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A Look Inside Afghanistan’s Almost-Apple Store – Gizmodo
Fake Apple stores are nothing new. China has a slew of them , all polished and shiny, appearing almost as if they are the genuine article at a glance. Quartz dug up some
Read More »The Only Thing Apple Really Sells – Gizmodo
A recent Wall Street Journal article posits an interesting question: Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? Does it sell iPhones or iClouds? The answer has deep meaning for the analysts
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Apple Keeps Your Siri Data for Two Years – Gizmodo
You thought that time you asked Siri about the weird mole on your toe was just between the two of you?
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Apple to Pay Out $53 Million Over iPhone Water Damage Warranty Issues
Apple has agreed to pay out a weighty $53 million to settle a lawsuit which saw the company accused of not correctly honoring warranties of iPhone and iPod Touches, reports Wired . So,
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OS X Code Reveals Apple’s Plans For Super-Fast Wi-Fi
With the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta release currently in the hands of developers, some of the more eagle-eyed nerds have noticed references to code which appear to confirm rumors about Apple's
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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",
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The DEA Is Upset It Can’t Access iMessages (They’re Just Like Us!)
We've all generally come to accept the fact that, in using iMessage, our correspondence runs the very real risk of being eternally damned to the iCloud ether.
Read More »Apple Highlights App Age Ratings to Clear Up Just How Ruined Your Children …
Not sure if an app is appropriate for your kid to use?
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Reuters: Google to Launch Second-Gen Nexus 7 in July
Reuters is suggesting that Google will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet in July—which will bring with it a decent spec bump, if the rumors are to be believed.
Read More »Bright Lights, Old iMacs
Even with their outdated CRT displays, Apple's old rainbow assortment of iMacs are just too damn adorable to toss. But what do you do if you have a few still lying around taking
Read More »The Next iOS Needs to Look Like This
It's not a good sign when the best iOS features are imaginary ones designed by people who aren't getting paid to do it instead of, you know, Apple.
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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 »Apple Just Fixed a Huge Security Hole with Two-Step Verification
Apple just added two-factor authentication for iCloud and all your Apple accounts. It's a huge deal for security, and are a welcome boon to a security process that had proven full of holes
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.
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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Is Going to Apple (Updated)
CNBC reports that Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch is heading to Apple. Whoa! What does this mean? Especially given that Lynch has publicly trashed Apple in the past
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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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 »Apple’s Mysterious Ebay Storefront Sells Macs For Less Than the Apple Refurb …
Since last October, there's been a store on Ebay that goes by the name Refurbished_Outlet , and it only sells Apple products
Read More »The New Roku 3: Super Fast Spanking New Interface
The best little streaming black box just got a spanking new model: the Roku 3.
Read More »Report: The Next iPhone Is Coming in August
iMore is reporting that Apple will release its next-gen iPhone in August. Obviously, the device will be stronger, better, faster, and so on, but the real takeaway is the timing.
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This Kid Blew $2500 on In-Game Purchases in Just 10 Minutes
Shameless in-game purchases aimed at kids have been in the new recently
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Samsung Wallet is Apple’s Passbook, on Android
Samsung has just announced its new Wallet mobile payment app at the Mobile World Congress and...
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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Apple to Settle In-App Purchase Lawsuit With Free iTunes Credit
Apple has announced that it's to settle a class action lawsuit about in-app purchases—that could have involved more than 23 million App Store users!—by bunging the affected parties free iTune credit. The case first
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iOS 6.1.3 Is Coming To Kill Your Jailbreak
Have one of those 7 million jailbroken iDevices? Like it that way? Then wait, stop, don't touch anything
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Apple Theft Is So Bad That the NYPD Has a Dedicated iTheft Division
It should come as no surprise that iPhones and iPads are prime targets for theft, but it's gotten really bad in New York City. It's so bad that, according to the New York Post
Read More »Chromebook Pixel: Google’s Retina, Touchscreen, MacBook Pro Counterpunch
Until now, Chromebooks hadn't been much more than glorified netbooks; underpowered curios best suited for technological novices. The 13-inch, touchscreen, retina-displayed, full-powered Chromebook Pixel, though, appears to be anything but. And it should
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
Read More »Apple’s Upgrade Dilemma
Apple has been taking a beating on Wall Street, in part due to skepticism over future growth of iPhone and iPad sales. With the market becoming saturated with iPhone and, to some extent,
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Apple Hacked
Reuters says Apple was targeted by the same crew that recently hit Facebook , and managed to infect a "small number" of the company's computers. Curiously (and a little unsettlingly), Apple says it'll
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