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Recent Apple patent points towards shatter-proof, shock mounted iPhone glass

You can’t knock Apple for trying to make a sturdier product. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a recent Apple patent applications shows the company looking to create a “shock mounting cover glass in consumer electronic devices,” the invention claims a tunable shock mount sandwiched between the phone’s glass and other hardware. There’s […]

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Live Blog: Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” media event

Ok, here are the touch points so far, as noted via the cool cats at Mac|Life: – iOS 5 will be released on October 12th and continue to be free. – iOS 5 will function on the iPhone 3GS, 4, iPad, iPad 2, and the two recent generation iPod touches. – Contacts, calendar items and […]

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AT&T to raise iPhone insurance rates by $2/month on October 4th

It never hurts to be protected…and you can take that any way you want. Per Electronista, AT&T has confirmed that insurance costs will be going up for AT&T iPhone owners on October 4th, as rumored, a page on the carrier’s website reveals. Come October 5th, insurance rates are scheduled to jump from US$5 to US$7, […]

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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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Apple releases iPhoto 9.1.3 update

Apple on Tuesday released iPhoto 9.1.3, the latest version of its image organization and editing application. The update, a 112 megabyte download which can be be snagged via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature, offers the following major fix: – Fixes a problem that could cause some events merged in iPhoto to be split back […]