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Apple may already have placed orders for the manufacture of iPhones set to run on Verizon

Apple has begun beta testing the next iteration of MobileMe Mail.

Subscribers to the service are being offered the chance to sign-up to try the beta if they wish.

Apple states:

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This seems pretty exciting — it has already driven leading music industry blogger, Bob Lefsetz, to remark,

Steam for Mac is now ready for download here.  At the moment the login is available only to beta testers but the restriction should be lifted shortly.

Update: looks like Steam for Mac is open now!

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Apple will see Mac sales climb at least 50 percent by 2014 on strength of an enhanced and increasing embrace of the digital home, transforming the company into a $100 billion powerhouse. Expect much, much more ahead from Cupertino. Read more.

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AT&T changes in upgrade eligibility rules are today being seen as potential hints at introduction of the next model iPhone, perhaps on June 21, particularly when readers recall the furore when the carrier denied an  easy upgrade park to many iPhone users on last year’s launch of the iPhone 3GS.

A reader tells MobileCrunch

Not sure if anyone [..] has noticed this same thing, but my Upgrade Eligibility date on my AT&T account switched from 11/21 to 6/21 in the last day or so. I bought a 3GS on launch day last year, and my upgrade date read 11/21 since then. A few other folks in my office have noticed the same changes happening to their accounts as well.

 

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From same source as those images from earlier.

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Apple manufacturing partner, Hon Hai Group, this morning admitted that yet another of its employees has committed suicide, jumping from her apartment building in Shenzhen, China.

The 24-year old young girl worked the assembly line at the Shenzhen shop. Local cops are investigating the death of the girl, Zhu, who was on holiday at the time.

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Verizon Wireless Chief Executive Lowell McAdam confirmed today that they were working with Google to build a competitor to the iPad. McAdam, in an interview with the WSJ, said that tablets are part of the “next big wave of opportunities,” and that “work on a tablet is part of a deepening relationship between the largest U.S. wireless carrier  and Google.”  

He added, “We’re looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience.”   Verizon declined to comment on a timeline for release of a Google tablet nor which manufacturer would make it.  

Below is a ChomeOS tablet concept from Google.

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iPad owners on the hunt for a decent Facebook client may want to take a look at Sobees

Have concerns at network coverage, call quality, the need to protect iPhone marketshare against the onset of Android-powered devices and positive experience in other markets moving from an exclusive to a multi-carrier relationship driven Apple to end its five-year deal with AT&T? Take a look.

Yesterday’s NPD report which had Android phones outselling iPhones 28% to 21% in the first three months of 2010 caught a lot of people off guard.  Apple today commented on the numbers to the Loop: