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Poll: Who Would You Rather Be? The Guy Who Lost the iPhone? Or The Guy Who Sold It?

As the focus of iPhonegate shifts to the legality of Gizmodo's purchase (hint: it looks very dodgy), we have to ask: who would you rather be right now? The poor schlub who lost the iPhone in a bar? Or the guy who found it, made a half-hearted effort to return it, and sold it to [...:]

Hospital Equips Staff with iPads

Twenty doctors are using iPads to keep track of patients in a trial program at a California hospital district.
At Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, doctors and staff already use smart phones, including the iPhone, to access the hospital's network.  Over the weekend, the small group of doctors in a trial run were given [...:]

Daily Deals: $39 CRT iMac G3, $929 Unibody MacBook Pro, $1,358 New MacBook Pros

Before we get to the modern Macs on tap for today, there is another chance to buy a piece of computing history. There is a number of deals on older Macs, including a CRT iMac, running a blazing-fast 500Mhz G3 processor for just $39. Last week we had the MacBook Pro Lalapalooza and today we [...:]

Apple Travel App Patent Hints At Ticketless Airlines

Apple has filed a very interesting patent for a travel app called iTravel that books flights, hotels and car reservations. But the most interesting part is how it uses a radio chip to check you in at the airport, whisk you through security and allows you to wireless board your flight.
The iTravel app uses Near [...:]

iPad Cash Register at Coffee Bar

Scott Beale of Laughing Squid snapped this spiffy wooden stand cradling an iPad cash register at soon-to-be opened San Francisco coffee house Sightglass.
The iPad will ring up those double-ristretti with Square, an app with a peripheral credit card swiper (see the built-in one on the bottom of this wooden stand) that turns the iPhone and [...:]

Steve Jobs, Um, Tells it, Uh, Like it Is in Crazy Keynote Mashup

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FW-lrMXLBE
This fierce edit of Steve Jobs' April keynote by Neil Curtis — father of the 180-sec keynote is, like, um great. (Curtis reminds us that, uh, it's all in good fun).
Very reassuring for anyone who has, like, uh, spoken in public, or, you know, heh, been interviewed for radio, or, um, so, done a podcast, [...:]

Report: Google Buys Startup Staffed By Former PA Semi Names

What's up with Google now? That's the question being asked about the Internet giant's acquisition of a mysterious startup run by former Apple employees. The San Jose, Calif. company Agnilux includes Dan Dobberpuhl, the former founder and CEO of P.A. Semi, purchased by Apple for $278 million two years ago.
First reported by Thomson Reuters' PEHub, [...:]

AT&T: International iPhone Demand Outpaces U.S. Growth

If Apple needed another reason to consider adding more U.S. carriers offering the iPhone, its current exclusive domestic carrier, AT&T, provided more ammunition Wednesday morning. The carrier announced it activated 2.7 million iPhones in the last quarter, a 13 percent drop from 3.1 million U.S. activations during the December quarter.
Additionally, AT&T reported U.S. iPhone [...:]

Report: Apple 'Well Pleased' By China iPhone Sales

While much of the talk about the iPhone's success had centered on the U.S. and Europe, it appears Apple's entry into China has been a little-discussed but important reason why the Cupertino, Calif. company Tuesday blew the doors off analyst expectations.
Analysts were off by up to 30 percent, expecting Apple to announce almost 2 million [...:]

Early Review Says The HP Slate Is No iPad Killer

Even HP's aware that they've got a tough fight on their hands convincing consumers that they want to give them their $500 bucks for an HP Slate tablet as opposed to the iPad… but the PC manufacturer may still be be too optimistic.
If an early review of the device is anything to go by, [...:]