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The Obama administration has given NASDAQ: Apple ( AAPL ) Pay the presidential seal of approval. The White House announced earlier this month that Apple Pay will join EMV chip-and-PIN as a standard for the roughly 9 million federal payment cards, including debit card accounts, used for distributing Social Security and veterans benefits.

In a landmark ruling in the Apple vs. Samsung patent trial, the jury has just awarded damages to Apple for Samsung's violation of its various software, hardware design patents, and trade-dress...

Apple's rumored iPad mini could very well be a shrunken-down iPad 2, according to analysis by Instapaper developer Marco Arment. He recently discovered references to two previously unknown iPad models in logs that track device usage among Instapaper users, which suggest Apple may soon release two new variations of the iPad 2.

After 3 days of silence as to why the iOS Developer Center has been down, Apple has just confirmed that they are investigating a security breach. Developers just began receiving the email below; Apple has confirmed to us that the e-mail is legitimate.

"esigned properly and could result in safety issues." With that in mind, the House that Jobs Built is instituting the USB Power Adapter Takeback Program, which will let folks pick up first-party iPad, iPhone and iPod plugs for $10 (instead of the usual $19) if they return any of their current adapters. Don't plan to stock up on the power-giving cubes though, as the deal is limited to one adapter for each device you own."

Huh. The family insists that the accident happened with a genuine Apple charger. Funny how people are going all crazy about third-party devices. As far as I'm concerned, the whole thing is stupid anyway. Her phone was *plugged into the wall*, and this in a part of the world where the electrical supply is at 220 VAC, and she grabbed it while *getting out of the bath*. Does nobody see how this could go south? :-P

Merchant Customer Exchange (roughly $1trillion in sales) is going to make it tough for Apple Pay to swoop in and topple the traditional plastic payment market