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Apple stock hits a nine month low as rumors swirl and confidence falls

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Apple's stock took a sharp jump downwards at the opening bell this morning, continuing the rough slide it's been on since the last quarter of 2012. The stock is currently trading around $488 a share. Back in September of 2012, at its peak price of $705 a share, Apple was far and away the world's most valuable company, a crowning achievement for a company that had its share of dark days in the...

iPad mini and 4th-gen iPad with mobile data coming to China on Friday

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Following last month's launch of the iPad mini and 4th-generation iPad in China, Apple has announced that cellular data-enabled versions of both products will be coming to the world's largest mobile market this week. Apple will sell the tablets online and in stores from Friday, and you'll also be able to find them at select resellers.

There's no information yet on whether carriers will be selling the iPads directly, but we'd expect them to work on 3G at best across the nation — number 1 operator China Mobile's nascent TD-LTE network is incompatible with Apple products currently on sale. We've reached out to Apple for further details and will let you know if we hear anything back.

Don't expect LTE

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How Apple 'punk'd the entire crowd' when announcing Safari

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Former Safari engineer Don Melton has already told us what it was like to keep the browser project a secret, as well as revealing that it was once known as "Freedom." But in his latest post, Melton details what it was like when Safari was finally revealed at Macworld 2003. He recounts concerns over technical problems and watching Steve Jobs rehearse his keynote, as well as sitting in the crowd seeing the presentation along with everyone else. "For the entire six minutes and 32 seconds that...


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Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop (hands-on)

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The original Clamcase was one of the most flawed iPad keyboards we tried in our roundup — since then, the company has gone back to the drawing board and is now debuting a much-improved new model called the Clamcase Pro. Aside from being iPad keyboard cases that feature a flexible, laptop-style hinge, the Clamcase Pro bears almost no resemblance to its predecessor. For starters, the keyboard has been completely redesigned and is much, much...

Reuters withdraws story on Phil Schiller's reported denial of 'cheap' iPhone (update)

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Yesterday it was reported that Apple's Phil Schiller had denied the company was working on a "cheap" iPhone — but now Reuters has retracted its story on the matter. The Shanghai Evening News published an interview with Schiller where, according to a translation by The Next Web, he reportedly said that a cheap iPhone "will never be the future of Apple's products." The statement came in response to reports from earlier in the week that Apple...