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Photo of the day: Cellphones of protest in Hong Kong

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The secret history behind Apple's iconic Fifth Avenue Cube

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iPhone Weirdness Quiz

See if you can answer these five questions about recent iPhone-related strangeness correctly

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Passport sellouts at 200,000 preorders reveal a more modest BlackBerry

BlackBerry boasts of numbers that would make larger companies wince

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Apple will survive its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week (because that's what Apple does)

Apple’s not perfect, but unlike most companies, they always bounce back.

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Apple's rotten week: Bent phones, broken software, and shattered security

The only magic in Apple land this week is black magic.

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BlackBerry Passport deep-dive review: Qwerty meets quirky

Qwerty fans will welcome the unit's keyboard, quad-core processor, big battery and voice assistant, but its square shape and hefty weight may give others pause.

Apple yanks buggy iOS 8 update

Apple released an update to iOS 8 on Wednesday to fix a bunch of bugs -- but the update itself is now causing all sorts of trouble.

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First Look: BlackBerry Passport

BlackBerry does an about-face, back towards its enterprise roots.

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BlackBerry goes for qwerty keyboard, again, with Passport smartphone

BlackBerry announced its Passport smartphone today and bet large that there are users who will want a qwerty physical keyboard with a wider, square, 4.5-in. display.

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Hands On With the New BlackBerry Passport Smartphone

CIO.com's Al Sacco spent a week with the new BlackBerry Passport before its official release. Here are five things you'll likely love about the unique and innovative device, along with four more things you very likely won't.

FBI director concerned about encryption on smartphones

The agency has talked to Apple and Google about concerns that new security will help criminals, the director says

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Ray Ozzie’s Talko app stores calls in cloud, lets you search them

So far it’s just for iPhone, but the goal is support for corporate work groups.

Apple iOS 8 fixes outlined in report

With iOS 8 crashes and complaints aplenty, you can expect Apple to issue am 8.0.1 patch for the new iPhone and iPad software before long.

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App Store figures suggest iOS 8 adoption rate of 46%

Not even a week old, iOS 8 adoption is nearing 50%

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iPhone 6 review: The little things make it a real star

The larger design is very welcome, but there's much more to the iPhone 6 than a bigger screen

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Early iPhone 6 usage 8x higher than iPhone 6 Plus

Apple's iPhone 6 may have outsold the larger 5.5-in. iPhone 6 Plus by an eight-to-one margin in North America, according to early analysis of online traffic.

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Apple sold over 10 million new iPhones this weekend

Apple sold a record number of iPhones over the weekend

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iPhone 6 review: The little things make it a real star

The larger design is very welcome, but there's much more to the iPhone 6 than a bigger screen

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First iPhone 6 buyer in Perth, Australia drops it on live TV

The first person from Perth to pick up the iPhone 6 dropped it live on-air immediately after opening it

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