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Apple Legal Targets iBuzz, iPod “Spinoff” Adult Products

According to a story on techdigest.com, Apple’s legal department has targeted iBuzz, a musical sex toy that vibrates to the rhythm of a given music file on your iPod. While this may have gone over as a funny joke with most people, Apple took offense with the gadget and the all-too-similar-to-its-own-campaign imagery on the iBuzz […]

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Apple/Disney/Google Collaboration Could Boost iPhone Sales

A recent article on MYiPhone.com speculates that Apple, which now holds a nice position with Disney per Steve Jobs’ recent addition to the company’s board, could see boosted iPhone sales as a result of recent buyouts this year. Disney, which has filed patents for an upcoming streaming-video handset that looks like a flip phone, seems […]

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“I Would Buy a Mac if I Didn’t Work for Microsoft” Claims Microsoft Development Manager

According to an article on Computerworld.com, Microsoft veteran software development chief James Allchin commented in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder Bill Gates that the software firm had “lost sight” of customer needs and claimed that he would buy a Mac if he wasn’t working for Microsoft. “In my […]

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CoolBook Update Fixes Controller App Bugs

CoolBook author Magnus Lundholm has released an e-mail to registered users as well as download links to a new build of his shareware application. The program, a 688 kilobyte download, allows users to monitor their MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops’ CPU frequency, voltage and temperatures with registered users being allowed to manually set their voltage […]

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Apple: Some Intel-Based Macs May Become Unresponsive After Extended Periods in Target Disk Mode

A recent article on MacFixIt.com points to an Apple Knowledge Base document detailing how certain Intel-based Macs (namely the early 2006 iMacs and the MacBook Pro laptops) can become unresponsive if used as a host for FireWire target disk mode for more than 24 hours. Also worth noting is that the display and hard disk […]