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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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Smart TV is ready for the Apple television moment

TV is ripe for an Apple moment. When the Apple television does appear, the company will once again exploit its talent to re-imagine existing solutions, adding a spice of new ideas competitors will as usual be waiting to re-imagine right back.

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Apple plots Anobit purchase for iPhone, iPad, MacBook?

Apple is exploring new technologies to increase flash storage capacity and durability at limited additional cost, and may take a strategic investment -- or even overall purchase, of Israeli flash memory technology firm, Anobit.

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Apple's Mac App Store -- you ain't seen nothing yet

Apple's Mac App Store is distributing around 204 Mac applications every minute of the day, but is it an attempt to exercise total control of the Mac ecosystem, or a necessary step toward mobile computing in a post-PC age?

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Why it makes sense to expect Siri for the Mac

Apple's Siri voice assistant is a game-changer. The company is hiring new engineers to develop its solution, so what improvements can we expect from the team? And when will we see Siri support inside OS X?

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Apple on track to overtake HP -- Canalys

The latest Canalys data claims Apple will eclipse HP to become the world's biggest PC vendor "in 2012", if you include iPad sales.

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Apple kills the Mac Pro? It doesn't matter

They claim Apple management are considering ending development of high-end Mac Pro systems. I've been thinking about why this doesn't matter, here's why...

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Apple, Samsung enter DWT touch patent bid battle

Apple and Samsung are reportedly bidding tor RPO's Digital Waveguide Touchscreen Technology (DWT), which brings you higher resolutions and much improved battery life, according to reports.

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Apple buys military-grade 3D tech to target Google Maps

Last summer's claims Apple has acquired highly impressive 3D mapping technology firm, C3 Technologies, have allegedly been confirmed.

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Apple confirms Mac sales are up, up, up

Apple CEO, Tim Cook today confirmed Mac sales are climbing at a rate that's six times higher than the PC industry average, and confirmed OS X Lion market share is growing fast.

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Has Apple handled the DigiNotar attack effectively?

Security researchers are slamming Apple for what they see as its slow delivery of an essential security update to patch the digital security certification threat following the DigiNotar attack.

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Apple opens iCloud to devs, what we know

Apple has commenced its first public developer beta test for its new iCloud services, announced the first Web apps and set additional storage pricing for its much-improved cloud-based services suite.

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24 hours with Lion, 'it just works' (mostly)

There's already over a million Apple Lion OS users worldwide, and the feedback on the new operating system is coming in fast and furious: "It just works". Well, to qualify that claim, it mostly just works and a lot of users are having problems getting their finger memories around reverse scrolling.

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The Lion MultiTouch gesture guide

There's a host of Trackpad gestures inside Mac OS X Lion. These are all described within Lion's Trackpad prefs inside System Preferences. Sometimes you might just need a reference list. For those times, why not Bookmark this page, or print it out while you learn?

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Lion users suffer Adobe Apple Flash support war

I still agree with Steve Jobs on Flash, but the Apple [AAPL] versus Adobe [ADBE] Flash battle continues to punish customers. Take the introduction of Lion. It isn't as if Apple made any secret about its OS plans.

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