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Rumor: Apple has disbanded its wireless router division, reassigned personnel to more profitable product groups

As much as you love your AirPort router, it may be the last of its kind. Apple has apparently disbanded its wireless router division, having moved personnel away from this to focus on products that generate more revenue. Apple began shutting down the wireless router team over the past year, dispersing engineers to other product […]

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Apple to sell (RED)-branded iTunes gift cards, give proceeds to charity for Black Friday shopping holiday

If you’re looking to buy new Apple gear and do some good on the side, you might want to wait until Friday Per Macworld and USA Today, as part of a 2-week-long effort to raise money for (RED), the nonprofit organization U2 singer Bono founded to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa, Apple will be giving away […]

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Rumor: AT&T to black out employee holidays around September 20th for next-gen iPhone launch

When companies begin penning in blackout dates for their employees, a product launch tends to be imminent. Per Boy Genius Report, citing sources close to the story, the web site claims that AT&T has blacked out vacation dates for the second half of September, a move supposedly meant to handle an expected deluge of customers […]

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Apple Begins Taking Bids on Mac Netbook Components

Long-time Apple manufacturing and component provider Foxconn is reportedly among a group of frontrunners expected to receive a contract to create a Mac netbook. According to DigiTimes, sources lose to the story have cited that Foxconn “is in the running to land orders for a netbook from Apple.” Outside of adding that Mac maker’s 13-inch […]