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Apple releases iOS 6 golden master to developer community

It’s six days from completion and the final, gold master version just went out the door. Per AppleInsider, Apple has just seeded the mobile operating system’s golden master to developers, showing slight tweaks and performance enhancements to its first-party Maps app. According to sources familiar with the progression of Maps in iOS 6, the recently-seeded […]

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Opera web browser updated to 12.01

On Thursday, Opera Software released version 12.01 of its web browser. The new version, a 26.9 megabyte download, boasts the following fixes and changes: Several general fixes and stability improvements: – Website thumbnail memory usage improvements. – Address bar inline auto-completion no longer prefers shortest domain. – Corrected an error that could occur after removing […]

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Purported screenshots show possible new mapping functions in iOS 6

They’re not the most elegant pictures and they’re even a bit blurry, but they ARE interesting. Per Boy Genius Report, a collection of blurry photos claim to reveal Apple’s redesigned Maps application, expected to be a major component of the anticipated iOS 6 update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The five pictures claiming to […]

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Apple looking to hire additional software engineers to boost iOS navigational features

A quartet of job postings on its employment web site (1, 2, 3, 4) shows that Apple is looking to hire at least four new employees for its iOS development team. The description for the full-time job based in Santa Clara Valley, Calif., calls for “outstanding engineers to deliver the next generation of Apple products.” […]