Apple is acknowledging the appearance of hairline cracks along the bottom enclosure of white MacBooks and will repair the defects regardless of warranty.

The next-gen mobile OS for Apple's mobile communications devices will bring Bluetooth connectivity, turn-by-turn GPS navigation, and greater integration with external peripherals, as well as cut and paste, improved sync, and support for MMS messages.

Apple is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touchscreen as early as the second half of this year, two people close to the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday. Apple is working with Taiwan's Wintek and Quanta Computer to assemble the new netbooks.

With surprisingly little fanfare, iMacs and Mac minis have received an Nvidia 9400M makeover, while Mac Pros now take advantage of the latest high-performance Intel processors.

China Unicom has reportedly reached an agreement with Apple on iPhone's entry into China and the 3G iPhone may appear in the Chinese market in May 2009.

The ThinkEquity Partners' report centered on SanDisk, which is not one of the four companies Apple actually buys its memory components from (Samsung, Hynix, Toshiba and Micron). However, the report says Apple's voracious appetite for flash RAM is affecting the entire market.