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Apple to go one up on Facebook, Twitter: iPhone 5 will have its own social network

With an iPhone 5 around, friend-finding is going to be a lot easier. At least it's going to be a lot less hard than arduously adding friends on Facebook and getting disillusioned over lack of compatibility. According to the rumor mill, the iPhone 5 is going to become your portable social network. The phone analyses your habits, tastes, lifestyle, aptitudes, travels and the like and finds people who share the same bandwidth. And then it tells you if a potential friend is in the vicinity. Conve...
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'Updated MacBook Air in July, to coincide with Mac OS X Lion launch'

Rarely has Apple faced the 'ultimate software-hardware asymmetry' with regard to product launches. But it appears to be such a season for the consumer tech giant. Apple unveiled at the WWDC the iOS 5, the feature-filled update for its vaulted mobile operating system. But then it failed to say anything about when iPhone 5, the device the iOS 5 was supposed to enrich. Then, iCloud was launched, but the network preparedness, or the lack of it, of world carriers came in the spotlight.Now, it l...
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Apple to dare Nintendo, Sony by giving Phone 5 the latest mobile graphics architecture

There is apparently more evidence that Apple is prepared to dare the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and vie for the gaming pie. The warrior is iPhone 5 and the arsenal include the A5 processor with a dual-core graphics core and the most powerful mobile graphics processing architecture built to date. New rumors that float around suggest the iPhone will have strong gaming capabilities supported by multi-core A5 processor and Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Series6 mobile graphics process...
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Apple iPad 3 to don a 2048x1536 retina display?

While media is abuzz with speculation about the upcoming iPhone 5, a new report suggests that Apple's next iteration of iPad, the iPad 3, will flaunt a retina display with a screen resolution of 2048x1536.
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Unlocked iPhone goes on sale; suggests 'global' iPhone 5 will be launched soon

Apple has officially announced the sale of unlocked iPhone 4 through its stores in the United States and the devices will be available hours from now. Is Apple clearing the deck for the arrival of the iPhone5 5? Or is it a marketing strategy aimed at international travellers who would want to insert micro-SIM card from any GSM carrier in their local countries? Or, on a broader scale, is Apple paving the way for what is dubbed as the 'global iPhone 5'?
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iPhone 5 delayed? Apple may be slowing down in the mobile market race

The release of the white iPhone 4 last month and today's news of the unlocked iPhone 4 are signs that the iPhone 5 may be released even later than expected. The shrinking sales of the iPhone compared to the explosion in sales of Android smartphones sales may threaten Apple's position as a leading seller in the mobile market, even with iOS 5 and iCloud.
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Android has 5 better features than iOS 5

Apple's launch of iOS5, might have played as an update on Apple's mobile operating system to catch up with the other mobile operating systems in the market, but some features sported by Google's Android are way ahead.
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Top 6 most-anticipated products from Apple

Apple is known to have provided global consumers with some exciting products. But there are many more which are highly anticipated but still in the pipeline. Here is a list of 6 most-anticipated products from Apple:

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