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Analyst: Apple Ready to Release Haswell iMacs in June or July
Partly due to production delays which kept them out of many consumers’ hands until early this year, and partly due to Apple’s recent trend of letting Macs go long periods without updates, it seems like the ultra-slim 2012 iMac just joined the Mac family yesterday. But according to a new research note from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple may release the 2013 update to the line as early as this month. No significant form factor changes are expected after…
Apple Sells 100M iPods touch, Releases Updated 5th Gen for $229
Apple had a pair of iPod touch announcements Thursday, first releasing a modified fifth-generation iPod touch at a lower price point and then announcing, by way of The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple, that the company has sold 100 million of the devices to date. The new iPod touch was released early Thursday morning without fanfare. The model brings many of the high-end features and design to a lower price point of $229 (current fifth-generation models start at $299). Featuring the same…
Major Gmail Update Brings Tabbed Categories to Email
Following the trend of innovative Email interfaces, Google on Wednesday announced a major redesign to its Gmail web interface. The Gmail update brings a new look that significantly cleans up and modernizes the user interface, and adds tabbed browsing of incoming messages to help users process email based on category. We get a lot of different types of email: messages from friends, social notifications, deals and offers, confirmations and receipts, and more. All of these emails can compete for our…
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Official Twitter for Mac App Gets Retina Support, New Languages
The official Twitter client for Mac OS X was updated today after nearly two years of neglect on the part of the popular social media platform. While still functional prior to today’s update, the Twitter app remained stagnant in the face of new hardware, such as Retina Displays, and drastic and controversial changes to Twitter’s API. The version 2.2 update to Twitter brings the following changes: Retina display support — Twitter is now more vibrant on the highest resolution Mac…