Apple Spaceship, Drone Flyover, iCloud Security (videos)

Apple's 'Spaceship' Campus Captured by Drone Camera: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- A Bay Area photographer used his DJI Phantom 2 Quadcopter with Zenmuse H3-3D 3- Axis Gimbal for GoPro Video Camera to take aerial footage of Apple's new corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif. on Aug. 24. The campus is still under construction. (Source: Bloomberg)

Apple Says iCloud Not Breached for Hacked Celebrity Photos: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Apple said its iCloud service wasn’t breached by hackers who posted nude pictures of celebrities. The celebrity accounts were “compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that is all too common on the Internet,” the company said in a statement. Julie Hyman has more on "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)
Apple Denies iCloud Breach
Wall Street Journal
Apple says its investigation indicated certain celebrity online photo ... to its competitors, famously lampooning the security measures in Microsoft Corp.
Nude celebs on iCloud? The timing for Apple Inc. couldn't be worse. - Fortune
Apple: It's not the cloud's fault - Politico
Apple: nude photos leak not linked to systems breach - USA TODAY

Apple Is Totally Screwed
Michael Arrington
Even if Apple fixes the problem, or has fixed the problem with the patch they just ....

Apple denies iCloud/Find my iPhone breach, says 'very targeted attack'
Mark Gurman
Apple is presenting this as a very targeted username, password, and ... Nor did we hear “outraged” from Microsoft, Google, Samsung, HTC, or any ...

Will Alibaba Cripple Google Wallet And Others? - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: "The race to make our wallets electronic, once led by Google, has many participants with competing versions of the concept. Over the holiday weekend, however, e-commerce giant Alibaba (Pending:BABA) announced via its blog that it plans to revolutionize electronic payments through its Alipay Wallet app and in partnership with smartphone maker Huawei."

Drone Developers Consider Obstacles That Cannot Be Flown Around - NYTimes.com: ".... Of course, the Federal Aviation Administration controls the skies in the United States, and it would have to sign off on any kind of drone management system. An F.A.A. spokesman said the agency expected to publish a proposed rule for small unmanned aircraft (less than 55 pounds) this year. The F.A.A. prohibition on commercial drone use has not stopped photographers. Indeed, a video of the damage created by the recent earthquake in Napa, Calif., shot by a camera attached to a drone, was widely circulated over the Internet last week. And hobbyists do not need F.A.A. permission, so long as they don’t endanger other “aircraft or people or property.”..."

Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7
Juli Clover
Apple today released a new version of OS X Yosemite to developers, two weeks after releasing the sixth Developer Preview and three months after ...

If Anyone Can Get Delivery Drones Legalized, It's Google
Meg Neal
The FAA told me that Google hasn't requested permission yet, but it has hired a lobbyist firm (the same asAmazon's, in fact) to influence policymakers ...

Microsoft Might Be About To Make A Giant Move Into Android Phone Software
James Cook
...However, if the Cyanogen operating system is better than Android — and if it came preloaded on a decent phone — it might take off. Every single Android app works on Cyanogen, so Cyanogen users can get the best of both open-source worlds....

Google rebrands its enterprise business services as Google for Work
Roberto Baldwin
Google rebrands its enterprise business services as Google for Work ... Obviously, Google's biggest competitor in this market is AWS (Amazon Web ...

Insert Citations in Multiple Formats Easily with Google Docs
Patrick Allan
Google Docs is a great free writing tool with a ton of great hidden features, including the research tool. You can save yourself some time and use the ...

'Google Enterprise' As The Far More Approachable 'Google For Work'
Jillian D'Onfro
Google Just Rebranded 'Google Enterprise' As The Far More Approachable 'Google .... 

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Apple iPhone Wallet; iCloud Security Questioned

Apple Teaming Up With Visa, MasterCard on IPhone Wallet
Bloomberg
"Apple Inc. plans to turn its next iPhone into a mobile wallet through a partnership with major payment networks, banks and retailers, according a person familiar with the situation. The agreement includes Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and American Express Co. and will be unveiled on Sept. 9 along with the next iPhone, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The new iPhone will make mobile payment easier by including a near-field communication chip for the first time, the person said. That advancement along with Touch ID, a fingerprint recognition reader that debuted on the most recent iPhone, will allow consumers to securely pay for items in a store with the touch of a finger...."


CBS News
Apple patches iCloud security gap after celebrity photos hacked, reports say
CBS News
The day after private, nude photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities were released online, Apple has reportedly patched a security ...
Apple patches 'Find My iPhone' exploit - ZDNet
Jennifer Lawrence - Daily Mail

Apple - September 9 Will Give You A Stomach Ache And Nothing More... Focus On Sales - Apple Inc.  | Seeking Alpha: "With the iPod, AAPL still has 72% of the portable music player market even though the overall portable music player market has been cannibalized by smart phones by 33%. According to AppleInsider, Steve Jobs once said, "if we don't cannibalize ourselves, someone else will." This brings an interesting take on the iPod. Apple will effectively know when to kill its iPod if and when the time comes."


Forbes
FAA Dithering Forces Google And Other Drone Innovators To Take Their Jobs And Technology ...
Forbes
What wasn't surprising to experts familiar with the industry is that Google conducted all ... Amazon waited patiently for months, while the FAA dithered.


NBCNews.com
A Drone Flew Over Apple's New Campus, And What It Saw Was Amazing
Forbes
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said last week that he was 'doubling down on ... You can follow him on Twitter @GregoryMcNeal or on Facebook.
Drone gets peek at Apple's new 'spaceship' campus (VIDEO) - RT - Daily news
Someone Flew A Drone Over Apple's New "Spaceship" Campus In California - BuzzFeed


New York Times
Amazon Bets on Content in Deal for Twitch
New York Times
Amazon's desire to outmaneuver both Google and Yahoo and get its hands on the controller at Twitch probably makes sense. Demographically, it's a ...


Wall Street Journal
EU Sends Questionnaire to Rivals Over Facebook Deal With WhatsApp
Wall Street Journal
Here, the Facebook and WhatsApp icons are displayed on an iPhone. ... looking into the way in which many people now use Apple Inc.'s iMessage, ...

Staying Safe And How To Disable Apple iCloud
Forbes
'TFA' is offered by Apple as well as rivals Google Google, Microsoft Microsoft and social media networks like Facebook and Twitter. TSV greatly ...


The Guardian
Move over Amazon, HMV is getting people back in stores
The Guardian
The music retailer is on course to overtake Amazon as the UK's biggest music and DVD retailer, just 18-months since its collapse. What's behind the ...


Telegraph.co.uk
As Amazon And Alibaba Face Off, Who Will Come Out On Top?
Forbes
Amazon and Alibaba, the world's largest e-commerce companies, are ... With big names like Burberry and Apple Apple recently joining the Tmall ...

This could be the Apple iCloud flaw that led to celebrity photos being
Owen Williams
An alleged breach in Apple's iCloud service may be to blame for countless leaks of private celebrity photos this week. On Monday, a Python script ...

What Happened to Motorola | Chicago magazine | September 2014: "...However, as the history of many giant corporations (Lehman Brothers, General Motors) shows, great success can lead to great trouble. Interviews with key players in and around Motorola and its spinoffs indicate that the problems began when management jettisoned a powerful corporate culture that had been inculcated over decades. When healthy internal competition degenerated into damaging infighting...."

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