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For Apple fans dreaming of sapphire iPhones, Liquidmetal could be a cautionary tale Posted: 28 Jun 2014 05:20 AM PDT Apple certainly likes to keep its competition -- and fans --?guessing about its next moves, and one of the company's best head-fakes in recent years was an exclusive arrangement for a unique metal alloy dubbed Liquidmetal. News of that deal sparked fantasies of mythical Liquidmetal products built by Apple -- wishful thinking that may now be repeating once again with the company's latest investment in sapphire.

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'outed' as gay by CNBC co-achor Posted: 27 Jun 2014 09:36 PM PDT In a live TV segment of CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Friday, co-anchor Simon Hobbs caused a kerfuffle when he inadvertently "outed" Apple CEO Tim Cook as being openly gay.

Widespread Verizon Wireless outage affecting payments and new phone sales Posted: 27 Jun 2014 04:21 PM PDT Verizon Wireless is experiencing a widespread billing service disruption that has been ongoing for nearly two days, leaving would-be customers -- and existing subscribers who want to upgrade -- in the lurch.

Adobe 'committed to helping' Aperture customers migrate to Lightroom after Apple announcement Posted: 27 Jun 2014 12:28 PM PDT Following Friday's announcement that Apple would discontinue both iPhoto and Aperture in favor of OS X Yosemite's new Photos app, software giant Adobe chimed in to tout its "rich roadmap" for Lightroom -- Aperture's main competitor -- and to reiterate the company's commitment to Apple-based photographers.