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Apple special event invite a fake?

A Flickr user has posted what looks like an invitation to an Apple “special event” on 22 February at the Moscone Center in San Francisco bearing a close-up photo of an Airport Express Base Station. At first blush one might assume that Apple may be announcing an update to the Airport Express that would allow […]

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The Apple Core: iPod suit alleges volume levels cause damage

Apple is facing a new class-action lawsuit from a Louisiana man who claims the computer maker has failed to take adequate steps to prevent hearing loss among iPod users. According a ZDNet story (“Apple faces suit over iPod-related hearing loss”): The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., charges that the […]

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The Apple Core: Super Bowl Commercials on Your iPod

Many of the commercials that will be run on this weekend’s Super Bowl are available to watch now, if you’re into such things. It’s amazing that advertisers have us brainwashed into watching their commercials in the first place, let alone that some people even go to the extreme of downloading them and watch them repeatedly. […]

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Blackcherry, StrawBerry Workarounds Revealed

“Enterprise Spy” has posted an excellent article on the BlackBerry workaround for those of you haven’t already sold yours on eBay. Some background: In 2001, Virginia-based NTP filed a lawsuit alleging that Research In Motion’s BlackBerry wireless e-mail service infringed upon its patents. Judge James Spencer of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District […]

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The Apple Core: iTunes Phone on the Cheap (Updated)

Don’t have US$300 to shell out for the new Motorola SLVR iTunes Phone 2.0 that I mentioned yesterday? Then make your own. Tea Vui Huang’s Mass Storage Synchronizer is an iTunes add-on that allows owners of some Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and PalmOne Treo phones and PDAs to use iTunes to manage their songs, and […]