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Brittany Goetting - Wed, Jan 25, 2017
Updated 1/26/2017: Upon further, deeper investigation it turns out our original article contained inaccurate information. Apple never included user reviews for the LG 5K Display, so it is not possible that the company could have censored...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jan 23, 2017
It appears that Apple’s difficulties surrounding the AirPods Bluetooth earbuds are ongoing. The company initially had trouble getting the AirPods out the door in time for the originally-announced October launch date. Then, when the initial...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jan 23, 2017
It looks as though President Donald Trump may be getting his wish when it comes to bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States. It is being reported that Foxconn is looking to build a “highly automated” manufacturing facility in...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Jan 22, 2017
Apple has received criticism for not injecting more innovation into its iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus handsets, and the same will probably be true of the inevitable iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus variants. However, Apple will have an...
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Brandon Hill - Sat, Jan 21, 2017
The pieces to the puzzle are starting to come together. Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hit Qualcomm with a lawsuit concerning anticompetitive practices with its licensing. The FTC specifically called out Qualcomm’s...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 19, 2017
Certainly it is not easy running Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world (it cracked the top 10 of the Fortune 500 list with a No. 9 ranking in 2016, and with a market capitalization of more than $629 billion, it is the most...
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Brittany Goetting - Wed, Jan 18, 2017
Texting and driving is illegal in forty-six states and territories. While most people would argue that the person texting and driving is ultimately responsible for their dangerous actions, one court case argues that cellphone companies are...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 18, 2017
There seems to be no limit to the number of ways that exist to trip up an iPhone or other iOS device. The latest method involves a rather simple text message consisting of just three characters, and unfortunately for the recipient, just...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jan 18, 2017
Qualcomm has faced legal hurdles in recent years for its licensing practices in both Europe and in Asia. Now, the company is coming under fire right here in the United States, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is leading the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 17, 2017
Though Apple is making a killing on mobile app sales, that is not stopping the company from raising prices in several regions overseas. In the United Kingdom, one of Apple's biggest and most lucrative markets, app prices and in-app...
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Rob Williams - Sun, Jan 15, 2017
Andy Rubin has without question made incredible contributions to the smartphone realm during his tenure at Google, but despite having departed the big G two years ago, he's never stopped talking about making an impact - and in more than...
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Rob Williams - Fri, Jan 13, 2017
One of the biggest fears of companies that say they can hack virtually anything is to be found out that they've been hacked themselves. Case-in-point: Israeli firm Cellebrite. We've reported on the company multiple times in the past...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Jan 12, 2017
After plenty of back and forth between Apple and Consumer Reports, the latter party is now willing to recommend the 2016 MacBook Pro family of notebooks. The whole mess started in December, when the publication made headlines by failing to...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jan 11, 2017
If you were expecting to see a miraculous turnaround for the PC market in 2016, it didn’t happen according to Gartner. The research firm says that Q4 sales fell 3.7 percent compared to the same period in 2015 to 72.6 million. Worldwide PC...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 11, 2017
Apple recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of when it introduced its first iPhone model, which took place at Macworld 2007 in San Francisco. It was an ambitious product that ultimately shaped the smartphone sector into what it is...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jan 11, 2017
Tesla is one of the hottest companies around these days, and it is continually adding new talent to help bolster its self-driving operations. And increasingly, Tesla has been picking its top prospects from Apple’s deep bench. Early last...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Jan 10, 2017
Well well well; it looks as though Apple and Consumer Reports have come to at least some kind of agreement as to what went wrong with the former’s testing of the 2016 family of MacBook Pro notebooks. It all started in late December when...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 09, 2017
Say what you will about the management style of Steve Jobs and the many accounts of his character, behind all the personality quirks was a marketing genius, one that truly understood what would excite the consumer. That was more evident...
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Brittany Goetting - Sun, Jan 08, 2017
What does 2017 look like for corporations such as Apple and Microsoft? According to the research firm Gartner, Inc., Apple devices will outsell its Redmond, Washington-based rival for the first time in the twenty-first century. Gartner has...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 06, 2017
There are many companies that would not mind switching positions with Apple, but even so that does not give the Cupertino out fit license to go into cruise control. That is not what Apple CEO Tim Cook did, exactly, but after failing to...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 02, 2017
It seems that Apple is working on a new "Theater" mode for iOS devices that iPhone owners can enable when watching a movie at the local cinema. That is our assumption, anyway, following a pair of Twitter posts by Sonny Dickson, a well...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Jan 01, 2017
A hacker has discovered a way to permanently disable the built-in Messages app on any Apple device running iOS 8 through iOS 10. That pretty much covers every iPhone handset and iPad tablet out there, including the recently released iPhone...
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