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iSpy Conspiracy: Break Apple’s Secret Tracking with This App
Not entirely cool with the idea of your iPhone or iPad following your every move without your consent? Understandable! Luckily, only a day after the privacy revelation, a fix has been cooked up that switches off Apple’s covert tracking. https://kotaku.com/ispy-conspiracy-your-iphone-is-secretly-tracking-every-5793925 The root of the tracking problem is a single file that logs your location. Untrackerd … Continued
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News.Me Has Arrived on iPad to Challenge Flipboard’s Social News Dominance, But It’ll Cost You
The New York Times’ News.Me app is here, which allows you to source your news from those you follow on Twitter. If it sounds a little like Flipboard, that’s because it’s essentially a stripped-down version. Instead of launching an iPad-exclusive publication like their publishing arch-nemesis News Corp. did, the Times thinks that improving the packaging … Continued
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2.2 Million People Finally Got Their Verizon iPhone Last Quarter
In the first seven weeks that the iPhone was available on Verizon’s steadfast network, 2.2 million of the handsets were activated. That is—not surprisingly, given the pent-up demand—about 12,000 more units per day that AT&T activated in the first quarter, and goes a long way towards explaining the monster iPhone tally Apple put up yesterday … Continued
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Conan Unveils the Next Big Apple… Something
That MacBook Air was pretty fancy. And the iPad? No slouch either. But Apple’s not the type of company to just sit on its heels, no matter how much money they’re stuffing in their coffers. And as Conan O’Brien shows us in this parody ad, Cupertino’s already introducing the next big thing… even if they’re … Continued
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Congress and FCC Also Wanna Know Why Your iPhone’s Secretly Tracking Your Location
There was a minor media frenzy over Apple secretly tracking your iPhone 4 today, so naturally the government wants in on the action. The FCC and representatives from both houses of Congress have said they’ll look into the matter. https://kotaku.com/ispy-conspiracy-your-iphone-is-secretly-tracking-every-5793925 An FCC official told Politico that the commission intended to look into the matter of … Continued
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Apple and Samsung Are Still BFF Despite Suing Each Other Into Oblivion
Apple’s suing Samsung! Samsung’s wants to sue Apple! But Samsung sells Apple lots and lots and lots of components every year! So how are the legal squabbles affecting their relationship? According to Apple COO Tim Cook on Apple’s earnings call today, Samsung remains a “very valued” partner, no matter what the lawyers say, despite having … Continued
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Apple’s Japanese Suppliers Don’t Skip a Beat
When asked the inevitable questions about the impact of Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami tragedy on Apple’s business, acting COO Tim Cook made clear that what matters, more than anything else, is the human impact. That being said: as it turns out, Apple’s supply chain has remarkably remained largely intact. https://gizmodo.com/apple-earns-6-billion-despite-steep-ipad-sales-decline-5794120 Cook cited that Apple … Continued
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Apple Earns $6 Billion Despite Steep iPad Sales Decline
iPad sales may have dropped more than 30% between the holiday quarter and this most recent one, but that didn’t stop Apple from having second-quarter record revenues and earnings. The iPad decline isn’t totally unexpected, considering the tablet’s popularity as a holiday gift, the looming specter of iPad 2 staving off potential sales, and there … Continued
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Why Are Tech Founders Such Assholes?
In the past couple of weeks, the co-founders of Microsoft and Twitter have been attached to the same kinds of unsavory stories that have long dogged the people behind Facebook, Apple, Zynga and other top tech firms. What is it about computers and money that instills villainy? As Tom Foremski at Silicon Valley Watcher has … Continued
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Ignore Telemarketers’ Crap-Selling Phone Calls by Downloading the Mr. Number App
Any old app can screen calls of well-known call centers…but what about the smaller, local ones? The Mr. Number app claims to identify 70 per cent of phone calls in the US, by asking its users to opt-in and share their contacts so they can learn from them. This app doesn’t only benefit people who … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Cellphone II
Our first cellphone Shooting Challenge made me reassess the medium and admit that cellphones have developed into legitimate cameras. For our second cellphone Shooting Challenge? Bring it. https://gizmodo.com/395-photos-that-prove-cellphones-make-great-cameras-5576509 The Challenge Take an awesome photo with your cellphone. And dont, for lack of a better term, err…phone it in. The Technique The greatest single advantage of … Continued
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AT&T Holds Off Verizon in Fight for iPhone 4 Hearts
These last few months, for the first time since the iPhone was released, customers finally had a choice in who their carrier would be. They’d no longer be shackled by AT&T’s sucktastic network! And what did these customers do? Well, it seems like in a lot of cases they, uh, signed on with AT&T. AT&T … Continued
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Legit News Organization Reuters Points at September for the iPhone 5 Launch
Everything and everyone seems to be pointing to September as the month the iPhone 5 will begin shipping, with today’s latest confirmation coming from three of Reuters’ sources “with direct knowledge of the company’s supply chain.” According to said sources, the factories will begin churning iPhone 5 parts out in July at the earliest, with … Continued
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Why the Unemployed Need MacBooks
What is it that the unemployed need more than anything to get back on their feet? The Onion’s panel of experts (mostly) agrees: Apple products. The worst part? Somewhere, someone without a job probably is plunking down a cool grand on a MacBook Pro refurb because learning graphic design is the only way out of … Continued
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Samsung Promises Legal Revenge Against Apple
Apple: “You ripped off our shit! Intellectual property robbery! You owe us a bunch of money!” https://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-samsung-over-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-5793228 Samsung: “No we didn’t! And, in fact YOU owe US a bunch of money!” Not content to let prominent business partner turned legal foe slap them with a giant IP lawsuit, Samsung says it’s hitting back at Apple: … Continued
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Did Apple Reject This Idea for iOS Multitasking?
Floating around the ‘nets today is this video from the site Tinhte, who claim that the White iPhone 4 pictured above is a prototype running an early test version of iOS 4, featuring different/rejected/unused systems for multitasking and folders. Both Engadget and 9to5Mac believe this is a real Apple prototype (it’s seen running Radar and … Continued
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Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.3.2 Now Available Using redsn0w
Our very extremely short national nightmare is over: thanks to the iPhone Dev Team, you can now jailbreak your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with iOS 4.3.2 without having to connect to your computer via USB every time you reboot your device. Because 4.3.2 was pushed out so quickly after 4.3.1, Apple didn’t have time … Continued
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Logitech iPad 2 Keyboard Case Makes Your Lies about Working More Believable
Everyone’s favorite excuse for lugging an iPad to all manner of inappropriate places and events is that it allows them to be productive everywhere they go. But how many people do you know who can actually type on a touchscreen? The answer is not many. Thing is, most of the in-case keyboard solutions look like … Continued
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