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All the latest from Apple's big iPhone event
September 12, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Finally, Apple has confirmed what we already knew, introducing us to the iOS6 equipped iPhone 5, a thinner, lighter version of its phone, with a bigger 4-inch screen. The iPhone 5 New Skinner, Lighter, Bigger Design: It is pretty much what everyone expected: "It is made entirely of glass and ...
Why pilots can use iPads and you can't
September 11, 2012
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Just as all hope was lost for flyers in the crusade to use gadgets during take-off and landing, American Airlines pilots just got the Federal Aviation Association go-ahead to use iPads during all phases of flight. It seems unfair to passengers packing iPads, doesn't it? The people steering the ship ...
The ever increasing iPhone sales expectations
September 11, 2012
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With the iPhone 5 about to come out, the predictors have taken their magic calculator machines out to guess how many phones Apple will sell following the release. And expectations for the next iteration in the iSeries are higher than the already high standards set by last year's new iPhone. ...
How the iPhone 5 could help re-elect Obama
September 11, 2012
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If the iPhone 5 boosts the GDP as much as this JP Morgan analyst says it will, Barack Obama might not have to worry about the economy crippling his chances against Mitt Romney. The new phone, which Apple will announce this week and release shortly thereafter, could add between a ...
App maker, not Apple or the FBI, was the source of user data leak
September 10, 2012
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Turns out the FBI isn't doing some big brother tracking using Apple UDIDs which hacker group Anti-Sec released last week. Florida publisher Blue Toad, which builds digital products for publishers, has told NBC News's Kerry Sanders and Bob Sullivan that the leaked data came from its servers. Following the hack, ...
Don't expect to use a gadget during takeoff and landing anytime soon
September 10, 2012
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Though the Federal Aviation Administrated is now looking into allowing gadgets during take-off and landing, flyers shouldn't get their hopes up. Because of recent complaining about the arbitrariness of the rule, largely championed by The New York Times' Nick Bilton, the FAA has been more open to changing the standard. ...
Bing vs. Google blind showdown: Closer than you'd think
September 7, 2012
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After taking Bing up on its "Bing It On Challenge," which asks Internet searchers to use Google and Bing in a side-by-side blind test, to our surprise we have discovered that Bing delivered just as often as Google. Here's the way the challenge works: Users input search terms and then ...
A BitCoin heist and the upside of government regulation
September 5, 2012
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Last night's Bitcoin heist of $250,000 (or so) worth of the virtual currency shows that this world isn't quite ready for an online alternative to dollar bills because the promises of deregulation aren't worth the safety hazards. What happened at BitFloor was the equivalent of an online bank robbery, but ...
Apple statement makes AntiSec FBI hack look less likely
September 5, 2012
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After the FBI denied that the hacker group AntiSec got yesterday's published Apple UDID data from them, Apple is also saying that they never gave any information up to the bureau, making an FBI hack look less likely. "The FBI has not requested this information from Apple, nor have we ...
What was the FBI doing with 12 million Apple IDs anyway?
September 5, 2012
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This morning AntiSec released a list of 1 million out of 12 million Apple UDID's that it said it got from the FBI, which has raised many questions, most prominently perhaps: Just what was the FBI doing with that data in the first place? First off, neither the FBI nor ...
