Pegatron has been identified tonight in a story as the contractor making over three million CDMA iPhones at the end of the year. The Taiwan firm would start in November and make at least three million to four million iPhones in its first three months. Production would top 10 million by mid-2011, according to DigiTimes' contacts....

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The latest update for iWork on iPad adds support for saving documents to MobileMe iDisk as well as the ability to export documents in more native Microsoft Office formats.

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If you believe in the kindness of strangers, this tip might be for you. Most laptop users fear that their computer will be lost or stolen. Assuming that the right sort of person finds your laptop, however, they might be willing to return it to its rightful owner, if they knew how to contact you.

It is possible to add a short message to the login screen of your Mac. The easiest way to do that is by using Onyx; click on the Parameters tab, and then type your message into the area shown above. I suggest including your name, phone number, and whatever else you think increases your chances of getting it back.

This won't help if a thief has ripped off your MacBook while you weren't looking, but it just might help if you accidentally leave it in a cab and someone trustworthy gets in next. Hey, it could happen!

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As we just stated in our previous post, there was clearly an email sent by angel investor Ron Conway to a group of super angels who were likely involved in the Bin 38

This is pretty cool -- it's a bike-mounted iPad-controlled stereo spotted at a recent meetup for a group of BMX riders. There's not a lot of information on how it was all put together (maybe if user Mikey Wally sees this, he can tell us more in the comments below), but it looks like the iPad is secured with a handlebars mount, and then it's plugged into a speaker that's stuck on the front. Assuming it is secure (and I hope it is, otherwise you're going to have a very broken iPad), it seems like a pretty wild way to make your music mobile. As we've discussed before, having an iPad on a bike can be handy in certain situations.

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Valve has released another Steam Play Mac title, and this time it's Garry's Mod, the wild sandbox physics editor that uses assets from Half Life 2 to create whatever you want. The mod is probably most famous for its Rube Goldberg-style creations, but it's also very handy for machinima and other graphic model design as well. It's not so much a game as a way to just create all kinds of wacky machines and computer characters, and have them interact in whatever way you'd like.

If you already own it for the PC, then you own the Mac version as well, so you can head into Steam on OS X and download away. If you don't own it yet, Steam has a 50% off discount up right now, so you can pick it up for just $4.99.

And no, because I'm sure you're wondering, there's still no Left 4 Dead....

The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press have both released new applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, each produced in collaboration with DoApp. The free apps, which are sponsored by the Southeast Michigan Ford Dealers, provide users with the latest news, sports, business, and entertainment headlines. Through the use of GPS, each application can also allow users to find localized weather and traffic reports. In addition, both apps can be found in the Android Market, while the BlackBerry-compatible versions are expected to become available within the next week....

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Some customers who paid Apple for expedited shipping on the soon-to-ship Apple TV are receiving emails from the company Thursday informing them that those shipping charges have been waived due to a possible 'delay.'

Tune in to see what Verizon's CEO had to say about the iPhone, why NBC won't let iTunes rent its shows, and the latest piece of iPad content creation.







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Apple temporarily took the second position among the world's biggest companies, as gauged by market value. Shares of AAPL stock briefly rose above $292, bringing Apple's market value up to $267.5 billion, as noted in a Bloomberg report. The climbing share price early in the day brought Apple slightly ahead of PetroChina and second only to Exxon Mobile....

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British researchers say that access to technology, particularly devices that serve up the Internet, significantly improve a person's sense of well being. And if you are a woman, that goes double for you. Researchers drew their conclusions by analyzing data from 35,000 responses across 39 countries as part the World Values Survey (WVS). They...

