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Recently published patent hints at deeper iPhone/Facebook integration

A newly published Apple patent hints at the company’s plans for including improved Facebook integration into the iPhone at the device level. The document, discovered by Patently Apple, was approved until April 1st, 2010 and filed in September 2008 and focuses on creating device-to-device workflows. Apple has essentially patented the ability to sync actions between […]

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Court documents confirm Apple/AT&T exclusive five year deal, questions surface over contract renegotiations

With additional chatter surrounding the idea of Apple extending the iPhone to Verizon this year, the exact specifics of Apple’s five-year exclusive contract with AT&T have never really been published. Fortunately, the cool cats at Engadget managed to uncover the following: An ongoing California class-action lawsuit filed in 2007 claims that Apple and AT&T illegally […]

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Hacker brings Android to iPhone

Amidst stolen iPhone prototypes and very influential companies arguing, it’s cool to see that there are people just out there working on cool hacks for other people’s enjoyment. Per CNET, David Wang managed to boot Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone 3G handset. Wang, the “planetbeing” member of the iPhone Dev Team posted a […]

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Apple Prepping New Generation of Mac Pros, 27″ LED Cinema Display

For the professional end, Apple might just have some good stuff in store. Per AppleInsider, Apple is wrapping up development on both a larger version of its LED Cinema Display as well as a new generation of Mac Pro workstations. The new display is targeted for a June release date and measures 27″ diagonal which […]

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Microsoft Updates Office 2004, 2008, Open XML Converter

Yesterday, Microsoft updated just about everything in its Office suites, the first change being an update of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac to version 11.5.8. The new version, a 9.7 megabyte download, improves security and includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. […]