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Best Buy recalls 5,100 third-party MacBook batteries for fire risk (appleinsider, also macrumors)
Best Buy announced on Wednesday that it is recalling 5,100 MacBook Pro batteries built by third-party manufacturer ATG after a number of users reported their units caught fire.
Best Buy recalls MacBook Pro replacement batteries due to 'burn hazards' (cnet)
With reports of 13 battery fires and one injury, the big-box retailer is recalling around 5,100 replacement batteries...
Best Buy recalls MacBook Pro batteries due to 'burn hazards' (cnet)
With reports of 13 battery fires and one injury, the big-box retailer is recalling around 5,100 replacement batteries...

Watch ESPN, HBO GO, Sky News on Apple TV with the 5.3 Update (osxdaily)
A new update to Apple TV brings streaming access to several popular TV services and networks, including HBO GO, ESPN, Sky News, Qello, and CrunchyRoll. Versioned as 5.3, the update requires a second...
Apple TV update adds HBO Go, WatchESPN & more channels (appleinsider)
Apple on Wednesday issued an update for its Apple TV set-top box, adding HBO Go, WatchESPN, Sky News and other...
Big Apple TV 5.3 update adds HBO GO, WatchESPN, Sky News and more (9to5mac)
. Apple has just pushed out a massive update to its $95 set-top box that brings the much anticipated HBO GO and...

Famed Designer Richard Sapper Was Once Recruited by Steve Jobs (macrumors)
In an interview with design magazine Dezeen, German industrial designer Richard Sapper revealed that he was once recruited by Steve Jobs to do design work for Apple. The interview doesn't specify...
Apple cofounders in the news: Steve Jobs on legacy, and Woz firing-up three... (9to5mac)
The Loop spotted that YouTube channel EverySteveJobsVideo has uploaded a previously-unseen video of Steve Jobs...
Steve Jobs expected to be forgotten by history (cnet)
In a previously unseen video clip from 1994, in between his gigs at Apple, Jobs says he expected his life's work to be...

Apple releases first OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion beta to developers (appleinsider)
Less than one month after debuting OS X 10.8.4, Apple on Wednesday seeded the first OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion beta build to developers, with the latest maintenance update possibly looking to...
Apple seeds first OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 beta to developers, Retail (9to5mac)
Following the public release of OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.4 and the first Developer Preview of OS X 10.9...
First OS X 10.8.5 beta seeds to developers (macnn)
Apple has begun seeding the first beta of OS X 10.8.5 to developers. The initial release is listed as build 12F9, and...

Analyst recants claim that Apple will add Retina display to iPad mini before... (appleinsider)
NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim has reversed his earlier prediction that Apple would add a Retina resolution to its iPad mini at some point before 2014.
iPad Mini Retina's display is a moving target: Here's why (cnet)
Apple faces some tough choices when deciding on a display technology for the upcoming iPad Mini. That results in...
Analyst Flip-Flops Again: Thinner iPad Mini in Late 2013, Retina Display in... (macrumors)
DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim is going back on statements he made back in May, when he said the next model of the...

Apple comments on $30 Million iPad deal with Los Angeles Unified School District (9to5mac)
Along with their major update to Apple TV, Apple announced today that it has been granted approval from the Los Angeles School Board of Education to begin a massive iPad program starting this fall....
Apple wins $30M iPad contract with LA Unified School District (macnn)
Apple has won a $30 million contract to provide iPads to every student in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the...
Apple signs $30 million iPad deal with LA Unified School District (thenextweb)
Apple today announced signing a significant deal with the Los Angeles School Board of Education that will bring $30...

Parallels Desktop 8 updated to support Apple's OS X Mavericks (appleinsider)
Popular desktop virtualization client Parallels released an update to their desktop app for Mac on Wednesday, allowing Apple developers to run beta versions of OS X Mavericks in tandem with older...
Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac updates with early OS X Mavericks support (macnn)
Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac has been updated with support for the OS X Mavericks beta. The new Desktop build,...
Parallels updates Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac with support for Apple’s OS X... (macdailynews)
Parallels just released an update to Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac...

Researchers crack auto-generated iOS hotspot passwords in 60 seconds (macnn)
The auto-generated passwords for iOS Personal Hotspots can be cracked in under a minute, a group of German researchers claim. In a paper (PDF) out of the University of Erlangen, the people explain...
Researchers Crack iOS-Generated Hotspot Passwords in 50 Seconds (macrumors)
When tethering an iPhone or an iPad, iOS users have the option of using an automatically generated password for their...
Why you don’t want to use the default password for your iPhone personal... (9to5mac)
Weaknesses in the system used to generate default passwords for the iPhone’s personal hotspot function –...

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