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Apple preps apps for 'truly amazing' iPad 3 (with Siri?)

Apple is in accelerated lock-down as it attempts to identify the best possible apps to demonstrate on the iPad 3 the company plans to launch at a special event next month.

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Report says Windows Phone continues to lose ground to Android, iOS

Better days are likely ahead for Windows Phone, but for now at least, sales continue to be dismal, losing ground to both iOS and Android. Overall sales have also declined according to the latest report from the analyst firm Canalyst.

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Apple puts OS X on iPhone ARM chips, but that's it...

This time it turns out tales claiming Apple has pondered moving the Mac to ARM aren't spurious at all, and that OS X has been running on iOS chips inside the company's r&d labs -- but don't hold your breath for an iOS Mac -- not just yet...

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Google moves to match Apple iPhone with Android

Google is moving to bridge the user experience divide between the iPhone and Android devices, delivering security enhancements and hinting at future product integrity improvements to improve devices within the Android ecosystem. Is that enough as Apple preps the ground for the next-generation of mobile devices?

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Bad Apple: iTunes Match censors your music collection. Why?

Sometimes I worry about iTunes. Specifically, I'm concerned that Apple and its iTunes team are making lousy decisions when it comes to censorship. Now the latest iTunes Match 'bug' censors your music collection, replacing explicit songs purchased elsewhere with the cleaned-up versions. Bad Apple.

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Apple Xbox hire hints new games war -- with Sony

Apple sees games as an essential part of its future, today naming former Microsoft Xbox Product Marketing chief Robin Burrowes as head of App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe.

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2012: Apple shops for iOS iTunes television component supplies

Apple has begun assembling the component suppliers it needs for the future Apple television, an analyst claims. And the company may transform the industry this year....

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Europe investigates Samsung for anti-competitive call in Apple iPhone war

It's Samsung and not Apple who faces the wrath of EU competition regulators, who today announced a probe into the company over possible patent rights abuses in its smartphone war with the iPhone-maker.

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Apple iPhone is top dog -- and Samsung's Google problem

iPhone is king of smartphones once again. Apple [AAPL] sold 37 million of the things in Q4 2011, dashing Samsung from its briefly-held position as world's number one smartphone vendor. Samsung, meanwhile, is watching its Android advantage become its Achilles' Heel.

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Yes! Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 4S, iPad 2... UNTETHERED

[Updated to answer an FAQ about iPhone 4S jailbreak and unlocking] Good news, everyone! Now you can jailbreak your iPhone 4S or iPad 2, with iOS 5.0.1 and reboot untethered. At last! Find out how to jailbreak your A5-based iDevice with Absinthe, in The Long View...

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Windows Phone 7 will be fastest-growing smartphone OS in 2012, draw developers, says Ovum

2012 may prove to be a breakout year for Windows Phone 7: The analyst firm Ovum says it will be the fastest-growing smartphone OS in 2012 and will draw a surge of developer interest. It's the latest in a series of reports that say Windows Phone 7 will eventually become a success.

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Opinion: Apple puts users first in the enterprise

With luck, we won’t see a one-size-fits-all PC culture in future, but a heterogeneous, multi-platform environment in which Apple -- and, to be fair, other systems -- play a major part. Why?

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Apple's future Siri threat means Jobs hit the Android nuke button

The Cupertino dream machine's rumbling into action once again, developing new tricks which make Siri something seriously amazing, a new patent filing claims.

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Windows Phone to beat iPhone, become number 2 smartphone platform, says analyst

Windows Phone may today have less than a two percent market share, but analysts at IHS say it will knock the iPhone from its number two perch in smartphones by 2015, jumping to 16.7% market share, squeaking by iOS at 16.6% and well behind Android's 58.1%.

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No, Apple isn't 'closing in' on Android

Tons of websites are reporting that Apple is catching up with Android when it comes to smartphone market share -- but those websites are completely misinterpreting the data.

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