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Apple’s Black Friday deal is on now – but it looks as if a price competition between Apple and Amazon is taking place at the UK store. Don’t believe me? Then do take a look:

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB RAM, a 250GB Hard Drive and Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics and SD card costs you £897.90 in the UK on Amazon with free delivery.
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Apple is expected to see monthly MacBook shipments hit one million units, according to component makers.

Apple will reach these one million per month shipment levels in the current quarter, with MacBook Air orders already accounting for 20-25 percent of the volume.
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The place: Europe. The time: A NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal. There President Obama was asked to sign yet another iPad. Hey, and as he says, “I’ve done this once before.” Which he did (after the jump).
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Apple has reportedly banned single station radio apps — even as digital radio manufacturer, PURE, introduces its well-regarded digital radio-cum-portal service as an app made available via the App Store.

Radio apps have been around on the store for some time, but Apple appears to have changed its policy on these. This emerged after Jim Barcus, president of DJ Radio Apps, approached the company to ask why ten of his single station radio apps had been rejected.
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Hang onto your hats — we already have word of yet one more special event to close out 2010 but Apple’s already plotting to delight and surprise with another update to its MacBook Pro range and that there long-awaited move to ship a new blend of Final Cut Studio — and we only need to wait till April (some say).
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COMPUTERWORLD: Apple [AAPL] has so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: Mac sales are exploding; the iPad/iPhone/iPod halo is shining; The Beatles have reached iTunes; and in a few weeks time Apple will launch the world’s biggest and most convenient consumer software retailer — the Mac App Store. And next year will be the year of the Mac.

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This could turn out strange: Federal prosecutors are investigating analyst firms to unravel insider trading cases which seem to involve routinely published information about public company supply chains — those ubiquitous ‘channel checks’ which analysts routinely send out.
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Yet more dogs of war heard howling in the mists as we learn Apple has been quietly poaching senior enterprise sales staff from competitor, Research In Motion. The Wall Street Journal (via MR) tells us Apple has hired at least five members of the RIM enterprise team — and stresses there could be even more Apple switchers making the move to iPhone.
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Apple’s rumored December special event seems set to see the launch of iOS 4.3, a new version of the mobile OS equipped with mechanisms to enable newspaper and magazine subscription payments — and Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs are expected to host the show in which they try to frame the paywall future for publishing.
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We’re looking at serious legal challenges across the mobile phone industry in the next couple of years, with Apple’s case against Motorola now set to be reviewed by the US ITC, which could ban import of Motorola phones into the US if the company is found guilty. Meanwhile, HTC and Samsung have teamed up with that renowned patent rights litigator, Intellectual Ventures, to protect those firms from attack.
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We know you’ve lost sleep waiting for it — now it looks like Steve Jobs is waving his wand to make sure you gonna get it, unleashing a recent Steve Note which promised a new feature is “coming”.

He’s so terse.
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COMPUTERWORLD: The holiday season’s approaching pretty fast now, so while I kick iOS 4.2 around a little bit more I thought some readers might enjoy a short collection of adventurous ski and snow-related iPhone apps, as there’s a pretty huge possibility some of you are headed into the mountains in the coming weeks.

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The customary series of unexpected fault reports are coming through the wires this am, with iOS 4.2 reportedly munching music on some iPhones and causing hassles with HDMI on the Apple TV. Here’s what we got so far, and we hope, nay, urge readers with further information to use comments below to help each other out on this.
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Apple’s iPad production is nearing three million units every month in the lead-in to Christmas, with manufacturing partner, Foxconn, opening aditional capacity in its new plants in Chengdu, China.
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That didn’t take long, the Redsn0w team have jailbroken the final version of iOS 4.2.1 — there’s also a how-to guide, so all you more technically literate iPhone users out there can get out there and partay!
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We know it was possible to print to non-HP printers at some point during the iOS 4.2 beta testing process, equally we also know that it was possible to use AirPlay on an iPhone 3G and a second-generation iPod touch. These uses disappeared, but trust to the ever inventive Mac dev community to figure out a workaround — hurrah for them!
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We’ve waited and waited — now it is here our tipsters say — go grab it!  AppleTV is now at a newer 4.2.1 (8C150)  Who is AirPlayin?

device
current version
date found


AppleTV(2G) (AppleTV2,1)
4.2.1 (8C150)
11/22/2010 13:08:57


iPad (iPad1,1)
4.2 (8C148)
11/22/2010 13:08:57


iPhone (iPhone1,1)
3.1.3 (7E18)
04/08/2010 21:05:48


iPhone3G (iPhone1,2)
4.2 (8C148)
11/22/2010 13:08:57


iPhone3GS (iPhone2,1)
4.2 (8C148a)
11/22/2010 13:08:57


iPhone4 (iPhone3,1)
4.2 (8C148)
11/22/2010 13:08:57


iPodTouch(2G) (iPod2,1)
4.2 (8C148)
11/22/2010 13:08:57


iPodTouch(3G) (iPod3,1)
4.2 (8C148)
11/22/2010 13:08:57


iPodTouch(4G) (iPod4,1)
4.2 (8C148)
11/22/2010 13:08:57


last updated: 11/22/2010 13:20:02 EDT

COMPUTERWORLD: Apple [AAPL] is pushing out iOS 4.2 today, and as it does it is dropping a few hints as to the philosophy which drives the company in its evolution of the Mac OS, Lion, which will itself hint at the future direction of Apple’s operating systems for mobile and computing devices on this Apple planet.

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Want a really good reason to make sure your iOS device is all suited and booted for use with Apple’s (now free) Find My (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) system? Here’s one — a cunning piece of kit which will suck out all the data from inside your device so prying eyes can go through your contact details and anything else you have stashed on your smartphone.
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We’re liking the look of Tivo’s new app for iPad. It is so much more than a remote, it lets you connect with all the information Tivo has — actors info, film guides and more, effectively a link to the Tivo TV interface that doesn’t depend on you interrupting what’s playing on your television.
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UK Apple-watchers are excited this morning on reports that Orange and T-Mobile are preparing to offer iPads on a contract for the subsidised price of £200.
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