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Yeah, it is most likely just the parts from this but we guess it is a good way to envision it in your hand? via mac.com.hk (what? you didn’t see the watermark?!)

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I think this would fall far far outside of the “You won’t be disappointed” boundaries.  But, man it would be entertaining.

Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company

Admob published its latest device analytics today on the eve (x2) of the International iPad rollout. Something interesting is that in April, the second month of iPad usage, International usage was already at around 25%.   

Wow.  Congratulations are in order for eBay.We also know that Apple has sold nearly 100,000,000 iProducts in total, so specific numbers may be off but ratios should be more accurate.

A little perspective.

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Oh, and then there is this:

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As predicted early this morning, today was the day that Apple passed Microsoft in market cap for the first time since the early 90s.  At the time of this writing, AAPL is worth over $1 billion more than MSFT and growing.  We’ll see later today if they can keep this lead and close out the day ahead.   

Update: AAPL closed the day at a market capitalization of $222.07B.  Microsoft closed at $219.18B.  Apple is now worth almost $3 billion more than Microsoft.

It has been 13 years this picture was taken and Microsoft ‘saved Apple’ Video below.

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Digitimes has a monster of a story looking at the iPhone today, including a series of tasty nuggets, at least one factual inaccuracy and some pure speculation, for example:

The story reveals Apple to have two iPhones in development, one the Gizmodo phone, the other a less updated device in case the more compelling product hit production snags.

Apple will launch the new iPhone next month, reports BGR.

In what could be the shortest report for one of the biggest news items ever, it reads:

Yet more evidence that iPad is taking huge big Pacman-sized bites out of the netbook market comes in a recent survey suggesting the Apple product has already had a huge impact on consumers purchasing plans — with millions of iPads flying out of Apple’s hands. And now  it looks like 78 percent of consumers who were struggling with the decision to buy an iPad or a Netbook are going for the iPad, read more.

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Might be fun to watch the market today.  With the recent high profile “layoffs” at Microsoft, AAPL and Microsoft are inching ever closer.  Someone want to hit us on Twitter when/if AAPL passes MSFT?  Kthx.

Japan’s consumer electronics giant, Sony has a plan to take on the Apple iPad, the company has confirmed in talks with the Wall Street Journal.

Sony Chief Financial Officer Nobuyuki Oneda said Sony

Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Munster, tells clients the upcoming WWDC 2010 event next month seems set to be a bit of a non-event, at least, a non-event for Apple

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This release has been heavily-hyped, now Wired Magazine has finally inched its way to the iPad, despite being made using Adobe

Apple has issued a public statement on the spate of tragic worker suicides at the Chinese manufacturing plant of its iPod/iPhone production partner, Foxconn.

Company spokesman, Steve Dowling, told Bloomberg:

MacRumors posts MacOSX 10.6.4 build 10F58 notes:

Included in this update

• – Resolve an issue that causes the keyboard or trackpad to become unresponsive
• – Resolve an issue that may prevent some Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications from opening
• – Address issues copying, renaming, or deleting files on SMB file servers
• – Improve reliability of VPN connections
• – Resolve a playback issue in DVD Player when using Good Quality deinterlacing 
• – Resolve an issue editing photos with iPhoto or Aperture in full screen view
• – Improve compatibility with some braille displays

Known Issues

– None

Focus Areas:

– Graphics Drivers

– SMB

– USB

– Voice Over

– VPN

Ruh Ro!  As if Apple didn’t have enough problems with the Feds, it looks like the US Justice Department is investigating Apple’s sway in the Music industry, according to the New York Times.

The Justice Department is examining Apple

Not only is Valve pulling their game files out of your Documents folder, we’ve been hearing that Half Life 2 is coming tomorrow. Time to call in sick to work.   Also, while we are on Steam, here’s 75% off LucasArts adventure Pack.

Thanks JR!

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One UK Mac Forums member is showing off her new iPad from Apple a few days early, meanwhile an Italian in the video below got theirs from UPS already as well.  Woops!

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With the announcement of Chrome 5, which seems to be a really solid browser for Mac, we’re wondering if Safari is going to see any love at WWDC next month.

Daring Fireball throws out this:

The other big thing that