Jeff Gamet

The Misfit Ray fitness tracker Instead of a boxy body other dedicated fitness trackers offer, or the flat disk of the Misfit Shine, the Ray is a small aluminum tube shape with either a plastic or leather band. Like the Shine, Ray tracks daily steps, distance traveled, calories burned, and sleep patterns. It also uses…

Judge dismisses lost iMessage lawsuit Federal Judge Lucy Koh, who also handled the patent infringement cases between Apple and Samsung, issued a terse ruling stating, The Court has granted the Motion for Summary Judgment filed by Defendant Apple Inc. See ECF No. 112. Accordingly, the Clerk of the Court shall enter judgment in favor of…

Michael Fassbender as Apple’s Steve Jobs The movie starts Michael Fassbender as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and paints a portrait of who he was from the time of the original Macintosh release up through the introduction of the iMac. It's not a documentary, but instead is a drama showing an impression of who he was.…

Samsung copies innovates again with pressure sensitive touch Insider sources said the electronics maker is expected to officially announce the new feature for its Galaxy smartphones during the Mobile World Congress expo in February with plans for a March rollout, according the Wall Street Journal. They may include a fast charging systems and retina scanners…

New York wants to know if your broadband is too slow The state is using a broadband performance test website, according to Reuters, that lets users check their Internet speed. Mr. Schneiderman wants users to snap a screenshot of the test results and complete an online for so he can use the data as part…

The Department of Justice took Apple to court over accusations that the iPhone and iPad maker engaged in an anticompetitive conspiracy with book publishers ahead of the original iPad launch to drive up ebook prices. At the time, Apple was trying to get deals in place for its iBookstore, and publishers were trying to stop…

Oops! Dell's PCs are open to phishing attacks. Security blogger Hanno Böck said Dell included a root certificate called eDellRoot Certificate and corresponding private key on its computers, effectively giving attackers everything they need to craft their own valid certificates for webpages. He said, Laptops from the company come with a preinstalled root certificate that…

Opening up an Apple Pencil may be ugly, but what's inside is pretty cool Apple Pencil is the companion stylus for the iPad Pro. It's pressure and angle sensitive, and charges in minutes. What it doesn't have is a replaceable battery, or any way to repair damaged components. iFixit had to slice open Apple Pencil's…

Verizon gets Wi-Fi calling waiver from FCC Carriers are supposed to file for an FCC waiver allowing Wi-Fi calling because the feature doesn't reliably support TTY systems for hearing impaired calls. T-Mobile and Sprint have offered Wi-Fi calling support for months because they never filed for the waiver, while AT&T only recently got on board…

Uh oh! More malware found on the App Store! InstaAgent, or more properly Who Viewed Your Profile-InstaAgent, was download more than 500,000 times by people who presumably wanted to know who was looking at their Instagram profile. Instagram is a social networking service owned by Facebook that lets users post photos for others to view.…

Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs Data from Box Office Mojo showed the weekend gross for Steve Jobs was US$823,000, and that so far it has brought in only $16,684,073—a far cry from its $30 million budget. Mr. Sorkin's script was very loosely—more like inspired—by Walter Isaacson's official biography of Mr. Jobs. That, it turns out,…

Court shoots down Apple employee bag check class action lawsuit The class action lawsuit claimed checking their personal bags was demeaning and embarrassing, and that they should've been paid for the time managers spent looking through their belongings needed to be compensated instead of off the clock. Judge Alsup disagreed saying employees weren't required to…

GTAT equipment auction will settle its score with Apple GTAT struck a deal to make synthetic sapphire glass for iPhones, but failed to produce the quantity or quality Apple needed. Apple fronted $578 million to help the company ramp up its sapphire production and transition from being an equipment maker into a glass supplier, and…

Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs First, let's get the elephant in the room out of the way: Michael Fassbender stars as Steve Jobs and no, he doesn't look like the man who gave us the reality distortion field, iMac, and iPhone. That doesn't matter because Mr. Fassbender becomes the Steve Jobs in Mr. Sorkin's tale…

Adobe said the security flaw affects Flash 19.0.0.207 and earlier on Mac and Windows, and 11.2.205.535 on Linux. The company said the exploit is “being used in limited, targeted attacks.” The company promised a fix would be coming this week, but managed to beat its own schedule. The update actually rolled last Friday several days…

iPhone battery draining too fast? It's probably Facebook Here's the back story: My iPhone 6 battery was draining noticeably quicker than it should based on my usage, so I looked at my Battery settings to see what was taking more than its fare share of juice. It was Facebook by a long shot and it…

Apple's antitrust monitor is out this Friday The DOJ filed a letter requesting Judge Cote let Mr. Bromwich's two-year position end without any extension. He had been charged with monitoring Apple's activities to ensure the company didn't engage in anticompetitive practices, and that it set up training programs to teach employees how to avoid anticompetitive…