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Rumor: PayPal excluded from Apple Pay service providers due to relationship with Samsung

It’s inevitable: competition and past legal strife creates some awkward scenarios. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog and BankInnovation, PayPal was conspicuously absent from Apple’s list of secured partnerships when Apple Pay was announced in September. Now comes word that PayPal was initially part of Apple’s vision of Apple Pay, but that negotiations fell apart due […]

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Holiday gift round-up: Part Deux

Here’s part 2 of my Gift Guide, which may turn into that “what I get when I return my Christmas gifts for credit” list, seeing as how it’s only 6 days until Christmas. The second half includes a number of gift ideas that I’ve stolen borrowed from some other gift guides because they are really […]

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Apple posts iPhone 5s/5c event keynote online

If you missed Apple’s iPhone event yesterday, it’s been posted online. And it features about three minutes on updated ringtones. Per AppleInsider, Apple posted the full stream of the event. The stream of the event is now available via this link on Apple’s official website as well as from within the Apple Events app on […]

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Apple announces iPhone 5s, 5c handsets, sets release date for September 20th

The iPhone you’ve been hankering for has arrived. Per Macworld, Apple on Tuesday unveiled two new iPhones: the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c. During the presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller pointed out that the iPhone’s A7 chip uses desktop-class architecture, with a modern instruction set and over a billion transistors—and it’s the […]

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Rumor: Apple to built biometric fingerprint sensor into more expensive iPhone 5S units

This is just about the last rumor before Apple hopefully unveils its long-awaited next-gen iPhone(s) today, so here we go. Per AppleInsider and the Wall Street Journal, sources close to the story last week stated that fingerprint scanners will be built into the “more expensive of two iPhones” Apple plans to announce at a media […]