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‘Whilst most kids were carried around in the stroller, I was carried around in the first Macintosh carry case,’ says Aza Raskin whose father Jef Raskin was the expert user interface designer that built the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. Thanks to The Next Web.

Here’s an interesting: Everybody’s ‘favorite’ multinationals (the banks, ewww) are working hard to make cash cashless even as they take our cash….and ING Direct last week introduced a bump your iPhone payment solution for its check account customers.

This P2P-based solution should help make iPhone users more used to using their smartphones as a payment thing. Bank Innovation spoke with ING Direct to find out that solutions like this may actually be used in preference to NFC, as there’s problems within that industry… Read the rest of this entry »

What is it with Apple [AAPL] and its friends? It seems everyone touched by Cupertino’s magic seems to find some magic of their own; we’ve seen what happened when things went sour between Apple and Google, but now the Jobs-led company has a new challenger — Samsung.

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Flimsy reports claim Apple may ditch Intel in favor of adopting ARM-based processors across its product range. But does it matter? After all, MacBook Air shows us future mobile Macs will be high-performance machines equipped with SSDs and lengthy battery lives. Intel processors will live on in pro-notebooks and Apple’s increasingly archaic desktop Macs.

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Apple [AAPL] seems set to kill the optical drive when it releases Mac OS X ‘Lion’ as a downloadable upgrade via the Mac App Store. While this begs questions — principally how a Mac user can launch a faulty Mac from disk, without a disk — this isn’t the first time Apple’s changed an industry. Here’s a short — and necessarily incomplete — list:

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Apple’s iCloud.com services will support its hardware products to create a connected end-to-end solution for consumers and professional users. Apple is consolidating its platform advantages against the Android army as it does.

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