An anonymous reader writes "MIT's technology blog argues that e-book sales represent 'only six pecent of the total market for new books.' It cites a business analysis which calculates that by mid-July, Amazon had sold 15.6 million hardcover books versus 22 million e-books, but with sales of about 48 million more paperback books. Amazon recently announced they sell 180 e-books for every 100 hardcover books, but when paperbacks are counted, e-books represent just 29.3% of all Amazon's book sales. And while Amazon holds about 19% of the book market, they currently represent 90% of all e-book sales — suggesting that e-books represent a tiny fraction of all print books sold. 'Many tech pundit wants books to die,' argues MIT's Christopher Mims, citing the head of Microsoft's ClearType team, who says 'I'd be glad to ditch thousands of paper- and hard-backed books from my bookshelves. I'd rather have them all on an iPad.' But while Nicholas Negroponte predicts the death of the book within...

Okay, so Steve Jobs may have said something like "The world doesn't need any more fart apps." But, really, did the world actually need a summary of every fart app on App Store in under two minutes?

Do pretzels need mustard, or does peanut butter need jelly? We here at TUAW firmly respond: No comment.

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Our friends at Joy of Tech are on a roll, with this comic suggesting a variety of devices that Facebook is working on. Our favorites: The Wi-Fi-enabled Facebook garbage can that uploads pictures of things you throw out to your profile, and the Facebook showerhead whose default privacy settings "stream the steam" straight to the entire Facebook community.

 

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Sonos has announced the Sonos Wireless Dock, which will complement the company's Multi-Room Music System by wirelessly sending music from your iPhone or iPod to Sonos ZonePlayers throughout your home.






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Camera and office equipment maker Ricoh has revealed a new camera, with the G700SE recently. Its body is resistant to water and dust, and gets an optional GPS sensor of its own for geotagging photos. There is also a Wi-Fi link in addition to Bluetooth 2.1 for connecting wirelessly to other devices in order to transfer photos or get location information from external GPS sensors....

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AMD tonight warned that its revenue would swing to a decline in the summer. It expected revenue to drop one to four percent from the $1.65 billion this spring as it faced "weaker than expected" interest in its chips. The shortfall was especially severe for notebook chips in North America and Western Europe....

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One drawback to having multiple users on OS X is there is no easy way to limit the amount of disk space used by that user. If a user has write access to a file system, then they can fill the drive until there is no space left for others.

iWork for iPad was updated yesterday with many changes, one of those being that the mobile app suite now includes integration with the MobileMe iDisk.

What does that mean for iPad users who use Pages, Numbers, and Keynote? You can save your documents to the iDisk and then open them either from the iPad or any other internet-attached Mac or Windows machine. The details were posted on MobileMe News, the blog of the MobileMe team.

Windows users can point a browser to me.com/idisk and upload existing Microsoft Office documents. Once the documents are in the cloud,...

John and Dave discuss using the old Apple Pro Speakers on newer Macs (good luck!), Time Machine issues when moving disks between Macs, syncing tasks/todos from your Mac to your iPhone, Mac HD webcams, and multiple clipboards. Subscribe today — it’s cheap, just $25 for 6 months — and enjoy!






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Apple is headed to trial with Sector Labs over use of the word "pod" in a product name, Wired reports. The latter company is the creator of a video projector called the Video Pod, which Apple accuses of infringing on the iPod trademark. Sector Labs' co-founder, Daniel Kokin, has argued that his company's output has no relation to Apple products....

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published a new patent application from Apple proposing a new headphone jack design that appears intended to reduce the size required by the headphone jack component on Apple’s hardware devices. The new design proposes the use of “pogo pins” in an audio…

MTA New York City Transit, New Jersey Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have collaborated with Visa to create a payment system that uses Visa's PayWave technology and several popular smartphones, including the iPhone. Travelers trying out the service can pay for passage onto the trains by simply waving a properly-equipped iPhone over a special sensor at the turnstiles.

Here's how it works. First, iPhones equipped with PayWave and special sensors (don't ask us how you get one) are activated, which let the users know when it's ready to use. Then, it's held before the sensor and presto! You're in.

Currently, the pilot program is...

