Quarterly earnings, tablet rumors, AT&T, Big Kindle is watching, Microsoft retail stores, and more.

• Apple will be announcing their quarterly earnings on July 21 (a few hours after the show is recorded)
• Tablet rumors heat up once again
• AT&T is a Big, Steaming Heap of Failure
• Foxconn employee commits suicide after iPhone prototype goes missing
• Amazon remotely deletes George Orwell books from Kindle devices to to copyright issue
• Did Apple call Microsoft and demand that they stop running Laptop Hunters advertisements?
• Controversial iPhone apps such as Cannabis and Trapster
• Skype 2.8 for Mac OS X is now out of beta and adds cross-platform screen sharing among other bug fixes and features
• Microsoft plans to open retail stores near existing Apple Store locations
• Apple releases iTunes 8.2.1 software, breaks sync compatibility with Palm Pre
• MacBreak Dev

Picks of the week:

• Alex Lindsay: Labor Mate for iPhone - $0.99
• Scott Bourne: Helios Sun Position Calculator for iPhone - $29.99
• Leo Laporte. Discover popular freeware and shareware for Mac OS X and iPhone using iusethis.com, Free; and wakoopa.com, Free

Audible pick of the week: Angela's Ashes, Unabridged, By Frank McCourt, Narrated by Frank McCourt. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/macbreak.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Scott Bourne

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