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If you’re in need of a kidney, you might just be able to procure one for the low price of an iPhone 6s! Two men in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province of China were planning on selling a kidney each to be able to afford the new iPhone 6s. The two men, named Wu and Huang, devised the…
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Last year, a major Android malware app Dendroid made headlines, striking fear into the hearts of Android users and giving security and antivirus companies something to write about. In March of 2014, Lookout Security wrote: Researchers found Dendroid, a custom “Remote Access Toolkit” (RAT) for Android targeting customers from Western countries, and yes, it breached…
“Wholesalers who helped orchestrate the smuggling of tens of thousands of the phones into the country are now slashing prices to move inventory. At an electronics market in central Beijing, one retailer was recently selling the low-end iPhone 6 and 6 Plus for 6,500 renminbi to 8,800 renminbi ($1,060 to $1,436), down from 12,000 renminbi…
Read More “iPhone 6/Plus smugglers flood China’s gray market forcing prices down” »
“Lured by the promise of profit from smuggling the new iPhones into China, opportunists joined the thousands of Apple Inc fans lining up to buy the devices as they were launched on Friday across Asia,” Theodora D’Cruz And Yuya Shino report for Reuters. “Regulatory hurdles mean the iPhone 6 and the larger iPhone 6 Plus…
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“Liu Min stands a few feet from an Apple Inc. store in Beijing hawking something that can’t be bought inside: the new iPhone 6,” Bloomberg News reports. “While the device debuts today in the U.S., Hong Kong, Japan and Australia, there is no release date set for the world’s biggest smartphone market. That creates an…
Read More “Gold iPhone 6 Plus price hits $3,600 in China as delay fuels black market” »
“Apple’s new iPhone 5 is selling well in the Gaza Strip despite inflated prices, reaching the Palestinian enclave via smuggling tunnels even before high-tech hub Israel next door,” Douglas Hamilton reports for Reuters. “The cutting edge smart phone is being snapped up for almost double what it costs in the United States, its price jacked…
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“Customs at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport detained a Russian citizen bringing 30 iPhone 5s from Germany in his carry-on luggage, the Federal Customs Service said in an e-mailed statement today,” lya Khrennikov reports for Bloomberg. “The handsets were sent to an appraiser to ascertain their value, the Customs Service said,” Khrennikov reports. “According to Russian legislation,…
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“At its gleaming store, RadanMac offers the latest Apple gear – the new iPad, iPhones, iPods, laptops, all-in-one desktop computers and more,” Marcus George reports for Reuters. “But this is no ordinary Apple store. It’s in Tehran, where Apple and other U.S. computer products are banned under U.S. sanctions that have been in place for…
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“It’s getting tougher and costlier to smuggle the devices into China as the Chinese customs authority has told some U.S.-based shipping agents not to accept orders of iPads, and warned travelers to declare their gadgets at the border and pay a 10 percent import duty on electronics,” Gerry Shih, Poornima Gupta and Lee Chyen Yee…
Read More “Tough times in the U.S.-China iPad smuggling game” »
“If only there were an app to nail black-market extortionists,” Lachlan Cartwright and Kate Sheehy report for The New York Post. “A cutthroat Asian group has set its crosshairs on the flagship Apple store on Fifth Avenue at 59th — scoring nearly every iPad 2 it can get its hands since the hot gizmo went…
Read More “Asian black marketeers reselling iPad 2 units for up to $2,000” »
