Apple rumoured to be expanding iPhone trade-in program to other devices

Apple seems to be opening up its doors for its recycling/trade-in program, if reports are to be believed. According to 9to5Mac, Apple will allow non-Apple users to be part of its trade-in program. It will supposedly allow them to trade in their Android or BlackBerry devices for gift cards that can be used to buy iPhones. If true, the move is obviously to boost iPhone sales.

Apple retail staff are reportedly being trained to transfer contacts from Android or BlackBerry to iOS. But they won’t transfer anything else, so please back up those photos and other precious data you might have on your phones. The program is said to be arriving in the coming weeks.

Source: 9to5Mac

The Apple Beat: ResearchKit can revolutionize medical research

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It's been a week since Apple held a special event to reintroduce Apple Watch and launch new MacBooks. One game-changing revelation during that event was the introduction of the ResearchKit framework, which can help researchers gather and process information for clinical studies and cast a wider net using iPhones as research terminals.

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IBM X-Force: 1 billion records of personally identifiable information leaked in 2014

IBM’s X-Force Research and Development team just released its IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Quarterly, which found at least 1 billion records of personally identifiable information (PII) were leaked in 2014. The 2015 report, which highlights findings from the last quarter of 2014, cataloged more than 9,200 new security vulnerabilities affecting over 2,600 unique vendors, which represents a 9.8% increase over 2013 and is the highest single year total in the 18-year history of X-Force reporting.   

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Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge coming to Canada in Gold Platinum

The latest Samsung Galaxy smartphones will be made available in gold platinum as well as black sapphire and pearl white colours. The Galaxy S6 line is available for preorder from various Canadian carriers.