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McGraw-Hill Still In Deep Denial Over iPad Leak

28 Jan 2010 12:06:56 PST

Written by Brian Barrett
Honestly, the fact that Terry McGraw mentioned something that everyone knew—or at least, strongly suspected—was going to happen isn't going to affect the number of iPads Apple sells one bit. So why not just own up to it? Oh, right. Because does that, ever. [All Things D]

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Apple Tablet Mockup Photos Gain Attention

26 Jan 2010 06:19:36 PST

As typical prior to any Apple event, supposedly "leaked" product images tend to start circulating. Unfortunately, actual product image leaks are quite rare and they typically come from a trusted source or site. In fact, it's been extremely ...

Original story at MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors .

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The One Where I Turn a Stolen $100,000 Apple Prototype Into a Crime Scene

24 Jan 2010 11:00:00 PST

Written by Jack Loftus
Editor's note: The prototype theft report was a dubious user-generated one floated by a community site named Zirana, posted this week. It has not been confirmed by area deputies or Apple, hence the bit of fun I'm having with it today, like I did with that old transforming couch in November. S...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Remainders - The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn't Post (and Why)

18 Jan 2010 14:00:00 PST

Written by Kyle VanHemert
In today's Remainders: AT&T users log in to Facebook only to find unfamiliar faces; iPhone 4G rumors abound while AMOLED Apple Tablet rumors get shot down; and Northwestern's StatsMonkey robot takes hard stats and churns out baseball narratives.

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Remainders - The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn't Post (and Why)

12 Jan 2010 22:00:00 PST

Written by Kyle VanHemert
The Korea Times had everyone atwitter today with their report that the iPhone 4G could launch as early as April, sporting, among other improbabilities, an OLED screen and a removable battery. There's a lot to doubt here: that Apple would switch to a removable battery when they just did the...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Apple Approves Porn App in Under 12 Hours

10 Jan 2010 08:59:00 PST

Written by Jesus Diaz
Proving once again that Apple's iTunes approval process is absurd and futile, an app developer got his porn browser approved in under 12 hours, even with all the latest rules in place. The funny thing: Apple doesn't know about it. We will see what happens now. [iTunes App Store]

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Apple Computer news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Apple Computer news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Hulu to go mobile, may reach Android and iPad -- from Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks
• Macworld Expo: Mac Community Contributes to “See You at Macworld” Video -- from The Mac Observer
• Editorial: iPad: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again -- from The Mac Observer
• SDK Changes Open Door to VOIP Over 3G Networks... iPad Phone Calls Possible? -- from MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors
• Can Apple’s iPad Save the Media After All? -- by Eliot Van Buskirk from Wired: Epicenter
• iWork for the iPad: Productivity On-the-Go -- by Matthew Bookspan from TheAppleBlog
• Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: All Tablet's Eve Edition -- by Kyle VanHemert from Gizmodo: rumors
• Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: Our Job Just Got Harder Edition -- by Kyle VanHemert from Gizmodo: nytimes
• Parental Control glitch gives kids access to App Store porn -- by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman) from Ars Technica
• SPB Helps Starhub to Bring Best Possible Mobile TV Experience to Their Subscribers -- by sam mcloughln from PalmAddicts

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Apple Removes Tits & Boobies and Pussy Lovers iPhone Apps, Explains to Developer

29 Dec 2009 14:29:00 PST

Written by Jesus Diaz
It's a new twist to the old Apple iPhone app rejection story. This time it is not the content, but the "mismatch" between title and rated G content, even while the text is technically accurate. They have to change the content—although no vaginas would be ever allowed in the iPhone—or change t...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Remainders - The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn't Post (and Why)

21 Dec 2009 23:00:00 PST

Written by Dan Nosowitz
iPod Touch Users Neglect OS 3.0 (Comparatively) iPod Touch users, for whom the OS 3.0 upgrade costs $10, are upgrading in much lower numbers than iPhone users, for whom the upgrade was free. 95% of iPhone users have opted for 3.0, compared to only 55% of iPod Touch users. Frankly, I'm damned impr...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Remainders - The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn't Post (and Why)

11 Dec 2009 21:20:00 PST

Written by Dan Nosowitz
Buckle the eff up for Remainders today, because we've got: The greatest street performer of our generation, two separate Christmas-themed videos (one Muppet, one Guitar Hero), minor Apple updates, and a severed hand crafted of breakfast foods. Yow.

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Remainders - Good and Bad Stuff We Didn't Post (And Why)

02 Dec 2009 20:20:00 PST

Written by Rosa Golijan
Apple Tablet to Be "Shockingly" Cheap On the latest episode of Diggnation, Internet and television personality Alex Albrecht remarked that he was shocked about 'how cheap the price point" of the Apple tablet would be. No word on how exactly he got his information or just how cheap it needs...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Stuff We Didn't Post Today (and Why)

26 Oct 2009 20:00:00 PDT

Written by Wilson Rothman
Apple Tablet? Microsoft Courier? Pshaw, I'll Take eviGroup...Like Peter Cetera, It's Hard for CNBC To Say "I'm Sorry"...Verizon to Apple: "Please Baby, Come Back, I'll Do Anything!"...Microsoft's Apple Store Copycatting Conspiracy Gets Creepier

Original story at Gizmodo .

