Apple has gone all out today, introducing newMacBook Air modelsand releasing its newMac OS X Lion operating system. If that wasn’t enough, the company has refreshed its Mac Mini line, increasing the processor speed, bundling more storage and adding support for Thunderbolt-enabled devices. The new Mac Minis have the same sleek aluminium unibody designs of their predecessors but have been upgraded to include Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors and 500GB of storage by default....

This week Apple has introduced a new section on the iBooks store that bears the titleQuick Reads. The section contains shorter, cheaper ebooks that aim to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Singles. The books are much smaller in size than your average iBook and range in price from $0.99 to $4.99. The new section features a mix of genres that span both fiction and non-fiction selections. Many of the offerings are novellas or short stories, some are essays....

Two new devices have shown up in Apple’s inventory system bearing the code names N90A and N81A, reports9to5Mac. The N90A code name likely refers to a new version of the iPhone and the N80A is most likely an iPod touch. The iPhone 4 that we all know and love was code-named N90, which makes the N90A a variant of some sort, but in the same line. Most major changes that are made to Apple devices result in a new code name being assigned, so the addition of the ‘A’ appears to indicate that this new iPhone will be very similar to the iPhone 4....

Apple isunder investigationby Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), Italy’s “Antitrust Authority”, for not complying with consumer laws that require companies operating in the country to offer free two year warranties for electronic products. Apple, which sells its products with a one year warranty, is required under EU law to protect buyers with a minimum of two years protection on all consumer electronics, which includes its iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and iPod devices....

Apple investigators claiming to be San Francisco police officers may have interrogated a man who was at the bar Cava 22 in late July, attempting to recover a lost iPhone prototype, reportsSF Weekly. The publication spoke to the man, Sergio Calderón, who thinks that his home is the one referred to in the original story about asupposed lost iPhone. Calderón contacted the publication to talk to them, claiming that he still doesn’t know anything about why his home was searched and that he was threatened by the men on an evening in July....