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Jim Dalrymple, a renowned Apple journalist from The Loop has posted a message surrounding the iPhone and iPad Mini events.

From the message, it seems Dalrymple is suggesting that Apple will hold two separate media events, one for the iPhone and one for the iPad mini. ...

For many users, Calendar is a brilliant application for scheduling dates, events and deadlines. It's just like a physical calendar in that it provides a simple way of organising busy geek lifestyles. Although, unlike it's physical counterpart, the Calendar app features a few little tricks that may enhance your productivity, assist in organising your hectic schedule or just breathe new life into an otherwise dull and repetitive calendar.
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The Apple vs Samsung trial has finally reached a conclusion with the jury reaching a verdict after two days.

Samsung must pay Apple just over $1 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets, a California District Court jury decided on Friday.

The decision was complicated with allegations on three Samsung companies and 20+ devices.

The jury decided in Apple's favor on an important question -- whether Samsung's infringement was wilful. The jury said the infringement was wilful for 5 out of 7 Apple patents in the case. That could potentially result ...

Earlier this week Samsung opened its first retail store in Australia, down the road from the Apple Store in George Street, Sydney. And while Apple and Samsung are currently tied up in a legal battle over who copied whose hardware, it seems Samsung could have not picked a worse time to unveil a store that bears a striking resemblance to Apple's own retail stores. ...

Heyo! Just a quick note to say that I'll be covering the opening of the new Carindale Apple Store (that's in Brisbane) live and in-person. This should be a cracker, because not only will it be my first store opening, it will also be the first official Apple Store on Brisbane's southside.
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(This post is a response to James Croft's excellent article "How I learned to stop worrying and love Evernote". Read that before I tell you why he's wrong.)

We're in a relative mess when it comes to note taking and word processing apps, and I think I've found the main culprit - Microsoft Word. For a long time, mums, dad's and even geeky uncles have been misusing Word as their default Blob Of Paragraphs Dumping Bin, saving their assignments, snippets of writing or, god forbid, album of images into a convenient (ahem, proprietary) .doc or .docx file before emailing it to themselves, or dumping ...

Fire up the App Store (or download it direct from Apple), because OS X 10.8.1 has been released by Apple. The first Mountain Lion update contains fixes for Migration Assistant, improved Exchange Server compatibility, that fix for audio issues with a Thunderbolt display, and even resolves and issue that ...

Stephen Wolfram, the brains behind the software that created Apple’s personal voice assistant Siri, has revealed details of his friendship with the late Steve Jobs, plans to improve Siri’s capabilities in Australia and the possibility of working with Google in the near future..

Speaking with The Australian in a video interview while in Sydney, the engineer and mathematician discussed his 20-year friendship with Jobs that led to his collaboration with Apple to develop the Siri app.



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