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Apple adds mid-2010 17-inch MacBook Pro, others to vintage and obsolete products list

As much as you may love the mid-2010 17-inch MacBook Pro, Apple just added it to its vintage and obsolete products list. The notebook joins the mid-2010 15-inch MacBook Pro and the early 2009 Xserve and are now generally no longer eligible for hardware service. Apple defines vintage products as those that have not been […]

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Apple adds 2008-2009 Macs, other hardware to “vintage and obsolete” list

It’s not the easiest news to hear, especially if your product is in the list, but Apple on Tuesday updated its official list of “vintage and obsolete” hardware. This list is used to determine whether or not the company will repair or otherwise support any hardware problems. Under Apple definitions, “vintage” products have been out […]

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Apple purchases Semetrics music analysis service, puts itself in better position to track users’ music listening habits

Apple’s interested in what you’re listening to. Especially if it helps to justify having spent several billion dollars for Beats. Per The Guardian, Apple has acquired British startup Semetric, which runs the Musicmetric analytics tool, as part of its plans to relaunch its Beats Music streaming music service later in the year. In documents filed […]

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Apple receives patent for device that could send data via bending flexible materials

One day, you will send data by bending certain materials in the right direction. Per AppleInsider and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Apple on Tuesday was assigned a patent detailing an interactive flexible device display that uses built-in sensors to detect bends or panel movement, which triggers a server request for multimedia content. […]

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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 […]