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Rumor: Microsoft’s Xbox, Kinect employees helping to develop smartwatch

Microsoft is prototyping its own wrist-worn device. According to The Verge, a reliable source familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans has revealed that the company has been developing a wrist-worn device for just over a year. Microsoft was initially rumored to release a “Joule” heart rate monitor accessory for the Xbox, but the company has since […]

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Apple releases Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 4.05

On Thursday, Apple posted its Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 4.05, an update designed to extend RAW image compatibility for the Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11 applications. The update, a 5.13 megabyte download, adds support for the following cameras: – Fujifilm X20 – Fujifilm X100S – Fujifilm X-E1 – Fujifilm X-Pro1 The update requires an […]

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Hardware iPad Rumor

Rumor: Next-gen iPad to be 15% thinner, 25% lighter, use smaller, more efficient battery

This could be nifty. Per MacRumors, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has on a number of occasions offered accurate information on Apple’s product plans, recently published a new research note outlining his expectations for Apple’s fifth-generation iPad. Kuo expects mass production and shipments of the new iPad to ramp up in the August-September timeframe, […]

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Apple seeds third OS X 10.8.4 beta to developer community

OS X 10.8.4 is en route. It’ll just be in beta for a bit longer. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Wednesday seeded build 12E33a of OS X 10.8.4 maintenance update to developers, with the latest beta coming a little over one week after the build 12E30 went out for testing in early April. Mountain Lion’s latest […]

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Apple extends replacement program for MacBook bottom case, bumps claim period from two to four years

You remember Apple’s somewhat-weird polycarbonate MacBook with the rubber bottom? And how the rubber bottom had its own oddities? Well, Apple’s extending the coverage period on said weird rubber bottom. Per MacRumors, Apple last week quietly made a change to its program regarding defective MacBook bottom cases, extending the coverage period from two years after […]