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AppleInsider: Intel Corp. this week said it’s bumping up the release of its quad-core desktop and server chips to the fourth quarter of this year from their previous target date of early 2007. More …

ZDNet Australia has a writeup about why AV apps don’t work. The reason given is because the malware authors are writing code that will get around the signatures of the application by testing their code on the most popular anti-virus software before release. More …

“Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer cited figures from market research firm The NPD Group that showed Apple doubling its U.S. notebook market share, as measured by units, to 12 percent in June from 6 percent in January. ‘We are increasingly optimistic about the potential for Mac to gain meaningful share in the back-to-school and holiday seasons, while Microsoft Vista remains unavailable until January,’ Merrill Lynch analyst Richard Farmer wrote in a note to clients on Thursday. More …

As Apple profits and sales numbered soared on Wednesday, Dell Thursday issued a warning on its quarterly revenues and profits, IT World reports.

Although far from being in trouble, the world’s largest PC vendor blames slowing PC market growth and ‘aggressive pricing’ as the reasons for its guidance shortfall. More …

BusinessWeek: The computer maker silenced skeptics with an avalanche of notebook sales. iPod sales held steady—and brought PC users into Mac stores.

Another interesting figure to come out of the conference call was that 50% of customers polled at Apple’s retail stores described themselves as ‘new to the Mac,’ indicating a surge in interest from people more accustomed to using computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. More …

The Associated Press reports that Verizon has raised the top download speed for its fiber-based Internet service in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to 50 megabits per second, up from 30 mbps. More …

Brian Krische set out to test which runs hotter. A Dell D620 was put up against a MacBook. Both are Core Duo systems running at the same speed. The same movie was run on each laptop, although this is not a particularly CPU-intensive task (we assume the Dell runs its MPEG-2 decoding in software like OS X does). More …

Single of the Week

This isn’t your grandmother’s grunge. Black Stone Cherry have all the creeping dread of Alice in Chains, but the powerhouse band turns the music into a pummeling mixture of speed metal and class rock. Lonely Train is the “free” Single of the Week.

Discovery Download

With Thomas Schumacher and Stephen Bodzin churning out an infallible tech-house background groove and Australian vocalist Caitlin Devlin on the microphone, Elektrochemie carve out their own icy, robotic synth pop on the “free” Discovery Download. Cold, crisp and precise, You’re My Kind is a cry for emotion from deep within the dark recesses of the machine. Following on the heels of last year’s Pleasure Seeker, this track is yet another winner for the Get Physical label.

Apple today announced the results for its most recent financial quarter, reporting revenue of $4.37 billion and a net quarterly profit of $472 million, or $.54 per diluted share, making the second quarter results the second best in history. More …

AppleInsider: Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. has beat out Broadcom Corp. in a major design win for Apple Computer’s next-generation video iPod product line, according to one Wall Street analyst. More …