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Apple Patents

Recent Apple Patents Suggest Upcoming Facial Recognition, Improved Videoconferencing Systems

Recently-released filings from the United States Patent and Trademark Office reveal that Apple may be planning face-detection components for its Mac and iPhone operating systems, in addition to working on ways to netter the quality of video conferences conducted via iChat. According to MacRumors, a current filing builds upon ways in which users may be […]

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Apple Rumor

Apple Rumored to Buy Twitter

The latest pre-WWDC rumors don’t involve the iPhone, the Mac, or even Snow Leopard. The buzz making it’s way around the bloggosphere is that Apple has it’s eye on the social, micro-blogging service Twitter. The site TechCrunch has posted a report on the growing rumor of an Twitter buy-out: Today, though, rumors popped up that […]

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Apple iPhone Mac Mobile Server Services Software

New Snow Leopard Seed and Server Features for iPhone

Apple sent an announcement to developers last Thursday that the next seed for Snow Leopard was available for downloading. AppleInsider reported that this was the second beta of the software released this month and is labeled Mac OS X 10.6 build 10A335. The new download is reported to also include a new version of 10.6 […]

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MobileMe

Apple Opens 24/7 Live Chat Support for MobileMe Subscribers

On Monday, Apple announced that it would be complementing its MobileMe online service support with a new chat feature available to members. According to Macworld, the MobileMe live chat support will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for English speaking customers. The real-time support is for “customers that encounter an issue […]

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Apple Retail Store

Apple Stores May Switch To iPhone Software for In-store Purchases

With the release of iPhone 3.0 enabled hardware and software, Apple may be planning a switch from its EasyPay handheld devices to iPhones for checking out customers at their retail stores. An AppleInsider report speculates that Apple may be planning to move away from the current Windows Mobile-based PDAs in favor of iPhones or iPod […]