Apple May Reveal Cloudy iPhone September 7

The latest rumor regarding the iPhone 5's cheaper sidekick is that it will heavily rely on the cloud and sport less internal storage, possibly making it free for new 2-year contracts.

Growing weary of the Apple rumor mill? Don't fret: we're almost done for the year. In this latest installment of the iPhone 5 drama, reports are pointing to a cheaper, cloud-based iPhone that will be revealed next to the iPhone 5 during an Apple press event rumored to take place on September 7 here in the U.S., and September 8 in Japan. This is also the same day the fruity company is expected to reveal its latest iPod Touch with 3G connectivity.

Walmart Killing Off MP3 Download Service

After eight years of service, the Walmart Music Downloads Store is shutting its doors on August 29.

For those who previously purchased and downloaded music from Walmart's online MP3 shop, America's superstore is now sending out notices that the service will close as of August 29, 2011 after serving up digital music for eight years.

Verizon Finally Blocking Unauthorized Tethering Apps

Although Verizon already put its foot down on subscribers using unauthorized tethering apps, the Big Red is now blocking hotspot apps used on jailbroken devices.

Numerous reports are indicating that Verizon began blocking unauthorized hotspot access through jailbroken smartphone apps as early as last Friday. The current limitation only seemingly affects the hotspot aspect – the ability to allow up to five additional devices to connect to Verizon's network via a smartphone -- as Verizon already made a previous sweep across Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market months ago, requesting that unauthorized (direct) tethering apps be removed.

This is the Acer Aspire 3951 Air-like Ultrabook

"Leaked" images of Acer's upcoming ultrabook have appeared online, revealing a sleek and sexy design.

Images of Acer's answer to Apple's MacBook Air – the Acer Aspire 3951 sporting Intel's ultra-sleek ultrabook design – have found their way online. The shots were provided by Vietnamese site Sohoa and reveals an extremely thin chassis that looks too brittle to be real. Still, that's the point of Intel's sexy ultrabook design: a hot, super-thin body packed with impressive hardware for under $1000 USD.

The Acer ultrabook is reportedly slated for October (seems to be a hot month for gadgets) and will sport a 13.3-inch screen, an aluminum chassis and an overall weight of less than 3.09 pounds. It will also supposedly measure just 0.51-inches thick – roughly the equivalent size of Apple's impressive MacBook Air 13-inch model. The images provided by Sohoa confirm that most of the device's ports are located on the rear just under the hinge.

AMD-Powered MSI Tablet Finally Arrives in the U.S.

Although the tablet officially shipped early last month, retailers are just now stocking MSI's Fusion-powered Windows 7 device.

In early July, MSI said that it was shipping the AMD-poweredWindPad 110W tablet to North America, but online retailers like Newegg and Amazon have since listed the device as "this item has not yet been released" or something similar. Now just over a month later, reports are indicating that both Newegg andExcaliberPC are finally showing the device to be in stock, but as of this writing, Amazon is still waiting on its supply to arrive.