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Apple Won’t Unlock Your iOS8 iPhone, iPad For Police

Apple (AAPL) announced Wednesday night that it will no longer help law enforcement unlock iPhone, iPad and other devices running its new mobile operating system, iOS8. In fact, the tech titan says it can’t. “On devices running iOS 8, your personal data such as photos, messages (including attachments), email, contacts, call history, iTunes content, notes, and reminders is placed under the protection of your passcode,” Apple said on its Web site.

Pandora Pushes In-Car Ads, Concerts To Rev Up Profit

Pandora Media, the No. 1 online radio service, isn’t humming. The stock has stagnated, though it did jump 6% Tuesday on buyout rumors that already have cooled. A buyer would get a company whose listeners and listener hours have slipped amid competition from heavyweights Apple (AAPL), with its iTunes and Beats Music; Amazon.com (AMZN) and its Prime Music; and Google (GOOGL), with its Google Play Music and Songza. Pandora’s (P) active listeners fell

Apple iPhone 6 buyers torn over which handset to get

Apple iPhone customers are split on whether to go big or bigger with the new iPhone 6 handsets, according to a new survey. A poll of 6,000 people by RBC Capital Markets found iPhone 6 demand evenly split between the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus. If sales match the survey results, they could mean an upside to Apple’s (AAPL) earnings because the larger, more expensive iPhone 6 Plus is expected to carry a higher profit margin, RBC analyst Amit Daryanani said in a research note Wednesday. Among prospective iPhone 6 buyers, 51% were likely to get the iPhone 6 and 49% the iPhone 6 Plus, he said. And nearly half (48%) intended to buy the midrange 64-gigabyte models, which should boost average selling prices (ASPs) and profit, Daryanani said. Also, 26% of likely iPhone buyers in the survey are new to the Apple ecosystem, he said….