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JP Morgan Analyst: MacBook Air Sales to Top 3-Billion-Dollars a Year / Wu Not Worried About Johnson Defection to J.C. Penney / Apple Back-to-School Promo Officially Kills Free iPod Deal / Macworld UK: 65-Pound Gift Card for Apple Back-to-School Promo in UK / GigaOm Looks at Possible Reasons for Apple Back-to-School Promo Change / American Airlines Pilots Use of iPads Instead of Paper Charts in Cockpit / ADA Winner Pulse Grabs 9-Million Dollars in Funding / NYT: Facebook Working on Native App for iPad / RIM Ships 500,000 PlayBooks in Most Recent Quarter / Apple Having Work Done on NYC-Store’s Glass Cube Facade

Millennial Media: iOS Devices Still Generating the Most Ad-Dollars / “Big Brother Camera Security” App Developer: You Probably Have an Easily Guessed Pass-Code on Your iPhone / Apple Pulls “Big Brother Camera Security” App from App Store / U.S. Senators Propose Bill Governing Location Data Collection on Smartphones and Tablets / Report: Apple Back-to-School Promotion Drops Free iPod for 100-Dollar iTunes Gift Card / MacRumors: References in AirPort Utility Update Indicate New Time Capsules and AirPort Extremes / TUAW: Apple Support Site Gets Friendlier to the Touch / Imagination Technologies Licenses PowerVR 6 Series, Likely to Land in iThings / Three Chinese Citizens Sent to Prison over iPad 2 Leaks / Apple Sued Over Use of Term “iBooks” / NASA Sending Two iPhones to Space on Last Shuttle Mission

Apple Senior VP of Retail Leaving to Head J.C. Penney (Seriously) / Report: Apple Actively Recruiting Johnson Replacement / Official: Apple Selling Unlocked GSM iPhone 4s in U.S. / AT&T Not Unlocking iPhone 4s for Existing Customers / UBS Analyst: Nokia/Apple Settlement Was Good Timing for Apple / Apple: Samsung Motion to See iPhone 5 and iPad 3 = Harassment / Munster Boo-Hoos Over Mac Sales Only Growing 22-Percent This Quarter / TUAW: Apple to Drop Term “AirPort” for “Wifi” in Lion / Updates for Office for Mac and AirPort Utility for Windows and Mac / BBC Working on App for Field Reporters to Shoot and Broadcast from iThings / Two More Companies File Preemptive Suits Against Lodsys / Woz Plays Emcee at House of Blues Show

Apple Settles Patent Lawsuits with Nokia / Apple Quizzes Developers About “Legal Issues” Around Applications / Apple Files to Intervene in Suits Between Lodsys and Developers / ForeSee Sues to Have Lodsys Patents Invalidated / Lodsys Sues a Load of Big Name Companies for Patent Infringement / Apple Argues for App Store Trademark Calling Amazon Appstore “Inferior” / iCloud Communications Sues Apple for Trademark Infringement / Fortune: Apple Share Price Drops During WWDC-Week Nothing New / Rumor Says Unlocked iPhone 4 Hitting Apple Stores Tomorrow (But Is It “Totally Reliable?”) / 9to5 Mac: Secret Source Says Next iPhone in Final Testing / Rumor: Sprint iPhone in Testing Too / Canaccord Analyst: iPhone 4 Still Top-Selling Smartphone for Verizon and AT&T / Apple Seeds New Snow Leopard Update beta to Developers / NPD Analyst: Mac App Store Delivery of Lion to Hurt Traditional Retailers / Nuance Releases Free iOS App for Inputing into Computer Apps / Apple Confirms Some Verizon iPad 2s Recalled Due to Duplicate MEIDs / Purported Jobs microMail Points to Deaths of iWeb and MobileMe Hosting / Comic Book Bio of Steve Jobs Due Out in August / Instagram 8 Months In: 5 Million Users and 4 Employees / Grab the Stitcher App at http://stitcher.com/macosken for your chance at an iPad 2

Apple Drops Some In-App Purchase Rules for Publishers / Apple Announces “Lion Up-to-Date” Program for Recent Mac Buyers / Apple Issues Firmware Update for Unspecified iMacs / The Telegraph: Music-bits of iCloud Not Likely for UK Until 2012 / All Things D: Twitter Not the Only Social Network Embedded in iOS 5 / TUAW: Lost and Banned Apps Re-Downloadable Through iClouds “Purchased” Windows / Apple Hires New Agency Relations Exec for iAds / Foxconn Boss Says Company Will Improve Apple Product Manufacturing Efficiency in Second Half of 2011 / Foxconn Boss Praises Apple CEO Steve Jobs / CNET: Can Wireless Carriers Keep Up with iCloud and Other Clouds? / Strategy Analytics: Carriers Can Afford to Keep Up with Wireless Demand / HP’s webOS-Based TouchPad On Sale in U.S. on July 1 / Dell Starting Dell Streak 10 Pro in China (Skipping the States) / Cupertino Says “Yes, Yes, a Thousand Times Yes” to Apple’s New HQ Proposal

