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Developers begin answering questions about upcoming APFS filing system

It’s deeply technical, but it’s worth the read. An blog posted over on Adam Leventhal’s blog and picked up by the mighty Ars Technica describes a talk about the new Apple Filing System given during a Q&A session over at WWDC. During the session, Dominic Giampaolo and Eric Tamura, two members of the APFS team, […]

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Apple decides on royalty rate of 0.2 cents per play during 90-day Apple Music free trial period

Apple’s decided on a royalty amount to pay the artists on Apple Music during its 90-day free trial. And that number is 0.2 cents per play. The New York Times is reporting that music executives close to the story have stated that Apple has negotiated 0.2 cents per play with the record labels. The amount […]

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Apple launches developer blog for Swift programming language

A little transparency goes a long way. Following the announcement of its new Swift programming language for iOS and OS X, Apple has launched its Swift developer blog, which is designed to bring Swift-based news, updates and information to the public.

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Apple Rumored to Buy Twitter

The latest pre-WWDC rumors don’t involve the iPhone, the Mac, or even Snow Leopard. The buzz making it’s way around the bloggosphere is that Apple has it’s eye on the social, micro-blogging service Twitter. The site TechCrunch has posted a report on the growing rumor of an Twitter buy-out: Today, though, rumors popped up that […]

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Adium beta Includes Twitter Connectivity

The Adium folks have been hard at work and one of the new features slated for version 1.4 is accessing Twitter accounts. That should come as no surprise considering the explosion of Twitter popularity and the development of software to access the service. As Zack West of the Adium blog put it: “For well over […]