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Staples to begin carrying Apple products, exact start date unknown

This one’s been a long time coming… Per 9to5Mac and MacRumors, office retailer Staples had a meeting today with corporate employees announcing that Apple products were coming to their stores. The company followed up with a tweet to confirm that a deal with Apple has been finalized and that their stores will begin selling Apple […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.8.3 build 12D68 to developer community

They’re gotta be getting close to release at some point… Per MacNN, Apple on Thursday released the latest beta build of OS X 10.8.3, dubbed 12D68, to developers as the forthcoming update moves closer to public release. The most recent seed comes one week after the previous build 12D65 was rolled out with a fix […]

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Cocktail updated to 6.3.1

Late Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 6.3.1 of CocktailCocktail (Mountain Lion Edition), the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 5.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Fixed a problem where Cocktail could not change Time Machine backup interval. – Addresses […]

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iPad iPhone News

New Zealand to deploy 9,900 iPhone, iPads to police force over next decade

It’s hard to say if iOS devices will help fight crime in the land of the kiwi, but it’s worth a try. Per Electronista, the New Zealand Police will be issuing 6,000 frontline officers with iPhones. Of those officers, a further 3,900 will also receive an iPad in an outsourcing deal with Vodafone worth US$159 […]

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Lockscreen bypass available in iOS 6.1, contacts vulnerable through hack

Ok, they’re probably going to need to fix this. Per The Verge, a security flaw in Apple’s iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a contact). The method, as […]