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It’s a rare occurrence, the Weekend Update of late. Tired of the World Cup? Anyways, here’s the Apple news for the past couple days. Despite gains from Google, Apple is still number two for smartphones in the U.S. Fring has been approved, meaning 3G Skype calls can be done. . Apple was included in part of a fairly large lawsuit regarding mobile mail patents. Apple is making progress on getting Wi-Fi on the iPhone 4. Remember all of those poor Apple employees who worked the entire day during the iPhone launch, turns out they are getting a decent reward for their services. A lawsuit over AT&T’s exclusivity over the iPhone is oddly moving forward – whatever “forward” might be. The iPhone 4 has been jailbroken, meh.

It’s been a while since Apple sued someone, but they did file lawsuits against resellers who sell fake power adaptors. Despite an earlier report that the iPod touch would be getting a five megapixel camera, MacRumors and iFixIt have determined the iPhone 4’s camera won’t fit in the (current) iPod touch. Rumors are about the next Apple TV continue to emerge, the latest one regarding $.99 streaming movies. New pictures have emerged of what appears to be the next iPod shuffle In closing, Apple has finally decided to start recalling defective Time Capsules.

P.S. Daniel told me I needed to include some hint about TMF’s new theme and that it should be out soon. Here’s the hint: I wouldn’t get your hopes up, I’ve been hearing that for weeks. Did that count?

Despite it seem like almost a weeks since the last one of these came out, it hasn’t really been that long. Late Friday, reports of Apple taking a new role in the TV industry began to pick up. A new Apple Store opened in Paris, while that may not seem like news – the new design is something of note. Reports of iTunes App Store hacking surfaced over the weekend, as MacRumors pointed out – it seems to great exaggeration. This somehow didn’t make it into last Thursday’s news, but Disney acquired Tapulous.

Remember the conversation one user had with Steve over reception issues that Boy Genius posted last week? Apple claims it’s fake, Boy Genius stands by its report. Anyways, Consumer Reports claims that the issue really isn’t that unique. Despite earlier reports that Apple would not be giving everyone free Bumper cases, at least one individual has received them compliments of Apple. Despite earlier reports that Apple would bar Google’s AdMob from selling ads in iOS, the initial roleout seems to say otherwise. It seems Nike+ and iOS 4 aren’t the best of friends as users are reporting issues.

Glenn alluded to earlier that there hasn’t been a list of what to happen at WWDC, that’s because he hasn’t read this post. Of the staff, Charlie is the least interested in WWDC 2010 (although he will be buying a new iPhone), so it seemed appropriate that I write this post. (Yes, that was third then first person – get used to it) And since there really wasn’t a whole lot of non-WWDC Apple news (there actually is really little news on most weekends anyways) – it seemed logical to put this in the same post.

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So… let’s try to catch you up on all of the news in the past five days. A couple days ago Steve Ballmer was in the news quite a bit. First, he had to answer questions regarding Apple’s surpassing marketcap. Then there were some thoughts that he was going to go to WWDC and then he squashed those. After all that marketcap shenanigans, a new report put Apple.com as the number two online retailer.

In the storefront world it was also a big weekend with numerous stores celebrating their Grand Openings. Seems Apple stores and Microsoft showrooms(?) are going to be in a lot of the same places, wonder who will sell more? Just to be clear, this is a Trojan horse. Intego also found some spyware in free screensavers. Despite the ongoing Google/Apple war, those using Windows at Google are going to have to find a new OS. Doesn’t Google make an OS?

In WWDC news, Engadget received information regarding what it believes to be the next Apple TV, Google you’re screwed. Boy Genius Reports believes that a new iTunes.com and Macs are coming at WWDC.

Foxconn has not had a whole lot of people defending it, but a new article pointed out that in reality Foxconn’s suicide rate is below average. Steve cited this here. Then there was the theory that the migrant workers were really the ones to blame. In the mean time, Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn’s parent) has raised wages 20%. A new report says that Apple might be giving a share of its profits to the employees at Foxconn. Turns out it will be around .7%.

