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Once again, Apple has found itself the most valuable company on Earth, attaining a market capitalization of about $456 billion today, beating ExxonMobil’s market cap of just $402 Billion. Yawn.
More interesting, however, is that Apple’s combined value is more than Google and Microsoft put together, who are worth $198.9 billion and $256.7 billion, respectively.
As we watch Apple race to be the world’s first trillion dollar company, I wonder what we’ll all be measuring its value against next. Silicon Valley? The United States? The Moon? The secret to immortality?
![Check Out This Bizarre Chinese Cyborg Made Out Of Vintage Macs! [Image]](http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/58f685dbf12406009a18-LL.jpg)
Who is this muttonchopped Steve Jobs and crime-fighting cyborg partner, The Amazing Mac Man? More importantly, where can I get one of those Apple-branded codpieces?!?
[via MIC Gadget]
![Enter Cult Of Mac’s Twitter Celebration Giveaway To Win Some Awesome HP Prizes [Giveaway]](http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/twittergiveaway.jpg)
To celebrate our 200,000 Twitter followers, we’re partnering with HP to do a week-long giveaway. Every day this week from Monday till Friday we will be giving away some sweet prizes provided by HP. What kind of prizes, you ask? How about three gorgeous HP ZR2740w 27-inch LED Monitors that retail for $729 each and two HP ENVY110 e-All-in-One Printer with the power to print documents straight from your iPhone?
For today’s giveaway we’ll be handing over one HP ENVY110 e-All-in-One Printer to one lucky winner. Not only is the HP Envy 110 pretty sleek, but it has a touchscreen control center and can wirelessly print documents straight from an iPhone or iPad. Are you craving for an awesome new printer in your life? Well hurry up and jump into the contest.
Here’s How To Enter:
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![iOSOpenDev Is A “Shortcut” For Cydia Devs, But Is That A Good Thing? [Interview]](http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-09-at-11.52.01-AM.jpg)
The jailbreak community is full of talented developers and innovative ideas that have kept Apple on its toes for the past several years. The time and effort that goes into creating a quality tweak is often unappreciated by the average jailbreaker.
A free tool called iOSOpenDev was recently released for developers. Those with basic programming knowledge can use Xcode templates for creating jailbreak-style apps and tweaks that can be easily published to Cydia, the jailbreak version of the App Store. While iOSOpenDev is attempting to make it easier for developers to code tweaks, apps and plugins, we sat down with a prominent jailbreak developer to ask if iOSOpenDev is really a good thing for the jailbreak community.
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Today BYOD and the consumerization of IT aren’t just buzzwords on the horizon, they’re fact of business life and have begun transforming the workplace for millions of professionals. Many solutions exist to deal with managing user-owned mobile devices and integrating them to varying degrees with corporate resources and shared data – something that the explosion of cloud products is helping to drive. Many enterprise cloud solutions (public and private) exist to meet these demands while ensuring data management and security.
Unfortauntely, cloud solutions aren’t limited to the workplace and consumer cloud products including Apple’s iCloud, Dropbox, Box.net, Google Docs and many others have become staple parts of our daily lives. That’s great news for all of as consumers. It gives us access to our files and data anywhere at anytime on almost any device. But consumer cloud technologies pose a big headache for IT professionals who are responsible with keeping business and workplace data both readily available and appropriately secured.
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Google has sent letters out to various standards organizations, including the IEEE, promising to honor MMI’s patent licensing policies after it completes its planned acquisition of the company. This includes honoring MMI’s maximum go-forward per-unit royalty rate of 2.25%. This is the same rate MMI is asking Apple to pay in order to lift the injunction on the iPhone and iPad 3G passed down in Germany. Apple has rejected this offer and is fighting it, claiming it’s unfair and contrary to the principles of FRAND licensing commitments. No matter the outcome of the Apple/Motorola dispute, Google will be honoring it once they take over.
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Hackers have once again turned to cracking iTunes accounts to obtain a ton of content paid content and leave you with the bill. Once inside your account, these thieves will steal your store credit and gift cards, and make purchases with your credit card and Paypal information. But is Apple doing enough to stop them?
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Your brand new car starts losing value the second you drive it off the dealer’s lot – that an old (and very true) addage. Like a new, a new piece of technology begins to lose value or depreciate as soon as you leave the store. With cars and with major tech purchases like a new iMac, this isn’t an immediate source of pain or dismay since you’ll be using them for at least a few years.
When it comes to smartphones and other mobile devices like our iPhones and iPads, depreceiation and loss of dollar value is equally true. The big difference is that most of us don’t hold to them for nearly as long.
If you’re in the habit of passing your iPhone or other mobile device onto friends or family members, that may not matter too much. But what if you’re looking to recoup some your investment?
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Back in 1991, according to a recently released FBI file on Apple’s iconic founder, Steve Jobs was considered for a sensitive position in the Bush Administration.
The file is quite long, and we’re reading through it now. But one thing that the file immediately makes clear is that even the FBI knew about Steve Jobs’s patented reality distortion field! In fact, it’s directly referenced in their file on more than one occasion.
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![Is This The iPad 3’s New Retina Display? [Image]](http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1350782117.jpg)
According to Japanese blog Macotakara, this is the iPad 3’s new Retina Displayl: a Sharp XQGA panel running at a resolution of 2048×1536. Yup. Looks about right. We believe it.
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