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• iOS, iTunes upgrades for Apple Music available early Tuesday

  Apple will make iOS 8.4, the upgrade necessary to try out the Cupertino, Calif. company's new streaming music service, available early Tuesday for downloading to iPhones and iPads.

• iOS 9 will delete apps to make room for upgrade, reinstall them later

  Apple's iOS 9 will ask users if they want to delete apps to make room for the upgrade if their devices are short of space, then automatically select those marked for temporary elimination, according to online reports.

• Skype updates apps to crush crash-causing text bug

  Skype today updated the Android, iOS, OS X and Windows versions of its Skype chat client to quash a bug that crashed the apps when a few characters were received.

• Apple TV is dead, long live Apple TV!

  Apple will not enter the television set market with its own long-lauded, long-expected hardware, according to an online report, putting an apparent end to one of the more persistent rumors weaving around the Cupertino, Calif. company's future.

• Netflix to launch tomorrow starting at $8.99 per month

  American TV and movie streaming giant, Netflix, has announced monthly pricing plans for its Australian services, which launch tomorrow.
  

• Apple will launch iOS public previews to get more eyeballs on bug hunt

  Apple will launch an invite-only public beta of iOS 8.3 next month, then expand the program this summer with iOS 9, according to online reports.

• Parking gets smarter in Freemantle

  The City of Freemantle has deployed smartphone technology that will prevent motorists from overpaying for parking at almost 5,000 bays across the city’s CDB.
  

• iPhone owners sue Apple over storage space, allege fraud

  A pair of Florida men have sued Apple for allegedly misrepresenting the amount of storage room available to owners of 16GB iPhones and iPads.

• Apple iOS App Store swaps out FREE for GET

  Apple appears to be saying that "GET" is much more straightforward than "FREE" when it comes to figuring out the real price of offerings on its iOS App Store.

• Microsoft's Office for iPad carrot fails to boost consumer revenue

  Microsoft yesterday made the surprising move to offer consumers more functional Office apps on the iPad after failing to drive Office 365 Home and Personal subscriptions, analysts said today.

• Apple was warned about WireLurker months ago, Georgia Tech researcher says

  The WireLurker malware that may have infected hundreds of thousands of Mac OS and iOS devices is exactly similar to a proof-of-concept attack Apple was warned about at the beginning of this year, according to the researcher who first publicly described such attacks.

• iOS 8 app crash rate falls 25 per cent since release

  In the six weeks since its release, iOS 8's app crash rate has declined more than 25 per cent as app developers have adjusted to new APIs and issued updates, an app performance management developer said today.

• CEO Tim Cook calls merchants' refusal to accept Apple Pay a 'skirmish'

  Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday called the battle with retailers like Walmart, Rite Aid, CVS and others over mobile payments only a "skirmish" while speaking at the Wall Street Journal's technology conference.

• iPhone owners rip Apple over botched iOS update

  iPhone owners are angry. Really really angry.

• New iOS 8 APIs trigger higher app crash rate

  In its first days of availability, iOS 8, Apple's newest mobile operating system, has exhibited an app crash rate significantly higher than iOS 7 did a year ago, an app performance management developer said yesterday.