UBS telecom analyst John Hodulik today raised his forecast for September quarter Apple (AAPL) iPhone activations at AT&T (T) to 4.5 million from 2.5 million, which would be up from the 3.2 million activated in the June quarter. In response, Hodulik trimmed his Q3 EPS estimate for AT&T to 55 [...]

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The blogosphere is abuzz with complaints that Apple’s (AAPL) new Ping social networking feature in iTunes is awash in comment spam. As anyone who writes a blog can tell you, the worlds spammers and scammers are constantly on the hunt for new places to post their malevolent spewings; the spam [...]

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Well in case if you were wondering if I ever get up from my desk, here’s evidence to the contrary, courtesy of this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle. In the photo, taken at yesterday’s Apple product launch event, that’s me in the middle; the Apple aficionado on the right is my [...]

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Cirrus Logic (CRUS) shares are trading higher in the pre-market session this morning on rumors that the company could be acquired by Apple (AAPL), the subscription-based market news service TheFlyOnTheWall.com is reporting.
While Apple is a large customer for Cirrus, it seems unlikely to me that the company would want to [...]

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So, it turns out that Apple (AAPL) is still leakier than CEO Steve Jobs might like.
A quick review of some of the rumors on what the company had planned for today’s product launch event finds that the chatter was generally accurate, although in some cases they were over-reaching. Here’s a [...]

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Shares of Netflix (NFLX) are up $8.27, or 7%, at $133.79, after Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs announced the next version of the company’s Apple TV multimedia hub will include a program to stream movies and television shows from Netflix’s “on-demand” service.
Jobs announcement confirmed rumors that have swirled in recent [...]

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I’m here at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco for the Apple (AAPL) product launch, which is expected to include new iPods, and iTunes update, a new Apple TV and who knows what else. At the front of the room is a big version of the guitar with Apple cut-out [...]

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Apple (AAPL) on Wednesday will launch a new, smaller iPod Nano, Apple Insider reports, citing “people familiar with the matter.” The new version is supposedly about 3 cm-by-3cm, or 1.7 inches diagonally, with one side of the device entirely taken up by a display screen. The device would be similar [...]

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Apple (AAPL) on Wednesday will unveil plans to offer 99-cent television show rentals through the iTunes store from both Disney’s (DIS) ABC Network and News Corp.’s (NWS) Fox, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Apple is holding a product launch event on Wednesday in San Francisco, [...]

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Apple (AAPL) will provide a live feed of its product launch taking place at 10 a.m. tomorrow in San Francisco.
But not everyone is going to be able to see it. Here’s what Apple is saying:
Apple will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is [...]

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