Apple doesn't want you to believe what it says, even though the company claims it's not lying.

That's the gist of the Cupertino company's legal response to a lawsuit regarding allegedly misleading advertising for the iPhone 3G.

The corporation's nine-page legal document is an answer to a complaint filed by William Gillis, a 70-year-old San Diego resident who alleges that Apple falsely advertised the iPhone 3G by calling it "twice as fast for half the price" compared with the original handset.

Some parts of Apple's 32-point rebuttal say that the company was being truthful. But one paragraph says, in effect, that anyone who believes what the company says in its ads is a fool.

"Plaintiff's claims, and those of the purported class, are barred by the fact that the alleged deceptive statements were such that no reasonable person in Plaintiff's position could have reasonably relied on or misunderstood Apple's statements as claims of fact," Apple said in its answer.

Gillis was one of several dissatisfied iPhone 3G customers who recently filed lawsuits alleging Apple falsely advertised the handset's performance. The lawsuits stem from widespread frustration over the popular smartphone; the complaints vary from frequently dropped calls to sluggish broadband speeds and the inability to stay on 3G before it switches to the slower EDGE network.

Wired.com

Following AMD's launch of its latest server chips last week, it's Intel's turn to be in the spotlight.

Intel plans to launch its newest generation of desktop processors on Monday. Called Core i7, the chips are aimed at the high-end desktop and gaming market.

The move puts Intel ahead of its rival AMD by more than a few months, as AMD's comparable desktop processor isn't scheduled to launch until early next year.

"AMD now just doesn't have a competitive chip against Intel on the desktop," says Patrick Wang, an analyst with brokerage firm Wedbush Morgan.

And until AMD launches its product, Intel is going to be the only option for consumers who want the latest chips for their computers, says Wang.

Wired.com

It's been nearly a year since we first saw the USB 3.0 connector make an appearance at CES, and after months of corporate infighting, spec-polishing, and technical navel-gazing, the future of consumer peripheral connectivity is here -- in the form of complete specifications and a demo.

Yeah, so maybe SuperSpeed USB isn't making the most dramatic entrance ever, but hey, it doesn't have to with 4.8Gbps transfer speeds, improved power management, and backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 along for the ride.

As expected, the first wave of devices won't hit until 2010, but Symwave's giving attendees of this week's SuperSpeed conference a taste of tomorrow with a demo of the Quasar USB 3.0 chipset, which is targeted at "sync-and-go" devices like phones and media players. Sounds lovely -- now if you'll excuse us, we have to go back to mourning the death of FireWire 400.

Engadget.com

Yes, you read correctly: Asus has unveiled its latest smartphone, which, it claims is the “fastest business PDA phone in the world.”

Them’s big words coming from a mobile underdog.

That’s because the juice behind the shell of the Asus P565 is an 800MHz Marvell processor that the company says will help the phone deliver “system performance beyond anything else on the market,” including handling resource-hogs and multitasking sessions, according to a press release.

On the front side, a 2.8-inch, 480 by 640 touch-sensitive display will let you browse around the phone’s applications, which include a business card recognition utility and Microsoft Mobile Office.

On the other hand, “world’s fastest” doesn’t apply to the phone’s 3G: Thought the phone supports tri-band GSM/GPRS/Edge connections, the maximum HSDPA 3G connection speed is just 3.6Mb/s, weak compared to the speeds of 7.2Mb/s and beyond in the market. (It’s got 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, too.)

No launch date or price as of yet.

ZDNet.com

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