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Apple pays $400 million settlement in ebook pricing case

Sometimes you get stuck with your hand in the cookie jar. Per Reuters and AppleInsider, Apple has agreed to pay up to US$450 million to settle a class-action lawsuit from states and consumers accusing the iPad maker of illegally fixing e-book prices and raising costs. The settlement was first revealed by New York Attorney General […]

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Purported iPhone 6 Touch ID sensor image leaked, minimal changes seen from iPhone 5s model

An image of the purported iPhone 6 Touch ID sensor has leaked. Unfortunately, it’s not a radical departure from the current iPhone 5s iPhone sensor, save for where the screw holes are located. Per French web site Nowhereelse.fr and Electronista, the part is thought to fit in the anticipated 4.7-inch iPhone 6 model.

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Apple adding transition encryption to boost iCloud email service security

Apple looks to be overhauling its iCloud email service security by including end-to-end encryption for messages sent from me.com and icloud.com, according to new data from Google’s Gmail transparency effort and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. The report suggests that at least 95 percent of the messages sent to Gmail from users of iCloud mail is […]

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Rumor: Taiwan-based Simplo Technologies resolves iPhone 6 battery production issues

A new manufacturer might have resolved the battery problem for Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6 handset. Per Taiwan’s Economic Daily News and GforGames, Taiwan-based Simplo Technologies is said to have been able to craft batteries thin and flexible enough for the so-called “iPhone 6,” a feat apparently not able to be matched by current suppliers Samsung […]

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Apple is looking to employees to test its new Photos app

We’ve mentioned in a previous post that Apple plans to replace the once venerated pro-level photo management app, Aperture, and presumably iPhoto as well, with an all new application called simply Photos. Now Apple is looking for someone to put it through its paces, and looking no further than its own collective of employees.