In patent news, Apple filed for something regarding an iPhone headset. Apple announced a new rendition of QuickTime to the patent office with some fun stuff. There were some pictures thrown around regarding cloud syncing and solar iPhone charging. Two patents for the Magic Mouse made their way around the internets. Cupertino won a whole bunch of Designs: Part 1 & Part 2. In trademark news, Apple is facing a lawsuit regarding iAd.

Then there was all the iPad news. The iPad was launched internationally in nine countries, that shockingly brought down Vodafone’s servers and the device shockingly sold well.The big news was the new sales numbers, 2 million in 58 days. Self-publishing books are allowed in the iBooks Store.

Just in case you were wondering, the iPhone grew more then the Android did in May. AT&T said that four out of ten iPhones sold are to enterprise customers. If anyone is doubting the new iPhone is coming, Telefonica (Spain) removed the iPhone 3G and 3GS. AT&T is going to begin offering insurance for the iPhone, yes it’s a hell of a lot more expensive then Squaretrade. Apple is allegedly looking into Bing implementation in iPhone 4… where have we heard this before? In addition, Apple randomly turned on Places geotagging and perhaps flashlight mode? A Czech iPhone site confirmed the new high-res screen on the iPhone. A Portugese site then got some video of the inside of the next iPhone. There were some random parts floating around China. In addition, Kevin Rose may or may not be rather familiar with the next iPhone. AT&T is apparently installing large displays in its stores for the upcoming iPhone, no reference to high-res or anything. Skype 2.0 was announced brining quite a few key features, for free.

Finally congrats to the popular Mac forum, MacRumors, who reached 10 million forum posts.

Last Thursday Josh Herrman at Gizmodo published a piece entitled “Google Is Leapfrogging Apple.” Today, we respectfully disagree.

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It’s not even an hour later then it should be, so quit complaining. Surprise! iFixIt took apart the latest MacBook. It was a big day for Google. They launched Android 2.2 while making fun of Apple and a web-based iTunes competitor, but it wasn’t all good. Steve isn’t so impressed with Google’s new video format. Apple finally got good news on the lawsuit front, one of the many against them has been dismissed. In other lawsuit news, Apple settled one with one of their former employees. It was another bad day for Apple suppliers, but at least someone is standing up from them.

One analyst believes that Apple is selling more iPads than Macs. And new reports say it’s probably going to continue that way. Following a pretty embarrassing time in the national spotlight, Apple has reversed its policy regarding no cash for iPads. Apple also opened the international iPad App store. A new report pegs it as controlling 16% of the e-reader market. In patent news, Apple is looking into contextual advertisements.

New reports put the next iPhone at around 4 million shipments in Q2 alone. Apple now claims a 26.6% share in music downloads. There is some belief that there might be an Apple TV update. iTunes has integrated Rotten Tomatoes ratings.

Finally, we’d like to take the time to send our condolences to the Sennheiser family, Dr. Fritz Sennheiser passed away today at the age of 98.

Sorry for the delay, we are still mourning the destruction of our bracket. Want to know what sites Steve reads, Silicon Alley Insider has a list, note: we aren’t on there. Redmond Pie has summed up the wonderful relationship of Steve and Eric Schmidt. Kindle for Mac is (quietly) out. AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is preparing to launch a 27-inch LED Cinema Display and a crazy Mac Pro. Meanwhile, TUAW is reporting that Google might be teaming forces with just about everyone in the world to try to defeat the Apple TV.

HTC responded to Apple’s lawsuit, interesting stuff in here. The newest iPhone/iPad SDK 3.2 is out. The first album created entirely on the iPhone is also out. Patently Apple found Apple’s newest social app: iGroups. The “Location War” has now moved on to its newest battlefront: the app store. MacNN reports that ChinaMobile is still interested in both the iPhone and iPad.

More iPad numbers are out: 10,000 per day or 400,000 in the first week according to CNN/Fortune Apple 2.0. Meanwhile, Daniel Tallo believes that it is closer to 200,000. Rupert Murdoch, your newest breaker of all news Apple, says that bigger iPads are coming. Amazon’s struggle in the e-book pricing wars is… getting out of hand. At the same time, Apple is still rushing to get content deals for the iPad. DigitalTrends wondered what you could get for the price of an iPad.

The MacUpdate Spring Promo is out featuring three apps that we have worked with before: Hyperspaces, Hydra and Timeline 3D.