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Apple launches iPhone 5 battery replacement program for units experiencing poor battery life

This could come in handy. Per Macworld, Apple is offering a second replacement program for iPhone 5 users after offering to replace the sleep/wake button on some models in April. Apple has stated that a “very small percentage of iPhone 5 devices” may be experiencing poor battery life, requiring users to charge the device more […]

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GT Advanced nears completion of Arizona plant, could raise production of sapphire coating materials for iPhone 6, other devices

Apple should be able to make its quota for items that require a sapphire coating, especially the iPhone 6, with the opening of GT Advanced Technologies’ new factory in Arizona. Per AppleInsider, GT Advanced Technologies on Monday said its Arizona sapphire manufacturing facility in Arizona, built in partnership with Apple, is nearly complete and will […]

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Apple Store locations to begin repairing damaged iPhone 5s screens on August 4th

If you drop your iPhone 5s and crack its screen, you’ll be able to take it to an Apple retail store location. Per 9to5Mac, Apple will finally begin offering iPhone 5s screen replacements in its official U.S. and Canada retail stores via its Genius Bars in the coming days, according to several sources.

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Apple posts $37.4 billion in revenues, $7.7 billion profit for Q3 2014

Apple’s money train kept rolling into the third quarter. Per Macworld, the company posted revenues of US$37.4 billion and a net profit of US$7.7 billion, making for a record June quarter for the company. Those numbers were up from the third quarter of 2013, when Apple tallied US$35.3 billion in revenue and US$6.9 billion in […]

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Jonathan Zdziarski’s talk at hacker conferences shows backdoors on every iOS device, questionable services being run

There’s apparently a back door access point on every iOS device on the market. Per The Apple Core, forensic scientist and author Jonathan Zdziarski has posted the slides (in PDF format) from his talk at the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE/X) conference in New York called Identifying Backdoors, Attack Points, and Surveillance Mechanisms in iOS […]