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Apple picks up OS X El Capitan's development pace
Apple's OS X El Capitan has been on a faster tempo of preview releases than last year's Yosemite, perhaps signaling that the upgrade for the Mac will launch later this month or in September.
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As Apple desktop use grows, IT adapts
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- Widespread iPhone and iPad adoption is influencing broader use of Apple products in the enterprise, namely desktops and laptops. One enterprise seeing this is University of Nevada at Reno, where academic freedom at the research university also means the freedom to choose an OS.
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Apple sticks to schedule, releases second El Capitan beta
Apple today released the second developer preview of OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, matching the cadence of last year's Yosemite to the day.
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Apple to live-stream next week's WWDC keynote
Apple announced that it will live-stream the opening keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next week.
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Apple to wind back the clock to '09 with focus on quality, not features, in next OS X
Apple will turn back the clock to 2009, and as it did with that year's OS X Snow Leopard, focus less on shiny new features in the next Mac operating system and more on improving quality, performance and stability, an online report asserted last week.
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Apple's OS X 'Rootpipe' patch flops, fails to fix flaw
Apple's recent patch to fix a serious privilege escalation vulnerability in OS X Yosemite can be easily circumvented, a security researcher said.
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Apple updates Yosemite, ditches iPhoto for new Photos app
Apple today updated OS X Yosemite to 10.10.3, a build most notable for Photos, a new application that replaces the aged iPhoto.
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Centrify launches global channel partner awards
Unified identity management company, Centrify, has launched its channel partner network awards program.
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OS X Yosemite's uptake breaks 50%
Apple's OS X Yosemite powered more than half of all Macs last month, according to data recently released by analytics vendor Net Applications.
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Microsoft previews OneDrive for Business for the Mac
Microsoft on Wednesday released the promised preview of OneDrive for Business for OS X, the first way to sidestep the browser when accessing company documents and the only way so far to sync files for offline use on a Mac.
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Apple updates Yosemite, again claims to fix Macs' Wi-Fi flops
Apple has released OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 that again aims to improve -- or in cases simply enable -- Wi-Fi on Macs that have suffered connectivity issues since October.
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Apple readies another crack at ending Yosemite's Wi-Fi ills
Apple is putting the final touches on the next update to OS X Yosemite as it again tries to stamp out Wi-Fi problems customers have experienced -- and reported -- since the operating system launched three months ago.
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OS X Yosemite continues swift adoption pace, closes in on 50%
Apple's OS X Yosemite continued its rapid pace of adoption in the second month after release, with uptake exceeding that of any of its predecessors, according to data from analytics vendor Net Applications.
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Apple deploys first-ever automatic patch to fix NTP flaw
Apple on Monday used an automatic security update mechanism for the first time to deploy a fix for a critical vulnerability in NTP, or Network Time Protocol, that was uncovered by a Google engineer.
