After a user allows an application on an Apple mobile device to have access to location information, the app can copy the user’s entire photo library, without any further warning.
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Bits Blog: Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos
After a user allows an application on an Apple mobile device to have access to location information, the app can copy the user’s entire photo library, without any further warning.
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Bits Blog: Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos
The iPad 3 is widely tipped to be launched on 7 March as Apple announces a special event in San Francisco.
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Apple iPad 3 expected within days
Proview, the Chinese electronics maker that is suing Apple over the trademark to the iPad, has apparently taken its legal battle to U.S. court. A report from the Wall Street Journal found a previously unknown lawsuit between Apple and Proview filed in California’s Santa Clara Superior Court on Feb. 17. Read full article > >
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Proview files suit against Apple in U.S. court
ABC’s “Nightline” visited production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how iPads and iPhones are made. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.
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Pogue’s Posts: What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found
There’s been quite a bit of controversy swirling lately around iPhones and iPads — not about whether the products are good, or whether Google or Microsoft can beat Apple at its game. The questions, rather, have centered on just where Apple’s products come from and how they’re made. Read full article > >
Apple surprised the tech world Thursday when it announced its new operating system, Mountain Lion. The system incorporates several of iOS’s most notable features. Here’s a quick rundown of the top Mountain Lion features for the Mac, many aimed at users who have more than one Apple product: Read full article > >
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Apple’s Mountain Lion: Top 10 features
Google has reportedly been using a special code to attach cookies to users’ machines when they used Apple’s browser, Safari. According to research published by Stanford graduate student Jonathan Mayer, four advertising companies — Google, Vibrant Media, WPP PLC’s Media Innovation Group and Gannett’s PointRoll — have all been using code to work around privacy features in Safari’s mobile browser. Read full article > >
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Google pulls cookies that tracked users through Safari
The new operating system software for the Mac brings even more of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. The juiciest payoff here is the suite of Mac apps that now mimic what’s on the iPhone/iPad.
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Pogue’s Posts: Apple’s Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like the iPad
As we get closer to the expected launch of Apple’s next iPad, reports about the device and when it will launch continue to build. One report taking the rumor mill by storm comes from the blog iMore’s Rene Ritchie , who says that Apple’s planning its next launch event for March 7. Ritchie cites sources “who have been reliable in the past.” Read full article > >
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Report: ‘iPad 3’ coming March 7; Apple tests smaller screen
Apple said the audit would look at conditions at Chinese sites where iPhones and other products are made. Some labor groups lauded the move, but others were skeptical.
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Bits Blog: Apple Asks Outside Group to Inspect Factories
Apple said the audit would look at conditions at Chinese sites where iPhones and other products are made. Some labor groups lauded the move, but others were skeptical.
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Bits Blog: Apple Asks Outside Group to Inspect Factories
Even before the world knew him as a genius, the FBI had the book on Steve Jobs. In a 1991 background check, the FBI pegged Apple’s co-founder as brash and unlikable and noted his early drug use. Most tellingly, the agents, evaluating Jobs for an appointment under President George H.W. Bush, said acquaintances found him to have a peculiarly driven nature. Read full article > >
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Steve Jobs’s unflattering FBI file mentions drug use, 2.65 GPA
Waiting for Apple’s next tablet? You may not have to wait long. According to a report from All Things Digital’s John Pacszkowski , the next iPad is coming in the first week of March. Given that release date, it’s not clear when the new device would hit stores, but Paczkowski estimates that it would be around a week after the launch event. Read full article > >
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Report: ‘iPad 3’ coming first week of March?
A letter from Apple’s legal team reveals that the firm wants Europe to revise rules covering patents that are essential to industry standards.
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Apple seeks revised patent rules
Pogue’s Posts: Apple’s Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like the iPad
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