Apple’s iOS 7 release likely to be the most impactful iOS update yet

Developers are hard at work getting ready for the release of iOS 7 this week. One easy way to tell is by how little they appear to be working on their iOS 6 apps.



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Apple iPhone Event: What to Expect

When Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stage at the company’s Cupertino, Calif. headquarters on Tuesday, he’ll likely do something Apple has never done before: release two iPhones at once. The introduction of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C is widely rumored and eagerly anticipated at next week’s big Apple event, though it’s unlikely they’ll be the only new devices at the company's first major product launch in almost a year.

Here’s what to expect on Tuesday:

iPhone 5S

The iPhone 5S will be an upgrade, and not an entirely new phone. It's expected to come in a variety of new metallic finishes, and include a faster processor. Read more...More about Iphone, Apple, Tim Cook, Tech, and Gadgets



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Apple Patent Application for Combination Fingerprint Scanner and NFC Circuitry Surfaces

Apple has filed for a European patent (via Free Patents) detailing a system for combining a fingerprint scanner with near field communication (NFC) technology, allowing for dual modes of operation in a single space-saving design. The patent application was published yesterday and discovered by Patently Apple. The European patent application is derived from a U.S. patent application filed in March 2012 and quietly published on Thursday without mentioning Apple as the assignee, and the applications describe the fingerprint/NFC circuitry as embedded into a button or other surface included on a . . .



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