Images of Alleged New MacBook Pro Surface - The new notebook would sell for ¬1,797 in Europe

It is only fair to assume that Apple might just throw in a new MacBook (Pro) model any second now, since the company took the liberty to release a 4GB iPod nano model without saying a word to the fans.
According to this screen-shot, allegedly posted

by mistake on T System's retail website, Apple is planning on offering up a new MacBook Pro packing a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor, with a clear black frame around the screen (much like the aluminum iMac), priced at €1,797. According to 9to5 Mac, “these images depict a hitherto unknown MacBook model” which were published on German retailer T System's website “and then removed”. The same news source adds that Nvidia is expected to release an MCP7A IGP chip by the end of the month - “an updated Intel-platform integrated graphics chip that could well be scheduled for deployment in the new Macs”.

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Companies can learn from hacking of Palin's e-mail

A precocious hacker cracks into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private e-mail account, looking for dirt. In doing so, he opens a Pandora's box of tech security concerns for the presidential candidates — but perhaps even more so for Corporate America.

That's the upshot of a fast-developing story playing out on tech websites Valleywag, Gawker, NetworkWorld and others. On Thursday, Kim Zetter, a veteran investigative reporter at Wired News, broke a story describing how a hacker, going by the nickname Rubico, easily changed Palin's Yahoo account password, rifled through her e-mail and posted the password on a popular tech discussion website, 4chan.org.

Other 4chan participants subsequently boasted about accessing Palin's Yahoo account, posting family photos and samples of personal messages widely across the Internet.

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Microsoft's new ads take a direct shot at Apple

Microsoft's big-budget effort to battle more than two years of Windows-bashing ads from rival Apple took a new turn Thursday.

After two weeks of three teaser ads "about nothing" featuring Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and comic Jerry Seinfeld, the company launched a new TV ad that directly addresses the long-running Apple campaign that personifies its Mac as a young, hip guy and a Windows PC as a clueless geek.

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Bill Clinton speaks out for Barack Obama, well, sort of

When we last saw the last Democratic ex-president of the United States, he was really, really getting ready to go out and campaign for this very ambitious young fellow from Illinois who with his Windy City crowd beat the ex-president's wife out of her rightfully inherited White House.

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McCain, Obama seize on Wall Street woes

John McCain and Barack Obama moved aggressively Thursday to seize the mantle of reform amid Wall Street's maelstrom, with McCain saying he would fire the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and create an agency to overhaul weakened financial firms, and Obama proposing to inject more money into the battered financial system.

The heightened efforts to offer solutions to the chaos in the financial markets showed both presidential candidates struggling to appear decisive and take advantage of the crisis, but without sounding alarmist.

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Kennedy has malignant brain tumor

A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures.

The Massachusetts Democrat has a malignant glioma in the left parietal-lobe, according to doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, where Kennedy, 76, has been undergoing tests since Saturday after having a seizure at his Cape Cod home.

The usual course of treatment includes combinations of radiation and chemotherapy, but Kennedy's treatment will be decided after more tests.

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Gay Iranian teen wins right to asylum in Britain

Britain said Tuesday that it is granting asylum to a gay Iranian teenager who fears that he could face execution if forced to return to his homeland.

Britain's Border Agency said it would allow asylum for Mehdi Kazemi, who traveled in 2005 to London to study English and while there learned that his lover in Iran had been charged with sodomy and hanged. Kazemi, 19, then sought asylum in Britain, but it was rejected, then in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands' highest court rejected his claim in March, ruling that Britain was responsible for the case under European Union law because it was there that Kazemi first applied for asylum. Britain's Home Secretary Jacqui Smith decided after that to reconsider the case, and there were appeals in the House of Lords that he be allowed to remain due to fears his life could be at risk in Iran.

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Paul McCartney divorce final in 6 weeks

Sometimes love isn't all you need. A judge in London granted a preliminary divorce Monday to former Beatle Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. If no one objects, the divorce will be final in six weeks. Mills, 40, will emerge from the rancorous divorce with a settlement of $47.5 million but a reputation damaged by her televised outbursts against McCartney. Mills will retain custody of the couple's 4-year-old daughter, Beatrice. McCartney will retain the bulk of his fortune, estimated by the court at $880 million.

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Jimmy Fallon to take Conan O'Brien's place

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Saturday Night Live" veteran Jimmy Fallon was officially named on Monday to take Conan O'Brien's place on NBC next year when O'Brien succeeds Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show." The announcement, which had been expected for weeks, was made during a press event from NBC headquarters in New York where O'Brien's "Late Night" show is taped. The appointment of Fallon, long considered a leading contender for NBC's 12:35 a.m. time slot, completes a talent shuffle set in motion when the General Electric Co-owned network announced in 2004 that Leno would retire from "Tonight" in 2009 and that O'Brien would replace him.

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Clinton Poised for Big Win. Will It Matter?

The Democratic presidential race runs on two tracks now, one snaking through the West Virginia primary Tuesday and the other mapped out by Barack Obama through battleground states in the fall.

Hillary Rodham Clinton had every reason to expect a big victory over Obama in West Virginia yet scant hope it could turn around her presidential bid.

She campaigned, though, like it mattered, even as Obama did little more than a drop-by in a state that seemed poised to shun him.

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