenly there's a problem. Your computer says it's running out of disk space. WTF?
The sad truth is that as fast as hard disk capacity increases, we come up with new ways to fill up our hard disks with [...:]

Infographic: How The iPod Took The World By Storm

You know, even if you're a naysayer, you have to admit: Apple data makes for some of the most compelling infographics around, and this infographic from Mashable explaining the rise of Apple as the hegemon of the digital music industry is one of the best we've ever seen. Well, at least, one of the best [...:]

100 Tips #16: How To Get By Without The Start Menu

One thing a lot of Windows users miss is the Start Menu. How do you find your way around a Mac without a Start Menu to help?
If you stop to think about it, the Start button is a visual aide-memoire; you click on it to start the process of figuring out where to go next. [...:]

David Hockney Trades iPhone for iPad

Veteran pop artist David Hockney, who has been fingerpainting daily on his iPhone, has now started sketching on an iPad.
It seems he may be ready to ditch the phone for the digital sketch pad:
"The iPad is far more subtle, in fact it really is like a drawing pad. They will sell by the million," Hockney [...:]

Daily Deals: 8GB iPod touch, 24″ Cinema LED, App Store Price Drops

We start out with another deal on iPod touch – an 8GB iPod touch kit from Walmart. Also on tap are a 24-inch Cinema HD Widescreen LED display and the latest App Store price drops, including "Spike's Deadliest Warrior: Defend and Conquer" game.
As always, details on these and many other Mac-related bargains are available [...:]

A Year After Transplant, Steve Jobs is Back on Track

One year after his liver transplant, Steve Jobs is back to his old self. While he still struggles with low weight as a result of health issues, insiders and analysts say he's "invigorated,"  and "fully operational" partially as a result of the iPad launch.
"Except for the fact that he's lost a lot of weight, he's [...:]

Report: Mac Sales Rise 20 Percent on New MacBook Pros

The recent update of Apple's line of MacBook Pro computers will help the Cupertino, Calif. computer maker have its third consecutive 20 percent gain in quarterly Mac sales, an analyst told investors Tuesday.
"Mac momentum is strong, helped by a recent significant refresh of the MacBook Pro to new Intel Arrandale processors," Shaw Wu of [...:]