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FBI releases their file on Steve Jobs
The FBI today released a 191-page file they had on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The file was the result of former President George H. W. Bush contemplating the appointment of Jobs to a Government position. Consequently, the FBI performed a thorough Level III background investigation into Jobs, the results of which are now open for [...]
Continue reading...Appalling Linkbait: CBS Seattle says Microsoft GPS patent has “avoid Ghetto” feature
Sunday, January 15, 2012
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Business on the web is, for the most part, dominated by pageviews. More eyeballs translate into more ad revenue. To that end, crafting a snazzy and eye-catching headline is an important part of getting traffic. But often times, a website’s thirst for pageviews can translate into what people affectionately refer to as “link bait.” I [...]
Continue reading...Samsung’s Galaxy Ace Plus is a blatant rip off of the iPhone 3GS
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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By John Hiesler: Samsung’s smartphone and tablet strategy, which seemingly consists of copying Apple at every turn, continues to get deeper by the day. After looking to Apple’s iPad ads for “inspiration”, it was revealed this past weekend that a new Galaxy Tab ad uses the exact same actress who prominently appeared in a recent [...]
Continue reading...Thieves have taste – go after iPhones exclusively
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Apparently thieves have exquisite taste, or at the very least a grasp on the resale value of varying smartphones. That’s the lesson we can extract from a recent story here thieves accosted three Columbia students in upper Manhattan whereupon they demanded the duo hand over their iPhones. After the first victim handed over his iPhone, [...]
Continue reading...NYPD busts 141 merchants for purchasing stolen iPhones
Monday, December 19, 2011
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The New York Post is reporting that the NYPD recently nabbed 141 merchants – from newsstands to barbershops – for purchasing what they believed to be stolen iPhones and iPads. Undercover NYPD officers sold the electronics to merchants at more than 600 stores around the five boroughs this week — asking from $50 to $200 [...]
Continue reading...Group of motorcycle bandits rob Apple Store in Covent Garden
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: In a scene straight out of a movie, a gang of 7 mopeds and motorcycles on Monday morning smashed the front window at the newly opened Apple Store in Covent Garden in London and grabbed as many Apple products as they could. And these crooks came prepared, sporting full face crash helmets. [...]
Continue reading...Authorities bust fake iPhone ring in Shanghai that used authentic iPhone components
Sunday, October 9, 2011
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By David Goldman: Apple’s problem with knockoff and counterfeit iOS products is well-known. Over the past few years, devices purporting to be iPhones and iPods have become increasingly better developed and harder to separate from the real thing. That said, Apple scored a noteworthy victory recently when a counterfeit iPhone ring in China was disbanded. [...]
Continue reading...Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to question Apple regarding fraudulent iTunes purchase
Sunday, September 25, 2011
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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said last week that her office will be taking a hard look into reports of fraudulent iTunes purchases that, in some instances, can drain a user’s bank account. Why the sudden interest from Coakley? Well, her credit card was recently stolen and used to make unauthorized purchaes on iTunes. Confounding matters, Coakley [...]
Continue reading...Apple has a security team to fight against the proliferation of counterfeit iOS products
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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To a certain extent, the sheer number of Apple knockoff products is flattering. It reaffirms that people hold Apple products in high esteem and demonstrates that devices like the iPhone and iPad are in high enough demand as to create entire criminal syndicates dedicated to manufacturing and selling counterfeit versions of these devices. But that [...]
Continue reading...SFPD issues formal statement on missing iPhone 5
Saturday, September 3, 2011
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With all of the hullabaloo surrounding a missing iPhone 5 and Apple’s attempt to secure the device, it’s been hard to discern reality from fiction. An initial report from CNET claimed that Apple never filed a formal complaint with the SFPD. The report also noted that Apple representatives visited a complex where the iPhone was [...]
Continue reading...San Francisco Police did, in fact, join Apple investigators in search for missing iPhone prototype
Saturday, September 3, 2011
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Well it turns out that Apple employees aren’t going around like a bunch of A-Team wannabes looking for lost iPhones while telling unsuspecting civilians that they’re in fact legit Police Officers. Contradicting their own report from yesterday, the SF Weekly now writes that San Francisco Police officers did, in fact, accompany Apple investigators to the [...]
Continue reading...Did Apple investigators pose as San Franscisco Police Officers in search for missing iPhone
Friday, September 2, 2011
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Yesterday we recapped a strange story about yet another misplaced iPhone prototype. This time around, the story goes, an Apple employee left an iPhone 5 prototype at a bar. A few days later, Apple reportedly contacted the San Francisco Police Department looking for help to secure the device’s return. Following that, Apple employees together with [...]
Continue reading...Brian Hogan and Sage Robert Wallower plead not-guilty in iPhone 4 theft case
Thursday, September 1, 2011
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Yesterday, news surfaced that the unthinkable had happened – an Apple employee had lost yet another iPhone prototype after an evening out in a bar. Last year, Gizmodo famously published photos of pre-production iPhone 4 it obtained after paying someone a few grand for the device. That “someone”, it later turned out, was a then [...]
Continue reading...Gizmodo and Jason Chen off the hook in lost iPhone 4 investigation
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
When Gizmodo ran photos of Apple’s iPhone 4 months before Apple even officially acknowledged it existed, the blogosphere exploded with excitement. How did Gizmodo get their hands on an unreleased product from a company that prides itself on secrecy? In short, the Gizmodo scoop was nothing short of astounding. But when details leaked explaining how [...]
Continue reading...New App Store guidelines ban DUI checkpoint apps
Thursday, June 9, 2011
In late March, four US Senators banded together and wrote a letter to Apple asking that they remove apps that alert users as to the whereabouts of DUI checkpoints. “With more than 10,000 Americans dying in drunk-driving crashes every year,” the letter stated, “providing access to iPhone and iPad applications that alert users to DUI [...]
Continue reading...Man in “white ninja suit” drives car into Apple store in botched burglary attempt
Friday, June 3, 2011
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Apple’s chain of retail stores have been popular targets for thieves lately, but now Ninjas are also looking to get MacBooks, iPods, and iPhones on the cheap. Earlier this morning, a man dressed in white, and described as wearing a “white ninja suit”, drove a stolen car into the outer glass windows of an Apple [...]
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
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