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Gizmodo's iPhone 4G Teardown Fails To Reveal CPU

Before returning the iPhone it bought from a guy in a bar for $5,000, Gizmodo performed a teardown. It has just published the results. Unfortunately, it's pretty uninformative. The teardown reveals the iPhone has a much bigger battery (19% larger), while the rest of the components are much smaller to make room.
The big question — [...:]

Apple Execs Hint At "Extraordinary" New Products

Apple's executives dropped several references to "extraordinary" new products during the Q2 conference call, but unfortunately gave little clue what they might be.
Indeed, one Wall Street analyst asked if they were entirely new products, or upgrades to current products.
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO responded: "We're just not going to help our competitors (by talking)," he said. [...:]

Apple Is Attracting New Mac And iPhone Users By the Millions

Apple is sweeping up PC switchers and new iPhone users by the millions.
Take the 8.75 million iPhones Apple sold in the March quarter. Add them to the 42.4 million sold at the end of the last quarter. That makes 51.15 million iPhones sold to date. That's a lot of iPhone users.
Also consider that half [...:]

iPhone OS 4 Beta 2 Is Now Available

The beta 2 of iPhone OS 4 has just been posted to Apple's Developers' site. The build is 8A248C, and developers can get it here.

Apple's Q2 Is Another Record Quarter: Macs, iPhones and Profits Way Up

Apple has just reported record earnings for Q2 2010. Earnings and profits were the best ever for a non-holiday quarter, and sales of Macs and iPhones were up by a big margin. The only blip is iPod sales — down 1 percent year-on-year.
"We're thrilled to report our best non-holiday quarter ever, with revenues up 49 [...:]

Pic of the Day: iPad on a Chain

Channeling the fashion vibe of Flava Flav,  a music producer in Atlanta sports an iPad on a chain that's, well, off the chain.
According to Paul who snapped the pic, it was playing a music video at the time.
At 1.5 pounds, the iPad necklace is a definitely heavy look.

Daily Deals: $99 8GB iPod nano, App Store Price Drops, iPhone Battery Boost

We start the day with a deal on a number of Apple iPods, including an 8GB iPod nano for $99. Next we peruse the latest entrants in the App Store price drops, including "Yahtzee Adventure." We round out our top three bargains with the stylish battery boost from CablesUnlimited, giving your iPhone 3G or 3GS [...:]

TidBits Celebrates 20th Anniversary As Oldest Pure Digital Tech Pub On Net

This week the TidBits website celebrates a special landmark: it's the oldest purely digital technology publication on the Internet.
Started in 1990 by Adam and Tonya Engst, TidBits is celebrating its 20th anniversary of publishing "all the news that's fit to byte."
It started as a Hypercard stack and evolved into a text pub distributed through [...:]

Thieves Rip Man's Finger to Steal iPad

Bill Jordan went to Denver's Cherry Creek Apple store to buy an iPad for a co-worker as a perk for getting a promotion.
In what may be the most violent iPad theft to date, police say surveillance video shows the 59-year-old Jordan shadowed by two young men who assaulted him before he reached the parking garage.
The [...:]

Report: iPad App Store A $1B Market By 2012

The iPad App Store market may be worth at least $1 billion in two years, according to one developer who did some quick math. That figure could be much higher if the iPad does what the iPhone did to boost App Store sales into the stratosphere.
Vimov, which developed the Weather HD iPad app, estimates Apple [...:]