While Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, managed to wrangle in the title from TIME Magazine, the Financial Times has a different outlook on the previous year, and who managed to have the biggest impact. The periodical has announced that they've given the Person of the Year achievement to none other than Steve Jobs. And while there's many factors as to why the Financial Times has decided to go this route, they're putting quite a bit of the achievement on the shoulders of Apple's tablet device, the iPad.
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Steve Jobs Declared Person of the Year by Financial Times
Apple Plans to Hide the Antenna Behind Their Logo
Apple engineers are always hard at work trying to better their hardware, trying to find every route possible to make it more interesting, usable, and effective. While "Antennagate" may have thrown a wrench in a lot of people's planning and hard work, and caused an antenna-related campaign of which no one had seen before, it also meant that those same engineers were already hard at work on a fix right after the launch of the latest generation iPhone. And, if a recent patent application is any indicator to the fact, they may have found a potential fix for the whole situation: hiding it behind the logo.
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Apple Sandy Bridge testing tips huge CPU/GPU refresh
Apple's future processor and GPU plans are the subject of numerous leaks today, with sources revealing that the company has been testing Intel Sandy Bridge Core iX chips for several months now, ahead of including them in future MacBook Pro and Mac Pro models, among others. Meanwhile, the company is also tipped to be considering solely using Sandy Bridge integrated graphics in its entry-level notebooks and ultraportables, while higher-end machines would switch from NVIDIA chips to AMD's Radeon range.
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Apple buy Wi-Gear for Bluetooth expertise; apt-X quality audio support as standard?
It's been a long time since we reviewed Wi-Gear's iMuffs for iPod, but it seems Apple has been paying closer attention to the wireless headphones company. According to 9to5Mac's sources, Apple acquired Wi-Gear two months ago - the company now says it is closed for business - and intends to use its technology and expertise to produce stereo Bluetooth headphones for its iOS and MacBook lines. We've also reason to believe that Apple could introduce apt-X support across those ranges, for higher quality Bluetooth audio.
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Apple Keeps the Mac Roaring
With all the speculation and chatter about tablets eating into notebooks and desktops – Apple re-emphasized the importance of the Mac in their software and hardware ecosystem. The announcement today focused on software but also highlighted two new MacBook Air models (The smallest notebooks on the market), one starting at $999
Apple’s COO Tim Cook set the tone for the whole morning by stating the Mac business represents 33% of Apple’s revenue ($22 billion dollars). He put that in perspective and revealed that if the Mac business was a standalone company it would be listed #110 on the Fortune 500 list. 
OS X 10.7 Lion Official: Mac Meets the iPad
After 7 major releases of Apple’s OS X platform over the last decade, it’s all come to this. Apple has just announced the brand new version of OS X, and it’s called Lion. Just as we had suspected. The new version brings plenty of upgrades to the OS, and there’s even a few surprises in store, just as Apple had suggested on their revenue call earlier in the week.
I Don’t Use It, Why Should You?
I use my DVD drive all the time. Some readers may laugh, but I actually pay for movies and music content. Sometimes, I’ll find a deal on a movie or a CD that is better than what I could find online. I take it home, I rip it to my laptop, and it’s mine, convenient and digital. I used my DVD drive when I installed Windows 7 on my MacBook, and when I had to reinstall iWork, after iMovie started crashing again. In my old Camry, my tape deck stopped working, and that’s my favorite way to connect my iPod to my car stereo. Radio transmitters don’t work reliably in my area, but instead of shelling out a few hundred bucks to buy a proper car stereo for a car that won’t last me through next year, I did what we used to do back in the old days. I burned a CD.
11.6 Inch Leak of MacBook Air
Late in the week last week, the image you see below was leaked showing what was assumed to be a new 13 inch MacBook Air but what an inside source now notes is, in fact, a MacBook Air, but instead, a smaller one: the upcoming 11.6 inch model. The person familiar with the image notes that this is an early prototype for the 11.6 MacBook Air, codenamed K18. This image was originally thought to be the larger MacBook Air model, but was noted by the source to look to not quite have enough space in its chassis to be the 13 inch. A MacRumors analysis of this photo seems to fit the situation, showing how this image resembles a notebook closer to 10 inches than 13.
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Apple’s (rumored) 11.6″ MacBook Air creates more buzz
Apple's MacBook Air seems to be disappearing right before retailers' (and consumers') eyes, thanks to on-going rumors of a new 11.6-inch MacBook Air. Both current configurations of the MacBook Air (the low-end 1.83 GHz and the high-end 2.13 GHz) appear to be out-of-stock everywhere. This "disapperance" has not popped up over night. Online retailers have been subtly hinting to buyers that inventory of the MacBook Air is running low, and that the time to buy is now!
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Geek builds tablet from old MacBook
What do you do if you have an old MacBook sitting around that was damaged when the battery went super nova? You take that broken down old Mac and you turn it into a tablet if you are a geek going by the handle Enigma-penguin. The MacBook was a Core 2 Duo unit from 2007.
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Apple Magic Trackpad and multi-touch trackpad gets update 1.0
Apple unveiled its new Magic Trackpad yesterday. The $70 accessory adds a trackpad that supports gestures to your desktop similar to the multi-touch gesture trackpads that are on MacBooks. Apple has announced a new update for the Magic Trackpad and trackpad on MacBook machines called update 1.0.
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OS X 10.6.4 released: Safari 5, bugfixes, more
Apple has pushed out OS X 10.6.4, an update to their Mac OS which includes various security updates, bug fixes and Safari 5 as standard. Interestingly, the update is also listed as affecting MobileMe, though there's no mention of any applicable changes.
OS X 10.6.4 should be offered to Mac users via the Software Update tool, though you can manually download it here if you have multiple machines to upgrade. Meanwhile there's a separate version for OS X servers, which improves file, directory, calendar and mail services, among other things.
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