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Apple Passes Motorola As Highest Selling Phone Maker in the United States

I'm surprised that they were still a contender, but according to Forbes, Apple has just reached a milestone: they've just passed Motorola as the largest phone maker in the United States.

According to Forbes, Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones in the first quarter of 2010, compared to Motorola's 8.5 million across all devices.
In the grand scheme [...:]

Publishers Test What Prices iPad Market Will Bear

How much would you pay for your favorite print magazine to appear on the iPad? That's the question some magazine publishers are asking themselves, including the makers of Popular Science. Pop Science is charging $4.99 per iPad issue, or nearly half the price for an entire year's subscription to their traditional format. What's been the [...:]

Apple Trademarks Its iPhone OS App Icons

Cupertino's already got a history of stepping down on app developers who use Apple's own app icons in their software, so clearly they are protective of their assets, but now words comes that Apple has filed trademark motions on a number of its official app icons.
None of them are new, so there's no forthcoming [...:]

This is China's Next iPhone, the iPhome 4G

You are looking at China's next iPhome. It was found lost in an electronics shop in Beijing, camouflaged to look like the real iPhone 4G. We got it. We disassembled it. It's totally fake, and here are all the details.

Like the fourth generation iPhone's industrial form factor, but either uninterested in signing a two year [...:]

Dev Team: iPad, iPhone 3Gs, iPod Touch 3G Jailbreak To Be Available Soon After iPad 3G Launch

Although individuals have already demonstrated working hacks of Apple's iPad, it seems like it's taking them forever to actually release a working jailbreak… and if you're an iPod Touch owner, it seems like it's been even longer since the first working, untethered 3.1.3 jailbreak was demonstrated, only to never be released.
It looks now like everyone [...:]

Apple-acquired Lala Will Shutdown on May 31st, Offer iTunes Credit For All Purchases One Week Before WWDC

When Apple acquired music streaming service Lala year, almost everyone assumed that iTunes' tenth iteration would find Apple's music syncing software re-envisioned as a service which allowed users to stream their tunes from anywhere without actually having their musics locally stored.
That's still a safe bet , especially as Apple phases out their older iPod [...:]

Steam For Mac Will Arrive On May 12th

Want to know when you'll be sliding through the orange hued inkwell of a counter-gravitational portal on your Mac? Eager to know the date when you can start the fight against the insidious Combine under OS X? Fanatic about headshotting bile-spitting zombie after zombie within the safehouse of Snow Leopard? Keen to whack a bald, [...:]

How To Setup Affordable Multi-Room Audio Using iTunes [MacRx]

These days many people do some or most of their music listening on the computer, and much of that is managed with iTunes.  It's very nice to have such quick and easy access to your music library, podcasts and internet radio in one place, but by default these only play in the room where the computer [...:]

Steve Thumbs his Nose at the Apple II [Recollections]

Steve Wozniak is unhappy at the Mac launch, which resembles "Woodstock for nerds." Part 10 of "My Close Encounters With Steve Jobs," a personal history of the original Mac by Macworld founder David Bunnell.

Cupertino on January 24, 1984, was overcast but warm–a good day, I thought, to change the world of computers forever.
5,000 copies [...:]

Wired Finds The Finder of Apple's Missing iPhone

It was a Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, who found Apple's iPhone in a bar, according to Wired.com.
He now regrets not trying harder to contact Apple, and sold the phone to Gizmodo because they told him "there was nothing wrong in sharing the phone with the tech press," according to [...:]