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Beware: 99% of fake Apple chargers are dangerous and could cause electric shocks
Consumers are being warned off buying bargain iPhone chargers online, after 99% failed a basic safety test…
Apple working to fight iCloud Calendar spam
Apple is finally turning its attention to the growing threat of iCloud Calendar spam…
Apple bans Rich Kids app that let socialites flaunt luxury lifestyles
Members paid just under £1,000 a month to post their photos exclusively…
Apple: 90 percent of ‘genuine’ Apple items on Amazon are fake
Apple has complained of a “flood” of counterfeit goods masquerading as its products being sold on Amazon…
Are fashion designers undermining their own products by supporting Apple?
In the ongoing legal wranglings between tech giants Apple and Samsung, a group of fashion industry luminaries…
Officials charge six people in attempted fraud at Chicago-area Apple stores
Six people from New York state have been charged in ‘an organized criminal enterprise’ during which fraudulent transactions…
Apple Pay is coming to Starbucks, but will users earn points?
Apple Pay is finally coming to Starbucks’ U.S. stores by year-end, more than a year after Apple launched its mobile wallet…
So far, Tim Cook’s ‘Year of Apple Pay’ has been rather underwhelming
More than 75 percent of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users hadn’t tried Apple Pay as of April…
Apple lists top 25 apps afflicted by XcodeGhost
Why would a developer put customers at risk by downloading counterfeit software?
Apple targeted as malware generated by bogus Xcode infects China mobile apps
Some of the most popular Chinese names in Apple Inc.’s App Store were found to be infected…
Order a fake Apple Watch from China and this is what you get
China is a country where you can find almost anything…
Chinese copiers roll out wave of Apple Watch knockoffs
A month before Apple Inc.’s smartwatch hits the market…
Apple’s breakthrough Apple Pay, new chip credit-card standard should help protect consumers
Counterfeiting of bank-issued credit and debit cards is likely to fall precipitously during the next few years…
The hidden brilliance behind the timing of Apple’s adoption of NFC
There’s a brilliance to the timing of Apple’s adoption of NFC…
iPad charger teardown: Inside Apple’s charger and a risky $3 phony
Apple sells their iPad charger for $19…
J.D. Power rejiggers numbers, Apple’s iPad regains customer satisfaction crown
Yesterday we reported how Apple’s iPad had regained #1 spot in tablet customer satisfaction…
Skip the fingerprint scanner; use your heartbeat to unlock your phone, car, doors, and make payments
An ECG is very difficult to counterfeit…
Chinese pirates decline to knock off Samsung’s poor-selling Galaxy Gear stupidwatch
If there is one thing worse than being copied, that is to be ignored…
Target hit by massive credit-card breach
Target Corp. was hit by an extensive theft of its customers’ credit-card and debit-card data…
Apple launches ‘USB Power Adapter Takeback Program’
Recent reports have suggested that some counterfeit and third party adapters…
Students spoof GPS signals to send mega yacht off course (with video)
Some University of Texas students led by professor Todd Humphreys…
How likely is death by iPhone electrocution? Not very
The details from various media reports are murky…
Grand opening of Apple Store in Shenzhen, China draws huge crowds (with video)
Shenzhen got it’s first Apple Store on Saturday and huge crowds turned out…
Romney and Obama spar over Apple’s Mac, iPad, and iPhone manufacturing jobs
Apple Inc., iPad, Macintosh, and iPhone all made an appearance in the second 2012 U.S. Presidential debate…
X-Ray Specs: New ‘terahertz’ spectrum scanner lets mobile phones see through walls and clothes
Comic-book superpowers could become reality as scientists have designed a phone…
Apple accused of extortion by Spanish tablet maker NT-K
Today, NT-K issued a Spanish-language press release announcing the filing…
Slavish copier Samsung shamelessly steals Apple’s iPhone 3G design – again
Samsung’s product plan for 2012? Become an official Apple counterfeiter…
Apple security head exits following lost iPhone 4S investigation
John Theriault, the company’s head of security operations, has left the company…
Warning: New Mac trojan hides in pirated graphics software
A new Mac OS X Trojan Horse is hiding inside pirated software, specifically GraphicConverter v7.4…
Lost iPhone prototype just one headache for Apple’s corporate security operation
Wanted: experienced security professional. Must have plan to thwart Chinese…
Apple takes aim at copycat fake retail stores with new lawsuit
After a number of fake Apple retail stores in China gained publicity online…
Customers angry, staff defiant at China’s fake Apple Store
Customers at an Apple Store in the Chinese city of Kunming berated staff…
Three in China convicted of stealing Apple iPad 2 design, producing knockoffs
A court in Shenzhen city last week sentenced…
Over 100,000 sign petition demanding Apple pull ‘ex-gay’ app from iTunes App Store
Nn online petition demanding that Apple ban and app from Exodus International has garnered over 106,000 signatures…
White iPhone 4 conversion kits net New York teen $130,000
When Fei Lam, a high school senior and gadget nerd, got a tip about buying up…
Chinese clone of unreleased Apple 4G iPhone debuts (with photo)
When the first images of a the next generation iPhone was released in April…
Why Foxconn is not really experiencing a ‘Suicide Cluster’ and Apple isn’t to blame
There were reports yesterday that a Foxconn employee in the Chinese city of Shenzhen…
Windows 7ista ‘upgrade’ woes mount: Endless reboots and hair-pulling product activation failures
Call it the legacy of Microsoft’s Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7…
China iPhone manufacturer Foxconn under fire after missing 4G Apple iPhone prototype prompts suicide
When a closely guarded prototype of a new Apple iPhone went missing at a huge factory…
Scammers solicit iPhone App Store developers in attempt to defraud Apple
Third party iPhone App Store developers have received propositions from a scammer offering…
Chinese hackers crack iTunes gift cards; selling for pennies on the dollar
Chinese hackers have cracked Apple’s iTunes gift card system and started selling counterfeit…