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iPhone News

AT&T to throttle data for top five percent of user base

There’s a price to pay for using a ton of data on your iPhone plan… Per Macworld, AT&T announced late on Friday that it will begin throttling data throughput for heavy users of its unlimited smartphone data plans beginning on October 1. According to the wireless provider, data throttling will affect only those smartphone customers […]

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Apple TV News

Apple TV units moving briskly, no signs of updated models for Q3

Albeit not as popular as some of its other products, the Apple TV unit seems to be achieving moderate success, selling roughly 500,000 units per quarter as the 2011 holiday shopping season approaches. The latest update to Apple’s US$99 streaming media box arrived last fall and within just a few months went on to sell […]

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MacBook Air News

MacBook Air examined, found to be using scaled-down Thunderbolt controller

The new MacBook Air is getting positive feedback and being regarded as nifty. And the cool nerds at AnandTech found out why. Per AnandTech, Apple is using a scaled-down “Eagle Ridge” controller chip from Intel instead of the “Light Ridge” chip found in larger Thunderbolt-enabled machines. Eagle Ridge is available in two form factors (normal […]

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Finance Rumor

Analyst: Apple unlikely to purchase Barnes & Noble retail chain

With the recent closing of Borders, the rumor mill’s been in full force with regard to competitor Barnes and Noble. Responding to a new rumor that Apple is considering a purchase of bookseller Barnes & Noble, one Wall Street analyst has said he doesn’t think such a deal would make much sense for the iPhone […]

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News Software

Forthcoming Microsoft Office 2011 update to add support for Mac OS X 10.7 feature base

The good news: Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) is out. The bad news: Not all of Microsoft’s products support all of the Mac OS X 10.7 feature base. Still, there may be hope on the horizon. Per the Office for Mac blog, Microsoft has revealed that a forthcoming update for Office for Mac 2011 will […]