MLB's popular At Bat 2010 application will soon allow patrons at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park to order food right from their seats.







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Avid announced this week the update of several components in the company’s line of recording products aimed at the consumer market. The company has new versions of the Pro Tools Mbox product line, M-Audio MobilePre, Pro Tools SE, and a new 88 key USB controller.






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Future Apple TV owners, we hope you like Fox and ABC a whole lot, because NBC Universal is only the latest studio to say they're not sharing their toys—$0.99 rentals would "devalue" their content, says NBC Universal's CEO. [CNET via SlashGear]

The iPod shuffle 4G marks Apple’s return to the classic form of the shuffle 2G.  It’s even smaller and has new features like playlists and VoiceOver that make it better and easier to use. The price is right at US$49, but the product also introduces some new problems that could have been easily avoided.






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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is its answer to Apple’s market leading iPad. Samsung’s device features a 7-inch screen and runs the Android OS. It also features support for Flash Player 10.1 in the Android browser. The video shows lots of features, including ones that will be very familiar to iPad users. [Via Daring Fireball and TmoNews] [...]

Smule has released an update to its Glee application for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Updated for Season 2 of the popular TV series, Glee Karaoke introduces a global competition mode where users sing to compete with fellow Glee fans from around the world and complete individual singing missions…

Sonos announced Thursday the Sono Wireless Dock, a device that will grab music from your iPhone or iPod touch and send it to Sonos ZonePlayers throughout your home.  






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Research in Motion is reportedly a week away from unveiling the BlackPad, a challenger to Apple's iPad. Let the tablet wars begin in earnest?

Gameloft, a major player in the iOS game market, recently previewed a new first person shooter title for their fall lineup.







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Samsung Mobile UK manager Gary Twohig revealed in an interview with SiliconRepublic that a 10-inch version of the Galaxy Tab will be released during the first half of next year. The devices, including the seven-inch version, will not sport a Super AMOLED display, he added, but the displays will be capable of displaying HD video. The 10-inch Galaxy Tab will still have a version of Android, but whether it's 2.2, 3.0 or a future release like Honeycomb isn't known....

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Michael Dell flashed a 7-inch version of its Android-based Streak tablet at Oracle OpenWorld...but offered no real details.

GTA TeleGuam has announced that the iPhone 4 will be available tomorrow, September 24th, on its mpulse wireless network. Those wanting a head start can reserve one now, though GTA's website does warn, "All phones are available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last."

Roland Certeza, GTA's executive vice president of sales, was all enthusiasm this week. "Customer response to iPhone in Guam has been overwhelming," he said, "and we are confident the unique features of iPhone 4 will be received with great excitement by our customers." While we couldn't find pricing or plan information on the GTA website, Certeza did say, "GTA customers will find it easy and affordable to enjoy the great new innovations of iPhone 4 with our range of plans and pricing."

If you're in Guam for the launch, let us know! We'd love to see your...

Booq has introduced its new Cobra Courier XS bag for the iPad. This messenger-style bag features a black, ballistic nylon exterior with water-repellant coating, nylon twill lining, nappa leather trim and flap, a dedicated plush-lined and padded iPad compartment, a water-resistant rubberized bottom, an adjustable seatbelt shoulder strap, multiple…

The FCC today voted unanimously for using the white space frequencies between TV signals for unlicensed wireless access. The decision will let anyone develop devices that can operate at long range without having to get permission, giving them a form of 'super' Wi-Fi that could connect all of a user's devices even when well outside of the home. Dell, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and others have all expressed interest in the technology....

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Most people seem to agree the iPad is a pretty great device for reading (although perhaps not the best, eh Amazon?). However, the debate still rages on about how suitable it is for making stuff. When it was first announced, there was plenty of snark from bloggers like Paul Thurrott, who wrote:

"When you go out and about with just an iPad, you're sending a message that you're not going to contribute. You're just there to consume."
Obviously, we beg to disagree, and not because we're a pro-Apple site. It's probably fair to say that, despite comprehensive tools like iWork, a variety of just-give-me-my-text editors like myTexts, and even...

