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Last week we reported on MMI that Apple was interested in purchasing ARM for a potential deal that could have been worth a whopping $8 billion. It has now become clear, however, that Apple won't be purchasing ARM, but that Imagination Technologies, a mobile graphics chip business that Apple owns a chunk of, is teaming with MIPS Technologies to effectively do battle with ARM Holdings.

The EE Times ...

geohot's next jailbreak tool will most likely be called limera1n. He's been showing proof of blackra1n working on iPhone OS 4.0, as well as a jailbroken iPad. Well, limera1n.com has now popped up with nothing on it but a limey version of the blackra1n icon.

Looks like geohot picked up limera1n.com March 27th, according to the whois. Checking the whois shows the registrant info to be the same for both blackra1n.com and limera1n.com, albeit with a different ...

If you pre-ordered your iPad WiFi + 3G right out of the gate, you'll finally get the goods this Friday, April 30th. If you haven't already placed your order, it will be a few weeks before the tablet shows up at your door. Don't want to wait that long for an iPad 3G? Steve Jobs says you don't have to.

It looks like Jobs has yet again responded by email to an Apple fan's inquiry about the iPad 3G's availability ...

Rumors of an iPod touch model with a built-in camera appear to be substantiated by the appearance of a couple of apparent prototype devices on eBay. If the iPods weren't just elaborate hoaxes, they were 32GB models with integrated cameras on the back. The photos accompanying the listing showed Apple lab stickers, and matched the supposed leaked prototype that appeared on the Web last September. ...

Somewhere along the line, the news story about the discovery of the new iPhone model became more about "how this happened" and "how authorities will handle the situation" rather than what the device itself suggests about where Apple is taking their juggernaut smartphone later this year and into the future.

Like putting the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together, the iPhone 4G ...

For nearly two weeks, the tech world has kept a curious eye toward Israel in response to the country's ban on Apple's iPad. Israel opted to place a veritable embargo on the device until it had been thoroughly tested and inspected by the government. Upon the tablet's April 3rd launch in the US, Apple's Israel distributor did not soon-after provide Israel with enough details on the inner mechanics of ...

An interesting story has emerged in the wake of the Gizmodo/iPhone controversy. Steve Wozniak, in a message to Gizmodo editors, related the tale of how an Apple engineer was summarily terminated for showing him an iPad after midnight on April 3, the day of the official product launch. Although the engineer had an email saying he had permission to take the iPad out of the secure area, apparently showing it was verboten ...

The revelation that the next-generation iPhone would feature a front-facing camera pleased many iPhone users and industry observers who had been clamoring for such a feature for some time. One analyst, however, thinks the camera is all a part of an Apple plan for a whole new kind of social networking: one that lets users share video of themselves while gaming or interacting. There are other ...

Here's a weekend edition of the Weekly App Update. Once again, not a ton of new apps, but LOTS of updates in the last week for our favorite apps!

What's New:

FastSnap
Use the Volume buttons to capture a photo.

iVoiceChanger
Real time change the pitch during call. To perform the call your phone will dial to a remote server using an international number, international rates will apply.

X Project Lite
Fight your way through the hordes of earth fighter ships to secure ...

Okay, so maybe "breezes" isn't the best choice of words, given how long and hard the road to success proved for Apple. But Apple has finally gotten a leg up on Microsoft - at least on Wall Street.

The Standard & Poor's index services unit says Apple, with a market cap of $241.5 billion, is now ahead of Microsoft's $239.5 billion market capitalization. As a result, Apple now lags behind ...

Police are trying to determine if Gizmodo violated California state law by buying an iPhone prototype from someone who said he found it in a bar, according to "a law enforcement official" quoted by CNET yesterday. The official also claims that Apple itself asked for the investigation, which, if true, would contradict persistent rumor that the somewhat unlikely story was just an Apple publicity ...