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Apple Mac's now account for 21 per cent in the US consumer market, adding that he expects it to continue to grow for the foreseeable future. Apple has broken the ten per cent barrier in worldwide for the first time too.

Asian technology companies are in the throes of extreme investor pessimism. As many as 14 tech stocks with a market value of more than $1 billion in Asia, excluding Japan, have an estimated PEG ratio of less than 0.5, according to my Bloomberg.

No, this isn't going to be another complaint to NBC whining that the Olympics are being tape delayed.I get it, you wanna make money. And, not surprisingly, the best way to make money is to present your hottest events when the most people can watch them. And it seems to be working for you.

AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other carriers, and cell phone makers are embracing a new attitude of openness toward consumers, after seeing the Apple iPhone App Store's success.

If you're already in Beijing, have your iPhone to hand and can't quite figure out if you're about to watch the kayak slalom or synchronised swimming, here comes Google to the rescue. It's just launched an iPhone-friendly version of its Translate service and Chinese is one of the many supported languages.

Apple Inc.'s operating system market share slipped last month as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows halted its slide for only the fourth time in the past 12 months, a research company reported. In July, Apple's Mac OS X powered 7.76% of the computers that accessed the 40,000 sites Net Applications monitors for its clients, the company said Friday. The Mac's share of the OS market was down 0.18 percentage points from June's 7.94% and was lower than May's 7.83%. Windows, meanwhile, posted a small gain in overall share, climbing 0.13 percentage points from June's 90.89% to end July with 91.02%

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Bottom line: Macs aren't "way more" expensive than PCs. So where do things get really hairy with Apple? Upgrades. Apple really stabs you in the face when you're upgrading your Mac. All goes well when you want to buy a base system, but as soon as you want to add options, be prepared to be murdered. I'll talk about this later.

The sudden and unexplained removal of Armin Heinrich's $999.99 "I Am Rich" should act as a warning to other iPhone apps developers out there - Apple can make your apps vanish on a whim.

Apple wields ultimate control over applications running on your iPhone. If it doesn't like an app it flips a "kill switch" that zaps an unpalatable iTunes App off your iPhone in a heart beat. At least that's the buzz today in the blogosphere about a line of code found inside Apple's iPhone 2.0 software by independent iPhone developer Jonathan Zdziarski.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster thinks Apple will introduce new iPods and new model laptop at a special event in September. It's not entirely speculation - the analyst observes Apple to have held such an event for the last three years. And while the analyst doesn't expect an iPhone nano or MacBook touch to appear at the show, he does anticipate some major revisions of Apple laptops. Munster predicts redesigned MacBooks at lower prices, along with a redesigned MacBook Pro. "We note that the MacBook has had the same design since its launch over two years ago, and the MacBook Pro has had essentially the same design since its launch over 2.5 years ago, which was very similar in design to the PowerBook G4 released over 5.5 years ago," he told clients.

Last month we informed you about the August release of Apple's iPhone 3G by Vodafone and Airtel; sprinkled with information on gray-market availability. While it's now official that Airtel will bring the iPhone 3G to India on August 22nd, Vodafone's Chief Marketing Officer, Harit Nagpal, confirms that Vodafone too will launch the iPhone on the 22nd of this month.

The highly anticipated iPhone 3G should see the light of day in India on Aug 22. India's largest mobile-phone operator, Bharti Airtel Ltd, will bring forth the high-end gadget as part of a 70-nation rollout.

I've had my new 3G Apple iPhone for about a month now and I thought I'd take a few minutes to write some of my thoughts and reflections on the experience for people who might be considering upgrading to the new 3G iPhone. First a little background though.

Modality Inc.'s big break came calling via mobile phone. Right after Apple Inc. announced in March that it would allow software developers to build applications for its new iPhone 3G, Modality, of Durham, N.C., got busy.

Konami Digital Entertainment on Wednesday announced the release of Frogger for iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $9.99.

It seems that Apple has listened to user complains with firmware 2.0 and released 2.0.1 firmware. You can go ahead to iTunes and download it there. If you have unlocked iPhone, dont install the new firmware yet since PwnageTool and WinPwn does not work with the new firmware yet.

A weekend story in Britain's Daily Mail has resurrected rumors that Apple plans to introduce a smaller and cheaper version of the iPhone - perhaps for this year's Christmas season.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a short story on the top five mistakes made by new mac users. It includes closing an application window, thinking it has quit, downloading software and then running it from the disk image (runs slowly, can't eject disk image), Windows .EXE files littered around the desktop after they've tried to download software and install it.