Archive | April 21st, 2011

Apple beats Google in race to deploy could-based music service – Report

21. April 2011

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There have been a number of reports over the past few months suggesting that Apple is planning on completely revamping its MobileMe service to include a digital locker that would enable users to store, and potentially stream, purchased content from iTunes from the cloud – namely, Apple’s large Data Center in North Carolina. Apple, of […]

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Apple provides select game deveopers with A5-based iPhone 4s – Report

21. April 2011

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Some interesting news from 9to5Mac who reports that Apple has begun providing select developers with iPhones running the speedy dual-core A5 chip already found in the iPad 2. Apple will reportedly be touting huge speed advancements as one of the major selling points of the iPhone 5 and has already begun giving iPhone 4S devices, […]

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Senator Al Franken pens letter to Steve Jobs over iOS tracking code

21. April 2011

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The blogosphere yesterday was aflutter with news that iOS 4 stores user location data in a unprotected and unencrypted file accessible on a user’s mobile device or desktop in a file called consolidated.db. The truth of the matter is that this file isn’t new and has been discussed quite extensively for months now as it’s […]

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Foursquare executives stop by Apple headquarters

21. April 2011

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Though there isn’t much information out there about what features iOS 5 will bring to the table, there have been rumblings that iOS 5 will be a major update with a particular focus on location-based features. Specifically, it’s been rumored that iOS 5 will incorporate check-in functionality along with the ability for friends to locate […]

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iTunes delivers record-breaking $1.4 billion in revenue during Q2 2011

21. April 2011

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There was a plethora of information discussed yesterday during Apple’s earnings conference call, but one item that seemingly flew under the radar was the performance of iTunes during Apple’s most recent quarter. Historically, iTunes has been a break-even proposition for Apple and has been positioned largely as a means to sell high margin hardware. The […]

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