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The news broke back in July that Apple had acquired mobile security company Authentec and the blogosphere was full of rumors claiming the iPhone 5 would feature NFC and biometric security, courtesy of Authentec. (more…)

Despite earlier rumors claiming Apple's redesigned iMac's wouldn’t hit Apple Store shelves on schedule in November–December, 9to5Mac's own sources say the 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac lines are still on track. (more…)

Apple has unofficially surpassed the 1 million approved app milestone, according to the App Store discover company Appsfire as cited by The Next Web. (more…)

In a crime that was originally likened to one seen in the Goodfellas movie, it seems more appropriate that the New York Post would liken it to the 'Dumbfellas'. Court papers identified that JFK Airport employee Renel Rene Richardson was behind the theft of a USD $1.9 million dollar iPad Mini shipment moving through the...

iMessage (and FaceTime) is currently suffering from another outage, as most of you probably have noticed by now. If iMessage is down, your message should be sent through as a text message. However, you'll probably get hit with a 'did not send' error then have to resend it manually as a text message. But what...

You're not going crazy--iMessage and FaceTime is currently down for the count. Apple's iCloud status page was recently updated to reflect the outage, even though it the outage has affected users for the past 2-3 hours. Expect Apple to fix this shortly. iMessage was previously down a couple times in late October. Apple needs to...

The New York Times has published a lengthy article about Apple, this time taking a closer look at how it is challenging to find success as an iOS developer. The story profiles various developers, seemingly portraying a picture it is not as easy as it sounds to create that monster hit in the App Store--although...

There is no question that some of the most addictive and fun-to-play iPhone games are word games, and Letterpress is no exception. This is why it was quite exciting to find out that the developer has just released an update. The same great world-building structure exists with the 5x5 board, but now you can easily...

Innovation Automation, a San Jose based company, claims that Apple's iCloud product and service infringes on two of its patents. (more…)

Popular Science has come out with a list of the Top 25 Innovations of the Last 25 years. A couple Apple creations made the list, in particular the original 2007 iPhone that started the smartphone revolution as we know it today, along with the 2008 App Store debut that helped keep us addicted to our...

Fido's $57 promotional Smart Plan has been quietly extended to expire in the new year on January 7th, 2013 (it was set to 'expire' on November 25th). The plan includes the following: Unlimited SMS/MMS, International texts Unlimited anytime minutes Unlimited incoming calls Unlimited Canada-wide long distance 1GB of LTE ready data Value pack included: caller...

Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, Dan Riccio has disposed of 20,726 shares of stock, according to SEC Form 4 filings. He sold off 19,726 shares worth a total of $10,713,452.33 dollars, at stock prices ranging from $526-$532 per share. Riccio also made a donation of 1000 shares to an unspecified charitable organization. At...