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Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 to Developer Community

Late Tuesday, Apple officially released iPhone OS 3.0 beta to to its developer community. According to Engadget, the new beta includes push notifications and in-app purchasing, giving developers a chance to play with these features. The report also cites significant stability improvements within the new build. While MMS and tethering are also included within beta […]

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iPhone OS 3.0 Beta Bricking Pirated iPhones

This was sort of to be expected, but it’s interesting. According to the Los Angeles Times, users installing a pirated version of Apple’s upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 firmware are finding their iPhone handsets effectively bricked, wherein the handset loads to the activation screen. At this point, they’re in trouble. Per the story, the version of […]

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Apple Releases Second Mac OS X 10.5.7 Beta

Apple appears to be close to getting its Mac OS X 10.5.7 maintenance update out the door as the company issued a new build of the update this weekend. According to AppleInsider, Apple released build 9J22 to third-party developers recently. The build apparently contains nearly six dozen code corrections, a barebones weight of 440 megabytes, […]

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Apple Begins Testing Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update

No matter what you think of Mac OS X 10.5.6, Apple is cited as having tapped its developer community this week to begin testing its Mac OS X 10.5.7 update, a maintenance and security update to the company’s Leopard operating system with a particular focus on syncing improvements. According to AppleInsider, sources close to the […]

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EMC Releases Retrospect 8 Beta 4

EMC Corporation on Friday released the fourth public beta of Restrospect 8.0 its long-standing backup and recovery software for the Mac. The new beta consists of the following new features and changes: Stability has been greatly improved, and this build should feel much better. Proactive Backup (old Backup Server) monitoring is now functional, and the […]