Apple has published set of print ads in several popular magazines. The ads show off the capabilities of the iPad mini’s Newsstand on the back covers of print magazines like Time and The New Yorker.

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By virtue of iPhone 5 sales, iOS reached the top spot on the smartphone market in the United States, according to research company Kantar Worldpanel Comtech. According to the report covering smartphone sales over the 12-week period ending October 28, iOS accounts for 48.1% of the smartphone market in the U.S (up 25% year-over-year) and has officially moved Android into second spot.

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Best Buy has aired a new ad for Apple products entitled, 'Finding Santa'.

You can do anything with your gifts - including track down Santa Claus with all of your Apple products. All things Apple. All at your local Best Buy.

Take a look:

In order to put the new Lightning technology on the market, Apple had to purchase the trademark “Lightning” from the motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson. Patently Apple reports that two Apple trademark applications published by EU Patent & Trademark Office show the transfer of the trademark officially occurred on Saturday.

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Circuit board hooked up to a monitor and keyboard

Technologizer's Harry McCracken reported on some photos taken in 1976 by Paul Terrel from the Byte Shop in Mountain View. The Byte Shop was one of several computer stores in the world at that time and later become the first dealer for a startup company called Apple Computer.

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Here is what's on sale from Gameloft, Sega, Namco, Tin Man Games and Gamerizon. Take a look at these 77 games that are on sale this time:

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Here is a list of games that are on sale this weekend from EA as well as the EA-owned Chillingo, Firemonkeys and PopCap. Take a look, some are as low as FREE:

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According to a research conducted by Nielsen in the United States, over the course of the next 6 months, consumers between the age of 6 to 12 years are interested in buying iOS products form Apple. New Nintendo Wii U took the second place on popularity, but rated behind the iPad. However, iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad Mini entered the top 5 most popular products for this age group.

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Apple is hiring new team members to help make Siri available in Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish, according to a company job posting.

Apple’s official list of currently supported languages and availability by country for Siri is below:

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Apple airs new iPhone 5 ads showcasing Shared Photo Streams for Thanksgiving and noise canceling microphone

The first ad is a Thanksgiving special that demonstrates the iOS 6 Shared Photo Streams feature.

The second ad shows off the new iPhone 5′s noise canceling microphone:

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As promised, last night Nokia launched an alternative to Apple’s Maps service for iOS – a cross-platform app called "HERE Maps". Here is based on HTML 5 and now it is available on the iTunes Store for iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. The service offers users different map views, Facebook login integration, ability to work in offline mode and features allowing users to share their location information.

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The arbitral court was considering Apple and Google issues which were about the infringement of patents. Bloomberg reported on Friday that details of preliminary discussions were revealed during the court filing. The two companies exchanged proposals in which they proposed a mandatory arbitration trial to reach a licensing agreement.

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According to Digitimes, market observers believe that Apple’s suppliers will have a very strong first quarter of 2013 due to launches of the new iPhone and iPad expected in the middle of the next year. The report said:

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According to 9to5mac, early builds of OS X 10.9, which are currently tested, show that Maps and Siri integration may come to Macs next year.

However, it is currently unknown if Siri will be part of OS X 10.9 for users. Apple already offers Mac users Text-to-Speech and Dictation functionality, but integration with Siri would presumably offer voice search and voice command services to Mac users.

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This is interesting - somebody created fake Apple apps in Android AppStore. Fortunately Google removed all of them by now.