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Apple Reportedly Plans To Open Siri To Third Parties (Just As Hackers Force It Open)
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-03-06 00:56
For anyone that wants Siri to do more than set iCal appointments and dictate SMS messages, there may be hope beyond a hack. Apple is reportedly working on allowing third-party services to integrate with Siri so that the iPhone’s digital assistant can carry out tasks — book flights or send texts on other messaging apps — which go beyond the services Apple can provide.
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Apple's security measures lock sons out of inherited iPad
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-03-06 00:52
A man whose mother bequeathed her iPad to her family in her will says Apple's security rules are too restrictive.
Josh Grant, 26, from London, told BBC Radio 4's You & Yours his mother bought the tablet during her cancer treatment. Since her death, they have been unable to unlock the device, despite providing Apple with copies of her will, death certificate and solicitor's letter.
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Why Apple, Inc. is keeping the identity of many of its 23 recent acquisitions a secret
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-03-03 00:39
Speaking to shareholders at a meeting on Friday, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook noted that his company has acquired 23 companies over the last roughly 16 months.
That time frame would appear to exclude all of the known acquisitions reported to have occured within 2012, including Chomp, Redmaticia, AuthenTec and Particle.
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Enterprises advised to exercise care in using Apple products
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-02-27 04:19
While Apple's recent security flub could have happened to any vendor, enterprises should take note of the computer maker's shortcomings in fixing a flaw that heightened the risk of using Apple products.
On Tuesday, Apple released the last fix for a code error that broke the company's implementation of the SSL protocol used to secure communications over the Internet. Apple released a patch for iOS devices over the weekend and the more recent fix for Mac OS X.
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Apple finally patches massive OS X security bug with Mavericks 10.9.2
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-02-26 01:39
While I am a Linux guy at heart, I love OS X. After all, both Apple's operating system and Linux distributions are Unix-like. While Microsoft's Windows is relatively safe nowadays, I still feel safest on OS X or Fedora. Well, at least I did feel safe. While Linux remains rock solid, OS X and iOS have been dealt a huge blow from a trust perspective.
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