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Appeals Court Skeptical Of Obama Secrecy Around Drone Killings
A U.S. appeals court responded skeptically on Thursday to Obama administration assertions the government can withhold documents about a program that uses aerial drones for targeted killings overseas. Read More »
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Apple Continues Hiring Raid On Medical Sensor Field As It Develops Eye Scanning Technology
Apple is moving to expand its personnel working on wearable computers and medical-sensor-laden devices by hiring more scientists and specialists in the medical sensor field. Apple began work in earnest on a watch-like device late last decade, and it has worked with increasing efficiency and more dedicated resources on the project over the past couple of years. [...] Read More »
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Apple Finally Tips Its Hat To OpenStreetMap, Admits To Using Their Mapping Data
When you checked in iPhoto where a photo had been taken, you were seeing maps built upon the foundation of OSM. The only problem? Apple wasn’t bothering to credit them. Now with the latest update to iPhoto, Cupertino’s decided to do the right thing. OpenStreetMap is credited in the app’s acknowledgement section. Read More »
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Apple Fingerprint Tech Raises 'Privacy Questions'
A senior US senator believes the fingerprint recognition technology featured in Apple's new iPhone 5S raises "substantial privacy questions".
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Apple iOS 7: Android Copycat?
Actually, Apple's forthcoming iOS 7 isn't so much an Android clone as it is a mashup of everyone else's mobile operating systems. Read More »
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Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone
Your shiny new iPad Pro is on the fritz. The touchscreen is cracked and isn’t working properly. You could take it to an affordable local repair shop, but mom and pop may not know how to heat up the glass just enough to separate the LCD from the rest of the device — it’s a complicated process that involves an acute understanding of the tablet’s insides. Once they’ve cracked open the iPad, they may not even know what to do to replace each component...
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Apple Is Quietly Working on Turning Your iPhone into the One-Stop Shop for All Your Medical Info
Imagine turning to your iPhone for all your health and medical information — every doctor's visit, lab test result, prescription and other health information, all available in a snapshot on your phone and shared with your doctor on command. No more logging into hospital websites or having to call your previous doctor to get them to forward all that information to your new one. Apple is working on making that scenario a reality...
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Apple Tightens Acceptance Of Drug Guides For App Store
As part of stricter enforcement of developer policies for its App Store, Apple has been rejecting medical and health apps that provide information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, according to a recent article in CiteWorld. Read More »
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Apple Will Put Microsoft, HP Out Of Business
Way the heck back in September 2012 I wrote Meg Whitman and HP: Everything That Is Wrong With Tech. That was on the heels of the Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO saying because everybody else is doing a smartphone, we'll have to do one as well. Read More »
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Apple's Broken Promise: Why Doesn't iCloud 'Just Work'?
Frustrations mount as developers deal with Apple's inability to manage another cloud service Read More »
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Apple's iCloud Disparaged Over Core Data Sync Problems
Apple's ambitious plan to make iCloud the new digital hub for Mac and iOS users' documents, data and media files has run into complaints from developers who reportedly don't believe Apple will address their issues related to database sync. There's hope for thinking things will improve, however. Read More »
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Apple's Star Chamber
Impossible as it sounds, Judge Denise Cote has found a way to make the Justice Department's antitrust assault on Apple AAPL +0.18% even more abusive. Because it presumed to enter the e-books market, the court is forcing the company to pay for a special prosecutor to investigate itself—and shredding the separation of constitutional powers too. Read More »
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Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter And Others Call For More NSA Transparency
Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will tomorrow demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts. Read More »
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Apple, Microsoft, VMware: Everyone's Building Open-Source Software
In the opening keynote at LinuxCon, Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin observed that open source is now key to how all companies use to develop software—and yes he meant Apple, Microsoft, and VMware as well.
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Apple-Backed Patent Consortium Sues Google, Major Android Manufacturers
A patent holding company backed by Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Sony, and Ericsson has filed the first round of lawsuits based on patents the group won at auction from seminal telecom company Nortel. Read More »
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