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Blockbuster start for iPhone 6 suggests Apple on track to sell 60M phones in December quarter Posted: 15 Sep 2014 11:03 AM PDT With 4 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units presold in their first 24 hours of availability, investors on Wall Street are increasingly optimistic about the success of Apple's next-generation handsets, with predictions for the upcoming holiday edging higher to 60 million sales in a single quarter.

Apple creates dedicated portal for users to remove unwanted U2 album Posted: 15 Sep 2014 10:52 AM PDT With hordes of iTunes customers loudly voicing their displeasure at having received 22-time Grammy-award-winning rock group U2's latest album for free in recent days, Apple responded to the cacophony on Monday with a new single-purpose web portal that will allow disgruntled users to remove the album from their iTunes accounts.

Apple's A8 SoC likely carrying new 6-core PowerVR GPU, clocked at 1.4GHz with 1GB RAM Posted: 15 Sep 2014 07:06 AM PDT Apple boasts of massive performance improvements in its latest A-series processor -- up to 84x over the first-generation iPhone -- and the company is thought to have achieved those gains by moving to a new 6-core GPU design alongside a slightly redesigned application processor, data suggests.

Apple's HealthKit powering ambitious new medical trials at Stanford, Duke Posted: 15 Sep 2014 06:19 AM PDT Apple's new HealthKit tools in iOS 8 are the centerpiece of two separate medical trials about to kick off at prominent U.S. hospitals, aiming to help in treatment of diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus reach record 4 million preorders in first day Posted: 15 Sep 2014 05:42 AM PDT Apple's 2014 smartphone lineup is already off to a record start, with 4 million preorders taken for both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in their first 24 hours of availability, leading up to this Friday's launch.

Apple Watch, AirDrop, iBeacon & Continuity coax advanced features from Bluetooth & WiFi Posted: 15 Sep 2014 01:37 AM PDT Over the past few years, Apple has released a series of OS technologies that connect devices using Bluetooth, WiFi or a combination of the two wireless technologies. Here's how the new Apple Watch--as well as AirDrop, iBeacon and the new Continuity features of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite--work to deliver simple, efficient and fast wireless connectivity, in marked contrast to Google's rival efforts for Android.

Samsung calls Apple's iPhone 6 Plus a Galaxy Note imitation in new ad Posted: 14 Sep 2014 10:17 PM PDT In a new commercial released on Saturday, Samsung expectedly calls Apple a copycat for releasing a larger-screened iPhone, specifically the iPhone 6 Plus, saying the new handset comes three years after the Galaxy Note introduced the "phablet" form factor.