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Verizon iPhone: Analyst expects 9 million units to sell in 2011 The Verizon iPhone – and yes, it's looking like more and more of a sure thing – will sell 9 million units in 2011, stealing a good deal of thunder from AT&T, which currently holds an exclusive contract with Apple. That's the word today from Gene Munster, an analyst at the investment firm Piper Jaffray, and an expert on the smartphone market....

Facebook adds chat and push notifications to Android app The official Facebook application for Android took a major step forward yesterday with the integration of two key features. The latest release (v1.5) now offers chat and push notifications, making the native app considerably more appealing to users. These features come on the heels of last month's addition of Places and Groups and should do well to keep the masses happy for at least a little whil...

Hit Game Engine Launches On iPhone Thursday, Android Later   This should remove any last vestige of doubt about whether Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices are serious videogame machines. The technology behind hit videogames like Gears of War 3 and Medal of Honor will be released for free on Thursday to any developer for Apple’s mobile device...

LG Optimus 2X: first dual-core smartphone launches with Android, 4-inch display, 1080p video recording      That's right, it's official. Needless to say, that LG Star we recently got our paws on is very real, though it won't go by that name at retail -- just as LG's own release materials had suggested, this monster has picked up the Optimus 2X name as it morphs from a prototype into brutally fast, overpowered reality. At the phone's heart beats a dual-core Tegra 2 processor running at 1GHz,&nbs...

Apple updates AppleTV software and printer drivers Apple has released a couple of updates, one being for the AppleTV operating system software that addresses a couple of issues with high-definition output and downloading TV episodes and movies. The second set of updates is a set of printer drivers for use with OS X. The latest updates include drivers from Canon, Lexmark, and FujiXerox. AppleTV software update The AppleTV firmware update is for the second-generation AppleTV units and is available only through software update on AppleTV devices....

Apple Pushes Color E-Books; Where's Amazon? Playing up one advantage of the iPad over E-ink readers, Apple said on Tuesday that it will launch more than 100 color e-books in its iBookstore. And not just children's books, either--among Apple's new offerings are "Ad Hoc at Home," a cookbook by famous chef Thomas Keller; "Beginnings," by photographer Anne Geddes; and Ansel Adams' photo collection, "In the National Parks....

Apple updates LED Cinema Display firmware Today Apple issued a firmware update for the 27-inch LED Cinema Display (the model introduced on July 27th) which addresses intermittent audio dropouts some users have experienced while using the display, which had been previously addressed in a technote on Apple's support site. Under certain cirumstances, audio would cut out, and require unplugging the display or restarting the computer. This is not the same update as the LED Cinema Display Software Update 1.0, issued this past Septembe...