Briefly: Apple in Toronto, MacInChina

In Brief: A third Apple retail store may open in Toronto by the end of the year in Sherway Gardens mall, following reports of second (unopened) store in the Eaton Centre... The Beijing Macintosh User Group, Beijing's international Macintosh community, is launching a new English-based MacInChina.com website dedicated to the Mac in China.... Big Nerd Ranch Europe announces the popular PHP 5 Bootcamp in Germany , which takes place from May 8-12, 2006; it covers the "ins and outs of PHP 5 development" and costs $3500 for lodging, all meals, original instruction materials, 24-hour lab access, and transportation to and from the airport.... HappyBirthdayApple.com is collecting tributes and messages for inclusion in a commemorative book to be presented to Steve Jobs and the crew at Apple for their 30th Anniversary in April.... Apple Computer last month filed for a trademark on the term "MacBook," which may hint at a re-branding of its iBook consumer notebook product line later this year... A $67 billion deal to buy BellSouth Corp. puts AT&T back on top of the telephone industry -- but this time, it is just one of many rivals in a high-technology race to dominate telecommunications, television and the Internet.

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