Tag: iphone

Some 4,000 Israelis traveling to Dubai on a daily basis, especially from the Arab sector.

The Justice Department announced that it may no longer need Apple’s cooperation since “an outside party had demonstrated a way for the FBI to possibly unlock the phone.”

App users also receive push notifications for the yearly Yahrzeit, for each Memorial they’ve created.

Apple may have handed the Chinese government access to the software used in its iPhones.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)

Where Purim meets Chanukah.

What does it say about us that we create programs to measure how fast we can run and where we can seek shelter?

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, who of Israel’s pre-eminent haredi rabbis, issued a public notice on Sunday urging owners of iPhones to burn their devices, comparing the popular cell phones to weapons of war.

Rabbi Lior Glazer smashed an iPhone with a hammer in a show of protest. Like virtually every other Rav in the very right-wing Charedi world of Bnei Brak, Glazer blames personal tragedies on technology and not the abnormal psychology of the individual. I am beginning to find that the more I see a story like this, the more I just want to fold up my tent, and go home. No matter how much one wants to be Dan L’Kaf Zechus and judge people and their actions favorably, a story like this comes along which makes it extremely difficult to do so.

After weeks of negotiations, computer mega-giant Apple has acquired its first Israeli company, Anobit Technologies, for $390 million.