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The Apple Core: iPod suit alleges volume levels cause damage

Apple is facing a new class-action lawsuit from a Louisiana man who claims the computer maker has failed to take adequate steps to prevent hearing loss among iPod users. According a ZDNet story (“Apple faces suit over iPod-related hearing loss”): The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., charges that the […]

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The Apple Core: Super Bowl Commercials on Your iPod

Many of the commercials that will be run on this weekend’s Super Bowl are available to watch now, if you’re into such things. It’s amazing that advertisers have us brainwashed into watching their commercials in the first place, let alone that some people even go to the extreme of downloading them and watch them repeatedly. […]

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The Apple Core: iTunes Phone on the Cheap (Updated)

Don’t have US$300 to shell out for the new Motorola SLVR iTunes Phone 2.0 that I mentioned yesterday? Then make your own. Tea Vui Huang’s Mass Storage Synchronizer is an iTunes add-on that allows owners of some Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and PalmOne Treo phones and PDAs to use iTunes to manage their songs, and […]

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The Apple Core: Second iTunes Phone Available from Motorola

The Motorola SLVR L7 is the company’s second iTunes mobile phones and it’s now available from Cingular for US$199 with a two-year agreement. The SLVR is a quad-band candy bar shaped mobile phone that inherits the laser etched keypad from Motorola’s wildly popular RAZR line of phones. It is also much thinner than first iTunes […]

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The Apple Core: Apple may re-name desktops "Mac Pro"

I’ve written a couple of posts about Apple’s new naming strategy that began with the new MacBook Pro, announced last month. After a lot of speculation about the naming of the desktop lineup it appears that Apple may have settled on “Mac Pro.” An article at TheStreet.com indicates that Apple filed for a trademark on […]