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The Valentine's Day iPhone

Is Cupid's day the date for the long-awaited launch of an iPhone for Verizon?

Here's how these rumors get started. Someone tipped off Peter Burrows at Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple (AAPL) was waiting until after next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to launch an iPhone for Verizon (VZ).

Apparently his anonymous source or sources didn't give him a date, but by winks and nods they narrowed it down enough for MORE

Today in Tech: Facebook facial recognition, Twitter worth $3.7 billion?

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

Next week, Facebook, which is on track to reach sales of $2 billion this year, will release a new facial recognition feature called Tag Suggestions that automatically suggests who users should tag in photos. Whenever users choose to tag people in their photos, Tag Suggestions will step in and offer up suggestions about who the friends in MORE

A peek at next year's Macs

Reports from Apple's Asian suppliers hint at lighter, more affordable machines

An item in Thursday's DigiTimes offers an early glimpse at Apple's (AAPL) plans for its flagship computer line in 2011. The details -- based on reports from unnamed "upstream component makers" -- are sparse:

At least four new MacBook Pro models with a "slight" change in chassis design
A new iMac with a different screen size and a presumably lower price point MORE

Fast times at iPhone High

The New York Times paints two very different pictures of a Silicon Valley high school

Matt Richtel's 4,000-word story on the front page of Sunday's New York Times -- part of the paper's Your Brain on Computers series -- reads like an indictment of a generation driven to distraction by shiny gadgets, their minds permanently rewired by too much time spent texting, networking, surfing the Web and playing video games.

The 7:45-minute MORE

Bob Mansfield's $10 million payday

An options windfall for Apple's top Mac and iPhone hardware engineer

Several senior Apple (AAPL) executives -- including Betsy Rafael (controller), Jeffrey Williams (operations senior VP) and Bertrand Serlet (software engineering senior VP) -- took advantage of the company's recent record share prices to exercise some of the stock options they've been sitting on.

But none saw quite the windfall that Bob Mansfield enjoyed last Thursday. According to an SEC Form 4 MORE

Did Apple sell 4 million Macs?

Back-to-school sales and a refreshed desktop line may have pushed it over the edge

The iPad's been getting a lot more buzz lately, but Apple's (AAPL) computer line is still the company's No. 2 source of revenue (after the iPhone) -- a point likely to be driven home again when Apple reports its fiscal fourth quarter earnings next Monday.

How's the Mac doing? Unit sales, which stalled in Q2 as customers waited MORE

Apple.com store is down. New Macs due

Shortages of iMacs and Mac Pros signaled long overdue product updates

[UPDATE: Apple, as expected, released new iMacs and Mac Pros Tuesday. The iMacs start at $1,199. The Pros start at $2,499 and can be configured with up to 12 processing cores. Press releases, with specs, here and here.

There's also a new $999 27-inch Cinema Display (specs) and a $69 wireless multi-touch trackpad accessory for desktop Macs.

Last -- and least MORE

Macworld's 11 Best-of-Show winners

Macworld Expo proves it can attract a crowd -- and some cool technology -- without Apple

IDG World Expo's publicists declined to issue an attendee count beyond the 30,000 people it claimed had pre-registered for Macworld Expo 2010, the first in 25 years without Apple's (AAPL) support or participation.

But judging from the bustling crowds on the show floor, in the feature presentations and in the hallways of San Francisco's Moscone North MORE

Wu: Apple's 'blowout' first quarter

Kaufman's chief Apple analyst sees strength in all three major product lines

In a note to clients posted Wednesday morning, Kaufman Bros.' Shaw Wu gave three reasons for raising his Apple (AAPL) price target to $253 from $235.

Record-setting iPhone shipments. Wu's 9.5 million estimate is 700,000 higher that the Street's consensus of 8.8 million and only 600,000 below Research in Motion's (RIMM) best-ever BlackBerry quarter.
"Strong momentum" in the Mac product line driven MORE

Macs top Amazon's 'Most Gifted' list

Some computer wishes seem to have come true this holiday season

Last time we looked -- on the eve of Cyber Monday -- there was a conspicuous discrepancy in Amazon's (AMZN) computer department between the "Most Wished For" and "Most Gifted" machines. Customers may have been hoping for Apples (AAPL), but it looked like they were getting Toshibas, Acers and Hewlett Packards (HPQ) instead.

One month later, on Christmas morning, that discrepancy MORE