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Sprint to hold media event on October 7, may announce iPhone carrier partnership

The good news is that Sprint looks more likely to become a U.S. iPhone carrier. The bad news is that Candace Bergen is probably sitting around wondering if they’ll call and ask her to sponsor them 20 years after the fact… Per Electronista, the telephone carrier sent out invitations on Monday for a Strategy Update […]

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Microsoft VP highlights Windows 8 interface changes, emphasizes upcoming Ribbon features

If Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) was starting to look like Windows 7 (or vice versa), this might be reassuring. Per a blog entry by Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft’s president of its Windows Division, indicates that one key element of Windows 8 will take the new release in a very different direction than Apple’s outline for […]

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Apple seeds updated iTunes 10.5 beta with iCloud iTunes Match feature to developers

The rest of the iCloud is coming. And it will have additional snazzy features. Per AppleInsider, Apple has released a new version of iTunes for developer testing of the functionality of iCloud’s new iTunes Match feature for storing songs “in the cloud” for flexible access from mobile devices. Apple has already publicly introduced some new […]

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Cocktail 5.0 (Lion Edition) released

Late Wednesday, shareware developer Maintain released version 5.0 of Cocktail (Lion Edition), Cocktail, the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 2 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Added Mac OS X 10.7 compatibility. – Miscellaneous bug fixes and overall improvements. – […]

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Alleged white fifth-generation iPod touch component photos surface

It’s the leaked parts shots that make things interesting. Per Technobuffalo, a parts supplier has acquired white-colored parts purportedly for a fifth-generation iPod touch, providing further evidence that Apple is moving forward with a white version of the media player. iFixDirect claims to have obtained a white front cover for a next-generation iPod touch. Other […]