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Texas Woman Robbed of $200 in iPad Scam

Jen Austin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:00:24 +0000

Something to keep in mind as the holidays approach: People are selling things everywhere! They’re even trying to sell iPads at gas stations. But it doesn’t always turn out to be legit.

A Texas woman was scammed out of $200 after a man approached her at a gas station and asked if she wanted to buy “an iPad worth $800 for $200.” Apple hasn’t even shipped the highest-priced iPads yet, with retail price ranging from $629 to $829, but if you’re at a gas station pumping gas, you probably have other things on your mind besides retail releases and ship dates. Did the scammer get caught?

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Just How Important is the iPad?

Jen Austin — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:12:19 +0000

Once you own an iPad, it turns out you end up loving it more than perhaps you love your own teeth. In fact, many iPad owners would rather endure root canal pain than part with their iPad. And you?

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iPads Survive 1,300-Feet Drop With Heavy-Duty G-Form Cases [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:53:59 +0000

One of the first things most people do when they get a smartphone or iPad is buy a case to protect it from accidental drops. Cases themselves range from purely decorative to nearly hardhat-industrial — and now one iPad case manufacturer, G-Form, has put its products to the ultimate test.

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Apple: We're Not Using High Tech to Follow You Around. Honest.

Jim Bell — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:10:42 +0000

A week after researchers found what appeared to be a detailed log of users' locations stored on iPhones and iPad 3Gs, Apple has finally ended its silence on the controversy to insist that it's not tracking customers' locations.

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