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Tennessee wacko, Chris Sevier is suing Apple over porn he viewed using the company’s devices. Sevier won’t rest until Apple ships its internet connected devices in a “safe mode” that will prevent users from easily accessing pornography. His 50 page complaint is now viewable online, and it’s about as insane as you might think. Above…
With its video service still in its infancy, Instagram has taken a note from Vine in debuting a teaser trailer for the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic on its service. Vine, the Twitter owned six-second video clip sharing service, which has been around since January, showcased a teaser for the upcoming Wolverine movie back in March.…
The Little League World Series is adopting an interesting new method for keeping score of the games. Rather than using the traditional method of pen and paper, officials are moving on up to technology such as the iPad to keep track of the game. They’re getting 35 iPads all equipped with the free GameChanger score-keeping…
iPhone owners who have been jonesing to play a little Pokemon or Mario on their devices without jailbreaking their devices are in luck today, as a new app called GBA4iOS makes it possible to run a Game Boy Advance emulator on an non-jailbroken iPhone. The app was created by Riley Testut, who exploited a loophole…
According to the Financial Times, Apple is reportedly looking to hire engineers with a background in wearable computing to work on its smart watch. Inside sources say Apple is struggling with engineering problems and needs to bring in additional talent. Details on the technological hurdles that are styming Apple were not revealed by the anonymous…
In what is likely a gross violation of Apple’s NDA, all the WWDC 2013 session videos have been uploaded to YouTube. As reported by Macstories and noted by Colloquy developer Timothy Hatcher, the videos are being hosted by an account named WWDCVideos and is probably not an official account. This account was created on June…
According to China’s Xinhua news agency, a 23-year-old Xinjiang woman was electrocuted when she answered her iPhone while it was charging. The victim, Ma Ailun, was a resident of the city of Changji and a former flight attendant for China Southern Airlines. The news of the electrocution hit Chinese microblog Sina Weibo and has spread quickly in the…
Apple may be on a brink of trouble in Russia where the third major operator has joined the other two and has quit selling the iPhone. After MTS and Megafon, Vimpelcom’s Beeline is next to stop selling Apple’s smartphone, citing the company’s harsh conditions as a reason for taking this route. According to Russian Hi-Tech…
A China Business News story says Foxconn is hiring new workers as we speak to get ready for the next iPhone production. Though the report refers to the product as the “iPhone 6,” we think that’s nothing but guesswork, with the next iPhone model likely being called the iPhone 5S. Plus, let’s not forget that…
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Brits think that the next version of the iPhone will generate poor sales, with 59% forecasting that Samsung will become a more popular mobile phone brand in the UK. The research, conducted by a mobile phone comparison site MobilePhoneChecker.co.uk, polled 2,007 18+ adults from across the country to determine perceptions and…