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Rumor: iPhone 5 to launch in ‘early to mid-September’

The cool cats at Boy Genius Report are citing that AT&T is beginning preparations for an expected “early to mid-September” launch of the next-generation iPhone, in line with launch rumors and expectations and other reports of Apple beefing up its retail store staffing over a similar timeframe. BGR has learned that AT&T has begun communicating […]

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Security researcher to illustrate MacBook batteries’ vulnerabilities to malware

In the category of “weird but interesting and mildly disturbing”, a prominent security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the batteries of Apple’s MacBook line of portable computers that could allow hackers to ruin the batteries or install malware on them that could corrupt a Mac. Per Forbes, Charlie Miller, a renowned white-hat hacker who […]

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Apple initiates replacement program of 1TB Seagate hard drives for iMacs sold between May and July of 2011

If you bought an iMac between May and July of this year, you might have a replacement hard drive coming your way. Per AppleInsider, Apple is recalling some Seagate 1TB hard drives used in iMac systems sold between May 2011 and July 2011 because of an unspecified failure issue. The program was initiated on Friday […]

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Perian 1.2.3 released

Late Tuesday, the Perian team released version 1.2.3 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle. The new version makes the following fixes and changes: – AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats. – MS-MPEG4 v1 […]