A 36-year-old Quincy man was assaulted during an attempted purchase of an iPhone 5 on Hobart Avenue in Braintree on Saturday night. Two people – an unknown man and a 27-year-old Boston woman – allegedly robbed the man and struck him, sending the Quincy man to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Chief Russell Jenkins said in a statement.

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Facebook urged its employees in August to switch from iOS devices to Android so that flaws in the company’s mobile app could be addressed more rapidly. Now, photos have emerged of posters hung around the Menlo Park, Calif. headquarters of Facebook, which further urge employees to make the switch that they’re calling ‘Droidfooding — as in testing your own product.

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AT&T is offering the first refurbished iPhone 5 units for resale that we have seen since the product launched just two months ago.  It is unclear whether this is a temporary promotion for Black Friday or if these will be offered on a regular basis.

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One of the ironies of cellphone use in recent years has been the decline of voice minutes in favor of text messages and emails. Phones calls became a secondary function of phones. But now Americans are sending fewer texts as well, leaving some to wonder, What are people using their phones for?

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A former Apple executive has spoken about his twenty years at the company, and has given his perspective of what CEO Tim Cook is like to work for. David Sobotta was a sales executive at Apple from 1984 to 2004, and, though he hasn’t worked under Tim Cook’s leadership or reported directly to him, claims to have had a lot of contact with the new CEO, who took over from the company’s late co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011.

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Is your Apple iPhone or Android cell phone making you mugger bait? Police say robbers are watching as you text and make calls, ready to pick off your expensive smart phone. Police are calling the robberies “Apple Picking,” a play on Apple iPhone users who are often the targets.

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A 31-year-old man was shot several times by a thug trying to steal his iPhone. His family says the victim offered to give up the phone, but the robber opened fire, anyway.

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Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly plans to establish manufacturing plants in the US and is currently conducting evaluations in cities such as Detroit and Los Angeles, according to market watchers. Since the manufacturing of Apple’s products is rather complicated, the market watchers expect the rumored plants to focus on LCD TV production, which can be highly automated and easier.

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Apple is closing in on the launch of its Pandora/Spotify-battling iTunes streaming music service, though introduction may have been delayed by problems finalizing its deals with music labels and song publishers, loose-lipped Sony sources have revealed.

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Soon after Apple divorced its senior vice president of iOS Software Scott Forstall, word spread quickly of his departure. One important person of iOS who didn’t get the memo was Siri.

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Time is right to compare the two giants of the mobile industry, Apple coming forth with their iPhone 5 and Google putting up their Nexus 4 in the race changes the whole market scenario. The question remains; which device is better than the other, with Google relying on the heart of Optimus G and Apple taking the matter in their own hands with self-modified processor. Let’s take a look which device leads in which region.

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Here’s something you don’t see every day: a major executive shakeup at the upper echelons of the largest technology company on Earth. Well, that’s exactly what just happened at Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) . The Mac maker has now announced that two important executives are leaving the company in what it’s calling a change to “increase collaboration across hardware, software, and services.”

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San Francisco: Apple announced that the executive in charge of Maps, Siri and other software in its culture-changing iPhones is leaving as part of a shakeup in the upper ranks of the company. Apple chief Tim Cook on Monday said the departure of Scott Forstall and enhanced roles of Jon Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi were part of a move to better integrate hardware, software, and services.

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Last week, we posted the story of Justin, who was able to make his case to Verizon that he had not dunked his phone in water, and was entitled to a warranty replacement. Jeff found this story intriguing, beacuse he was facing a similar problem. When he sent his iPhone to Verizon, he was told that he wasn’t receiving text message alerts because of liquid damage to the phone.

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Apple‘s event has just kicked off this morning where we’re expecting tons of exciting news. From the iPad mini, an improved iMac mini, and tons more. While they’ve just got started and we’re patiently awaiting the good news, they are taking time to share some notes on the iPhone 5. Stating it was the fastest selling phone in history.

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Apple opened today’s product announcements with some impressive numbers. The company sold 5 million iPhones on its debut weekend, making it the fastest selling iPhone in history.

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Both President Obama and Mitt Romney flubbed the big question on jobs at Tuesday night’s debate. Moderator Candy Crowley noted that Apple makes its iPhones and iPads in China and asked, “How do you convince a great American company to bring that manufacturing back here?”

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Apple is selling iPhone 5s as fast as it can make them, but it’s still selling a bunch of older iPhones as well. And to see that, one need only look at Verizon’s latest earnings.
Verizon sold a lot of iPhones in its third quarter: 3.1 million. That was about 46 percent of the smartphones activated on the carrier’s network during the period.

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CNET tests the screens of the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3, and the iPhone wins overall with better light output and color accuracy.

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Another reason why you don’t need a f*cking case for your iPhone 5: laser engraving. They look really cool and, as far as I know, they are the first ones out there.

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