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Rumor: iTunes Radio to roll out in Canada, Australia, U.K. and New Zealand in early 2014

iTunes Radio will be hitting a wide array of international markets in the next few months. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Bloomberg, iTunes Radio is also set to start early next year in Australia and New Zealand, where Pandora already operates, said sources who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. […]

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iPhone 5s, 5c preorder deliveries delayed for customers in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore

The new iPhone you want might be delayed depending on your location Per AppleInsider and the Sydney Morning Herald, just after midnight local time, Apple opened sales of their new flagship iPhone 5s and 5c to customers in parts of Asia and Australia, and orders were immediately met with delays of a week or more, […]

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Sources call iPhone 5s/5c inventory available via wireless carriers “grotesquely low” for September 20th launch

This might not be the best indication for the upcoming iPhone 5s/5c launch. Per AllThingsD, sources from U.S. wireless carriers on Tuesday stated that carriers are facing “grotesquely” low inventory for the device’s launch. Sales of Apple’s next flagship handset will begin online Friday at 12:01 a.m. Pacific, while Apple’s retail stores will begin selling […]

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Waze realtime incident data now incorporated into Google Maps following acquisition earlier this year

This is one of the better sides of companies buying each other out. Per AppleInsider, crowd sourced traffic data from Waze, a company that Google acquired earlier this year, is now included in the official Google Maps application for iPhone and iPad. The company announced on its official Lat Long blog on Tuesday that real […]

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Apple hiring additional engineers for Maps team, will include “Frequent Locations” feature in iOS 7

It’s Apple’s jobs page that tends to point to where things are going. Per AppleInsider, Apple is actively recruiting for scores of new full time jobs related to Maps. The company also plans to enlist the support of its installed base of 400 million iOS users with an opt-in invitation to “Help Improve Maps” in […]