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Report: Amazon Has a Kindle TV Streaming Box on the Way – Gizmodo
Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that Amazon will soon be announcing its own streaming box to pair up with its Amazon Instant Video and video on demand. This rumor comes on the heels of
Read More »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
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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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Slim 27-Inch iMacs Hit Apple’s Refurb Store For $1530
If you've been lusting after a new skinny 27-inch iMac but also baulking at the price, here's some good news: you can now save (a little!) by buying one from Apple's refurb store
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Report: Apple Is Close to Signing Two Major Music Labels for Its Upcoming …
CNET is reporting that Apple is very close to signing deals with both Warner Music and Universal Music Group for its upcoming music streaming service.
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Rumor: iOS 7 Is Behind Schedule, So Apple is Pulling Resources From OS X
Unofficial Apple spokesman John Gruber has written a short post on Daring Fireball suggesting that iOS 7 is running well behind schedule—and that as a result Apple is hauling man power from its
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What If Buying Hard Cider Was Like Buying an Apple Product
Somersby Cider in the UK created a cheeky commercial that pokes fun of Apple product launches by imagining a world where buying hard cider is like getting a new iPhone. The Genius Bar
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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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 Nicest Apple iWatch Concept Yet
We've been hearing about a mythical Apple "iWatch" for a while now, to varying degrees of credibility, but this one from the April issue of MacUser magazine is probably the prettiest—and most plausibly Apple—interpretation
Read More »No, the iWatch Isn’t Definitely Coming This Year
There are headlines this morning, in abundance, that an Apple iWatch will be coming in 2013. They are declarative. They are definitive.
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Conan Knows What You’re Really Using That iPad For
Apple's new iPad commercial that aired during the Oscars would have you believe that there's a lot of film-making going on with that device, and maybe there is. But there's a lot more
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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 »The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Just Got $200 Cheaper
Apple just cut the price of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. You can now pick one up for $1,500—$200 less than the original starting price of $1,700.
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Apple Audit Reveals 106 Cases of Underage Labor in China
Apple has released its seventh annual supplier audit and it reveals that one of its suppliers—Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics—was found to violate its underage labor policy 74 times. Unsurprisingly, Apple was clear
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Siri Was Going to be a Droid Feature, Until Apple Stole It Away
Way back in the mists of 2009, before Siri was even a twinkle in Apple's eye, Verizon was planning to add the app to all of its Android smartphones. Sadly for the carrier,
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The No-Hire Emails That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More
A court filing has just been made public which sheds light on the "no-hire" gentleman's agreements that have pervaded the tech industry—and reveals how Steve Jobs threatened litigation to prevent companies from stealing
Read More »Apple Removed a Photo App from the App Store Because Artistic Nudity Is the …
500px, one of the best iPad apps for finding great pictures , was pulled from the App Store today because Apple is Tobias Funke never nude-levels of prudish when it comes to the
Read More »Apple Cuts the Price of Thunderbolt Cables
Apple has decided to cut the price of its exorbitantly priced Thunderbolt cables. Its 2-meter cable has fallen in price from a painful $50 to an only-slightly-more-palatable $40
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An iPhone Lover’s Confession: I Switched To the Nexus 4. Completely.
Over the past few years I've invested a lot into Apple's products and services. As the co-founder of Germany's largest mobile development shop , I'm dealing with apps – predominantly iOS powered –
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JBL OnBeat Rumble: The Most Powerful (and Most Expensive) Lightning …
We get it. You love your iPhone 5 so much that you're willing shrug off the money you lost on the two-year-old, 30-pin speaker dock that's now obsolete. You're ready to invest in
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Apple Ignored Qualcomm’s Suggestion of Adding a Radio to the Newton
All the way back in the 90s, Qualcomm approached Apple to suggest that it might want to put a radio in its Newton PDA.
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You Can Now Pirate Apps On Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking
Apple must have heaved a great sigh of relief when it heard its Christmas wish had been answered—Installous, the jailbroken iOS app pirating app from the Hackulous community, was finally dead . But
Read More »Apple Let a Hilariously Fake “Halo 4” into the App Store
Did you guys hear about the Halo 4 port on iPhone and iPad?
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The Best Small Tablet
Big screens are nice. But sometimes the extra real estate isn't worth the lack of portability.
Read More »The Onion: Apple’s New College Girl-Friendly iPhone Comes With a Pre …
Apple is really targeting a niche market with its newest device—an iPhone geared toward college girls that comes with an already shattered screen . I mean, they're going to crack it at some
Read More »Apple’s iPhone App of the Year Is a Joke, Right?
As is customary for this time of year, Apple has just released its "Best of 2012" list for the App Store. And the winner of the coveted App of the Year award goes
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Apple’s Flagship Multi-Touch Patent Has Been Tentatively Invalidated
Apple has quite a few patents. Steve Jobs alone had 313 patents to his name . There's one key one however, the '949 multi-touch patent, sometimes known as the Steve Jobs patent, and
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