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Apple News: Apple not ready to kill OS X Snow Leopard yet Apple on Thursday gave its strongest signal yet that it will continue to support OS X Snow Leopard with patches for the foreseeable future rather than retire the still-active operating system. On Thursday, Apple shipped Security Update 2013–001, which patched 11 vulnerabilities in the client and server versions of OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard. Read…

Apple News: Apple’s iRadio Service Could Begin Broadcast In 2013 Previously, reports that Apple and the major music labels weren’t close in negotiations shot down the likelihood of consumers seeing such a service until 2014 (at the earliest), but Greenfield says they’re still negotiating on song catalogs and licensing rights. Read full story => Razorianfly Technology News: iHeartRadio Copies Songza’s Music Concierge Feature Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio launches a new feature…

Apple News: Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe subscribers When Apple unveiled iCloud on June 6, 2011, and announced they’d be shutting down MobileMe, they handed subscribers a complimentary upgrade beyond the 5GB default that iCloud offers for free. That storage upgrade was set to expire on September 30th of this year, but Apple has announced it’ll be extended until September 30th, 2013. Read full story => Technology Tell…

Apple News: Apple Posts A Video Remembering Steve Jobs And Highlighting His Greatest Achievements Apple has posted a video on its homepage today, with footage of Steve Jobs over the years speaking at keynotes and Apple events, showing images of him and the products he created that changed the way we think about and use computers and mobile devices. The video begins with the famous Wayne Gretzky quote that pretty…

Mac News: Amazing iPhone 6 Feature Uncovered A new Apple patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday illustrates the company’s take on powering portable electronic devices with an electromagnetic induction system, or “shake to charge.” Electromagnetic induction, or the production of electric current in a conductive element as it moves through a magnetic field, has been leveraged to generate power for a number of so-called…