iPhone location data collection lawsuit: a setback for Apple

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According to Bloomberg, Apple now has to fight for the class action lawsuit on iPhone location data collection. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, ruled last week that the discovery phase of the class-action lawsuit will proceed and ordered Apple to provide relevant documents to the plaintiffs’ legal team by May 17. Apple fought to ...

iOS Loophole Open Doors for Photo Stealing

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Another iOS flaw was recently reported by the New York Times that developers may grab all your photos (in addition to your whole address book)  through any Apps in your iPhone or iPad if access to location information was previously granted. According to this report: The New York Times asked a developer, who asked not to be named ...

Apple will pay $15 to iPhone 4 buyers for antenna performance in iPhone 4

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Apple was sued for the antenna performance in iPhone 4 as early as in 2010, and most people probably already forget the so called antennagate. In the press conference on July 16, 2010, Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs  defended their design against accusations of antenna reception issues in then new iPhone 4. Affected (actually all) customers ...

The best untethered jailbreak for your iPhone 4S and iPad 2

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There are many jailbreak (root) tools, free and paid, for iPhones and iPads. However, this one simply is the best, because: 1.  Free. 2. Untethered. Once jailbroken, jailbroken forever. 3. Trusted. The team has worked on jailbreaks for years. Oh, yes, It is GreenPois0n Absinthe, you probably tried it before. Now try the latest version (0.4) for iOS 5.0.1.

iPad 3 will be on sale in March

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Apple fanbois, should be excited. According to Bloomberg, iPad 3 is in production, and the "manufactures started ramping up production of the iPad 3 this month and plan to reach full volumes by February,"  So, it is almost certain, iPad 3 will be available in March. Based on all information and rumors, there will no surprise ...

iOS 5.0.1 will not fix battery issue in iPhone 4S

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Apple has admitted to battery-sucking bugs in its recently released iOS 5, has promised a fix, which was released last Thursday (iOS 5.0.1). But after upgrading, very likely, you still have the same issue. On some forums, some users even reported the update simply made the situation worse. For the time being, you can not do much ...

How to solve the security problem of Siri in iPhone 4S?

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Siri, the most prominent feature in iPhone 4S, now has a security hole. Basically, screen lock will not prevent Siri from doing a lot of things: from sending messages to initialize a phone call on your list. Actually, except  launching apps, Siri can do almost everything when screen lock is on. This is potentially a security ...

4 reasons you should stay away from Amazon’s Silk browser

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As I discussed in early post on Silk browser immediately after the launch of Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, and a guest post on privacy concerns of Amazon's Silk browser. We must admit Kindle Fire is priced correctly. With Amazon's tons of contents, this content tablet will surely capture the largest Android tablet market. According to Maximum ...

What is http secure proxy?

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You may notice some web proxy providers provide "http secure web proxy".  What does it mean? It actually means the web proxy uses https (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), instead of the normal http protocal for their web proxy. This suggests the connection between you and the proxy is secured (to certain extent), and your IT department ...