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Apple swaps out discoveryd network protocol in latest OS X 10.10.4 beta, looks to overcome DNS-related errors

When in doubt, go back to the networking protocol that works best. And, hey, it should hopefully fix some of the Wi-Fi bugs in Yosemite. Apple, in an apparent effort to fix DNS errors seen in its Yosemite operating system, will be replacing its buggy discoveryd service with mDNSResponder, a process last implemented in OS […]

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Apple in a buying mood, acquires social analytics firm Topsy

Apple seems to be pretty busy this quarter buying up companies. Apple reportedly bought social-media analytics firm Topsy Labs Inc. for more than $200 million. According to The Wall Street Journal, Topsy’s tools can decipher how often a term is tweeted, find an influential person on a specific subject, or measure the exposure of an event or […]

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Study finds mid-2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-Fi speeds throttled by bug in OS X

Even in the event that the Wi-Fi connectivity issues on the mid-2013 MacBook Air notebooks are hardware-based, the underlying operating system software is apparently throttling potential data speeds on the new networking protocol. Per AnandTech and CNET, a series of tests by AnandTech confirms that much of the Wi-Fi speed throttling is software-based. The new […]

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Rare Steve Jobs speech from 1983 unearthed, complete with predictive technology comments and foreshadowing of future Apple technologies

Ok, now this is REALLY interesting. Per AppleInsider and the LifeLibertyTech.com blog, the full-length version of a “lost” Steve Jobs speech given at the Design Conference in Aspen was unearthed and posted to the web on Tuesday, illustrating some of the prescient insights the late Jobs offered as to how computers would one day be […]

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Apple releases AirPort Utility 6.0, AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.1

You can’t knock a networking update. Late Monday, Apple released AirPort Utility 6.0 and its AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule 7.6.1 firmware updates. The updates, which are available for all 802.11n AirPort Express, 802.11n AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule models, fix an issue with wireless performance and provides support for remote access to an […]