An Apple executive relations employee is reported to have called an irate customer to inform him that Apple was working on allowing the merging of Apple IDs, according toa post by MacRumors. MacRumors reader Robert emailed Apple CEO Tim Cook wanting to know if there was a solution for the problem of multiple Apple IDs and claims to have received the aforementioned phone call in reply. The Apple employee told him that, while the company did not currently offer any way to merge different Apple IDs, it was working on a solution for the problem....

Owners of an iPod or iPhone could soon find themselves with a pair of perfect tangle-free white headphones after the Cupertino-based companysecured the patentthat licenses the “cable structure for preventing tangling”. Apple filed for the patent in November 2010, requesting the rights to an idea that would allow Apple to vary the rigidity of a headphone cable to reduce or help the bending of it in certain places. The abstract reads:...

Apple has today released the eighth version of its iOS 5 beta to developers. This new version is the Gold Master or GM build of iOS 5, this is usually the final version before official release of an iOS version. iOs 5 is set to be released next week onWednesday, October 12th. The iOs 5 beta build is version 9A334. Apple has also released Xcode 4.2 Gold Master build 4D199 to developers....

Apple has today seeded the latest version of Lion, version 10.7.2 build 11C17 to developers, which has iCloud goodness all packed in,reports Macrumors. This version adds some updates to Lion Recovery and Find My Mac, but otherwise seems to be a maintenance update. Developers can visit theApple Developer Centerto download this latest version of Lion. Earlier today, Appleupdated iTunes to 10.5 beta 9,which is being used to test iTunes Match, the cloud component of iTunes that will allow users to upload and match their songs in the cloud....

Apple has today released a seed of OS X Lion 10.7.2 to developers. This version of OS X Lion includes support for iCloud and is beta software that allows developers to test iCloud integration with Mac and iOS apps. The downloads are available on Apple’s Developer Site. The new Lion update, which is build number 11C73, is a pre-release version of OS X Lion 10.7.2 provided solely for the purpose of testing iCloud features and is not an official update build....