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Apple Volume Purchase Program allows businesses to buy iOS apps in bulk

Sometimes a business just needs certain App Store apps. Per Macworld, Apple quietly unveiled a Volume Purchase for Business program (also known as VPP) last summer: Essentially, it’s an App Store specifically for businesses, where they can purchase iOS apps in bulk. It allows developers to custom-tailor software for specific businesses; it also gives Apple […]

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iCloud News Software

Apple releases iTunes 10.5.1 beta update to developer community, focuses on upcoming iTunes Match feature

Following the public release of iTunes 10.5 with support for iOS 5 devices, Apple also privately released iTunes 10.5.1 to its developer community, allowing them to test the forthcoming iTunes Match service. Per AppleInsider, the final release of iTunes 10.5, released earlier Tuesday, does not include support for the US$24.99-per-year iTunes Match service. It will […]

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Apple seeds updated iTunes 10.5 beta with iCloud iTunes Match feature to developers

The rest of the iCloud is coming. And it will have additional snazzy features. Per AppleInsider, Apple has released a new version of iTunes for developer testing of the functionality of iCloud’s new iTunes Match feature for storing songs “in the cloud” for flexible access from mobile devices. Apple has already publicly introduced some new […]

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HP to end webOS development, spin off computer business and focus on software/services

Even the mightiest can fall. Or be forced to radically restructure. According to Bloomberg, Hewlett Packard, the world’s largest PC maker, has announced plans to spin off its PC business and scrap its recently acquired webOS smartphone and TouchPad tablet business to focus on software and services. Per the report, HP “has been aiming to […]

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Hardware News

Apple expands buyback/recycling program for old iPhones, iPads and Macs

If you have elderly Mac stuff, you can still get something for it. Per AppleInsider, Apple has enhanced its recycling program to add a new “reuse” option that pays owners of existing iPhones, iPads, Mac or PC desktop or notebook computers a fair market value for their old equipment, paid via an Apple Gift Card. […]