August 24, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
There seems to be an epidemic of hacking iTunes accounts, especially for the site’s customers who pay for their purchases using PayPal.
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Tags: banking, credit cards, cybercrime, hacked, iTunes, linked, PayPal, scam
August 16, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The smartphone market is hot and the iPhone’s been sizzling in each new incarnation, with one big caveat: Its exclusive carrier is AT&T. But a new survey shows a brighter lining for that dark cloud.
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Tags: AT&T, consumers, iphone, Morpace, study, Verizon
August 16, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and where there’s lots of money to be made, there’s usually corruption and stupidity. This week’s tech industry money shenanigans and missteps: An Apple exec’s been accused of accepting kickbacks.
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Tags: Apple, CEO, Hewlett-Packard, iphone, ipod, kickbacks, Mark Hurd, Paul Shin Devine
August 10, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
There could be a serious threat to mobile phone service if new software from Pinger catches on. The application lets users make phone calls and send texts on a smartphone without mobile service — or without a mobile phone at all.
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Tags: application, calls, iPad, ipod, mobile phone, Pinter, Software, Textfree, texting
August 4, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
A recent hacker attack on iPads makes it plain that users of the new Apple tablet need to be careful.
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Tags: hackers, iPad, jailbreak, MobileMe
July 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The titanic shift in publishing that’s pushed traditional books, magazines and newspapers off their pedestal in favor of electronic copy hit a crescendo this week when Amazon announced that, for the first time, e-books outsold their hardcover competition.
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Tags: Amazon, ebooks, hardover, iPad, Kindle, sales
July 21, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The financial juggernaut that is Apple continues unabated by minor blips like the iPhone 4 antennae and fears that the iPad’s phenomenal popularity might eat away at Mac sales.
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Tags: Apple, earnings, iPad, iphone, ipod, macs, third quater
June 23, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Yes, I know reading the manual means you lost. And yes, I know Apple computer products are so intuitive they don’t require instructions — NOT.
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Tags: Apple, iphone, OS4, Software, update
June 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
All those naysayers out there who predicted the iPad would flounder won’t be happy to hear the latest sales tallies for the new Apple tablet.
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Tags: iPad, iphone, sales, Steve Jobs