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Now, people can deposit their checks to PayPal. This is done by just scanning their PayPal checks with the cameras which are in-built in the iPhones and use the PayPal application to deposit their checks. This was new feature was successfully introduced on Friday.

Apple Inc. recently released its iPhone 2.7 application in which this mobile check capture application was an added feature. This latest application can be availed at the iTunes website that is being run by Apple or it can also downloaded from PayPal.com/mobile.

After the introduction of this latest feature, in just 36 hours more than $100,000 worth of checks were deposited to the PayPal by using this Mobile Check Capture feature. PayPal Mobile senior director Laura Chambers wrote in a blog that he thinks there are many people who are waiting for this feature so that they can easily deposit their checks to PayPal. This feature will definitely be a success because of the demand from the customers to have an easy, quicker way to deal with the checks.

Apple is been wrestling with a security conundrum from past few months. Now Apple has come up with a patch to fix this problem.

There is a security flaw in the Apple gadgets where the hackers can remotely hack or Jailbreak the iOS, the Operating system of the Apple gadgets such as iPods, iPads and iPhones. Apple has said that they have completed the creation of the patch for this flaw but still it did not said when it will be released publicly.

Jailbreak means hacking the Operating System to download various web applets which is considered to be very difficult. It was shocking for the Apple Inc. when they saw a website called JailbreakMe.com which helped in Jailbreaking the iPhones or iPads. Last week yet another procedure was posted on this website where a user can remotely hack the Operating system of the other users which made the things worsen. The hacker can then gain the complete control of the device. As of now there is now such attacks happened yet. But this is supposed to be considered as a very serious thing where it affects security and privacy issues.

On Wednesday, a German government agency issued an official warning about a flaw that that appears on the Apple gadgets such as iPhone, iPad and iPod's.

The flaw was that, the hackers could easily gain the access to the data stored on the Apple's gadgets just by putting a PDF file on the website and luring the people to visit their website. The website will contain an hidden code that hacks the systems data easily. This flaw became more popular and drew peoples attention when it helped the people to "jailbreak" their iPhones in order to run the programs where Apple Inc. has not approved for sale in its iTunes store.

But on Thursday, Apple Inc. declined to say whether it knows about the malicious hackers were actively exploiting the flaw. It also did not say regarding availability of the software that will fix the flaw.