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March 11, 2016 Chinese Couple Reportedly Sells Infant Daughter to Buy iPhone
In a shocking incident, a Chinese couple allegedly sold their new born 18-day-old baby daughter for $3,530 to buy an iPhone. A Duan, father of the child, from Fujian Province in country’s southeast found a buyer for his 18-day-old child on the social media site QQ, who paid $3,530 (CNY 23,000 or roughly Rs. 2,38,000) […]
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NEWS 
March 11, 2016 iPhone With 5.8-Inch Oled Display to Launch in 2017-2018: Report
In 2014, Apple introduced two new screen sizes to its iPhone lineup: 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch. It appears the Cupertino-based company plans to give its users one more option as soon as next year. According to a report, Apple is working on a 5.8-inch iPhone with an Oled display and a launch time-frame currently set for […]
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March 9, 2016 Company iPhone Users May Soon Be Constantly Reminded About Supervision
An upcoming iOS update could bring a feature that would inform users if their iPhone handsets are under company supervision. The iPhone maker has been spotted testing the feature in the latest beta of iOS 9.3. According to Reddit user MaGNeTiX, the latest beta of iOS 9.3 reminds people if their Internet traffic and location […]
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March 9, 2016 iPhone 7s to Sport Oled Display; iPhone 7 Pro to Bear Dual Camera Setup: Reports
Apple may switch to Oled display on its iPhone models sooner than expected. A new media report claims that the Cupertino-based company has been in talks with display manufacturers and plans to introduce the first iPhone with an Oled display in 2017 – with the iPhone 7s. Earlier reports had suggested that Apple was planning […]
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NEWS 
March 9, 2016 Google, Microsoft, Other Rivals Back Apple Ahead of iPhone Ruling
Tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies were filing legal briefs on Thursday asking a judge to support Apple Inc in its encryption battle with the US government, court documents and sources familiar with the companies’ plans said. The rare […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 9, 2016 Intel to Make ‘Significant Portion’ of the iPhone 7’s LTE Modems: Report
Apple’s next flagship smartphone, expected to be named the iPhone 7, will reportedly have some of its innards made by Intel. According to an analyst at CLSA Securities, Intel has secured orders for a “significant portion” of the cellular modems on Apple’s next-generation iPhone. The analyst adds that Apple isn’t looking to completely cut its […]
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ELECTRONICS 
March 9, 2016 Does an Extremist’s iPhone Contain a ‘Cyber Pathogen’?
A local prosecutor has offered an unusual justification for forcing Apple to help hack an iPhone used by a San Bernardino mass killer: The phone might have been “used as a weapon” to introduce malicious software to county computer systems. San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos acknowledged to The Associated Press that there’s no […]
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March 9, 2016 US Police Say Criminals Like Apple’s iPhone Because of Encryption
Some criminals have switched to new iPhones as their “device of choice” to commit wrongdoing due to strong encryption Apple Inc has placed on their products, three law enforcement groups said in a court filing. The groups told a judge overseeing Apple’s battle with the US Department of Justice on Thursday that, among other things, […]
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NEWS 
March 9, 2016 iPhone Could Identify Unknown San Bernardino Attacker, Says Prosecutor
Information contained in an encrypted iPhone could help finally answer whether there was a third assailant in the San Bernardino terror attack that killed 14 people, according to court papers filed by the county’s district attorney. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said Friday that the question of a third attacker has nagged investigators despite […]
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NEWS 
March 9, 2016 Apple SVP Craig Federighi Calls FBI’s iPhone Demands ‘Disappointing’
Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President says that law enforcement wants his company to roll back the security standard of the iOS mobile operating system to intentionally make it less secure. Strongly disagreeing with law enforcement’s stance on the matter, Federighi has pushed the company’s view forward and explained why it matters. Federighi in an […]
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March 9, 2016 US Appeals Ruling on Accessing Data in New York iPhone Case
Calling a New York judge’s ruling “an unprecedented limitation” on judicial authority, the Justice Department asked a Brooklyn federal court on Monday to reverse a decision that said Apple Inc. wasn’t required to pry open a locked iPhone. The government’s 45-page brief comes a week after US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein issued his decision in […]
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March 3, 2016 iPhone 5s Long-Term Review
Using brand new phones and writing reviews gives us a fairly accurate picture of what you get when you buy a phone. That experience can change dramatically a few months in, when your smartphone begins to show its first performance issues and as the first major software update arrives a year later, one starts to […]
