The new iOS 4.3.3 alters how the iPhone and the 3G iPad devices store and back up a built-in location database cache.

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And because the whole system can store so much information, back-up copies of everything in it can be made internally in more than one brick, meaning that such a failure destroys no data.

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The stock would be under more pressure, except winding down a costly store-makeover program a while back has let Safeway ramp up its share-buyback program.

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Can Microsoft make it up on the back-end, relying on sales through the Windows 8 app store and Xbox Live annual memberships to reach a break even point?

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Commercial products which are apparently only about a year to 18 months away and as de Smet details in the video, could land on store shelves in a compacted rolled-up form for "unpacking" back home.

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