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The aluminium joint on the all new 2012 iMac, which is just 5mm thick around the edges of the display, is made possible by a friction-stir welding technique which is an intellectual property of British company TWI, reports The Register. The friction-stir welding technique, what was invented back in 1991 by Wayne Thomas at TWI, is a process that doesn't...

GigaOM has published a report today, claiming that Google is working on an open source alternative to Apple’s AirPlay and is planning to provide this technology to a number of software vendors to allow data exchange between second screens and TV-connected devices, a hint of which has recently been seen in updated YouTube app for Android...

Nokia promised to port its "Here" mapping service on iOS and the good news is that just a week after making this promise the maps application is available in the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. (more…)

Earlier today Apple kicked off its Black Friday teaser in Australia, and now that same teaser is live online for Canada and the USA. The teaser says you can shop online or visit a store (and use EasyPay via the Apple Store app).  The one-day Apple Shopping event is Friday, November 23.  Get ready to...

The 2012 MacLegion Holiday Bundle has finally arrived--you can get 10 great Mac apps for just $49.99 (a bonus 11th app is available to the first 5000 bundles sold only). All of these apps combined retail for over $540, but you can get them for 90% off as a bundle for just $49.99 (a savings of...

For the close followers of Oprah out there, she recently shared her love for the Microsoft Surface on twitter, but the tweet was sent via the Twitter app--from her iPad (via TNW). Is that wrong?  I wonder how much she got paaaaiiiiddddd (Oprah voice) to send out that tweet. Because as we all know, when...

Hardly anybody knows where Black Friday got its name (stories of businesses finally turning a profit for the year and such abound) but the reality is that with American Thanksgiving finished, the day afterward is the traditional start to holiday shopping. Now, with special thanks to the Internet, you don't have to be living in...

A week ago Apple's iPhone 5 online availability improved to 2-3 weeks from 3-4 weeks, and just now it has improved to 2 weeks in both the US and Canada online store. Below, you can see from Apple.ca the availability times have improved to 2 weeks for factory unlocked iPhone 5 units: Apple still offers...

You may have heard about an Apple specialist gaining some internet fame lately. Why? Because his name is Sam Sung (first posted on The Loop), and he works at the Pacific Centre retail location in Vancouver. Our sources have noted Sam is a cool co-worker. Check out his business card below: Happy Monday. 

Apple's upcoming desktop operating system, OS X 10.9, may feature Siri and Maps, as the early builds in testing reveal, 9to5Mac sources claim. (more…)

In a crime that was originally likened to one seen in the Goodfellas movie, it seems more appropriate that the New York Post would liken it to the 'Dumbfellas'. Court papers identified that JFK Airport employee Renel Rene Richardson was behind the theft of a USD $1.9 million dollar iPad Mini shipment moving through the...

You're not going crazy--iMessage and FaceTime is currently down for the count. Apple's iCloud status page was recently updated to reflect the outage, even though it the outage has affected users for the past 2-3 hours. Expect Apple to fix this shortly. iMessage was previously down a couple times in late October. Apple needs to...