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it's time to share your love with a digital pet I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update iPhone owners just because you have a password on your lock screen doesn't mean all your info guarded from strangers there's a pretty easy to do hack for getting into someone's iPhone without knowing the lockscreen password and a YouTube video is going around showing just how it's done i'm not encouraging you that you try this hack rather it's good to be aware of what's possible so this sequence of steps involves coming close to turning off the phone placing an emergency call and holding the power button and when you do it right it opens up access for a user to listen to voicemails place calls and look through contacts but that's as far as it goes if you try to open up another app it'll take you back to the passcode screen if your phone is ever stolen remember you can use an app like find my phone if your GPS is turned on or contact your carrier to see if they can remotely wipe any data or brick the phone so it can't be used there's another bug Apple's focused on fixing it's affecting people who connect to an exchange account on an iOS device the recent operating system update is causing battery drain because it excessively communicates data with exchange servers Apple set a fix is coming in another software update in the meantime you can avoid this bug by just not responding to an exception to a recurring event on your device also in smartphone news the research firm IDC broke down which smartphones were the most popular during the end of last year now this is based on shipments Android dominated seventy percent of the market a big jump from the same time last year when it made up about half of the market and Samsung was behind much of that success Apple was in second place with about twenty percent and blackberry came in third with an 80 bitty piece of the pie just three-point-two percent market share windows phone shipments did increase during the fourth quarter but it was only making up about two point six percent of the market and speaking of windows firefox is working on a touched base browser for the windows 8 operating system it's still in testing but it's called Firefox nightly and it lets users navigate with swipes and stood using a menu bar and if you're feeling lonely without someone to love on Valentine's Day well I got just the Android app for you ladies and gents the Tamagotchi has been reborn in app form called tamagotchi life this free app was just released the google play store it's been 16 years since band i first came out with the digital pocket pet for you to feed and love and this app features original characters as well as new ones and now you get to see them in color that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at our blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey