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What an exciting week for Apple fans! Not only were tons of new products updated—Including desktops, accessories, and other gadgety items—the company also reported another record quarter in sales and revenue. The good news was sprinkled in with autopsies and lawsuits, so read on to catch up with the week’s top news:

Magic Mouse, iMacs, Mac minis lead Tuesday Apple update bomb: 27-inch iMacs! Mac minis as servers! New cheap MacBooks! A magical new mouse! Apple opened the floodgates this morning with a bushel of new hardware updates—which should set the company up for a blingin’ holiday season.

Apple Q4 2009 conference call liveblog and fiscal results: Apple’s fourth quarter fiscal results are out and we covered the call live. You c

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Pick of the week: Scribblenauts (Nintendo DS)

The holiday gaming season is officially upon us, and this week is absolutely crammed with new game releases. Leading the way this week is the unique DS title Scribblenauts. The darling of this year’s E3, Scribblenauts has a fairly simple premise, but a whole lot of depth. In each level, players are given a goal, and can type in the name of virtually any object they can think of to try and complete it.

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Did’t I just finish writing a week in review? That time again already? Ok, so here we go! Asus’ Eee netbook roadmap leaked this week showing us some of the new machines Asus has up its sleeves and tipping us off on the netbooks already on the market that will be going extinct soon. SanDisk got all official and stuff with a new low-end MP3 player called the Sansa Clip+. The thing gains a microSD card slot to accommodate that big bag of fail known as slotMusic.

We announced Monday that we would be at the September 9 Apple press event and live blogging the whole works. We

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Sky has written to the BBC Trust to complain about the five week consultation period for Project Canvas.

Canvas – the BBC led project which is aiming to bring a set of regulations and branding to the UK for IPTV – could act as a whole new platform for broadcasters.

This obviously puts it in competition with the likes of cable operator Virgin Media and satellite broadcaster BSkyB – who are not happy.

Sky snorts, boos

The crux of the complaint is that the five week consultation is not long enough, with Sky saying that the process “will only serve to undermine further industry confidence in its ability and inclination to act as a genuinely independent regulator of the BBC”.

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