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With the release of a new iPhone intertwined with a booming tech scene, Los Angeles is becoming a hot spot for tech geeks and high-end consumers. Want to know what has been happening to get LA to that point? Check out the articles below. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section. 

 

Apple's most hard-core fans were out in force at stores around Los Angeles and the Bay Area on Thursday night, hours before the iPhone 5s and 5c were scheduled to go on sale at 8 a.m. Friday.

About 55 people were waiting outside the Apple store on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica by 10:30 p.m., with the first arriving at 2:30 p.m.

Friday marks the first day customers can buy the new high-end iPhone 5s, which features a new fingerprint scanner, an upgraded camera and a much faster processor. The iPhone 5c, which comes in five colors and has a plastic casing, had been available as a pre-order and was scheduled to be delivered starting Friday.

For folks in line Thursday, the new gold iPhone 5s seemed to be the main choice. That means there could be a lot of disappointed Apple fans on Friday, with rumblings that supplies of the gold iPhone 5s are in extremely short supply. Read More

 

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles school officials have halted home use of iPads after nearly 300 students at Roosevelt High made quick work of hacking through security so they could surf the Web and access social media sites.

The Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/1bEUKcU ) just a week after getting the school-issued Apple tablets, the students discovered they could easily delete their personal profile information, giving them greater access to the iPads' capabilities. Read More

 

Los Angeles is one of the world’s largest and most glamorous cities — it dominates the entertainment industry, produces tremendous wealth and stands as symbol of American promise and success.

That’s what made the city’s longtime status as a second or third tier technology hub perplexing. The emerging tech scene in the area comes nowhere close to Silicon Valley’s technological prominence. Other U.S. cities — including New York, Seattle and Boston — have also seemed to leave the City of Angels in the dust.

But thanks to a gradual cultural shift and several municipal initiatives, Los Angeles has gained the moniker “Silicon Beach,” and is finally becoming a tech destination in its own right. Read More

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