Gartner Drops 2011 PC-Sales Growth Expectations in Wake of iPad / DisplaySearch Notes the Rise of “Whitebox” Tablets / Apple Bans Certain Types of DUI Checkpoint Notifiers from App Store / Apple Updates iTunes for Second Time This Week / WWDC: Apple Names ADA Winners for 2011 / Firemint: Apple TV 2 + iPad 2 + iOS 5 = Console Gaming Plans / iTunes Songs Purchased with DRM Re-Download via iCloud with DRM / Business Insider: “iPod” Function Changed to “Music” in iOS 5 / The Register: Apple Seemingly Borrows ‘Wifi Sync” Name and Logo from Jailbreak App It Rejected Last Year / Evernote Peek: Study App Designed for iPad 2’s Smart Cover

TechCrunch: Apple Plays the Numbers at WWDC / Devs Says Infinity Blade Has Taken in 10-Million Dollars in First Six Months / Piper Jaffray Analyst Expects 8 Million iPads Sold This Quarter Based on WWDC Keynote Numbers / Fortune: Analysts Mostly Positive on WWDC Keynote Announcements / Morgan Keegan Analyst Downgrades RIM Thanks (in Part) to iMessenger in iOS 5 / Citi Analyst Says Intel Working Its Way Into iThings by 2013 / Verizon iPhone Locked Out of iCloud beta Features / Apple Updates iBooks with Kid-Friendly Features / Apple Updates Find My iPhone App to Deal with Offline Devices / Walmart Drops Price of 16GB iPhone 4 to 147-Dollars Through End of June / FT Circumvents iTunes Subscription Terms with New Web App / The Steve Jobs Show Returns to the Mac OS Ken Posterous Page at http://macosken.posterous.com

Lion Due in July for 30-Dollars Through Mac App Store Only / Apple Demos Scads of New Features in iOS 5, Expected in the Fall / Gruber: Source Says Carriers May Not Have had Heads-Up About iMessage / Electronista: iMessage Another Shot Across RIM’s Bow / Steve Jobs Demos Mostly Free iCloud, Also Due in the Fall / Apple Explains the MobileMe to iCloud Transition to Current MobileMe Subscribers / No Streaming Mentioned for iTunes in the Cloud / Nuance Notably Not Mentioned During WWDC Keynote / Apple Releases iTunes 10.3 / Apple Adds iBookstore to iTunes / iTunes Rules Reinstate 15-Minute Window for App Downloads Without Re-Entering Password / Grab the Stitcher App at http://stitcher.com/macosken for your chance at an iPad 2

Scoble Says Twitter Integration GOes Deep in iOS 5 / MacRumors: iTunes Text Hints at Auto-Downloads for iOS App Updates / Apple Insider: Rumors That AirPort and Time Capsule will Run on Customized iOS / Gruber Source of a Source of a Source: iCloud Less the New MobileMe and More the New iTunes / Apple Appears to Have Hired Dev Behind Jailbreak App MobileNotifier / 9 to 5 Mac: “Chatter” Indicates Lion Release for Next Week / NY Post: Apple pays Up to 150-Million Dollars to Get Labels into iCloud / ZDNet: Apple Getting a Surprising 30-Percent from iCloud Transactions / Disney CEO Says Studio Will Skip iCloud for Now / Amazon Taking Pre-Orders for Authorized Steve Jobs Biography Eight Months Early / NC: Greensboro Apple Store Gets Rammed by Car; Nothing Gets Stolen (Except the Car) / German Street Artists Put Jumbled Windows Logo on Apple Store Construction Barrier

Moscone WWDC Banners Reveal Apparent iCloud Logo / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Retail Locations Reportedly Receiving New Signage for Next Tuesday / TUAW: Signs of AirPort Refresh Spotted in Apple Retail / 9 to 5 Mac Hears of New Update Functionality Added to Time Capsule / Apple Releases Official WWDC App for Attendees / CNET Says Apple Bags Universal for iCloud Music Offering / LA Times Says iCloud Music Bits Free at First, Then 25-Dollars a Year / Goldman Analyst: Apple Execs “Overtly Optimistic” About Future of iOS / Apple Defends Walled Garden Versus Android Fragmentation to Goldman Analyst / Motorola Mobility CEO Says 70-Percent of Android Phone Returns Due to Bad App Experiences / Ticonderoga Analyst Says Current Quarter iPhone Sales Set to Match Previous Quarter Sales / Gleacher Analyst Lowers iPhone Sales Expectations by 5 Million Units for 2011 / AT&T Wireless Chief Not Happy with AT&T Wireless Call Quality / Apple Updates GarageBand for iPad and iMovie for iOS / Foxconn’s Chengdu Plant Back Online Post Explosion / The Register: Auto-Update for MAC Defender Definitions Seems to Be Working in Snow Leopard