Kevin Rose has let slip another tasty Apple rumour, following his spot-on predictions of the new iPod nano and iPod touch, the Digg founder says new MacBooks packing Blu-Ray drives will take centre stage on Tuesday.

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Wondering why the Apple TV hasn’t been upgraded lately? The latest explanation is the Mac-maker’s working on its own TV, complete with the guts of its media streaming box shoehorned inside.

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Firefox will make the leap to mobile platforms even earlier than we’d anticipated, with Nokia’s Internet Tablets the first to take Mozilla’s new browser for a spin!

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Here we go again. Despite persistent rumours about Microsoft releasing a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, or integrating the format into the console itself, the firm has declared yet again that it has no plans to do any such thing.

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Tucked quietly away at the edges of East London the Future of Web Applications conference has been going on for the past two days. Kevin Rose, off of Digg, opened the show (he’ll also be back for an encore performance of Diggnation Live, shortly) and closing the event will be none other than Facebook founder and twenty four year old gazillionair Mark Zuckerberg.

And we’re going to be right here. In the front row (or at least, we would have been had we not been sitting in the wrong room for an hour before running over here) bringing you his every word. Or every other one at the very least. The show kicks off at 17:20, so come back then for live updates as they happen. Hurrah.

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The latest addition to Toshiba’s Portege laptop range has just popped up on the firm’s Canadian website. The R600 is a 12.1-inch, sub-1kg notebook with a claimed battery life of nine hours.

It runs on a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of memory (upgradeable to 5GB), and can be kitted out with either 128GB of solid state storage or a standard 160GB hard drive. There’s also a DVD burner built-in.

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Pictures of what appears to be the first ever WiMAX-equipped mobile phone have popped up online. Unless some kind of Photoshop jiggery pokery is afoot, the snaps show the HTC T829 apparently connected to Yota, a newly opened WiMAX network in Moscow, at a 3G-caning speed of 13.8Mbps.

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