Google product manager Brenden Mulligan sold his iMac…
Month: February 2018
Companies scour social media for clues to your physical and mental health
Your digital footprint — how often you post on social media, how quickly you scroll through your contacts…
Khronos Group’s Vulkan GPU API is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple
macOS has old, and slow, OpenGL drivers, and iOS supports OpenGL ES, the OpenGL subset designed for embedded systems…
Apple confirms it uses Google’s cloud for iCloud; data is encrypted for privacy
A file that Apple updated on its website last month provides the first acknowledgment that it’s relying on Google’s public cloud…
Apple debuts ad celebrating same-sex marriage in Australia
Apple Australia has debuted a series of new ads celebrating same-sex marriage…
Apple’s 6.5-inch ‘iPhone X Plus’ display, with notch, shown in leaked photo
New photos claimed to be of the rumored 6.5-inch ‘iPhone X Plus’ screen and digitizer…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple developing high-end over-ear headphones as convenient as AirPods with better sound quality
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new research note outlining his expectations…
European Union seeks power to seize overseas personal data from customers of Apple, Microsoft, other tech firms
The European Union is preparing legislation to force companies to turn over customers’ personal data…
Warren Buffett: ‘We’ve bought more Apple than anything else’ in the last year
Warren Buffett loves Apple shares…
Today is the 63rd anniversary of Steve Jobs’ birth
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. Today would have been his 63rd birthday…
Woz explains why he no longer agrees with Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking on Artificial Intelligence threat
Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk and renowned physicist Stephen Hawking have issued some terrifying predictions…
Dropbox files for IPO
Co-founder and CEO Drew Houston is Dropbox’s biggest shareholder…
Apple Pay Cash international roll out begins
Ahead of launching in Brazil, which Tim Cook says is coming sometime this year…
French court denies Apple injunction against tax protestors in stores
The High Court of Paris on Friday denied Apple’s request for an injunction that would have blocked activist group Attac…
Apple’s next-gen OLED iPhone will cost at least $899
This year, Apple is, yet again, expected to introduce three new iPhone models…
Her Majesty’s Treasury likely to confirm new taxes for Apple, other tech multinationals
Her Majesty’s Treasury is considering imposing an extra tax on tech giants like Apple…
How to add an AirDrop folder to your Mac’s Dock
AirDrop is the fastest and easiest way to shuttle files and photos between iPhones and Macs…
Kylie Jenner tweet wipes $1.3 billion off Snapchat’s value
Snapchat’s value has fallen by $1.3 billion following its much criticized redesign…
What to expect from Apple this spring: iOS 11, iPads, iPhone SE, AirPower, and stereo pairing for HomePods
A series of Apple whispers suggests a series of interesting launches this spring…
Warning: Mac users, don’t convert your Time Machine volume from HFS+ to APFS
Months after the release of macOS 10.13 High Sierra, folks are still having problems…
Apple is the hedge funds’ least loved big tech company
Apple is the only ‘big five’ technology company that’s not also a ‘top five’ hedge fund holding…
Apple’s HomePod smart speaker has plenty of room to grow
The past couple weeks of living with the HomePod has given me a bit of time not only to see what…
A test used by NASA assessed top leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Trump
Ever wanted to get inside the heads of the world’s top leaders?
Apple’s AirPower charging mat said to be released next month
The charging mat will allow Apple users to charge their iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch on the same surface…
How to raise the next Woz, according to Woz
If you want to raise your child to be a billionaire tech genius…
Apple Pay and Instacart tie-up offers free delivery through February 28th
Apple has once again partnered with Instacart to promote Apple Pay…
Dow and S&P 500 close higher on upbeat U.S. labor market data
Apple shares are now up more than 2% over the last five trading days, moving the company back into the green on the year…
Steve Jobs’ 1973 job application up for auction
Before Steve Jobs dominated the tech industry, he was just a regular guy looking for a job…
Gartner: Worldwide smartphone sales recorded first ever decline during Q417; Apple primed for delayed sales boost in calendar Q1
Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled nearly 408 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017…
Ireland expects final disputed Apple bill remaining around $16 billion
Ireland expects the final disputed tax bill that the European Commission ordered…
Apple hires Carol Trussell as Head Of Production for Worldwide Video Programming division
After greenlighting its first series over the past few months, Apple’s Worldwide Video Programming division…
How to make your Mac start-up faster
Is your Mac starting up slower than it used to?
Apple’s potential cobalt mining play is about more than money
Recent reports that Apple is looking to procure cobalt, an essential component in smartphone batteries…
I can’t wait to use a virtual iMac
iPhones will eventually become trucks, the people who use them will do lots with them…
Badass 12-year-old girl wrestles with iPhone snatcher
A 12-year-old girl in Derby, England, was attacked and robbed of her iPhone 6s…
What ‘cash neutral’ means to Apple shareholders
Never in the history of mankind has any company had so much flexibility in its capital structure…
Apple Pay users more than double globally, but only 16% of iPhone users have activated Apple Pay
We completed our annual Apple Pay review and found year over year growth has been impressive…
Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
In early 2017, a conversation with yet another Waze fanboy finally nudged me to start a navigation app experiment…
Apple HomePod hits 3 percent in U.S. market share
We recently surveyed 520 US consumers about smart speakers and found that 89% of respondents…
Wireless carriers sold over 1/3rd of all Apple Watches in the U.S. last quarter
In the smartphone market, wireless carriers are easily the most important distribution channel for smartphone OEMs…
Apple plans upgrades to popular AirPods wireless earbuds
Apple Inc., seeking to bolster its wearables business, is working on upgrades to its wireless AirPods headphones…
Apple rumored to be prepping iPhone SE upgrade with larger 4.2-inch display
According to a rumor from Chinese website QQ, Apple is expected to launch a successor…
