Apple Will Pay Some iPad Owners Cash in Legal Settlement

Some iPad owners will soon be cashing checks from Apple. The Cupertino, Calif. company andAT&T settled a long-standing, class-action lawsuit on Friday, in which consumers sued them for ending unlimited data plans for iPads in 2010.

Those affected are set to collect settlements worth $40 in cash, plus data discounts. Any consumers who purchased an iPad 3G on or before June 7, 2010, can benefit from the settlement, according to court documents. Those who submit a claim will receive $40 cash from Apple. What's more, any iPad 3G owner who did not opt in to AT&T's data plan can now get a 5GB plan for the iPad 3G with a $20 monthly discount for up to one year.

The ruling was announced Friday in a district court in San Jose, Calif. Apple and AT&T did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The agreement comes years after the original lawsuit was filed back in 2010. At the time, Apple and AT&T had promoted unlimited 3G data plans to iPad 3G owners, only to take that option away after a number of iPads had already been sold. (AT&T instead sold users 2 GB of data for a $25 monthly fee.)

Plaintiffs in the case argued that this bait-and-switch move caused them to overpay for their iPads, and also "[deprived] them of promised access to an unlimited data plan," according to court documents.

Once the settlement receives final approval in early 2014, Apple will begin contacting those who are eligible to file a claim.

Sorce: Mashable

The Garage Where Google Was Born

It all started in a garage that you can still find with minimal effort — especially if you're usingGoogle Maps.

Less than one mile off U.S. Route 101, the highway that links San Francisco to the rest of Silicon Valley, you'll come to a quiet neighborhood a stone's throw from Stanford's beautifully manicured campus. It was in Menlo Park, in a single-story home on Santa Margarita Avenue, that Googleco-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented the garage from Susan Wojcicki, now a Google senior VP, who was fresh out of business school and afraid of missing her mortgage payments.

The duo spent the winter of 1998 in the now famous garage, building the tech company that would change search, and consequently the Internet, forever.

That was 15 years ago, and Google has since become a multi-billion dollar corporation that answers all of our questions and may soon even drive our cars. The company now owns the house, which is no longer lived in, but will always serve as a reminder of where Google started.

To celebrate the company's 15th birthday, Mashable put together a slideshow looking back at the company's earliest days and the garage where it all started.

Source: mashable.com

Apple iOS 7 Update Plugs Lock Screen Security Hole

Apple iOS 7 Update

Apple has just released an update for the Apple iOS 7 that aims to repair a security flaw: a lock-screen bypass that allows a user to call phone contacts without unlocking the phone.

The notes that complement the iOS 7.0.2 update say it "fixes bugs that could allow someone to bypass the Lock screen passcode." 

Apple iOS 7 update has another changing, it brings back a Greek keyboard option for giving the lock screen passcode. To download the new Apple iOS 7 update, Open your iPhone’s settings and Go to General>Software Update.

The passcode bypass is a very not new in-fact it’s a common security flaw in mobile OS. The bug is now cropped up daily after Apple released there software updates, the new updates includes new Control Centre in Apple iOS 7.