Not long ago, Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) lived side by side in peace and harmony. These days the story has changed. First, Apple rejected Google Voice for the iPhone; next, Google CEO Eric Schmidt quit Apple’s board; and then Google launched Nexus One, taking direct aim at the iPhone. Now, Apple is in talks to replace Google as the iPhone’s default search engine with one-time arch-rival Microsoft’s Bing. Meanwhile, Google is positioning YouTube to take on iTunes with a new movie-rental service.
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After almost a decade of speculation, Apple will unveil its touch-screen tablet PC this Wednesday at 10 a.m. at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater. While Apple is still refusing to confirm the device’s existence, eight years of media “tablet rumors” provide a vivid — though often inaccurate — idea of what the thing may do.
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