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An email offering a $40 check from Apple and a discounted data plan from AT&T may raise spam alarm bells. But, this time, it’s not a scam. An email sent out this week notified early purchasers of the iPad with 3G connectivity about a possible settlement in a long-running class action lawsuit regarding Apple and Continue Reading →

A product listing for the Retina iPad mini with a release date of November 21 has appeared on Target.com, suggesting Apple’s new tablet could make its debut on the Thursday before Thanksgiving. Thus far, Apple has not provided a prospective release date for its iPad mini with Retina Display, offering up only broad November launch Continue Reading →

Apple already has a number of solar power inventions to its name, but Thursday’s filing is one of the first to propose a solution that can be made viable in the near term. As noted in the patent, titled “Power management systems for accepting adapter and solar power in electronic devices,” Apple is not looking Continue Reading →

Apple will start selling the on-an-Atkins-diet iPad Air Friday. And with the reviews positively gushing — perhaps an understatement, with powerhouses like the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg calling it the “best tablet I’ve ever reviewed” — consumer competition might get heated. How can you get one? Let’s count the ways. Stand in line. How Continue Reading →

The iPad Air is 80 percent faster than the fourth-generation iPad, say new benchmark tests. Running the new iPad through the paces via Geekbench 3 tests, Primate Labs found that the tablet comes close to reaching Apple’s promise of doubling the speed of the iPad 4. The iPad Air is powered by an A7 processor, Continue Reading →

Apple released a statement to The New York Times on Tuesday night noting that a manufacturing issue has caused shortened battery life in a ‘very limited’ number of iPhone 5s devices. At its introduction, the phone was reported by Apple to have nearly identical life to the iPhone 5, and most tests have borne that Continue Reading →

New operating systems always bring new problems, and Mavericks is no different. The Migration Assistant in Mountain Lion had a tendency to crash while copying over your files, while other Macs with the OS dropped Wi-Fi after waking from sleep. The Mavericks update seems to have gone smoothly for most, but it’s far from trouble-free. Continue Reading →

Apple could sell as many as 51.5 million iPhones during the holiday quarter, says Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. In an investors note out Tuesday, Walkley said he expects strong sales of the iPhone 5S through December as Apple bumps up supply to meet the heavy demand. The more expensive 5S is currently outselling the Continue Reading →

The iPad Air goes on sale starting Friday, November 1. The tablet will be available in stores and online, and it looks like Apple will offer buyers the option to order the tablet online for in-store pickup as well, reports both MacRumors and 9to5Mac. Historically, Apple hasn’t launched many of its iOS devices with its Continue Reading →

Apple’s iWork free upgrade has angered long-time Mac power users, who have flooded the company’s support forum with complaints about lost features. One customer called Apple “serial software killers,” while others collaborated to list the features Apple dropped in Pages, the word processing application and the most popular of the three that make up the Continue Reading →