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Apple News: Apple’s iPhone 5c ‘failure flop’ outsold Blackberry, Windows Phone and every Android flagship in Q4 From the constant harping about the supposed “failure” of Apple’s iPhone 5c, you’d think the phone is selling poorly. The reality is that middle tier model, while dramatically less popular than Apple’s top of the line iPhone 5s, still managed to outsell every Blackberry, every Windows Phone and every Android flagship in the…

Apple News: Mac users four times more engaged than Windows users Mac users are almost four times more likely to upgrade to the latest edition of their OS in comparison with Windows users, with nearly a quarter of the most engaged users of both platforms now using OS X Mavericks. Computerworld yesterday attempted to estimate how many PCs now run Windows 8, which it declared to be in the range…

Apple News: New Apple TV may be unveiled in April, in stores for the holidays Apple’s long-awaited Apple TV refresh may finally be unveiled this April. It won’t go on sale right away, however. It’s reportedly slated to arrive in time for the 2014 holiday sales rush. That’s what sources that spoke with Bloomberg are saying. Now, it’s not often that Apple waits that long between announcing a new product…

Apple News: Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application describing a system that thwarts spam mail by automatically generating and handling “disposable” email addresses, all while being transparent to the end user. According to Apple’s patent filing, suitably titled “Disposable email address generation and mapping to a regular email account,” the integrated…

Apple News: Apple logo welcome at Olympics after all? Good news, Olympic athletes—if you whip out your iPhone at the Sochi games, you will not find yourself surrounded by a cadre of unsmiling officials demanding that you account for what you’ve done. I mean, you could still find yourself surrounded by a cadre of unsmiling officials at any time during these particular interests for any one of a number of…