If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.
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Does iPhone’s Siri have loose lips?
If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.
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Does iPhone’s Siri have loose lips?
The Pebble, a watch that is being developed to work with the iPhone, has raised more than $7 million in financing on Kickstarter, a case that has signified the site’s coming of age.
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Kickstarter Sets Off $7 Million Stampede for a Watch Not Yet Made
How time-wasting video games escaped the arcade, jumped into our pockets and took over our lives.
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Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’
In the world of global manufacturing, it seems that multinational corporations are destined to take their turn in the sweatshop spotlight. Apple’s turn, merely the latest, has taken an unusual twist. Chief executive Tim Cook, on a trip to China this past week, visited a Foxconn factory and released photos of grinning workers on the iPhone production line. Cook’s trip came after months of investigations, centered on Foxconn, of Apple’s alleged sweatshop conditions. As the story gained momentum — in part because of a theatrical performance by a man named Mike Daisey, who has since apologized for fabricating much of his narrative — Apple hired a third-party monitoring group, the Fair Labor Association (FLA), to audit working conditions at its factories. The FLA issued a report Thursday citing widespread overtime abuses and subsistence pay at Foxconn, and the manufacturer and Apple pledged to do better. Read full article > >
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Timothy D. Cook’s visit to a Foxconn plant comes as the company has been criticized for working conditions there.
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Apple’s Chief, Timothy Cook, Visits Foxconn Factory
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 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
On Saturday night, at precisely 9:19 and 30 seconds, my iPhone, my iPad, my computer and, for all I know, my toaster were informed that Herman Cain had endorsed Newt Gingrich . The ping-ping of the devices suggested that something momentous had happened — alerts from both The Post and the New York Times — but in fact it was just additional evidence that the Republican Party has become a circus: One clown endorsed another. Read full article > >
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A reporter will discuss the challenges posed by increasingly globalized high-tech industries, based on a deep look inside the economics of Apple’s manufacturing.
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Economix Blog: Charles Duhigg Responds to Readers on Apple and the iEconomy
The New York Philharmonic concertgoer whose marimba tone interrupted a performance, resulting in its stoppage, says he hasn’t slept in days.
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Jonathan Ive, the designer behind the iPhone, iPod and iPad, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list.
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Knighthood for Apple design head
Motorola Mobility can try to force Apple to remove its products from Germany’s stores after winning a patent case against the iPhone-maker.
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Motorola wins Apple patent fight
Steve Jobs originally wanted Apple to be able to operate the iPhone without help from carriers. That’s what John Stanton, a venture capitalist and wireless industry veteran, told his audience at a Seattle speech Monday, IDG News reported . According to Stanton, when Jobs was first percolating ideas about the handset from 2005-2007, he discussed the plausibility of going around carriers and using the unlicensed spectrum that WiFi networks rely on for the phones. Read full article > >
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Walmart has unveiled new apps for the iPad and the iPhone that allow shoppers to browse inventory at their local store, scan products and create voice-activated shopping lists. The iPad app debuted last week and the response has been “phenomenal,” said Gibu Thomas, Walmart’s senior vice president of mobile and digital. The new version of the iPhone app includes both a bar code scanner and a QR code scanner. The new voice-activated shopping list can also help customers find coupons and provides a running tally of the bill. Read full article > >
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Walmart introduces new iPhone, iPad apps
Kickstarter Sets Off $7 Million Stampede for a Watch Not Yet Made
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