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• a press release, Apple today announced that Mountain Lion had been downloaded over 3 million times
• “most successful” OS X release in Apple’s history

• Countering Samsung's allegations that the iPhone borrowed design elements from Sony, Apple has revealed an iPhone prototype dating back to 2005 that shares many design elements with the iPhone 4 released in 2010.
• shows a white iPhone dominated by a touchscreen on the front, with a home button below the display that reads "Menu."
• flat sides and curved corners
• spot for a camera lens

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• oming to an abrupt end after the company's Legal and Corporate Affairs team sent out a memo banning the word "Metro.
• threatened with legal action for infringing on "Metro" trademarks held by German retailer Metro AG.
• "Windows 8-style UI"

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• on September 12 ahead of September 21 availability for the new iPhone, AllThingsD reports that it has confirmed an Apple media event will be taking place that week
• debut the next iteration of the iPhone,
• The Verge has also "confirmed" the September 12
• Reuters, Bloomberg and NYTimes also confirm the date.

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• Apple will be ready to ship the new iPhone by mid-September
• launch the device during the third week of the month
• working on a pair of official cases
• speculates that the case may include some sort of stand, but it is unclear whether that it is based on any actual information
• new iPod touch sharing similarities to the new iPhone such as a taller 4-inch display
• new "iPad mini" will not be ready for launch alongside the new iPhone in late September and may instead launch in November.

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• iLounge shares a new report
• new dock connector set to to debut on the next-generation iPhone will contain just 8 pins,
• other design features, "potentially" including the ability to mate devices with docks and cables in either orientation, eliminating the need to determine which side of the cable is the front before connecting.
• undisclosed iOS 6 feature that would take advantage of the low-power Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity available in Apple's recent products to provide new levels of inter-device communication
• a future iPod nano to display iMessages received by an iPhone, record voice memos that could be shared via the iPhone, and even initiate phone calls through its own headphones.

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• harp's new president announced on Thursday that his company will begin shipping displays for Apple's next-generation iPhone this month.
• declined to give any more details on the displa

• shown interest in creating an iPad Smart Cover that would act as a secondary touchscreen display for the device, showing simple status messages or even acting as a full-fledged touch keyboard.
• secondary display is on the outside of the iPad when the Smart Cover is closed.
• write in new reminders
• daily appointments

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• reported the 4.065-inch panel is 0.1mm thinner, and it has a 0.3mm smaller home button,
• area surrounding the entire home button area shrinks from 18.00mm to 15.40mm.
• ETrade reported improved light transmittance for the next-gen panel and improved scratch resistance.

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• legal dispute between Apple and Samsung having yielded a remarkable number of design concepts
• qualities of the glass at the time had a lot to do with it.
• extruded aluminum design similar to that of the iPod mini, noting that the design was rejected for both comfort and technical reasons.

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• As noticed by All Things D, from a Seeking Alpha transcript, CBS CEO Les Moonves answered an analyst's question
• what we get paid
• it depends what the terms are,
• what effect Apple TV would have on either our advertising, our syndication or our retrans, which are our 3 main buckets of revenue
• we’re happy to discuss

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• The Wall Street Journal now follows up with more details on the discussions
• primarily focused on product integration such as appeared in iOS 5 l
• floated the idea of investing in Twitter Inc. as the companies discussed integrating the social service into Apple’s mobile operating system last year,
• it didn’t progress
• continue to talk about future product integrations. They include more deeply melding Twitter and iTunes, according to two people briefed on the matter.

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• The Fancy is a competitor to Pinterest, and its premise is a network where users can “fancy” products, clothes, places, and more. Users of the network are able to purchase what they “fancy” or view on the site, making it an e-commerce platform. Sometimes, these purchases come at a discount.

   
• When you find something you love somewhere on the web, Fancy it.
• Apple CEO Tim Cook had a meeting with the creator of The Fancy, Joe Einhorn, at the recent Sun Valley conference
• The Fancy is based in New York and has 20 employees, according to the report.

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