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Rumor: Apple Buys Mobile Chipmaker Intrinsity

Apple's no stranger to slurping up privately-held chipmakers. After all, their 2007 acquisition of PA Semi led to the iPad's blindingly fast A4 CPU, and Cupertino's going to need to stay on the cusp of mobile chip development if it wants to keep the iPad and iPhone competitive over the course of the next [...:]

Analyst: Real iPad Sales Nearer to 600K

Apple is notorious about low-balling its revenue guidance, setting up Wall Street for numbers that blow the doors off resulting expectations; has it done something similar about its iPad sales figures for the opening day? While some analysts had egg on their face over exuberant sales predictions, one voice Monday raised some interesting questions about [...:]

Apple Updates App Store To Make It Easier To Browse Through iPhone-Only and iPad Apps

It's a small change, but a nice one: Apple has just modified the App Store to make it easier to browse for iPhone and iPad apps, and distinguish universal binaries from iPhone-only apps.
It's a simple change. Previously, iPhone and iPad apps were combined on one page, with only the Top Charts section offering the option [...:]

Imminent Core i3/Core i5/Core i7 MacBook Refresh Rumored Yet Again!

One of these days, some fraudulent soothsayer's bound to be right, but until then, it's just as much our obligation to report the rumors of an imminent MacBook refresh as it is yours to digest them with a nice, healthy lick of salt.
According to Taiwanese newspaper Apple Daily, a refresh of Apple's MacBook, MacBook Pro [...:]

For $10,000, eBay Courier Will Hand-Deliver 64GB iPad Anywhere In The World

With every new Apple product comes a fresh wave of exploitative eBay entrepreneurism, but this auction offering to hand-deliver a 64GB iPad anywhere in the world is a bold attempt at a free first-class vacation by some earnest young huckster. Unfortunately, I think the only country in the world meriting a $9,301 round-trip airplane ticket [...:]

Reports Indicate Some iPads Prone to Overheating in the Sun

The iPad's display may be gorgeous, but if you're going to read outdoors, you'll probably want an e-ink reader: if your retinas don't pucker into singularities from rays of direct sunlight bouncing off of the glass fdisplay, your iPad might still melt into a toxic soup and pour through your fingers.
Well… okay. We cop to [...:]

From Weird to Cool: The iPad as Assistive Device

One of the most exciting things about Apple's overall shift to touchscreen technology in the last few years is that it allows the iPhone and the iPad to replace much more expensive custom solutions for niche markets. Contrary to what you might have heard, these are actually democratizing forces.
Robert Rummel-Hudson is semi-famous on the Internet [...:]

Enabling and adding to the Bookmarks Bar in Safari for iPad [How To]

By having an iPad, you now have the internet in your hands (and probably on your couch), at least according to Steve Jobs. But are you wishing you had a bookmarks bar like in regular Safari? After reading this quick guide you soon will.

Enabling the Bookmarks Bar in Safari
To get the bookmarks bar to show [...:]

iPhone OS 4 Revealed In Just Three Days

We knew it was coming — we just had no idea it'd be here so quickly. Yes, iPhone OS 4.0 will be revealed to the world at a press event this Thursday, at 10 a.m. Pacific, according to our friends over at Gizmodo — and every other tech blog under the sun.

They think it'll bring multitasking [...:]

Get An iPad — So That Steve Jobs Can Buy New Pants

Andrea Nepori, head honcho at Italian-based TheAppleLounge.com, has alerted us to the fact that maybe Steve Jobs doesn't have anything to wear.
Check out the worn-out pants and forlorn sneakers in the photo of Jobs, left, at Apple's Stockton Street store in San Francisco on the iPad's launch day; now sadly note the same fashion choices in the [...:]