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iPhone 5's First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million

Written by Anurag | Dec 16, 2012 6:30:00 PM
  1. Apple announced tonight that the company has sold over two million of the new iPhone 5 in China, just three days after its launch. Read iPhone 5's First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million
  2. Facebook is currently testing its own built-in-house version of a “Snapchat-like” application, a messaging app which allows users to send impermanent photo messages to one another, according to sources familiar with the matter. Read Facebook to Launch Its Own Snapchat Competitor App
  3. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has promised in recent months that an option for users to download an archive of all the tweets from their accounts would be available this year. At least for some, this long-awaited feature has arrived – and we’ve had a play with the archive browsing tool. Read Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets
  4. The brilliant minds at XDA Developers have done it again; this time, a user by the name of alephzain claims to have discovered a vulnerability in multiple Samsung devices that gives access to all physical memory. The potential is huge: attackers could use malicious apps to wipe data and brick devices or, more likely, quietly access user data. Read New exploit could give Android malware apps access to user data on Samsung GS III, other devices
  5. German watchdog says the issue is turning location data sharing on by default. Read Google Maps for iOS may violate European data protection law