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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has forced Apple's hand and made them agree to a court-enforceable undertaking that will see them extend their standard warranty period to at least two years, as well as ensure better compliance with the consumer benefits for refunds and exchanges in ...

Just after we went to press yesterday Apple released OS X 10.9.1 to the public, featuring several Mail improvements, an update to Safari, and other miscellaneous bug fixes. There'a also a separate version of 10.9.1 that can be downloaded for the Retina MacBook Pros with "specific system enhancements", ...

Over the weekend Beyoncé released her new self-titled album, exclusively on the iTunes Store. There were no rumours a new album was coming from the artist, it was suddenely just available. It has proved absurdly popular, selling 828,773 copies in the first three days, also making it the fastest selling ...

Apple's as-yet unreleased Mac Pro has once again shown up in benchmarks, this time running the latest version of Geekbench. Single-core performance is down thanks to the lower clock speed of the Xeon E5 processors used in the new Mac Pro, but multi-core performance is about what you might expect. Apple's ...

An earlier report earlier this week accused Apple manufacturing partner Pegatron of labour violations after the death of one underage worker. Despite Apple's medical team later determining his death was not related to working conditions, labour violations are still a hot topic, with Foxconn working ...

By Ben Salter, MMGN.com

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PROS: Simple but thrilling combat with a great touch interface
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When Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was revealed, an online chorus questioned why Ubisoft didn’t call it “Pirates” instead. At first glance it has nothing to do with the arching Assassin’s Creed narrative, and more to do with the trials and tribulations of swashbuckling, sea shanties and swindling rum. ...

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has put Siri to the test in a head-to-head battle with Google Now. His analysis of both voice recognition personal assistants concludes that even though both have shown improvement, Google Now has improved enough to be on par with Apple's personal assistant. ...

Apple has hired one Michael Pallad to bolster the iTunes Radio team. Pollad's LinkedIn account confirms the move, and also shows he's worked as the Executive Vice President of Sales at Cumulus Media, a radio organisation. It's expected Pallad will work on ad sales in his new position on the iTunes Radio ...

Scott Forstall is the man of many hats. Since leaving Apple we've heard very little about him, but he's reportedly been travelling, advising startups, and focusing on philanthropy. His travelling hat has taken him to places like South Africa and Italy, while his philanthropist hat has him focused on ...