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• Google News vs. Apple News on iOS

  2 days ago on Front Page
  Google recently introduced a new Google News app with an entirely updated interface and a range of new features that put it on par with Apple's own News app, including a "For You"...
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• App Store Developers Form a 'Union' Ahead of WWDC Calling for Free App Trials, Better Rates

  2 days ago on Front Page
  A group of App Store developers calling themselves "The Developers Union" today published an open letter to Apple asking the company to commit to allowing free trials for apps and a "more...
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• LocationSmart Bug Provided Easy Access to Real-Time Location Data of Millions of Phones

  2 days ago on Front Page
  Robert Xiao, a computer science student at Carnegie Mellon, recently discovered a vulnerability in LocationSmart's website that made the real-time location of millions of phones readily available...
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• Apple Watch Bands in Spring Collection Begin to Dwindle in Availability

  2 days ago on Front Page
  If you want an Apple Watch band in Lemonade, Denim Blue, or Red Raspberry, you may want to place your order sooner rather than later. A handful of Apple Watch bands in the limited time Spring...
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• Apple Sold an Estimated 600,000 HomePod Speakers During the First Quarter of 2018

  3 days ago on Front Page
  Apple sold an estimated 600,000 HomePod speakers during the first quarter of 2018, according to new estimates shared this morning by Strategy Analytics. Apple's sales allowed it to capture just 6...
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• Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 11.4 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

  3 days ago on Front Page
  Apple today seeded the sixth beta of an upcoming iOS 11.4 update to developers, three days after seeding the fifth beta and more than a month after releasing iOS 11.3, a major update that introduced...
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• Apple Begins to Sell Out of AirPort Base Stations [Updated]

  3 days ago on Front Page
  AirPort base stations are beginning to sell out or disappear entirely from Apple's online and retail stores in select countries, a few weeks after Apple announced it has discontinued the lineup...
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• Samsung Compares Galaxy S9 to Very Slow iPhone 6 in Frivolous Ad

  3 days ago on Front Page
  Samsung has released a new ad encouraging iPhone users to upgrade to the Galaxy S9, but there are several holes in the video. First and foremost, instead of comparing the two-month-old Galaxy...
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