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James Rogers, TheStreet.com Apple's iMac is fast emerging as the savior of the beleaguered desktop market, according to analyst firm Caris & Company. "Believe it or not, we estimate Apple's iMac accounting for a full quarter of all desktop market growth in calendar year 2010," writes Caris analyst Robert Cihra, adding that this will help stem recent desktop declines. Tweet
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Christopher Breen, Macworld Why yes, as a matter of fact, it is possible to archive your iPhone's SMS messages. Tweet
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AppleInsider Apple this week unlocked new tools that allow iPhone developers and publishers to pre-set the release date of their applications and schedule price changes. Tweet
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Dan Frakes, Macworld Among the most popular accessories for the iPhone, iPod, and MacBook lines are films and coverings designed to protect the screen from scratches; some products also fight glare and offer privacy protection. However, several vendorsâwho wish to remain anonymous to avoid conflict with Appleâhave told Macworld that Apple will no longer sell such products, or any other products that adhere to Apple devices, in either the online Apple Store or Apple retail stores. Multiple sources have told us that, because of the difficulty of applying such films and coverings without blemishes or air bubbles, these products are returned at a higher rate than many other products. Tweet
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AppleInsider Apple this week quietly announced a handful of enhancements to its fledgeling iWork.com beta service, including the availability of new sharing features and improvements to the online service's user interface tailored for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Tweet
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Dave Itzkoff, New York Times If Steven P. Jobs wants relief from one of his more merciless satirists, a television set may not be the best place to turn. On Tuesday, the cable channel Epix and the studio Media Rights Capital said they had struck a development deal for a new series called âiCon,â to be written by Dan Lyons, a Newsweek contributor who has sent up the Apple chief executive on his popular blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, and in his novel âOptions: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs â A Parody.â Tweet
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Dan Frommer, Business Insider One of the more interesting things you can do with Apple's iPhone and iPod touch is to use it as a remote control for other devices. Since the iPhone App Store launched almost two years ago, developers have created hundreds of remote control applications. Tweet
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AppleInsider In addition to new App Store software, National Public Radio and The Wall Street Journal also plan to create specific versions of their Web sites completely devoid of Adobe Flash for iPad users. Tweet
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Philip Michaels, Macworld Tweet
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AppleInsider Originally scheduled to ship soon after the iPad launch in April, both the keyboard dock and 10W USB power adapter for Apple's tablet computer now have estimated ship dates sometime in the month of May. Tweet
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Ryan Faas, Computerworld The Mac Mini server is a well-priced solution for small businesses. Tweet
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John Letzing, Wall Street Journal Tim Bray, a software developer employed until recently at Sun Microsystems Inc., said Monday he has joined Google as a "developer advocate" with a focus on the company's Android operating system. And he wasted no time decrying Apple's vision of the cellphone market and strategy for the iPhone. Tweet
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Brier Dudley, Seattle Times Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and senior vice president, welcomed Apple's lawsuit as the opening salvo in a bigger effort to sort out who owns the technology used in smartphones and start collecting a standard set of royalties. License holders have been talking about this behind the scenes for some time, and Apple brought it out in the open, he said. Tweet
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Peter Kafka, Wall Street Journal One of the most interesting things about Appleâs App Store is that it is a level playing field, or at least itâs supposed to be. That said, it certainly helps to be one of the big guys. Tweet
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AppleInsider An estimated one in five iPhone developers are companies founded specifically to create applications for the iPhone, according to the latest Flurry Smartphone Industry Pulse survey. That represents the second-largest category of developers behind only preexisting online companies, including giants like Google, Facebook and eBay. Those established brands take up 22 percent of the iPhone developer share. Tweet
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Seth Weintraub, Computerworld Richard DeVaul's Linkedin status changed last month from Founder & President at AWare Technologies to Senior Prototype Engineer at Apple, Inc. This is a significant hire for Apple and one that shows the company is looking far ahead into the future of mobile computing. Tweet
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Serenity Caldwell, Macworld Tweet
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Mike Elgan, Computerworld The truth is that people donât buy consumer electronics for the quantity of features. They buy it for the quality of experience. Tweet
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Doug McLean, TidBITS Busy people take notice: the latest version of Cultured Code's popular task manager Things is now available and comes with a big functionality boost. Version 1.3 brings a new Mixed Projects feature, enabling users to work with projects that have active, inactive, and scheduled to-dos all at once, something that wasn't previously possible. Tweet
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Ramu Nagappan, Macworld The MacBundles has put a new spin on the now well established software bundling promotion. In addition to offering the usual âbatch of a dozen software titles for $50,â the MacBundles has created a BYOB (Build Your Own Bundle) option that lets you customize the package. Tweet
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John Gruber, Daring Fireball Three weeks ago the hard drive in my MacBook Pro went bad. So far as I can tell, I didnât lose a single byte of data. Hereâs how. Tweet
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Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Blog While the rest of the world iterates on existing solutions to known problems, Apple discovers and solves problems we didnât even know we had. Tweet
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