Bling out your Mac Pro and other news from Feb. 26, 2014
Are you ready for a gold Mac Pro? According to ZDNet, Alchaemy is ready to go with its options to bling out your already expensive Mac tower. The options range from $749 for a chrome finish, $999 for black diamond plating and $1,499 for a 24-karat gold finish. Or, if you want to merely change the color of the Mac Pro, you can pick one of 15 standard colors for $349 or custom coloring for $699. Steve Sande took a look at Alchaemy a couple weeks ago.
Other news from Wednesday afternoon includes:
The roster of those playing at the iTunes Festival at SXSW is growing, with Soundgarden among the latest to announce they'll perform.
The U.S. House has passed a bill that allows legal unlocking of cellphones. The bill heads to the Senate, where NBC News says its fate isn't clear.
Square is starting to expand its footprint by acquiring BookFresh, which is focused on merchant appointments. BookFresh and Square will remain separate products.
Apple has released a new document to its iPhone in Business site that gives more insight into Touch ID and the A7 processor's Secure Enclave.
Korea's FTC has ruled against Apple, saying that Samsung can litigate using standards-essential patents. "The KFTC ruling appears to be far more SEP holder-friendly than anything the DOJ, FTC or European Commission ever indicated in this context," FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller said, "but unlike in August, when I wondered whether South Korea was on the verge of becoming a 'FRAND rogue state,' all I can say now is that basically the Korean competition regulators have taken the worst parts of certain Western rulings, positions and almost-accepted settlement proposals on SEP injunction issues ... and added at least one absurdity of their own to the mix."
Four days after being released, more than 25% of iOS users have upgraded their OS to iOS 7.0.6.
Apple has released a number of upgrades to its enterprise and education deployment tools.
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