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Apple Stores begin receiving the Nest Learning Thermostat, to go on sale soon

May 26, 2012 at 3:34 pm

News broke yesterday that former Apple Senior Vice President Tony Fadell’s Nest Learning Thermostat will soon go on sale at Apple Stores. iLounge reported it first, but 9to5Mac immediately confirmed the claim. A trusted source provided a first-hand look at the Nest packaged at an Apple Store today—complete with the part number. Priced at $249.99 [...]

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iOS 5.1.1 untethered Absinthe 2.0 jailbreak just announced

May 25, 2012 at 5:25 am

Ever since the release of iOS 5.1.1, many in the jailbreak community have anxiously waited for the destined release of an untethered jailbreak for the new software. For those who have been waiting, the day has finally come. The Chronic Dev Team just released Absinthe 2.0, which is the tool to jailbreak iOS 5.1.1—untethered style. It was [...]

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Facebook launches Facebook Camera for iPhone, complete with filters and batch photo uploading

May 24, 2012 at 10:07 am

Just after its proposed $1 billion acquisition of mobile photo sharing service Instagram, Facebook announced Facebook Camera for iPhone in a blog post this afternoon. The app features filters just like Instagram, and it has the ability to upload a batch of photos at once. The regular Facebook app only allows you to upload one [...]

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Yahoo launches its own iOS web browser called ‘Axis’, with a focus on syncing bookmarks

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Apple airs two new Siri commercials titled ‘Joke’ and ‘Life’, featuring John Malkovich

May 23, 2012 at 7:15 pm

Apple aired two new television commercials this evening to advertise its personal assistant feature Siri that introduced on the iPhone 4S last October. The commercials follow a similar pattern as the other Siri spots that featuring actor Samuel L. Jackson and aactorZooey Deschanel. They show Siri’s uses like finding the weather, getting calendar information, getting [...]

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Apple calls DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit over eBook price-fixing ‘fundamentally flawed’

May 23, 2012 at 2:34 pm

While it is known that the folks in Cupertino are not exactly thrilled to be going to trial over allegedly conspiring with eBook publishers to raise prices, Apple has still gone to trial to fight it. Some analysts even said Apple has a firm chance of winning, but who can really tell in the law world? In a report published by Reuters today, [...]

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New plans show beautiful glass Apple Store headed for Stanford

May 23, 2012 at 8:36 am

A new Apple Store with beautiful glass architecture is currently pegged for the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, Calif., reported Palo Alto Online (via MacRumors). The building process has begun in a shopping center on Stanford’s campus, as workers are covering the building with black sheets (in typical Apple fashion). However, the building is so large —12,100 square feet [...]

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