“We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ 19-Pin!” New Rumors Of An 8-Pin iPhone 5 Dock Connector

If the unbridled joy and fervor of the 30-pin dock connector being reduced to the newfangled 19-pin variety, then get ready for an even tinier, 8-pin dock connector for the iPhone 5. Or so the rumor mill tells us. For the remainder of this rumor cycle, I’m going to have to write about the dock connector with a little bit of mirth, since it seems like we’ve already spent far too much time discerning about the iPhone 5′s dock connector. Sure, a new dock connector will have implications, but fretting...

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With The iPhone 5 Features And Release Date Fully Exposed, Is There Anything Left To Speculate On

Apple’s future iPhone releases used to be the closest-held secrets in the consumer technology sector. But this year, the tech media claims to have all the answers for what the iPhone 5 will look like and when it will be released. Is cagey Apple and its secretive iPhone release a thing of the past? If you listen to the iPhone 5 rumor mill these days, it would appear that the new iPhone has been figured out: we know exactly what it will look like, the dimensions of the display, the new 19-pin dock...

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Apple Mulls Stake In Twitter

Twitter and AppleIf there’s anything Apple has not been good at, it’s social media. While Google finally seems to have figured out in own place in the social media niche with the highly Google Search-oriented Google+, Apple has struggled to craft its own branded social media experience. Building off of iTunes, Cupertino hoped that Ping could be their answer. But for as popular as Apple’s on-demand music e-commerce platform may be, it has not proven to be well-suited for a social media integration...

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