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Success breeds: Now even banks are emulating Apple

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Here’s a strange hint of Apple’s growing influence in the financial sector: Citibank intends opening a series of branches all across Europe — branches modelled on an Apple Store!

The bank would be seeking to slim down and target major cities in France, Britain and Germany, the Financial Times claims. The notion is to focus on 100 cities offering large, flagship outlets modelled on the Apple stores.
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Black Friday: Is Amazon undercutting Apple's sale day?

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Apple’s Black Friday deal is on now – but it looks as if a price competition between Apple and Amazon is taking place at the UK store. Don’t believe me? Then do take a look:

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB RAM, a 250GB Hard Drive and Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics and SD card costs you £897.90 in the UK on Amazon with free delivery.
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Apple bans single station radio apps as cool digital radio app appears

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Apple has reportedly banned single station radio apps — even as digital radio manufacturer, PURE, introduces its well-regarded digital radio-cum-portal service as an app made available via the App Store.

Radio apps have been around on the store for some time, but Apple appears to have changed its policy on these. This emerged after Jim Barcus, president of DJ Radio Apps, approached the company to ask why ten of his single station radio apps had been rejected.
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Rumor: Final Cut and massive MacBook Pro upgrade for April '11

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Hang onto your hats — we already have word of yet one more special event to close out 2010 but Apple’s already plotting to delight and surprise with another update to its MacBook Pro range and that there long-awaited move to ship a new blend of Final Cut Studio — and we only need to wait till April (some say).
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Apple's poaching BlackBerries (RIM folk jump ship)

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Yet more dogs of war heard howling in the mists as we learn Apple has been quietly poaching senior enterprise sales staff from competitor, Research In Motion. The Wall Street Journal (via MR) tells us Apple has hired at least five members of the RIM enterprise team — and stresses there could be even more Apple switchers making the move to iPhone.
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ITC to examine Apple case against Motorola

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We’re looking at serious legal challenges across the mobile phone industry in the next couple of years, with Apple’s case against Motorola now set to be reviewed by the US ITC, which could ban import of Motorola phones into the US if the company is found guilty. Meanwhile, HTC and Samsung have teamed up with that renowned patent rights litigator, Intellectual Ventures, to protect those firms from attack.
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How to fix iOS 4.2's disappearing iPod app music glitch

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The customary series of unexpected fault reports are coming through the wires this am, with iOS 4.2 reportedly munching music on some iPhones and causing hassles with HDMI on the Apple TV. Here’s what we got so far, and we hope, nay, urge readers with further information to use comments below to help each other out on this.
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Reader tips: Extending AirPlay, AirPrint support

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We know it was possible to print to non-HP printers at some point during the iOS 4.2 beta testing process, equally we also know that it was possible to use AirPlay on an iPhone 3G and a second-generation iPod touch. These uses disappeared, but trust to the ever inventive Mac dev community to figure out a workaround — hurrah for them!
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It is here: iOS 4.2 is available now (AppleTV too!)

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We’ve waited and waited — now it is here our tipsters say — go grab it!  AppleTV is now at a newer 4.2.1 (8C150)  Who is AirPlayin?

device current version date found
AppleTV(2G) (AppleTV2,1) 4.2.1 (8C150) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
iPad (iPad1,1) 4.2 (8C148) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
iPhone (iPhone1,1) 3.1.3 (7E18) 04/08/2010 21:05:48
iPhone3G (iPhone1,2) 4.2 (8C148) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
iPhone3GS (iPhone2,1) 4.2 (8C148a) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
iPhone4 (iPhone3,1) 4.2 (8C148) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
iPodTouch(2G) (iPod2,1) 4.2 (8C148) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
iPodTouch(3G) (iPod3,1) 4.2 (8C148) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
iPodTouch(4G) (iPod4,1) 4.2 (8C148) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
last updated: 11/22/2010 13:20:02 EDT

Tivo pleases with uber-happy iPad app

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ82HW81t9o&fs=1&hl=en_US]

We’re liking the look of Tivo’s new app for iPad. It is so much more than a remote, it lets you connect with all the information Tivo has — actors info, film guides and more, effectively a link to the Tivo TV interface that doesn’t depend on you interrupting what’s playing on your television.
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