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<title>Apple extends two-step ID verification to Canada, other countries</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/10/option.will.appear.automatically.in.account.details/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1363898347_appletwostep.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is extending its two-step verification option for Apple IDs to a wider range of countries, users say.  When the feature first launched in late March, it was restricted to the US, UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.  Now though people in Canada, Argentina, and Pakistan are reporting getting the feature, and other countries may be following suit....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hackers compromise 110 websites in attempt at Apple ID phishing scam</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/01/targeted.sites.narrowed.down.to.houston.ip.address/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1367430440_laughableabominationoftheenglishlanguage.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The people responsible for a new Apple ID phishing scam have compromised 110 websites, says security firm Trend Micro.  All of the sites are hosted on a specific IP address, 70.86.13.17, which is registered with an ISP based in Houston, Texas.  "Almost all of these sites have not been cleaned," Trend Micro remarks....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Life in the clouds: how to decide what to store and where</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/24/tips.to.stop.juggling.gigabytes.and.start.using.the.cloud/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1106/Apple-iCloud-logo-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[We live in a world positively soaked in data nowadays. Fortunately, the capacity to store that data has gotten bigger in volume, smaller in physical size, and cheaper per gigabyte as time progresses. Gone are the days where you'd have to lug a Zip disk around (remember those?) or stick your iPod into disk mode. At worst, you're carrying a USB drive with you -- though really, you should be relying ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>iTunes, iCloud, Apple IDs, and Game Center hit by Tuesday outages</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/23/apple.online.services.continue.string.of.difficulties/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn4.macnn.com/news/1202/Apple-iCloudTVspot-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple's online services are again suffering outages, their official system status page indicates.  Between 7:20 and 9:32AM Eastern, some people may have been unable to access the iTunes Store or make purchases there.  Still ongoing however are problems preventing people from creating Apple IDs or signing into Game Center, as well as authentication errors when trying to use iCloud.  The latter may...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Small iCloud outages disrupt Game Center, email for some users</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/19/all.issues.now.cleared.but.service.interruptions.a.hassle.for.many/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1366414867_Apple-iCloud-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has reported some brief but widespread slowdowns and unavailability of Game Center -- starting in the wee hours of Thursday and again later that morning -- coupled with a prolonged mail issue that only affected a fraction of one percent of users on iCloud.com for half a day over Thursday and Friday. The disruption comes on the heels of scattered reports of brief iTunes Store outages and a mo...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple escalates hiring for Prineville, Oregon datacenter</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/15/may.mean.facility.close.to.booting.up/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1350696088_Apple-Prineville-datacenter-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is escalating its search for people to work at its under-construction Prineville, Oregon datacenter, notes AppleInsider.  The company recently posted a job listing for an operations planner, as well as a site services technician.  In late March, the company started looking for a chief engineer....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Heads-up: tips for living in the cloud</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/09/the.good.bad.and.pricey.among.cloud.solutions/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/sugarsync-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[In fashion, trends come and go like breezes: quick, occasionally refreshing, and usually leaving little trace that they were there in the first place. It's the same in the world of computing, where we've gone in the space of a few years from desktops and iPods to ultrabooks and smartphones. One thing has remained constant amidst the ever-changing standards of computer form factors, though: you nee...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Exploit allows Apple ID account hijack with little info [u]</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/22/two.step.verification.only.current.defense/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1105/icloud1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[(Updated with Apple disabling the iForgot password retrieval page) A new exploit lets people hijack an Apple ID account using only an email address and someone's date of birth, says The Verge.  The process involves pasting in a modified URL while answering the date of birth question on Apple's password retrieval page.  Doing this lets someone reset an Apple ID's password, locking out the original ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Survey: iCloud tops in cloud storage services among users</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/21/around.55.percent.of.those.surveyed.said.they.dont.use.cloud.services/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1363907278_Apple-iTunesMatch-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Marketing and analysis firm Strategy Analytics has released the results of a new study into the use of cloud media storage services, noting that Apple's iCloud and iTunes Match have captured the majority share at 27 percent (combined) US marketshare and revealing a tighter-than-expected horse race between Dropbox and Amazon Cloud Drive for second most-popular cloud media service....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple enables two-step verification option for Apple IDs</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/21/sends.codes.to.findy.my.iphone.sms.numbers/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1363898347_appletwostep.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A two-step verification process is now an option for Apple ID accounts, reports say.  The option can be accessed on Apple's website, and once enabled requires entering a PIN before making an account change or a purchase on iTunes or the App Store.  Codes are sent via Find My iPhone or a text message....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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