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Apple will cease shipping Mac Pro in Europe

posted onFebruary 1, 2013
by l33tdawg

Apple has been forced to remove the Mac Pro from sale in Europe after an amendment to a safety regulation left the professional Mac incompliant.

Today the company has reached out to its sales and channel partners to confirm that orders for the Mac Pro must be placed by 18 February as the company will be unable to ship the model to these countries from the 1 March.

evasi0n.com goes live in preparation for iOS 6 jailbreak

posted onJanuary 31, 2013
by l33tdawg

Apple software hackers unveiled a website late Wednesday where the latest untethered jailbreak is expected to be released soon.

An elite team of hackers has been working for months to develop an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6, Apple's latest operating system, which would allow users to customize their phones and install applications not vetted by Apple.

Apple starts to lose thermonuclear war

posted onJanuary 30, 2013
by l33tdawg

Apple is starting to significantly lose ground in its attempts to squash competition from Android.

The late Steve Jobs, always one for believing his own marketing, declared what he called thermonuclear war on his old business partners Google and Samsung, ironically claiming that they nicked his ideas. One of his ideas was the rounded rectangle which would be news to Euclid who thought of it a few thousand years ago.

Apple, Google tumble off top 20 trusted companies list

posted onJanuary 30, 2013
by l33tdawg

Once ranked as high as number eight among companies most trusted for protecting their customers' privacy and personal information, Apple has fallen out of the top 20 entirely. Google didn't make this year's list, either, but it fell only from its pervious high of 13th place.

The list in question was compiled by the Ponemon Institute, an independent research group focused on privacy, data protection, and information security policy, and published in a new report entitled, logically enough, "2012 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy".

There's something you should know about Apple

posted onJanuary 29, 2013
by l33tdawg

Panic in Cupertino: Headless chickens run around smacking into one another, because they don't know they're dead.

That's the fundamental problem with Apple, and this situation is largely independent of recent stock price declines that analysts, bloggers, reporters and other writers can't opine enough about. Falling shares are part of a necessary correction, as reality displaces perception. To understand what's happening now, you need to look into the past -- three years, which by Internet counting is like a lifetime.

Big names of the jailbreak scene unite again to work on iOS 6 as 'Evad3rs Dev Team'

posted onJanuary 25, 2013
by l33tdawg

L33tdawg: In related news, @pod2g announced yesterday on Twitter: "We have submitted our paper to #HITB2013AMS. Crossing fingers. Title: Swiping through modern security features." followed by "'We' is actually: @planetbeing, @pimskeks, @MuscleNerd, and I."

The big names of the iOS jailbreak scene have come together as the Evad3rs Dev Team to work on iOS 6 jailbreak.

Apple's "smart shoes" notify users when they need replacing

posted onJanuary 24, 2013
by l33tdawg

An interesting Apple patent application discovered on Thursday describes a sensor and alarm system that can be embedded into footwear, granting users a more empirical method on which to rely when deciding to replace worn-out shoes.

First filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in July 2012, Apple's application for a "Shoe wear-out sensor, body-bar sensing system, unitless activity assessment and associated methods" looks to make "smart shoes" that can alert owners when they need replacing.

Apple revenue misses again, iPhone disappoints

posted onJanuary 24, 2013
by l33tdawg

Apple Inc missed Wall Street's revenue forecast for the third straight quarter as iPhone sales came in below expectations, fuelling investors' worries that its dominance of the mobile industry was slipping.

Shares of the world's largest tech company fell 10 percent to $463 (292 pounds) after-hours, wiping out some $50 billion of its market value from its $514 close.

Behind The Scenes Of The iPhone 5 Jailbreak

posted onJanuary 22, 2013
by l33tdawg

Technically speaking, the iPhone 5 is already jailbroken. You’re just not allowed to have it yet. The reason for this is because one of the bugs that contributes to a functional jailbreak is so good, that the hackers who discovered it would rather hang on to it while looking for another to replace it, instead of releasing it out into the wild where Apple could learn of the exploit, and patch it. Plus, iOS 6.1 is on the horizon, so they definitely don’t want to release the bug before then.