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Rumor: Apple to launch iPhone 6 handset on October 14th amid “incredibly busy” month

The current iPhone 6 rumor mill is now pointing towards a specific release date of October 14th, one month after an unveiling in September. Per MacRumors, a source with knowledge of an Apple Store meeting has indicated that Apple is planning to announce the next-generation iPhone 6 at an event scheduled for September 16th, to […]

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Apple posts new MacBook Air EFI update 2.9.1

As we reported last week, there were numerous problems with the MacBook Air firmware update released earlier in the week. Users reported symptoms as innocuous as the update simply not being applied, to preventing the laptop from rebooting. In most cases, performing multiple SMC resets on the computer fixed the booting problem, but the update […]

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Apple removes MacBook Air firmware updater after reports of problems

After a day of user complaints of problems applying the MacBook Air 2.9 EFI firmware update after its release, Apple has finally pulled the update from the App Store. As we reported yesterday, threads like this one, started reporting that attempts to apply the update would run and fail to actually update the firmware, or […]

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Apple posts $37.4 billion in revenues, $7.7 billion profit for Q3 2014

Apple’s money train kept rolling into the third quarter. Per Macworld, the company posted revenues of US$37.4 billion and a net profit of US$7.7 billion, making for a record June quarter for the company. Those numbers were up from the third quarter of 2013, when Apple tallied US$35.3 billion in revenue and US$6.9 billion in […]

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Apple is looking to employees to test its new Photos app

We’ve mentioned in a previous post that Apple plans to replace the once venerated pro-level photo management app, Aperture, and presumably iPhoto as well, with an all new application called simply Photos. Now Apple is looking for someone to put it through its paces, and looking no further than its own collective of employees.