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It is a period of war between providers. Verizon's TV commercials and print ads, striking from the safety of the company's widely-touted network, have struck a blow against AT&T's PR, reducing its lawyers to picking apart semantics. AT&T's 3G network, clearly suffering from a lack of coverage and little blue dots, fought back with its own commercial featuring Luke Wilson and a snarky, magnetic checklist. Full Story »

Twelve South on Monday announced the BassJump, a portable, USB-powered "subwoofer" designed to enhance your MacBook's audio output by adding midrange and bass frequencies that the MacBook's built-in speakers can't adequately produce. Full Story »

Thursday is Thanksgiving in the U.S, so in this week's super-sized edition of iPhone hints we give thanks for the few, the proud, the useful—the iPhone’s physical controls. Full Story »

Shoppers, start your engines! Er, well, maybe not just yet. Full Story »

As the controversy over the best-selling phenomenon App Store and the Approval Process of Mysteries (take that, Harry Potter) continues, Apple has awoken legendary hero and senior vice president Phil Schiller from his slumber beneath 1 Infinite Loop for some damage control. In an interview with BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl, Schiller discusses the App Store approval process, its raison d’être, and what Apple’s doing to improve the situation. Full Story »

Another week, another worm hitting jailbroken iPhones. As with the previous exploits, which Rickrolled your phone’s wallpaper and stole your data, this nasty piece of work burrows its way into your jailbroken device if you haven’t changed the password for the iPhone’s root account—you have changed your root password, right? Right? Full Story »

Jungle Disk () —which we recently reviewed in our roundup of online backup services—has announced upgrades to two of its products and introduced two new ones. Full Story »

Roku will announce on Monday a major update to the software powering the company’s Roku Player models. As part of that update, the company will also introduce the new Roku Channel Store. Full Story »

It was a banner week for stupid opinion pieces about Apple. Indeed, the Macalope had a hard time narrowing the field. He did eventually pick two lucky winners, but he’d like to assure all the silly pundits who auditioned that they did horrible, horrible work and even though they didn’t get selected, they should still feel terrible about themselves. Before we wade into the muck, though, who wants to dance…with Microsoft?! Full Story »