Go Solar USA has began shipping its Apple Peel 520 case for the iPod touch in China. Introduced at the start of September, it promises to turn the iPod touch into a full-fledged smartphone. Manufactured by China's Yosion, the case has a built-in battery that extends life by 4.5 hours, a Dock Connector and SIM card slot....

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Apple will launch its first retail store in Spokane, Washington this Saturday, opening the doors at 10AM local time. The outlet is based in the River Park Square shopping center along West Main Avenue, and should have regular hours of 10AM to 9PM Monday through Saturday, and 11AM to 6PM on Sunday. No workshops have been scheduled so far....

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Archaeologist Steven Ellis and his team are using iPad — with apps like Pages, FMTouch, iDraw, OmniGraffle, and Photos — to capture invaluable historical data in the trenches at Pompeii. Says Ellis, “That my team could both type and draw on the screen, and also examine all previously entered data, made it an ideal single-device solution.”

A newly-published Apple patent application suggests the company is working on ways of reducing the internal size of the headphone jacks featured on its portable devices. Entitled “Audio Jack with Pogo Pins for Conductive Contacts,” the patent describes an audio headphone jack that employs retractable Pogo pins to conserve…

Complex recently took Canon's new pocket camera for a test drive. It is awesome. Definitely one of the top cameras to drop this year.

When I first got my Mac, it came with all the standard applications found in the applications folder. I used to find that opening an application from the applications Grid, on the Dock, was much easier and quicker than opening an application through the Finder.

Over time, with more applications being installed on my computer, my applications Grid became larger and larger. Instead of seeing a small bunch of icons that I could easily recognize and navigate, I literally had dozens of icons on my applications Grid. This made it very difficult to distinguish the one application that I was looking for. It was like looking at a sea of multi-colored icons that were all blurring into one. Maybe you know what I'm talking about?

Naturally, I had my most used applications accessible directly from the Dock, but for all of my other applications, I started using the Finder or Spotlight to locate and launch them instead. That is, until a friend showed me an obvious way to navigate a...

A recent Apple summer intern revealed via LinkedIn that he worked as an "Apple TV Apps Engineer," further supporting the notion that Apple may open the platform to third-party developers.

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JD Power today published a second study of cellphone satisfaction in the US that showed Android having closed the gap in perceived quality with the iPhone. Apple still earned top marks from owners with an exact 800 score, but Motorola's Droid line has all but wiped out the earlier chasm, scoring 791. Its fellow Android competitor HTC has also pushed past the industry average for the first time to reach 781....

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Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg shot down rumors that Apple’s iPhone will be coming to his network in the next few months, dashing the hopes of potential customers that have been trying to wish their fantasy into reality. Mr. Seidenberg is hoping Apple will be willing to sign a deal once Verizon’s 4G network is in place, which won’t happen until 2012.






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Apple's stock price has been reaching stratospheric heights lately, and today it may have even made it to the mesosphere.

A stock alert this morning showed AAPL at 288.04, which is a new 52 week high as well as the highest price the company's stock has ever reached.

Although we're getting close to October, the traditional month of stock market crashes, it's good to see that our favorite consumer electronics company is doing this well.

As this post was being written, AAPL was up over $289 a share.

TUAWAAPL hits new 52 week and all-time high originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our ...

We've received a number of tips this morning from readers who say that their credit cards are being charged for pre-ordered Apple TVs. That generally means that they're about to ship. Customers tell us that the charges began to show up overnight and into this morning.

The online Apple Store still lists the shipping time as 2-3 weeks. I haven't ordered one myself, but the Netflix feature alone makes it very tempting. Start looking for yours soon.

In the meantime, consider grabbing a package tracking app and follow your new toy's journey.

TUAWApple TV pre-orders ready to ship originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our...