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iCloud: Using and troubleshooting Shared Photo Streams

With Shared Photo Streams, you can share just the photos you want with just the people you choose. When they subscribe to your shared photo stream, friends and family can view the photos, leave comments, and “like” individual photos right … Continue reading

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Meet Romain: TechCrunch’s Fearless Vlogger In Line For The iPhone 5

As you should already know, the iPhone 5 is upon us. The phone goes on sale tomorrow morning, with doors opening at 8am Eastern Time. There are already a few dozen people in line at New York’s 5th Avenue flagship … Continue reading

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Why The @Facebook.com Addresses In iOS 6 Contact Sync? Apple And Facebook Want To Shut Out Gmail

Why would Facebook quietly hide everyone’s real email addresses and only display @facebook.com addresses on our profiles? Signs, rumors, and one source point to pressure from Apple to join forces and keep Gmail addresses from being pulled in by iOS … Continue reading

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Three Words Explain Why Apple Has Us By The Short Hairs: Home Shopping Network

Oh, Apple, we love you so much. Well, a lot of us do anyways. The company has been pretty amazing when it comes to introducing new products to the marketplace, and most of that is definitely because the products that … Continue reading

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Why Apple Has Us By The Short Hairs In 3 Words: Home. Shopping. Network.

Oh, Apple, we love you so much. Well, a lot of us do anyways. The company has been pretty amazing when it comes to introducing new products to the marketplace, and most of that is definitely because the products that … Continue reading

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Apple’s iOS 6 Causes Massive Traffic Spike, Signals High Early Adoption Despite Maps Issues

Apple’s power to drive downloads cannot be underestimated, as a new report from Sandvine’s Better Broadband Blog (via The Loop) notes. Yesterday, Apple released iOS 6, as well as an update for OS X and just about every first-party app it … Continue reading

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The iOS 6 Maps App Takes To Twitter To Assuage Your Cartographic Grief

Over the past day or so the vituperation against the iOS 6 Maps app AKA the Maps app that makes you wish you were running Android has been rising on the blogsphere? Why? Well the app is kind of wonky, … Continue reading

Occupy Wall Street activists join the Apple iPhone 5 queue

They arrived Wednesday and settled in for the night in matching red sleeping bags FORTUNE — Looks like the launch of the iPhone 5 is about to get political. Veteran line-sitter Jessica Mellow, who’s been camping out in front of … Continue reading

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Samsung Confirms: iPhone 5 To Join The Ranks Of Existing Patent Lawsuits

Samsung has been widely expected to add the iPhone 5 to its ongoing patent disputes with Apple, and today the Korean electronics company made that official, noting in a U.S. court filing uncovered by Reuters that it “will file, in the near … Continue reading

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iPhone 5 Shipping Estimates Slip To 3-4 Weeks

Hope you already ordered your iPhone 5. Apple just updated the shipping estimate, pushing the window for all variations from 2-3 weeks to 3-4 weeks. And with good reason, too. It’s a great phone. It’s the best iPhone yet per … Continue reading