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Update 1: Here's what Obama talked about with Jobs and everyone else (via WSJ): "The president specifically discussed his proposals to invest in research and development and expand incentives for companies to grow and hire," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to reporters traveling with the president. To follow up on the story about...

We mentioned earlier in the day about Steve Jobs and other tech titans meeting with President Obama. What will they talk about? The future of Silicon Valley? iPhone 5? The Oatmeal speaks the truth: Priceless. [The Oatmeal]

The New York Times is reporting that Apple does not have plans for a smaller iPhone "anytime soon", and that engineers are busy finishing the next iPhone 5, which should be ready by this summer. There's more to this. According to the NYT's second source: Another person who is in direct contact with Apple also...

Popular Mechanics has some interesting "confessions" of an anonymous Apple retail store employee. Are these real? Maybe. Here are a couple of my favorites: The Phone Room The worst is when we have to work the Phone Room, which is where calls to the store are answered. The other day, I felt like I was...

Previously available only on the Blackberry and Android platforms, the UPS app for iPhone is now available in Canada. If you've been using the UPS app on a Blackberry or Android device, the iPhone version has the same functions, such as calculating shipping rates, creating and tracking shipments, finding the closest UPS location, and much more!...

Update 1: The LA Times has an official list of all the attendees meeting Obama tonight in San Francisco. Talk about a list of tech industry giants: John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Carol Bartz, president and CEO, Yahoo! John Chambers, CEO and chairman, Cisco Systems Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter Larry Ellison, co-founder...

Apple gets the most attention at conferences they don't attend. Think about that for a minute. Apple's final conference was the 2009 Macworld Expo, where typically new products and announcements would be made. The Mobile World Congress is an annual gathering of the most influential companies in the mobile industry. Apple didn't bother attending, but...

Update 1: A fix is now in Cydia, called "iBooks Fix". Click here to find out how to install it. This week, Social Apples reports that a change made in the reent Apple iBooks app detects whether an iDevice has been jailbroken, and if so, refused to open content purchased from the iBookstore! Since using...

Keeping it all in sync with MobileMe More MobileMe speculation from "sources" coming your way. I'm going to take this 'source' from Cult of Mac with a grain of salt, especially after hearing about Apple's "cloud-only" iPhone rumour. New details report that MobileMe's plans include a mashup of Foursquare, uStream, and Facebook. As per Cult...

Recent rumours from Digitimes indicated that the next iPhone will sport a 4" display and house a next-generation A5 chip. Other rumours from the WSJ hint at an iPhone 'Nano' with and 'edge to edge' screen. We won't know if any of these come to life until they happen. But in regards to the 4" display, TUAW...

Google has just announced on their blog a new publishing initiative, called Google One Pass. CEO Eric Schmidt introduced this today at Humboldt University in Berlin. With the backlash over Apple's new subscription policy, publishers looking to head elsewhere (if they actually jump ship from iOS is another story) can do so with Google One...

With the announcement of Apple's new subscriptions model, there have been mixed emotions popping up left, right and center around the web. Publishers are crying fowl Apple is taking a 30% cut of subscriptions, and some have even brought up anti-trust issues against this new policy (?!). What exactly is Apple introducing here with their...