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Rumor: Apple's glasses free 3D devices to battle Nintendo 3DS?

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With all that new graphics power tucked-away inside the next-generation iOS devices, here’s a huge dose of speculation to brighten up your day — that Apple’s next iPod touch will be boast a glasses-free 3D screen. And that’s got to be something to worry Nintendo, who will introduce its Nintendo 3DS this week.
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NVIDIA settlement entitles MacBook Pro owners to repairs or reimbursement

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Nvidia is coming clean with Dell, HP and Apple owners who purchased some of the Laptops with discrete GPU “bumps” that sometimes caused failure.  Apple went to extraordinary lengths (far beyond Dell or HP), covering Macbook Pros affected with these issues for up to three years and issuing refunds to those who paid for repairs.

If you purchased a MacBook Pro from May 2007 – September 2008, you are likely covered by the settlement.

To view the sample Reimbursement Claim Form formatted as a PDF file for an Apple notebook computer, click here. To view the sample Replacement Claim Form formatted as a PDF file for an Apple notebook computer, click here.
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The Daily iPad mag gets a Twitter feed

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If you are getting hyped about Rupert Murdoch’s new (delayed) iPad magazine called the Daily, you might want to start following @daily on Twitter.  The account was just created and is verified by Twitter.  Also the account is following one media exec, Greg Clayman.

Clayman’s Twitter bio says: Co-founder of Upoc, former head of mobile & digital distribution at MTV Networks, currently working on something awesome.

We’ll see.
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Apple confirms Jan 18 Q1 financial call

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Apple has confirmed it will hold its FY 11 Q1 financial results conference on January 18, making the session available for playback online in QuickTime format. The event takes place Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 2:00 p.m. PST/5:00 p.m. EST/10:00 p.m. GMT. Apple’s  live audio streaming of the event will be available for replay here for approximately two weeks.


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Apple taking steps toward iPhone 5

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Even as it prerpares for an imminent introduction of the iPad 2.0, Apple has begun sourcing components for iPhone 5, choosing Qualcomm for the baseband chip and a faster ARM chip for the processor.

Kinsus Interconnect Technology seems set to enter Apple’s supply chain for iPhone 5, as the new smartphone will adopt Qualcomm’s baseband chipsets, which use Kinsus IC substrates, according to a Chinese language Apple Daily report.
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Changewave: AT&T iPhone customers have itchy feet

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Changewave looks at how a Verizon iPhone affects the carrier landscape – if iPhone users will exit en mass to Verizon.

Only 4% of Verizon’s customers plan to switch in the next 90 days. In comparison, 10% of Sprint/Nextel’s customers say they plan to switch, as do 15% of both T-Mobile’s and AT&T’s.  While there is some indication that AT&T has a contingent of customers with itchy feet, it doesn’t appear that there will be a mass migration.

But, as the following chart shows, AT&T’s churn rate is its worst ever in a ChangeWave survey.
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Apple grabs 9.7 percent US PC market (and Poll)

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Sure but it is only a question of time. Preliminary PC numbers in the U.S. showed Apple (AAPL) jumped from 7.4% of total shipments a year earlier to 9.7% in Q4, a 24% rise, the largest unit shipment increase of any vendor. HP lost 6%, Dell lost 6.1%, Acer lost 30% in the U.S. market, and Toshiba gained 14.4%. At 10.3%, Toshiba is just slightly ahead of Apple in fourth place. (Barron’s and Gartner). There’s a poll after the break:

It is the iPad who dunnit. “Overall, holiday PC sales were weak in many key regions due to the intensifying competition in consumer spending. Media tablets, such as the iPad, as well as other consumer electronic (CE) devices, such as game consoles, all competed against PCs,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.
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Apple, Google, iTunes, MySpace and Honeycomb

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COMPUTERWORLD: Google and Apple continue their war, with the search giant overnight announcing plans to drop support for H.264 from Chrome, even while it continues to develop its very own tablet software to compete with the iPad. Does its code-name — ‘Honeycomb’ — suggest Google plans to turn to distributed computing in an attempt to unseat Apple’s iTunes empire? And how can Apple fight back?

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Microsoft v Apple in App Store Trademark attack

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Microsoft is taking on Apple, protesting at the latter firm’s claim to a trademark on the name ‘App Store’. Ballmer’s boys are arguing that the term is generic and competitors should be able to use it.

Apple applied for the trademark in 2008. It is to be applied in goods and services, including those for computer software solve via the Internet. The App Store is now available for iOS and OS X devices.
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