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Joshua Gulick - Thu, Feb 19, 2015
It looks like Tesla Motors isn’t the only company in the electric car industry to notice the occasional employee slipping over to Apple. A123 Systems, which makes batteries for a variety of applications, including electric cars, has had it...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Feb 19, 2015
As we approach the launch date of the Apple Watch (pegged for sometime during the month of April according to Apple CEO Tim Cook), more and more details about the smartwatch are starting to pour out. Just this week we’ve learned that the...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Feb 19, 2015
We reported last year that Samsung was in talks to team up with LoopPay, a Burlington, MA-based startup firm that specialized in wireless payment technologies. Unlike Apple Pay or Google Wallet, which require an NFC-equipped cash register...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Feb 18, 2015
In a wide-ranging interview with The New Yorker, Apple Senior Vice President of Design Sir Jonathan “Jony” Ive, talked about topics ranging from the development of the Apple Watch, to automobile design, to his relationship with the late...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Feb 18, 2015
Over the past week, rumors have persisted that Apple is preparing to enter the auto manufacturing business. This speculation was first fueled by the appearance of Chrysler minivans dotting the country that are registered to Apple, Inc. The...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Feb 18, 2015
Smartwatches running Google’s Android Wear operating system have been on the market since mid-2014 and roughly 720,000 units have been sold to date according to Canalys. Apple, on the other hand, has much higher expectations for its first...
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Rob Williams - Tue, Feb 17, 2015
Following an interview with Re/code late last week, president Obama has managed to upset officials in Europe for a couple of rather blunt comments regarding America's success with the Internet. For starters, Obama claims that the EU's...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Feb 17, 2015
The Apple Watch is one of the most highly anticipated consumer electronics device launches set for this spring. Although Apple sought to bring the smartwatch to consumer in early 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook clarified last month that the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 17, 2015
The web at large nearly wet it pants when word got out that Apple might be working on an electric car of its own. In reality, if that's what Apple wants to do, the $700 billion company has the cash and resources to dive in, along with the...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 16, 2015
Well, what do we have here? It's yet another productivity suite that's found its way to the cloud, and more importantly in this case, it's also found its way to Windows users. We're talking about Apple's iWork software -- a pre-release...
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Joshua Gulick - Sat, Feb 14, 2015
It’s not just any electric car that Apple is reportedly designing in secret. Apple has built an empire with its design prowess and – if it really is the entering electronic vehicle market – the company best known for its smartphones will...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Feb 13, 2015
Google has been hitting tech companies with a few right hooks in recent months with regards to zero day exploits. As a part of Google’s “Project Zero” program, its security researchers discover security vulnerabilities in software...
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Joshua Gulick - Fri, Feb 13, 2015
Silicon Valley is getting a visit from President Barack Obama today, where he will sign an executive order to promote cooperation between the government and tech companies in the fight against large-scale data theft.
The order will...
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Joshua Gulick - Fri, Feb 13, 2015
Still smarting from an embarrassing iCloud breach last fall, Apple is beefing up protection for its users. This week, the company indicated that it will roll out two-step authentication for two Apple services that are frequent targets of...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 13, 2015
Billionaire investor and activist shareholder Carl Icahn didn't blink twice at Apple becoming the world's first $700 billion company. In fact, he thinks the Cupertino outfit is worth nearly twice as much. According to Icahn, Apple's stock...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Feb 11, 2015
Smartwatches based on Google’s Android Wear platform didn’t start shipping until the latter half of 2014, but since that time over 720,000 units have been sold according to Canalys. Customers were initially only presented with lackluster...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Feb 11, 2015
It looks as though thieves are finding fewer reasons to target smartphones as a way to make a quick buck. Back in 2013, Apple implemented the Find My iPhone Activation Lock feature in iOS 7, which makes it extremely difficult for a stolen...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 11, 2015
HTC's desire to jump into the smartwatch category has been ongoing for some time now, though it's taking a patient approach in hopes of avoiding a product failure. Newly leaked information also suggests that HTC isn't interested in...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 11, 2015
I always find it interesting to watch how investors react to different Apple related news. Here is a company that, more often than not, posts record quarters with sky high revenues and profits that most firms only dream of, yet stock...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 10, 2015
Apple Pay is now part of the mile high club. No, it didn't hook up with Google Wallet in the lavatory while cruising above the skyline, but it did just team up with JetBlue, which is now the first major domestic airline carrier in the U.S. to start accepting Apple's mobile payment system in...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Feb 09, 2015
Apple labels iOS 8 as “The biggest iOS release ever”, but if a new report is accurate, the company may be moving more towards “refinement” with iOS 8. Mirroring the transition from OS X 10.5 Leopard to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, iOS 9 will...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Feb 09, 2015
During fiscal Q1 2015, Apple broke sales and profit records, steamrolling over even the most optimistic forecasts by analysts. The Cupertino, California-based company sold a record 74.5 million iPhones during the quarter, and went on to...
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