Apple has 5 pieces of kit in the list of the top 20 Christmas gifts this year.

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Apple, Google and Mozilla have pieces.

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However, while investigating the breach over the weekend, Honan said he confirmed twice with Apple tech support that only two pieces of information are required to get access to an iCloud account: a billing address and the last four digits of the credit card associated with the account.

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Two little pieces of information out today about Apple before they declare their results at 5 pm EST.

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When she made apple pies, Willie Pearl would give me pieces of dough and fruit to make a pie in my own little pie tin (when she made chocolate pies I ate the filling before I could make my pie).

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At the annual CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver last March, the year-old Chrome was the only browser left standing after stalwarts like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Apple's Safari had been hacked to pieces Safari in literally seconds by security experts.

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You have some great pieces already in the mix: Android is giving the Apple OS a serious run.

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One thing I realized in researching this piece was that for all the mystery surrounding what Apple might do in television, it already has a lot of pieces in place for a compelling television.

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Turns out you can reset any Apple ID password with nothing more than a person's email address and date of birth -- two pieces of information that are pretty easy to come across.

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