
Shingeki no Kyojin’s gigantic popularity has seen it tackling ever larger foes in its merchandising line, this time in the form of a rather classy iPhone case by Sentinel, impressing fans and perhaps finally stopping users from holding it wrong for good…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 7, 2012 17:03 JST
- Tags: Anhui, Apple, Bizarre, China, Crime, iPhone, Medical, Police, Shopping

Chinese police have arrested the group who let a 17-year-old boy sell them his kidney so he could buy the latest Apple hardware.
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Apple tycoon Steve Jobs has passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 56.
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Square Enix have finally given Japanese keen to brush up on their English the chance to do so in a suitably bishoujo-rich environment, in an English learning adventure game entitled “Summer Story.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 10, 2010 06:11 JST
- Tags: Apple, DS, Epic Games, iPhone, iPod, Keitai, Marketing, Nintendo, Technology

Epic Games has dismissed the 3DS as being unable to run its widely used Epic engine, whilst the 3DS has been unfavourably compared to the iPod Touch, making Nintendo’s upcoming handheld look increasingly underspecced and overpriced.
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It seems it has been the PS3 which cracked the hacker, and not the hacker the PS3 – the major force behind cracking the PS3 has given up and retired in circumstances few could help but interpret as an abject admission of defeat at the hands of Sony engineers.
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Hayao Miyazaki, of Studio Ghibli fame, has launched into one of his trademark rambling tirades against the ills of technology, likening “iWhatever” users to “chronic onanists.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 7, 2010 08:07 JST
- Tags: Apple, Copyright, Crime, Hacking, Internet, iPhone, Keitai, Marketing, Technology

Scores of iTunes users have had their accounts hacked and used to buy software, much of which was in the form of pirate manga apps. Some users report thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases.
Apple for its part only acknowledges banning some developers in connection with “fraudulent purchase patterns,” and then suggests cancelling any cards linked to a compromised account.
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Apple is already facing no less than three class action lawsuits launched by iPhone 4 users irate at the smartphone’s inability to function properly unless held in a Jobs-approved manner.
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The launch of Apple’s much anticipated iPhone 4 is fast turning into a debacle, with users discovering all manner of unwanted extra features, not least of which is the fact that the phone loses signal if held incorrectly, a problem which Apple blames on users…
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If the hype is to be believed Nintendo’s 3DS will utterly destroy all flimsy PSP opposition and be crowned undisputed king of handhelds come release, but the release of the GPU used in the device and a subsequent comparison to its PSP nemesis seems to put this in doubt, at least going by the paper specification…
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Major manga publisher Shogakukan have launched “Shonen Sunday for iPhone,” but cripplingly restrictive DRM, a meagre selection of ancient titles and prices higher than the actual paper volumes are leading many to suspect the scheme is already doomed to fail.
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