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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11471" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11471">Apple has updated Safari, activating extension capabilities and launching the new Safari Extensions Gallery, a one-stop shop for adding new features to the company's Web browser. Quite a few specific bugs and security vulnerabilities also received attention.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11467"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11467', 'show')">Apple Updates iMac, Mac Pro, and Cinema Display</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11467" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11467">Apple has announced substantial speed and graphics updates to the iMac and Mac Pro lineups, and debuted a new 27-inch Cinema Display.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> and <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 27 Jul 2010 | <a href="/article/11467#comments">9 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11463" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11463">Apple has announced that, on Friday, 30 July 2010, the iPhone 4 will arrive in 17 new countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Customers can purchase the iPhone 4 through Apple's online or retail stores, or from any Apple Authorized Reseller.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11455" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11455">Apple is now taking orders for free iPhone 4 cases to reduce antenna problems. Orders can be placed only through the new iPhone 4 Case Program app, which requires your iTunes account password for verification. From there, you select a case (choices include Apple's black bumper and several third-party options), enter your shipping information, submit your order, and wait 3 to 10 weeks (depending on the case) for it to arrive. You can place only one order, so once you've done so, you may as well delete the app.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/11456"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11456', 'show')">Wiki Server Update 1.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11456" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11456">Addresses issues related to user authentication, wiki group calendar access, and migrations from Leopard Server. (Free, 26.3 MB) </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11457" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11457">Improves support for Dropbox, adds support for Firefox 4 beta versions and Camino 2.0.3, and enhances 1PasswordAnywhere capabilities to include search, copy, and auto-lock. (Free, 26.3 MB) </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11452" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11452">Ars Technica reports on the growing number of universities experimenting with integrating the iPad into their academic missions. While a couple of campuses will run exploratory pilot programs (not dissimilar to Princeton's Kindle experiment), others are offering iPads to all incoming freshmen, to select honors students, or to select graduate students. Also, at least one university, North Carolina State, has equipped its libraries with a collection of iPads for anyone to use (which is a little odd, given how personal these devices tend to be).</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11453" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11453">New York Times contributor Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University, has written a thoughtful article on the ramifications of data persistence on the Web. Those who share personal information via social networking services are being forced to come to terms with the Internet's extraordinary capability to preserve past actions, beliefs, and versions of oneself for posterity, causing problems as the lines between the real and virtual, and the past and the present, become ever fuzzier. Rosen provides an overview of the legal, technological, and social solutions we might employ to overcome this new inability to forget.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11449" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11449">Addresses a long list of minor technical stability issues and fixes several critical security vulnerabilities. (Free, 17.6 MB)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11441" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11441">Are you unconvinced by Apple's videos showing other mobile phones being affected by the "death grip" reception problem? Check out further evidence presented by David Chartier at his new Don't Hold It Wrong blog. He cites examples ranging from YouTube videos to user handbooks that show this is an industry-wide problem that's far from secret. (P.S.: Don't let small children read the blog's About page.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11442" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11442">Apple hoped its recent press conference could heal the bruising the iPhone 4's image has taken from the press. But for further repair there's Antenn-aid, a vinyl Band-Aid sticker sized precisely to cover your iPhone 4's antenna gap. It's mainly a gag, but if you're trying to avoid a bulky rubber bumper, you might give it a shot!</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11429" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11429">Macworld reports on Apple's forthcoming iPhone 4 press conference which will be held this Friday, 16 July 2010, at 10:00 AM Pacific time. While the company has given no details regarding who will be speaking or what exactly will be discussed, it's clear Apple is trying to get a handle on the very public controversies surrounding the iPhone 4's antenna problems. It's likely the recent Consumer Reports retracted recommendation increased the pressure on Apple to comment more directly on the iPhone 4's problems and what the company is doing to address them.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11415" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11415">Fixes a short list of bugs including some relating to syncing errors in Snow Leopard, dragging events in the Week View, and deleting duplicate events. ($49 new, free update, 6.2 MB)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11423" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11423">Apple has announced that it is now replacing or repairing, free of charge, Time Capsules purchased roughly between February 2008 and June 2008 that exhibit certain power failures. These failures include not powering on, or shutting down unexpectedly after startup. A recent Knowledge Base article has more information on how to identify whether your Time Capsule has a qualifying serial number, how to arrange for Apple to retrieve data from your device, and how to receive a refund for a previously paid repair or replacement.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11417" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11417">Apple is now offering a beta preview of its revamped MobileMe Calendar. The latest version includes the capability to share and edit calendars with other MobileMe members, and to publish read-only calendars that can be viewed by anyone. Email event invitations can also be sent to any contact through the new Web application interface. The latest version of MobileMe Calendar is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.4, iOS 4 (for iPhone and iPod touch), and iOS 3.2 (for iPad). To try out the new service, log in at www.me.com and click the Request an Invitation link; one will be sent to you shortly in email.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11418" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11418">Ars Technica has received confirmation from the horse's mouth that AT&T is not capping data speeds for iPhone 4 users, as recent rumors have suggested. AT&T said that what some users are experiencing - a degradation in upload speeds to as low as 100 Kbps - is the result of a software defect in the Alcatel-Lucent equipment that AT&T uses in some of its cell towers. AT&T noted that the defect should affect only about 2 percent of users, and that Alcatel-Lucent is working on a fix.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11419" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11419">The New York Times uses a discussion of the iPhone 4's supply chain as a springboard to discuss how rising labor, currency, and housing costs in China may result in increased prices for consumer electronics. Though the actual assembly of a product like the iPhone makes up only a fraction of its total cost, prices of commodity parts such as circuit boards and batteries also reflect fluctuations in labor costs. And while Apple's wide profit margins may provide some insulation from these pressures, other electronics companies that compete largely on price could be hard hit.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
