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Here’s another big leak coming out of Vietnam.  If not a fake, it looks like the $999 MacBooks are going to recieve a silent update in the coming days/weeks/months that will bring them largely inline (still only 2GB of RAM) with the current base model 13″ MacBook Pros.  The processor on the model they show is bumped to 2.4GHz, the screen is LED and the video card is updated to the NVIDIA GeForce 320M.  It also appears in the video that it has the fancy new AC power adapter from the Pro/Air line.

This one is running OSX 10.6.3 and it is the same Model 7,1 A1342 so we think these will drop sooner rather than later, without much fanfare.

Updated specs:

via Engadget

More pictures below with system profiler:

The iPhone 4 case took another ugly turn yesterday when the search warrant + affidavit (PDF) used to gain access to (the finder) Brian Hogan’s home was (mistakenly?) released.  It showed that Apple got the authorities involved after Hogan’s roommate, Katherine Martinson, contacted Apple to say her roomate was the one with the iPhone.  She wanted to absolve herself of any wrongdoing because her computer was used to try to restore the wiped iPhone 4.

It appears that the authorities knew that Jason Chen was a blogger for “Internet Magazine” Gizmodo.com, when they applied for the warrant to search his home and take his computers as well.

For those hoping that stiff penalties be enforced, remember that trade secrets can include just about any leaked information, no matter how small (i.e. like screen resolution of iPhone 4 or what processor it will use).  This is a very slippery slope.  The Apple employees that leak this kind of information to the media can be criminally charged with the same trade secret violations as the police are using to go after Gizmodo.

With Apple and Adobe spending money and reputation on a fight neither party looks truly pretty playing in, a third party developer has cleverly found a compromise that lets iPhone users watch proprietary Flash content on their Apple smartphone. So why can’t we all just get along? Read more…

Remember the strike at Wintek earlier this year, when workers smashed vehicles in a violent protest about bonuses? Seems they weren

Surprising no one at all, the App Store disapprovals team has rejected that useful WiFi Sync for iPhone app many of us had been hoping for.

Developer Greg Hughes has instead released the software via the Cydia network for jailbroken phones with a $9.99 price tag. The developer disclosed discussion with Apple went thus:

Apple today updated its productivity suite of iPad applications with various bugfixes and small features.Keynote gets:

What’s New in Version 1.1

- Support for French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
- Enhanced Back/Front slider in the Arrange panel
- Added the option to show additional alignment guides at smaller intervals

This update also:

- Improves reliability when importing Keynote