Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty says Apple is outperforming the PC market in sales growth, and this was before Apple released its new MacBook Pros in June, according to a report on Fortune's Apple 2.0 Wednesday. Of course, releasing a new notebook would only spur sales for the months after its release.

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The iPhone OS 3.1 beta update and iPhone SDK 3.1 beta are now available to individuals and developers alike delivering bug fixes and much needed updates. This update comes only two weeks following the launch of version 3.0, and only a day following the return of Steve Jobs.

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The massive order stems from the state Department of Education's decision to expand the Maine Learning Technology Initiative into all public high schools. Maine has been providing Apple MacBooks to middle school students and faculty under the MLTI since 2002. Apple had to compete with other computer makers for the first and the latest contracts, the state said.

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Apple will be hosting its third quarter earnings conference call at 2PM pacific time on Tuesday, July 21. The company released new Mac models along with the iPhone 3GS during the quarter, potentially driving up sales to new and repeat customers.

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It may not be MobileMe 2.0, but Apple has applied another shot of elbow grease to its suite of Web services. Continuing MobileMe's slow and steady trend this year, minor new features and fixes have been applied to almost every aspect of the service's Web apps.

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On Friday, U.K.-based Imagination Technologies Group PLC said on its Web site that Apple has purchased another 2.2 million shares in the company. At 9.5%, Apple's share of Imagination is triple what it was in December.

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Things will be very different for him and his team. Part of the reason is that Jobs has had a near-death health issue to deal with, and he may now realize that his most important role will be to create a vision that can be carried forward for decades, not just the next product cycle.

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In the past two years, there's been a "huge spike" of new users, according to Schiller, and Apple has seen the user base grow from 25 million to near 75 million users today, in 2009.

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The Macs in question are a refurbished iMac 20-inch 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and the world’s thinnest notebook – the MacBook Air with a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and hard disk drive (HDD). For those looking to get their hands on Snow Leopard the minute it’s out, the two systems not only pack the necessary hardware to run the new beast, but also qualify for the recently announced ten-dollar upgrade. Read on to learn more.

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Over the course of time I collect questions that merit no more than a couple of lines in response, which makes for an awfully puny column. But gang them together and you've got something. Something like this...

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