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Apple purchases Semetrics music analysis service, puts itself in better position to track users’ music listening habits

Apple’s interested in what you’re listening to. Especially if it helps to justify having spent several billion dollars for Beats. Per The Guardian, Apple has acquired British startup Semetric, which runs the Musicmetric analytics tool, as part of its plans to relaunch its Beats Music streaming music service later in the year. In documents filed […]

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Edward Snowden refuses to use an iPhone, cites backdoors, security reasons

Edward Snowden doesn’t trust the iPhone. Whether you trust yours is another matter altogether. Per AppleInsider and Sputnik, infamous former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, responsible for leaking thousands of pages of classified intelligence documents from the secretive spy organization, reportedly believes that the iPhone contains “special software” that can be remotely activated by […]

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Dropbox to discontinue Mac OS X 10.5 support after May 18th, users encouraged to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 or later

You’re going to have to update your operating system to Mac OS X 10.6 or later to keep using Dropbox. Per 9to5Mac, Dropbox has announced through an email to users on older versions of OS X that it will soon be discontinuing support for computers running Leopard or other older versions of the operating system. […]