Swedish telecoms firm Ericsson AB has inked a seven-year deal with Apple that brings…
Month: December 2015
Manhattan DA fires back after Apple CEO Cook defends stance on encryption
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance fired back at Apple CEO Tim Cook over the executive’s repeated backlash against a federal push…
Joining Tumblr, Facebook enables viewing of Apple’s animated Live Photos
The latest iPhones come with the ability to turn still images into video — just like magic…
Speed Shootout: Apple iPhone 6s Plus destroys Google Nexus 6P, Samsung S6 Edge+, Sony Z5 Premium, Microsoft Lumia 950 XL
We’ve taken the biggest phablets out there and put them through our speed test…
Disney CEO: Apple TV provides best user experience ever
Robert Iger, chairman and chief executive officer at Walt Disney Company…
Open thread: What’d be wrong with slightly thicker iPhone with more battery life and a flush camera assembly?
Yes, we know Apple thinks thinness sets iPhone apart from all other so-called smartphones…
Cramer: Apple’s Tim Cook is ‘patriotic’ on taxes
CNBC’s Jim Cramer has a message for Tim Cook critics: He’s right on taxes…
Apple CEO Tim Cook opposes government back door to encryption
Apple CEO Tim Cook is defending his opposition to providing intelligence agencies with back doors to access iPhones and…
Apple has 800 people working on improving the iPhone’s camera
Apple has a team of 800 people working on a single iPhone feature: Its camera…
Will Phil Schiller bring order and intelligibility to Apple’s app jungle?
Tim Cook just handed the keys to the Apple App Store to Senior VP Phill Schiller…
Apple prepping Hi-Res Audio streaming for 2016 debut, sources say
Many high-end audio manufacturers plan to add audio cables for Lightning to their lineups in 2016…
Ericsson and Apple sign global patent license agreement, settle litigation
Ericsson and Apple have agreed on a global patent license agreement between the two companies…
Apple CEO Tim Cook is absolutely right – and wrong – on U.S. corporate tax policy
In the interview with Charlie Rose, Mr. Cook describes the U.S. tax system as being designed for the industrial age as opposed to the digital age…
Apple’s executive changes hint at an even greater level of vertical integration to come
On Thursday, Apple announced a number of executive shifts, including…
Global creative icon Tor Myhren leaves Grey for Apple
Tor Myhren, global chief creative officer at WPP Group’s Grey and president of its New York flagship office…
Give Siri access to third-party apps, and (in time) much more
As powerful as Siri is, I’d like to see it be able to do more – much, much more…
Apple CEO calls corporate tax rap ‘total political crap’
This is a tax code that was made for the industrial age, not the digital age. It’s backwards. It’s awful for America. It should have been fixed many years ago…
Apple CEO Tim Cook defends privacy, encryption amidst terrorist concerns
Apple CEO Tim Cook staunchly defended personal privacy and the use of encryption on iPhones…
In Depth: A month with Apple’s iPad Pro
Fast, responsive, lasts all day on battery… I expect it to further encroach on the territory of traditional laptops in the office…
Why Apple’s revolutionary Apple Pay is going to be absolutely enormous
Apple is humiliating Wall Street’s analysts and the mainstream media because both lack the lexicon to understand…
Apple crashes into bear market: Poof! $150 billion up in smoke
Shares of Apple Friday are down another 1.3% Friday to $107.61…
Best Buy offers Apple iPhone 6s for $1 this weekend
But you’ll need to hurry…
Got a Mac that’s not behaving itself? Try these troubleshooting tips
These two tricks have been successful in solving some 90 percent of the Mac problems I’ve encountered…
Why iPad Pro is a great device and one of Apple’s greatest failures
iPad Pro is a beautiful device, with a gorgeous screen, one that I’d argue outdoes the new MacBook. It has a responsive stylus
Apple assigns App Store oversight to Phil Schiller in apparent nod to developer issues
Apple’s decision to split its App Stores out of Eddy Cue’s iTunes and iCloud oversight and…
’60 Minutes’ goes inside Apple’s secret design studio with Jony Ive, retail store of the future with Angela Ahrendts
Jony Ive will give Charlie Rose a look inside ‘Apple’s secret design studio’ on CBS’ 60 Minutes…
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ soundtrack now available via Apple Music and iTunes Store
The 23-track album opens with the 6:23 “Main Title and the Attack on the Jakku Village” and closes with…
Can’t leave home without it: 72% would turn back home to retrieve their Apple Watch
Our research partner Ben Bajarin was discussing consumer adoption trends with colleagues at a recent industry event…
Apple Pay to take on Tencent’s WeChat Wallet and Alipay in China
Apple will partner with China’s main bank card and payment firm UnionPay, a state-controlled consortium that has a monopoly…
Apple partners with UnionPay to launch Apple Pay in China
Apple and China UnionPay today announced a partnership to bring Apple Pay, which transforms mobile payments…
Revealed: How Google enlisted members of US Congress it bankrolled to fight $6 billion EU antitrust case
Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded…
iPhone autocorrects ‘Lardass’ to ‘Kardashian’
The Internet has caught on to yet another hilarious autocorrect…
iPhone mini: What we know about Apple’s rumored 4-inch ‘iPhone 6C’
Given the popularity of the 4-inch form factor, it’s quite likely that Apple will introduce a replacement…
CEO Cook shakes up Apple’s management
Tim Cook has orchestrated Apple’s first big management shakeup in three years…
Competition is shifting to the high end
When I started covering the consumer electronics industry, I was struck by the fact the vast majority of players…
Leaving an iTunes Store page open in iTunes can kill your laptop battery
If you use a laptop, and your battery dies quickly, check and see if you accidentally…
208 Bible apps for Google’s Android contain malicious code vs. Zero (0) in Bible apps for Apple’s iOS
If we needed further evidence that any legitimate-looking app has the potential to be mimicked…
Beleaguered Microsoft admits to parade of bugs in weak-selling Surface lineup
As most of you know, whenever Apple has a problem with hardware or software…
Apple revamps Mac in Business webpage with focus on success stories
Apple launched a redesigned Mac in Business webpage to better target…
In likely boon for Apple Music, Copyright Royalty Board raises rates on free music services
In news which could well be good for Apple Music, but bad for rival free streaming music services…
IBM and Apple can put Watson’s AI insights inside Apple Watch
I spoke with IBM’s Vice President for the IBM-Apple Partnership, Katharyn White to get a little more background…
Jim Cramer: Apple is clearly a buy, despite analyst trash-talk
We view recent supply-chain concerns as exaggerated, and advise subscribers to take the headline noise with a grain of salt…