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Apple Quietly Bumps Specs for White MacBook Notebook, Retains $999 Price

Early Wednesday, Apple quietly upgraded its entry-level MacBook notebook. The white plastic MacBook, which is still priced at US$999, now offers a 160 GB hard drive, 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and a slightly faster RAM speed with the model sporting 2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM according to The Unofficial Apple Weblog. The […]

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Jobs Apparently Still “Closely Involved” in “Key Aspects” of Apple

According to “people familiar with the matter,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs remains “closely involved” with “key aspects” of running Apple according to a Wall Street Journal article. Though currently on medical leave since January, the paper is reporting that Jobs is working hard from home and is still involved in both strategy and key products, […]

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Macworld Expo to Shift From January to February in 2010

IDG World Expo announced Monday that Macworld Expo 2010, which will lack Apple, will occur February 9th through the 13th as opposed to the customary slot of January 4th through the 8th, as had been previously announced. According to AppleInsider, IDG said the revised dates are the result of feedback from the Mac community that […]

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Unibody 17″ MacBook Pro Notebooks Now Shipping

A slew of readers have informed AppleInsider that their order updates for Apple’s unibody 17″ MacBook Pro notebook have been updated to “shipping” as of Friday. The notebook, which was launched in January at Macworld, showed signs of delay when some customers were told their orders would likely slip into March despite promises it would […]

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Microsoft Implements Hotmail POP3 Support in United States, Other Countries

Back in January, Microsoft announced that the company would be bringing POP3 access to its Hotmail services in select countries, a change which would prove helpful to a number of iPhone owners. Unfortunately, the service had yet to become available in the United States. According to iPhone Alley, Microsoft seems to have implemented this feature […]