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With Two Billionth iPhone App Download, Apple Gets Blasé

28 Sep 2009 11:08:01 PDT

Written by John C Abell
Apple, Stanford Teaching iPhone Development for FreeRumor: Apple Rejecting SlingPlayer iPhone App to Please AT&T iPhone Developers Go From Rags to RichesApple: No Porn Allowed in iPhone’s App StoreRejected By Apple, iPhone Developers Go UndergroundE-Reader iPhone App Rejec...

Original story at Wired Lifestyle .

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Apple Genius Finds Child Porn on G5 In Need of Repair

25 Aug 2009 21:40:00 PDT

Written by Joanna Stern
Forget Megan's Law, those Apple Geniuses are pretty darn good at catching pedophiles. A Connecticut man was arrested after an Apple Genius found pictures of naked 10- to 13-year-old girls in "explicit" poses on his G5 desktop's hard drive.

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Hey Look, Another Possible Apple Tablet Leak

15 Aug 2009 10:30:00 PDT

Written by Dan Nosowitz
It's running Mac OS X, which goes contrary to what our own Mac Tablet Guru Jesus (and most other people) predicted, and seems to sport the accepted near-10-inch size screen and classic home button. Speaking of the home button, that's my first big clue that this is a fake—that thing would be s...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Sex Offender Locator Back in the App Store For Some Reason

10 Aug 2009 13:00:00 PDT

Written by Adam Frucci
Who knows if it'll still be around tomorrow though. it depends how Apple is feeling. [Offender Locator (iTunes Link) via iPhone Savior]

Original story at Gizmodo .

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TheXchange: Will This Porn iPhone App Survive the Apple Banhammer?

30 Jul 2009 15:00:00 PDT

Written by Jesus Diaz
Why is Apple approving these apps in the first place, knowing they are going to pull them down later? And since these applications get their content via the internet, should Apple take Safari or Mail out of the iPhone too? Or Beehive, which can be used to send pictures on the fly to other user...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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No, Apple Still Isn't Going to CES

30 Jul 2009 06:20:00 PDT

Written by John Herrman
The reason this is even a subject again is because of an oddly (and perhaps tellingly) vague piece posted on the the WSJ's Digits blog by Ben Charny, who flat out claims that that Apple plans to use CES to replace Macworld, which it walked away from last year:

Original story at Gizmodo .

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iPhone porn app not pulled by Apple, just “Sold Out,” says developer

25 Jun 2009 17:30:22 PDT

Written by MG Siegler
The drama in iPhone porn world continues. Yesterday, Hottest Girls, the first app with nudity was accepted into the App Store. But early this morning it was made unavailable, and everyone presumed Apple was behind it. But apparently, the app has not been pulled from the App Store by Apple, bu...

Original story at Techcrunch .

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Mac OS X Java security hole exposed

20 May 2009 11:30:00 PDT

Written by Christina Warren
So, five months, two point OS updates, one Java update in February and stil, Apple hasn't patched the exploit on their end. And, let the flogging from the Apple-haters commence.TUAWMac OS X Java security hole exposed originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 20 May...

Original story at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) .

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Podcast: Going Deep Inside Xserve Apple Drive Modules

27 Mar 2009 05:44:44 PDT

You cannot buy a bare hard drive and insert it into an Xserve, as you can with a Mac Pro (and having just added a drive to my new Mac Pro, I can say that Apple did a stunningly nice job in making it easy to add drives, especially in comparison to the awful approach they used in the Power Mac G5). Inste...

Original story at TidBITS .

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iPhone OS 3.0 Will Turn Your Phone Into a Revolutionary Sex Toy [Apple]

17 Mar 2009 20:30:00 PDT

Written by Jesus Diaz
Dr. Debby Herbenick—author and sex expert—liked our iPhone 3.0 guide so much that she wrote a great phone sex guide inspired by it. Which got me thinking: Can the new OS make the iPhone the best sexual toy ever? Of course, you are probably thinking, it's ok to play with the vibration mode in the i...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Podcast: The Greatest Computer Keyboard of All Time?

27 Feb 2009 13:52:49 PST

Written by matt@tidbits.com (Matt Neuburg)
Okay, I lied. There is one further indication that this is a Windows keyboard: the presence of the Application key next to the right Control key. I believe this is supposed to do the same thing as right-clicking the mouse - what a Mac user would call Control-clicking. On my machine, it doesn't d...

Original story at TidBITS .

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Podcast: MobileMe Web Interface Insecure, But Other Apps Get It Right

20 Aug 2008 10:26:51 PDT

AppleInsider, reporting on MobileMe on 15-Aug-08, attempted to assuage concerns that the MobileMe Web interface does not use SSL encryption to protect connections from malicious sniffing or hijacking. They stated SSL was unnecessary because:

Original story at TidBITS .

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Podcast: Apple iPhone pros and cons

06 Jul 2007 08:24:20 PDT

The BBC's technology programme Click takes a closer look at positive and negative points of the Apple iPhone.

Original story at BBC News .

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Podcast: Valley gets ready for the highly anticipated iPhone

26 Jun 2007 16:01:41 PDT

Written by Andrew Johnson
Apple's long-awaited iPhone hits store shelves on Friday. Several Valley residents, including Apple fan Steve Gottry, plan to plunk down a half-grand for the multifunctional device, but Apple faces hurdles in convincing consumers to invest.{b} Lining up | Calling plan | Music | Findin...

Original story at AZ Central.com .

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