AT&T released its financial results for the third quarter this week, and the iPhone still figures heavily in the company’s good news. Despite the continued increases in subscribers and average revenue per user and record low churn rate—which the company proudly attributed to the iPhone in past quarters—AT&T stressed that its wide selection of devices were key to its success. That may be the message that the company wants to send as it hints that its exclusivity with the iPhone may be going away soon.

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Freescale, the ailing semiconductor spinoff of Motorola, has announced a licensing deal with E-Ink to integrate controllers for electronic paper displays into its i.MX family of ARM-based system-on-chips (SoC). This new combination of ARM and E-Ink won’t immediately provide any dramatic benefits in terms of either battery life or functionality, but the move does lay the groundwork for a coming era when e-paper displays gain color capabilities and reduce their refresh time enough to support animation.

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If your copy of Windows 7 has arrived and you are champing at the bit to get it installed on your Mac via Boot Camp, you may want to slow down. According to an Apple Knowledge Base posting (via MacUser), Apple has plans to eventually support Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate, but… not right now. An update for Boot Camp that supports Windows 7 will be coming before the end of the year, but will still have several caveats.

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Freescale, the ailing semiconductor spinoff of Motorola, has announced a licensing deal with E-Ink to integrate controllers for electronic paper displays into its i.MX family of ARM-based system-on-chips (SoC). This new combination of ARM and E-Ink won’t immediately provide any dramatic benefits in terms of either battery life or functionality, but the move does lay the groundwork for a coming era when e-paper displays gain color capabilities and reduce their refresh time enough to support animation.

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ARM has filled out its burgeoning Cortex A family of processors with a new addition at the bottom end of the lineup, the newly announced Cortex A5. The A5 is intended to replace the ARM9 and ARM11 parts commonly found in everything from smartphones to the Nintendo DS, and as such, it’s not exactly a barn-burner in performance. But then again, it doesn’t have to be, because A5’s focus is on providing support for the full range of A-profile features in the smallest possible power envelope. In other words, A5 supports the full range of ARMv7 ISA extensions and Cortex A features, so binaries that are compiled for A8 and A9 will run on A5 (albeit much more slowly). And, like its other A-profile siblings, A5 comes in single- and multi-core flavors.

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If digging through build trees for a Mac build of Chromium (the open source project behind Chrome) was more trouble than you wanted to go through, here’s some good news for you: Google today announced availability of an official Google Chrome for Mac developer preview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

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Nokia is claiming that Apple is unfairly profiting from Nokia’s hard work and 40 billion investment in developing wireless communications technologies with its iPhone. The company has today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, alleging infringement on ten of Nokia’s patents related to GSM, UMTS, and WLAN standards.

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Rest assured that the world is still in harmony: Apple has released a new machine and iFixit has torn it apart. While it may not be the new iMac, the polycarbonate MacBook is getting a lot of attention and has a few changes to its internals that aren’t specification related. (If you are interested in the portable’s specs, make sure you read our coverage of yesterday’s Apple updates.)

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Rest assured that the world is still in harmony: Apple has released a new machine and iFixit has torn it apart. While it may not be the new iMac, the polycarbonate MacBook is getting a lot of attention and has a few changes to its internals that aren’t specification related. (If you are interested in the portable’s specs, make sure you read our coverage of yesterday’s Apple updates.)

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Lost amid the shuffle of new desktops, a new multi-touch mouse, updated wireless base stations, and a new (OMG) Apple remote, Apple also updated a few other accessories. In addition to a previously rumored update to its wireless keyboard, Apple also updated its 60W power adapter to make it PVC-free and tweaked a VESA Mount Adapter Kit to work with newer iMacs.

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