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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

German iCloud Users Get Push Email Back

Apple has finally been able to make push email available again to German iCloud users, reports Foss Patents. After more than 19 months of legal battles with Google's Motorola Mobility over a patent that 'should never have been granted in the first place'.

The main claim of the patent was found invalid for four independent reasons by a U.K. court last December. However, Google refused to stay the enforcement of the injunction. Apple filed with the Karlsruhe-based appeals court a motion to stay enforcement against Google's will and last month the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court granted it; however, Apple was required to put up a 100 million euro bond in case future litigation upheld its validity.

The Federal Patent Court based in Munich will be holding a nullity hearing concerning this patent on November 13, 2013.

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Retina Display iPad Mini May Be Delayed

Apple may not be able to release a Retina Display version of the iPad mini this month, sources tell Reuters.

Apple's supply chain is only now gearing up to make retina displays for the iPad Mini, which means the gadgets could be available in only limited quantities this year, if at all, and the company may miss the chance to cash in on the year-end holiday shopping season, the sources said.

It's believed that one reason for the manufacturing delay could be Apple's certification of panel producers. The company reportedly had strict power saving requirements. LG, Samsung, and Sharp all vied to manufacture the panels.

Given the time needed to ramp up production, the new iPad mini likely won't be available in large volumes until next year. This corroborates a recent report from Rhoda Alexander, director of Tablet and Monitor Research at IHS iSuppli, who said manufacturing volumes on the device match better with a first quarter 2014 launch.

Apple to Address iMessage Bug With iOS 7 Update

Apple has revealed that it will address an iMessage bug with an update to iOS 7, reports the WSJ.

Users are complaining that messages appear to be sent but are later updated with an exclamation mark indicating that they were not. Some users are able to resolve the issue by restarting their device or resetting network settings from Settings:General:Reset:Reset Network Settings.

“We are aware of an issue that affects a fraction of a percent of our iMessage users, and we will have a fix available in an upcoming software update,” says Apple. “In the meantime, we encourage any users having problems to reference our troubleshooting documents or contact AppleCare to help resolve their issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes impacted users.”

Notably, it was reported today that Apple has already seeded iOS 7.0.3 to employees and partners for testing.

Virgin Mobile Begins Selling iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c at a $100 Discount

Virgin Mobile has begun selling the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c at $100 cheaper than Apple's retail price.

The 16GB iPhone 5s is being sold for $549.99 and the 16GB iPhone 5c is being sold for $449.99. Apple's online store sells these models for $649 and $549, respectively.

Virgin Mobile says all its phones come with: FREE Standard Shipping, 14 Day Guarantee, Keep Your Phone Number, No Contract Plans, FREE Activation, and Lost phone replacement.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Apple SVP Phil Schiller Points to Samsung's Benchmark 'Shenanigans'

Apple SVP Phil Schiller has tweeted a link to a report from ArsTechnica which reveals that Samsung has been artificially inflating its benchmark scores for the Galaxy Note 3.

shenanigans http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/galaxy-note-3s-benchmarking-adjustments-inflate-scores-by-up-to-20/ ...

ArsTechnica noticed that strangely the Galaxy Note 3 scored much better in its benchmarks then the similarly specced LG G2, and launched an investigation into the matter.

A quick comparison of its scores to the similarly specced LG G2 makes it clear that something fishy is going on, because Samsung's 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 blows the doors off LG's 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800. What makes one Snapdragon so different from the other? After a good bit of sleuthing, we can confidently say that Samsung appears to be artificially boosting the US Note 3's benchmark scores with a special, high-power CPU mode that kicks in when the device runs a large number of popular benchmarking apps.

By changing the name of the benchmark utility, ArsTechnica found that booster was adding 20% to the Galaxy Note 3's score.

Apple to Release iOS 7.0.3 Sometime Next Week?

Apple has reportedly seeded a build of iOS 7.0.3 to employees and partners for testing and could release the public version sometime next week, reports BGR.

According to our sources, Apple has seeded iOS 7.0.3 to employees and partners for final testing. We’re not sure exactly when the new software will be released to the public, but we believe it will be sometime next week. The build number of iOS 7.0.3 is 11B491.

The site also notes that iOS 7.1 is expected to debut alongside new iPads later this month.

Anonymous Claims NSA is Using Touch ID to Collect Fingerprints

Anonymous has posted a video that claims the NSA is using Apple's new Touch ID fingerprint sensor to collect fingerprints.

Apple has stated numerous times that this isn't case.

Touch ID does not store any images of your fingerprint. It stores only a mathematical representation of your fingerprint. It isn't possible for your actual fingerprint image to be reverse-engineered from this mathematical representation. iPhone 5s also includes a new advanced security architecture called the Secure Enclave within the A7 chip, which was developed to protect passcode and fingerprint data. Fingerprint data is encrypted and protected with a key available only to the Secure Enclave. Fingerprint data is used only by the Secure Enclave to verify that your fingerprint matches the enrolled fingerprint data. The Secure Enclave is walled off from the rest of A7 and as well as the rest of iOS. Therefore, your fingerprint data is never accessed by iOS or other apps, never stored on Apple servers, and never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else. Only Touch ID uses it and it can't be used to match against other fingerprint databases.

Check out the video below for those interested.

This is nothing new, you must understand that if your a US citizen then your prints are already on file. There are many other ways the government can get your fingerprints, so don't worry to much about your iPhone 5s, even if it is true.

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