Apple ‘s obsession with secrecy is well known. Adam Lashinsky’s new book
offers some interesting details into the company’s practices to ensure secrecy.
employees, the company puts fresh recruits on dummy projects for a while to test their how trustworthy they are:
For new recruits, the secret keeping begins even before they learn which of these building they’ll be working in. Despite surviving multiple rounds of rigorous interviews, many (more…)

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As more and more people turn to e-books and tablets for their reading needs, there are stacks of books gathering dust on shelves or even worse, being tossed into the trash. (For shame!) Thankfully, one Californian couple is out to rescue these neglected and unappreciated treasures.

Richard and Brenna Neeley from Cerritos, Calif., take old and vintage books, as well as some new, and convert (more…)

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Just a few months before his death, Steve Jobs was envisioning a major refinement to the iPhone camera as he met with the CEO of a company expanding the boundaries of photography.

Though the iPhone 4S camera delivered improvements in megapixels, sharpness, and performance, Jobs as usual wanted to push the envelope even further, according to 9to5Mac’s advance peek at a new book called “Inside Apple ” (more…)

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Beatles fans who dug the classic 1968 “Yellow Submarine” cartoon can now hop aboard their iPhones and iPads to revisit the adventure.

Now available as an e-book through Apple ‘s iBooks store, “Yellow Submarine” tries to recapture the fun and whimsy of the movie by taking you on a journey through the magical paradise of Pepperland.

Much more than just another static (more…)

iOS 5.0.1 may have introduced a bug in the Contacts app that affects texting and calling.

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Apple ‘s iOS 5.0.1 seems to have created a glitch with the Contacts app for certain users, according to various sources and several posts on the Apple Support Forums.

The Startup Foundry’s Paul Hontz reported late last week that after updating to 5.0.1, the iPhone was no longer (more…)

, and if that wasn’t bad enough, users have started reported new problems after upgrading to the latest iOS software update.
via the over-the-air (OTA) update has screwed up the address book on his iPhone .
I updated my iPhone 4S earlier today (using the OTA method), and I discovered a nasty bug. My iPhone could no longer remember the names of any of my contacts! I opened up the contacts app on my phone and discovered that all of entries were still (more…)

If you use Skype’s app on your iOS devices then continue to read this article.
have a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Chat message window, which allows an attacker to run malicious javascript code that can enable the attacker to get information, including a user’s address book from the victim’s iOS device.
Executing arbitrary Javascript code is one thing, but I found that Skype also improperly defines the URI scheme used by the built-in (more…)

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A new security hole found in Skype for iOS could allow a hacker to access your entire address book, according to a blog post from security firm SuperEVR.

According to the post, “[a] Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability exists in the ‘Chat Message’ window in Skype 3.0.1 and earlier versions for iPhone and iPod Touch devices.” So, what does this mean? Basically it means (more…)

iSteve: The Book of Steve Jobs – the authorized biography of Apple ‘s inspirational founder and CEO Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a former managing editor of 
is now available for pre-order on Amazon though it will be released on March 6, 2012.
at WWDC 2011 keynote tomorrow. We’re not sure if the excitement around the event has helped, but the timing appears to be pretty good based on the initial sale numbers.
From bestselling author Walter (more…)

“Syncing is horribly implemented. There's no feature to manually select which contacts/friends you would like synced. The app itself automatically chooses which facebook user, not friend, is synced to each contact in your iPhone contact list. The reason I say “facebook user” and not “facebook friend” is because it will sync random facebook users to iPhone contacts with the same name; even if you aren't friends with said random facebook user. (more…)