Following last month's announcement that Apple and Samsung had agreed to high-level talks involving the two companies' CEOs in an attempt to resolve ongoing patent litigation, Reuters provides a preview of the session set to begin today in San Francisco. The talks, which will be mediated by a federal judge, are scheduled to take place over the next two days

Russian forensics firm ElcomSoft earlier this week announced that it has discovered a way to easily access iCloud backups of iOS devices, incorporating the functionality into its Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker software. While the Apple ID and password must be known in order to access the iCloud data, once that information has been obtained the software makes it easy for investigators to download full iCloud backups and then follow incremental backups in near real-time to track a device's use without the knowledge of the user. ElcomSoft researchers analyzed the communication protocol connecting iPhone users with Apple iCloud, and were able to emulate the correct commands in order to retrieve the content of iOS users’ iCloud storage.

Bloomberg briefly reports that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to fine Google over its efforts to circumvent privacy restrictions in Safari for iOS to track users through ads on numerous sites across the web.

i just got a new iPad 2 today.

Or does it need applications?

Our planet is a dynamic place. The surface of the Earth is constantly changing, and sometimes, these changes aren't even our fault. NASA, having no shuttles to play with anymore, has been keeping track of the spots where these changes are the most obvious, and it's got a website dedicated to satellite images showing differences over time

The art of sushi is complex. On the one hand, you've got cheap sushi and then you've got skilled artisan sushi

This June's E3 won't bring any next-gen Xbox hardware , but The Verge has heard that Microsoft is going to debut a new cross-platform Xbox music service that'll replace the current Zune service .

According to a report by DigiTimes, Facebook and HTC will once again collaborate to bring a new handset to the market later this year. Unsurprisingly, it will be mainly focused around the world's foremost social network, although further details are somewhat scarce. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=3502kqt&s=6 The picture only shows 1 line, but normally theres three. I need this fix now. What will Apple do if I take it to them?