Observing that Cornell students face potentially dangerous situations — such as walking home alone late at night from the library or from a party — a group of students have created an iPhone application that they hope will increase their peers’ safety.

The students’ app, ResCUer, provides users easy access to the phone numbers of University resources such as the Cornell University Police Department and Gannett Health Services, according to Matt Joe ’14, a student who worked on the app.

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Just over a week ago I ran the numbers on a bigger screen iPhone, and presented several ways Apple could go, including just taking the current screen and stretching it out to almost 5-inches, which would give it the same 264ppi pixel density as the Retina iPad 4 screen. Since Apple used the iPhone density to make the iPad mini, using the iPad density to make the iPhone maxi has a certain symmetry to it.

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On Friday, Sept. 21, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) hit an intra-day all time high of $705.07. About 4 months later, the company has relinquished its position as the most valuable company in the world to ExxonMobil, and is trading at $439.88, representing a 37.61% drop from September. The company has shed nearly $250 billion of market capitalization in less than half of a year, which nearly equals the total value of Google. What has happened to Apple?

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A gang of thieves has stolen so many iPhones in Stamford, Connecticut that the local police are calling them the “Apple Pickers,” reports CBS New York (video below). After 40 attacks, police have noticed a similar pattern. The victim is usually a female who is alone with their phone in broad daylight.

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It wasn’t long ago that people were screaming that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was headed to $1,000 a share, and that the iPhone 5 would propel the shares further into the stratosphere. I was one of the few dissenting voices at the time who stated that Apple’s ultra-high margins were a result of being first to market with incredible new and novel products, and invariably, where there are large profits, the competition swoops in like a laser beam to try to get in on the action, which works out ?nicely for consumers.

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This week, Apple announced that during the last three months of 2012, it earned more money than any other non-oil company has ever earned in a single quarter. (Gazprom, Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil have each topped Apple’s earnings one time.) What’s more, during all of 2012, Apple’s profits topped $41.7 billion, which is also a record for any firm outside the oil industry. (ExxonMobil earned a few billion more in 2006, 2007, and 2008.)

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Sequentially we increased over 70 percent from the September quarter, which was 3.5 times the market, and so we could not be happier with that. In terms of geographic distribution, we saw our highest growth in China, and it was into the triple digits. And so I would characterize it as we’re extremely pleased.

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At 59 years old, Wayne Dobson should be enjoying the relaxed, stress-free life of a retiree. Instead, he’s been spending the past few years dealing with people who think he’s a cellphone thief.

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“Amber Alert” trended late tonight after a significant number of iPhone users with the iOS 6 operating system received the message. Many Twitter users were awoken by the loud sound; a disturbing number of iPhone owners didn’t know what the nationwide warnings of abducted/missing children even were.

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Google has become one of the most prolific and popular developers of apps for iPhone, in effect helping its competitor make more appealing products. For many people, smartphone shopping comes down to a choice of Apple’s iPhone or one powered by Google’s Android software.

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It’s a widescreen iPod! No, wait, it’s a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email! Best of all, it comes with Cingular phone service and Google’s groundbreaking maps!

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Apple’s App Store has reached a new milestone in total app downloads. The iPhone maker announced today that there have been 40 billion unique application downloads in its App Store since the marketplace launched in 2008.

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27-year-old Nadav Nirenberg from Brooklyn had his iPhone 4 stolen recently, but he got it back thanks to some quick thinking. All that he needed was a fake OkCupid profile showing off a busty 24-year-old, and a hammer.

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Apple has been awarded a patent for the design of the original iPhone. It was designed by Steve Jobs and Jony Ive. The original iPhone had am aluminum back, much like the iPhone 5 does now.

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SAN DIEGO — A man and woman who attempted to sell an iPhone through a Craigslist ad were wounded when the man who answered their ad shot them during a robbery attempt. The couple arranged to meet the potential buyer at about 11:30 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of McDonald’s restaurant on Friars Road near Qualcomm Stadium.

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Thanks to the overwhelming response to yesterday’s FB post about my stolen iPhone (and success in tracking the thief down!!), I whipped up a pitch that I hope will catch the attention of an editor at Wired or GQ or Slate, or say… a producer at This American Life.

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IN MARCH, ONE DAY BEFORE THE RELEASE of the iPad 3, iFixit cofounder Luke Soules traveled 17 hours from San Luis Obispo, California, to Melbourne, Australia, so that he could be the first person in the world—literally—to purchase one. Then, wielding a heat gun, some high-powered suction cups, eight guitar picks, a Phillips screwdriver, and a flat-headed tool called a spudger, he proceeded to gut the thing part by part, tweeting out photos as he did.

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It’s that special time of the year… that is, when Apple decides to unfetter the iPhone for US shoppers. The Cupertino crew has quietly started selling the iPhone 5 in an unlocked, off-contract form that will work on GSM, HSPA+ and (if you’re in the right countries) LTE networks.

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The iPhone 5 is as sleek and beautiful as it is susceptible to dents and scratches. Even a small percentage of new units came with nicks right out of the box, which eventually led to Apple tightening up quality control measures at the iPhone 5 assembly lines. That said, can you imagine how one of them would look like after being used for a couple of months?

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As expected, sales of the iPhone 5 have pushed Apple (AAPL) back into the lead in the race for U.S. smartphone sales, according to a report issued Tuesday by Kantar Worldpanel. The London-based consumer research firm found that Apple accounted for 48.1% of U.S. smartphone unit sales in the 12-week period between Aug. 5 and Oct. 28.

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