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Apple's stock has plunged over 10% in after hours trading since Apple announced record and expectation beating 3rd Quarter results, currently sitting at just under $150 after closing at $166.49. Apple's stock price is notoriously volatile after quarterly conference calls due in part to Apple's habit of understating estimates for future quarters which they routinely beat. In addition to a low...

This morning the MacRumors forums crossed the 200,000 member threshold. The rate of new registrations reached a peak of nearly 10,000 per month in January and February 2008, in the wake of the MacBook Air launch at Macworld San Francisco. While the rate decreased in the months following, it has recently spiked again to nearly 8,500 in June due in part to excitement over the iPhone 3G launch at ...

According to Segway forums, Segway Chief Technology Officer and designer Doug Field has up until now lead their entire engineering team is apparently leaving the company to become Vice President of Product Design at Apple. Doug has been the driving force in making the Segway what it is today and will be sorely missed at the company. However, with every change comes good and bad. So while it's bad...

Developer Thomas Joos has ported Flash Lite to the iPhone as a stand-alone application, according to iPhone Atlas. The port does not represent a Flash plug-in for Mobile Safari, but rather as a method for mobile application development. For more information on Flash Lite, see Adobe's website. Adobe has previously stated that they have a version of Flash in development for the...

Adobe released Flash Player 10 beta 2 via its Adobe Labs website this week. According to one of its developers, the new mac version promises to bring up to 3 times the performance for certain operations. If you have followed GUIMark at all you will notice that this version of the player runs this benchmark substantially better on OSX than any previous Flash Player version. It should be up to 3...

AT&T has announced detailed pricing information for its iPhone 3G plans and will start selling the iPhone 3G at 8am on July 11th in the U.S. AT&T also confirmed that they will be subsidizing the price for new and current iPhone customers at the WWDC-announced price of $199 (8GB) and $299 (16GB). These prices are specifically available to the following customers: - iPhone customers ...

Apple's iPhone 3G will be encased in environmentally-friendly packaging according to a Dutch blog and translated by The Register. The report suggests that Apple has contracted Dutch company PaperFoam to create the insert which holds the iPhone. The insert would be 100% recyclable and made from natural resources, either potato starch or Tapioca starch. The company has been previously...

Microsoft's MacBU has announced that it is working to bring Solver to Excel 2008 as part of a future update. Today, the best option for people who need Solver is to run Excel 2004 and Excel 2008 side-by-side, and switch to the 2004 environment for workbooks that require Solver. However, we have been hearing loud and clear from our customers particularly in education that the side-by-side...

China Mobile says that talks geared towards bring Apple's iPhone to mainland China have cleared a big hurdle, according to Reuters. But there is no timetable for when China Mobile would bring the iPhone to mainland China, a spokeswoman said. "Apple is no longer insisting on a revenue-sharing policy, so the biggest hurdle for China Mobile to bring in the iPhone has been cleared, but there are...

Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe Acrobat 9. According to Adobe's website, new or enhanced features include: - Capturing web pages as PDF - Insert video (FLV or H.264) into PDF. Video can be marked up. - Content management via PDF Portfolio feature - Professionally designed templates - 256 bit encryption - Enhanced review tracker - Electronic Form importer from Microsoft...

Businessweek has a recap of newly-released preliminary research from market research firm iSuppli indicating that the component costs of Apple's iPhone 3G will stand at $173 for the 8GB model, down from $226 from the original 4GB version. Another market research firm has previously estimated the iPhone 3G's component cost at approximately $100, however that firm had estimated a $170 cost for...

Gartner has announced that more than 1 billion personal computers are in use worldwide, and the number should double by 2014 driven largely by emerging market sales. "Mature markets such as the United States, Western Europe, and Japan currently account for 58 percent of the worlds installed PCs, but these markets only account for 15 percent of the worlds population," said George Shiffler, research ...

Growing threads on both MacRumors and Apple's discussion forums are reporting intermittent vertical striping with current generation 15" MacBook Pros. MacRumors reader-submitted photos of the issue According to affected users, the striping appears to occur when the display is changing brightness, often when waking from sleep or powering up or taking pictures with Photo Booth. To temporarily...

During Adobe's quarterly conference call last night, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirmed that the company was working on a version of Flash for the iPhone. With respect to the iPhone, we are working on it. We have a version thats working on the emulation. This is still on the computer and you know, we have to continue to move it from a test environment onto the device and continue to make it...

Stephen Colbert got a free iPhone from Apple once, but will he be able to get it twice? The Comedy Central comedian made the "plea" this past Tuesday on The Colbert Report (viewable via Comedy Central website). But then yesterday not only does Apple come out with a new iPhone that's $200 cheaper and 3x faster, it's also HUGE! I thought it was a status symbol to pull out an iPhone from my...

AMD today announced the new ATI Radeon HD 3870 for Mac & PC Edition. AMD says the video card is "designed exclusively for Apple's Mac Pro systems" and includes two dual-link DVI ports, 512 MB of GDDR4 graphics memory, and 320 stream processors. AMD is introducing the ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition to enhance the Mac experience to maximum levels of 3D gaming and HD performance, said Matt...

Apple has released QuickTime 7.5, now available via Software Update. QuickTime 7.5 improves application compatibility and addresses security issues. This release is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users. For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798....

At today's Worldwide Developers Conference Keynote address, Apple previewed iPhone Firmware 2.0 and highlighted some additional features of the developer SDK. New Features In addition to features that were previewed at the iPhone Software Roadmap event, Apple announced new features of Firmware 2.0 and the SDK, including: - contact searching - complete iWork document support - complete...

At the beginning of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs highlighted some of the interest that has been shown from the enterprise market since the preview of iPhone Firmware 2.0 and the Software Development Kit. According to Apple, 35% of the Fortune 500, including the top 5 commercial banks, top 5 securities firms, 6 of 7 top airlines, 8 of 10 top...

During today's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple showed off some of the applications that have been developed using the iPhone Software Development Kit. We've highlighted some apps of interest here. Sega Super Monkey Ball Initially previewed at the SDK launch, Super Monkey Ball now includes over 100 levels. In playing through the last world, Sega demonstrated how they used the...