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Analyst: Mac, iPad, iPhone sales better than anticipated

The Needham & Company firm has raised its 12-month target price on Apple from US$280 to $375 due to much better than anticipated Mac and iPad sales. Also, the upgrade cycle of iPhone owners seems to be happening faster than the firm had predicted, according to analyst Charlie Wolf.

In a note released on Monday — and as reported by “TheStreet” (http://macosg.me/2/ob), he said he had originally predicted that iPad sales would reach 20 million in 2019, but have already on target to surpass 12 million sales annually, even before a full international rollout.

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Apple licenses Liquidmetal technologies

An SEC filing just hit that shows that Apple Inc. struck a deal with Liquidmetal Technologies (http://www.liquidmetal.com/technology/default.asp), a California-based company that holds patents on new metal and alloy designs, for essentially access to all of its intellectual property, reports “The Baltimore Sun” (http://macosg.me/2/o9).

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Chronos announces F10 Launch Studio 3 with Application Blaster

Chronos (http://www.chronosnet.com) has released F10 Launch Studio 3, an upgrade to its launch manager for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds the “Application Blaster.”

“The new Application Blaster works just like the application switcher built into Mac OS X where you press Command-Tab to switch applications,” says Jerry Halls, vice president of Sales at Chronos. “Instead of just switching applications, the Application Blaster lets you select the application you want to launch.”

Also in F10 Launch Studio 3:

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