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The iTunes Store Is A Decade Old Today – Gizmodo
For better or worse , Apple has been peddling digital wares for ten years through its iTunes store. What started as a 99 cent, iPod-centric music seller has evolved into the billion dollar
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Is Anyone Actually Going to Buy an iBeetle? – Gizmodo
The much-rumored iCar may have never made it into existence , but VolksWagen's Apple-themed car has finally been made official: the iBeetle offers up some pretty deeply ingrained Apple tech. But who's actually
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Some Apple TVs Have Wi-Fi Issues, But You Can Get a Replacement
Apple has admitted that some of its third-generation Apple TVs have Wi-Fi issues—but owners with affected hardware are now able to exchange it for a fully functional replacement. The affected units struggle to
Read More »Every Apple Exec’s Face Combined into One Jobsian Ideal
While the news of four out of the five highest-paid execs in the US being from Apple isn't entirely surprising, it's hard not to marvel at their collective success. Which leads to the
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Four of the Five Highest-Paid Execs in the US Work for Apple
If you already feel a little hard done by when it comes to your pay check, brace yourself.
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How Chinese Scammers Are Swapping Fake iPhone Parts for the Real Deal
A very ingenious new kind of high-tech scam has been going down in China, where clever thieves are returning fake iPhone components to Apple and claiming they're broken official parts, receiving genuine Apple-made
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WSJ: Microsoft Is Designing a Touch-Enabled Watch
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is working with suppliers to develop a new touch-enabled watch device, which sees it jumping on the same rumored bandwagon as Apple and Samsung .
Read More »What Famous Ads Would Look Like Today
It's funny how fondly we look back at classic ads—print, commercials, anything—compared to how we react to ads today. That Apple 1984 commercial? Perfection.
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Report: Apple and Yahoo Are Working Together for Deeper Integration on the …
Apple, which hates Google, is supposedly working with Yahoo, who will take anybody's love at this point, to figure out how "Yahoo's services can play a prominent role on Apple's iPhone and iPad",
Read More »Apple’s Spaceship HQ Is Getting a Downgrade From Absurd to Just Plain …
Back in 2011, when Steve Jobs announced his plans to build a spaceship-like Cupertino HQ for Apple , we all knew it was going to be one ridiculously lavish office. But according to
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Samsung Is Building 1400 Retail Stores Inside Best Buys
In a bid to compete more directly with Apple, Samsung has announced that in the coming months it will open 1,400 Samsung Experience shops within Best Buy stores around the US. Following an
Read More »Report: Apple’s Going to Start Making the iPhone 5S This Spring
According to the Wall Street Journal , Apple is already getting started on building "a refreshed iPhone similar in size and shape to its current one" this quarter, and it might be out
Read More »Apple’s Weird Refurbished Ebay Store Is Gone
Shoppers looking for the best price on Apple stuff recently may have noticed a mysterious Ebay store selling official Apple refurbs for less than Apple itself . Although Apple never confirmed their involvement,
Read More »How Apple’s Password-Reset Security Breach Worked
Yesterday, The Verge uncovered a security breach that allowed malicious users to reset Apple ID passwords with nothing but an email and the user's birthday . Luckily, the process didn't leak out in
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Report: Apple Passwords Can Be Reset With Just Email and Birthday
Have you turned on your Apple ID two-step verification yet? You'll want to get on that. A report from The Verge indicates that if you haven't, hackers can change your password with nothing
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Report: Google Is Making a Smart Watch Too
The Financial Times is reporting that Google is making its own version of a smart watch. What's interesting is that it's not Google's experimental arm X Labs developing the watch but rather Google's
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Apple’s Podcasts App No Longer Has Horrible Reel-to-Reel Skeuomorphism
Apple's Podcasts app has long been a horrid example of Scott Forstall's most epic crime as a software designer: Skeuomorphism. Why do I need a graphic of a reel-to-reel tape machine in my
Read More »Is Amazon in Talks to Create a Subscription Music Service?
The Verge is reporting that Amazon is in talks with record labels to create a new subscription music service.
Read More »The Most Perfect Lego Apple II+ Will Make You Want a Lego Computer
This Lego version of an Apple II+ is perfect. It has the lovely aged hue of beige, clear bricks for the Apple Monitor II, floppy disk drives with the right sticker and even
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Samsung Exec Confirms Upcoming Smart Watch
Samsung's mobile executive VP Lee Young Hee has come out and confirmed that the company is hard at work preparing a new smart watch.
Read More »A Third, Full-Length Steve Jobs Biopic Was Just Announced—by Funny or Die
Because there can never be too many Steve Jobs biopics coming out at essentially the exact same time, we now have a third feature-length film to add to the czar of Apple's roster.
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How To Save $40 On an iPad Mini
Refurbished iPad Minis have hit the Apple Refurb Store, the store where like-new Apple stuff is actually sold at a discount. The iPad Mini was announced last October , and new models usually
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You Can Now Buy a Wall-Mountable Version of the New iMac
At launch, Apple's new iMac was incompatible with VESA's well-known and much-loved wall mounting systems.
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Why I Ditched the iPhone: My Very Own Protocol Droid
I've been a die-hard "Apple evangelist" for over twenty years - first an avid Mac user, then an early adopter of both iPod and iPhone. In the 90s, when everyone I knew used Windows,
Read More »Report: Apple Is Being a Massive Cheapskate with Its Music Streaming Service
Of course this would happen.
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Judge Cuts $450 Million Off the $1 Billion Samsung Owes Apple
Judge Lucy Koh has given Samsung a huge discount on the damages it owes Apple. Originally billed to pay Apple over $1 billion, Judge Koh has cut $450,514,650 from Samsung's tab. The new total
Read More »Google Chromebook Pixel Review: Awesome, Just Not $1300 Worth of Awesome
Google set out to build " the best laptop possible ." The result: the Chromebook Pixel . A sleek and powerful device designed specifically for life in the cloud
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Microsoft Says It Got Hacked Like Apple and Facebook
Microsoft just revealed that "a small number" of its computers, which includes its Mac business unit, have been hacked in a similar attack to what happened with Apple and Facebook earlier this week
Read More »The Best Alternatives for Every Pre-Loaded iPhone App
The iPhone comes with a bunch of apps you never use. Some of them are poorly implemented
Read More »iOS 6.1.3 Beta Fixes iPhone Lock Screen Security Hole
Apple's been keeping busy rolling out small patches of iOS 6. The latest, iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 just hit developers. Importantly, 9To5Mac reports that the update fixes the gaping lock screen bug that
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