The Apple Beat: Two books and Jony Ive's rare Time Magazine profile

“Steve and I spent months and months working on a part of a product that, often, nobody would ever see, nor realize was there,” Apple's Jony Ive opens up about design in a recent interview with Time - Photo by Gadjo C. Sevilla

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It's that time of year where the scarcity of Apple product news and announcements leaves a void that is soon filled with rumours, unbridled speculation on new products and services that haven't been announced. 

With a news cycle running dry until around June, publishers seem to have timed the release of Apple-related books focusing not just on the company but on the personalities that shape its future.

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Microsoft's OneNote now available for free to Mac OS

Microsoft's powerful cloud-connected note-taking application is now available for free on Mac OS X. This is the first time that OneNote has been made available for Mac, it was available for PCs as part of the Office Suite. Head on over to your Mac's app store to download OneNote.

D-Link and Direct Beam announce revolutionary fixed LTE wireless routers

D-Link, a provider of connectivity solutions for home, enterprise and service providers, in collaboration with Direct Beam, a global supplier of advanced wireless software and technology, today announced the availability of new innovative low-cost, high performance, fixed LTE wireless routers. The low OpEx, indoor and outdoor routers are designed to provide superior performance for subscribers and significantly reduced installation setup time for service providers.

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iOS 7.1 adoption at 18 % after 72 hours

Adoption of the newly released iOS 7.1 is at 18 % after 72 hours. This is according to Chitika which measures web traffic in North America.

According to AppleInsider, "for the purposes of the study, Chitika Insights studied tens of millions of U.S. and Canadian online ad impressions originating from iOS devices from Mar. 9 through Mar. 12." iOS 7.1 brought a slew of updates as the biggest revision to the Apple mobile OS since it launched six-months ago. The big bonus for users of older devices like the iPhone 4 is that overall performance has actually improved thanks to iOS 7.1.