Did Apple buy 3D mapping company C3 Technologies?Apple may have bought up 3D mapping company C3 Technologies, a which makes 3D cartography that could replace or augment what is currently available on Apple's iOS products. While Mac hardware sales have grown considerably overall, notebooks eclipsed the company's desktop sales in 2004 and haven't looked shown any signs of receding. A new report this week claimed that the company is considering shelving what is currently its most expensive product. Apple fought a legal battle with Cisco for the use of the iPhone name, with the two companies reaching a settlement in February 2007.RumorsApple's Mac Pro tower.AppleApple mulling end of life for Mac Pro tower?Apple's line of high-end desktop towers could be more endangered than originally thought. Apple goes after porn domain cybersquattersIn a filing with the World Intellectual Property Organization, Apple this week took aim at seven domain names that use its trademarked term "iPhone." The seven sites lead to Web sites that sell pornography, instead of being related to Apple or Apple products. Users get all the same software-based music tools as before, along with a few tweaks like making custom chords, and exporting in uncompressed audio formats. Previously the software was only available to iPad users. The company tweaked the design of its iconic glass cube "by using larger, seamless pieces of glass." Since opening in 2006, the company's Fifth Avenue location has gone on to become one of the company's busiest and reportedly the most profitable.Apple unveils revamped New York 'Cube' (.See full gallery1 - 4 / 5NextPrevGarageband arrives on iPhones, iPodsApple made its Garageband app for iOS work on iPhones and iPods this week. Work on the store, which is one of the most photographed landmarks in New York, began in mid-June. Preorders for those countries began yesterday.Apple's NYC "cube" reopensApple's highest-profile store in the Big Apple re-opened this week following a nearly five-month construction overhaul. iPhone 4S arriving in 15 additional countries November 11Later this month, the iPhone 4S will be arriving in 15 more countries including Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and South Korea. The feature, which turns voice commands into actions on the phone, requires being piped through Apple's servers to work. The service was down, or otherwise spotty for a little less than three hours on Thursday afternoon, returning to normal without an explanation from Apple. Siri experienced another outage this week.CNETSiri experiences second outageApple's Siri service, the voice assistant feature that's exclusive to the recently launched iPhone 4S, underwent its second major outage this week. ![]() Apple followed up this week by releasing a new developer beta of iTunes with the feature enabled. That's the service that scans your iTunes library and replaces any tracks you've ripped with full-quality copies from Apple's iTunes Music Store, that is if they have a license to it and you're a paid subscriber of the service. Apple misses iTunes Match launch deadlineApple this week missed the deadline it laid out last month to bring its iTunes Match service to users by the end of October. ![]() ![]() Apple's Eddy Cue pulled in another 100,000 shares to go with the bonus he got when he became a senior vice president at the beginning of September. Most got 150,000 shares, worth a little more than $60 million based on yesterday's closing Apple stock price. That right there is a good sign we could get the software fix sooner than expected.Read on for a rundown of everything else that happened this week in Apple land.NewsApple gives top execs big bonusesA flurry of new filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission posted yesterday show Apple's top executives getting bonuses with big payouts that hinge on them staying with the company through the end of 2016. Help is on the way.Apple copped to the quick drainage problem and said it was working on a fix in the form of a software update that will arrive to users in the "next few weeks."In the meantime, the company pushed out two uncharacteristically quick, nearly back to back betas of iOS 5.0.1 to developers, the software that includes the fix, along with patches to other bugs that were in the initial release of the iOS 5 software. This week brought good news for those affected with lackluster iPhone battery life after upgrading to iOS 5. Apple's iOS 5 battery fix en route (Apple Talk Weekly)
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