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App Store highlights third-party mapping applications in latest Apple response to iOS 6 Maps complaints

This couldn’t have been easy to fess up to and post. Per AppleInsider, Apple has posted a new featured link on the iOS App Store that invites users to “Find maps for your iPhone,” and lists a number of paid and free alternatives to Apple’s own Maps application in iOS 6. The new link appeared […]

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A6 processor found to vary speeds for best possible performance

They say the A6 processor has some cool tricks up its sleeve. They A6 processor doesn’t have sleeves, but it does have some interesting performance variations. No sleeves, though. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, one possible reason the iPhone 5 has such great battery life is the clever way the A6 changes its clock speed. […]

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Google begins adding CardDAV support for iOS calendar users

Google has added support for the open CardDAV contact syncing protocol used by Apple in OS X and iOS, enabling Google Contacts users to directly sync just like Yahoo and iCloud. Google’s Gmail product manager Jeff Ellingson noted the new support for CardDAV on the company’s blog today. The new support requires iOS 5 or […]

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Apple releases second public apology regarding iOS 6 Maps app issues

Once again…this is awkward. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Friday published an open letter to customers on behalf of CEO Tim Cook, who formally apologized for Apple’s new Maps in iOS 6 and “the frustration this has caused our customers.” Cook vowed that his company is “doing everything we can to make Maps better.” In the […]