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Apple "is on track to sell 4 million iPhones when Apple [CEO Steve Jobs] addresses the San Francisco crowd [during an Apple special event scheduled for June 9th], according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky," Scott Martin reports for Red Herring.

"'We continue to expect iPhone upside (our outlook remains 14M CY08, 24M CY09), along with 'halo effect' impact ...

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"Apple has filed a trademark application for 'Cocoa Touch,' the software toolset that allows developers to access the Multi-Touch and accelerometer features in the iPhone 3G and iPod touch," macNN reports.

"Apple has filed under International Class 009 in the U-S, seeking a trademark in the programming, data recovery and data analysis category. The Cocoa Touch API fra...

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"Confirming details first reported by iLounge in July, apparent dimensional drawings for both the fourth-generation iPod nano and second-generation iPod touch have appeared, suggesting that the devices will have familiar measurements but with interesting new shapes and features," Charles Starrett reports for iLounge.

"Images of the supposed new iPod nano show a device...

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Digg founder Kevin Rose is reporting that Apple's forthcoming (September 9th) iTunes 8 will include a new feature called "Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together."

According to Rose, the new feature will also include the "Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don't already have."
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MarketWatch's Rex Crum weighs in with a video report on what might be coming from Apple during the company's September 9th special event in San Francisco:
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"Snow Patrol will become the first artists to deliver an interactive album application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch, ahead of the release of their fifth studio album next month," Stuart Clarke reports for Music Week.

"The application, which will be downloadable online, will enable fans to access a raft of extra content including artwork, behind-the-scenes image...

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"As the head of a company that sells used consumer electronics, David Chen follows sales of the iPhone with the precision of a mathematician. At the outset, the price of the first version of Apple's music-playing wireless device behaved as expected: When the newer iPhone 3G hit store shelves, demand for the earlier iteration plummeted. Then the unexpected happened," Olga Kharif reports f...

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