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Apple offers $149 repair price for owners of “Touch Disease” iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus units

Well, this will drive you relatively crazy. Apple has responded to the “touch disease” issue present in some iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units and has offered a reduced repair price of $149 to resolve the issue. The problem, described in August as “touch disease” by repair guide website iFixit, is characterized by a […]

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Cosmopolitan resort in Las Vegas now accepts Apple Pay transactions

You will soon be able to lose a great deal of money in Vegas with Apple Pay. Or at least pay for the hotel/casino in which you lose a great deal of money. The Cosmopolitan resort in Las Vegas has announced that Apple Pay will be accepted at the hotels’ front desk, restaurants and bars […]

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Apple working on PrimeSense purchase

Apple is currently in talks to buy the Israeli company, PrimeSense, the developer of the original 3D body sensing technology used by Microsoft for its Kinect platform. Since the release of the Xbox One, Microsoft has turned to it’s own solution for the current iteration of the Kinect hardware and software. Back in July of the […]

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Apple buys fingerprint recognition company AuthenTec for $356 million

This could turn into something interesting. Per Reuters, Apple has signed a deal to buy a Florida-based company, AuthenTec, at a price of US$8 per share or about US$356 million. That’s a premium of 58 percent over AuthenTec’s Thursday closing value. While largely unknown to the public, the firm makes fingerprint sensor chips used in […]

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Rumor: Apple Places Mass Order for 100 Million Flash Chips

Recently, Apple placed a massive order for flash memory chips, the quantity of which seeming lower in density than one would expect from the company. Citing supplier-based sources, DigiTimes has stated that Apple has ordered 100 million 8Gb NAND flash chips for delivery later this year with the bulk of this order to come from […]