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• Bug found with Automator and iTunes 10 (Macworld.com)

  Macworld.com - As you’re aware, Apple just released iTunes 10. With that release has come some changes—both expected and not so.

• Remains of the Day: Gimme fallout shelter (Macworld.com)

  Macworld.com - Every time there’s an Apple event, there’s fallout. Big, nasty, mutate-ants-into-monstrous-rampaging-creatures fallout. With Apple’s media shindig on Wednesday, there’s no shortage of rejoinders and responses from media executives, smartphone rivals, and even…a golf company? Tee off on the remainders for Thursday, September 2, 2010.

• IPad faces new tablet challengers (Investor's Business Daily)

  Investor's Business Daily - Electronic giants Samsung and Toshiba each unveiled new tablet PCs running Google's (NMS:GOOG) Android OS that aim to tap consumer demand ignited by the Apple (NMS:AAPL) iPad. Samsung's Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch touch screen and WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Samsung said pricing will be $200-$300, depending on required 3G phone plans. Toshiba's Folio 100 features a larger 10-inch screen, but initially will only have WiFi connectivity. It'll be priced at $510. Apple rose 0.7% to 252.17.

• Samsung Galaxy Tab vs. the iPad: Compare For Yourself (PC World)

  PC World - The Android vs. Apple battle has officially made its way into the world of tablets.

• Dock your encased iPhone, iPod with dockStubz (Macworld.com)

  Macworld.com - iPhone and iPod cases come in various shapes, sizes, and levels of protection, but rare is the case that lets you connect your iPhone to a dock while you’re using it.

• Samsung Unleashes Its Galaxy Tab on Apple's iPad (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - Samsung on Thursday introduced the Galaxy Tab, a tablet PC aimed at the heart of Apple's iPad, at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany. Samsung presented the tablet with a pun that cites a "new galaxy of possibilities."

• With iPod Refresh, Apple is Fixing Mistakes (PC World)

  PC World - Apple's new line of iPods might be the best ever, if only because last year's models were plagued with technical problems and miscalculations.

• See what iPhone users are listening to with SongStumblr (Macworld.com)

  Macworld.com - When you walk into a cafe and note the numerous iPhone-toting denizens with telltale white earbuds firmly embedded in their ears, do you wonder what they’re listening to? If so, Frimby’s new music discovery and sharing app for iOS, SongStumblr, could help you find out. Recently updated to 2.0, SongStumblr uses your iPhone’s 3G and Bluetooth abilities to let you see what others are listening to around the world as well as around the block.

• iTunes TV rentals now available on Mac and PC (Macworld.com)

  Macworld.com - Looking to catch the most recent season of Lost, but don’t want to succumb the baggage of having to buy a bunch of episodes that you’ll only watch once? Relax, friend, because if you’re an iTunes 10 user, you can now rent TV shows from the comfort of your very own…computer.

• Samsung to challenge Apple's iPad with own tablet (Reuters)

  Reuters - Samsung Electronics' first tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, will go on sale in two weeks, it said on Thursday, turning up the heat on Apple Inc's iPad.

  
  

• NASA launches iPad application (AFP)

  AFP - NASA has landed on the iPad.

  
  

• Twitter launches iPad application (AFP)

  AFP - Hot microblogging service Twitter launched an application for the Apple iPad on Thursday to rave reviews from technology blogs.

  
  

• Facebook Connect mysteriously disappears from Apple's Ping (Macworld.com)

  Macworld.com - Apple has mentioned Facebook Connect support for new social network Ping in Wednesday’s keynote, the iTunes 10 how-to video, on the Ping Website, and even in a conversation with All Things D. So why is the feature apparently no longer available?

• iOS 4.1 to Finally Fix iPhone 4 Proximity Sensor (PC World)

  PC World - It's official. iOS 4.1 is "coming soon" for iPhone and iPod Touch users. While the Apple Web site devoted to announcing the update focuses on new bells and whistles, the importance of iOS 4.1 is that it will hopefully resolve the remaining issues that make the iPhone 4 dysfunctional for many.

• Samsung, Toshiba take on Apple with 'iPad killers' (AFP)

  AFP - Competition to Apple's highly successful iPad hotted up on Thursday as Samsung and Toshiba unveiled rival tablet PCs that they hope will steal some of the Californian giant's thunder.

  
  

• Meet the Galaxy Tab (PC World)

  PC World - Samsung debuted the Galaxy Tab on Thursday, a portable tablet computer that just might be the first significant challenger to Apple's iPad. The Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch multitouch display, rear- and front-facing cameras, 1Ghz processor, 1080p high-definition video playback, maximum 64GB storage and Android OS 2.2. The new tablet device will also come with 3G, Bluetooth 3.0 and 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity. Samsung says the Galaxy Tab is only the beginning of the company's foray into touch-based tablet devices.

• CourseNotes for iPad gains sharing, premium content (Macworld.com)

  Macworld.com - Taking class notes is going digital in a big way with the iPad, and a major CourseNotes upgrade aims to make the process more social and flexible.

• Apple TV a first step for more ambitious plans? (Reuters)

  Reuters - Critics hoping for more from Apple Inc's Web-to-TV plans -- a device, say, that would revolutionize living room entertainment the way the iPad changed tablet computing -- may just need to wait a bit longer.

• Samsung unveils iPad competitor Galaxy (AP)

  AP - Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled a new tablet PC named Galaxy Tab as the latest device meant to rival Apple Inc.'s popular iPad.

  
  

• Apple posts video from special event (Macworld.com)

  Macworld.com - Apple bucked tradition and streamed Wednesday’s special event live, so that iPod and Apple TV enthusiasts (with well-equipped Macs, iPhones, or iPads) could watch Steve Jobs show off the company’s latest wizardry in near real-time.