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The $5 million surveillance car that hacks iPhones from 500 meters
A Cyprus-based surveillance company claims to have built a car full of next-generation snooping kit…
Google’s Android is still a toxic hellstew compared to Apple’s iPhone even when it’s not polluting your phone
Android’s popularity can be attributed for the most part to Google’s distribution model…
LG admits: iPhone loyalists are driving us crazy
If you’re capable of sympathy, can you spare some for Android manufacturers?
The 18 things you may not realize Facebook knows about you: Firm reveals the extent of its spying in a 454-page document to U.S. Congress
The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…
Apple cracks down on apps sharing information on users’ friends
Apple Inc. changed its App Store rules last week to limit how developers harvest, use and share information…
Slavish copier Samsung appeals $539 million verdict for peddling Apple iPhone knockoffs
The jury may have made a decision, but the fight isn’t over…
Apple and Google are heading in the same direction, but on different paths
Developer conference season is behind us, leaving in its wake a huge pile of software updates to come…
Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook
In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…
Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies
Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…
Apple’s Greg Joswiak dismisses planned obsolescence as ‘craziest thinking in the world’
Announced during the WWDC keynote, was the feature that iOS 12 more quickly ramps up peak performance…
Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy
The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…
Apple borks Facebook’s pervasive personal data-harvesting operation
Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook…
Apple requested ‘zero’ personal data in deals with Facebook – CEO Tim Cook
“We’ve never been in the data business,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday…
Facebook CEO blasts Apple’s latest privacy protections as ‘cute virtue signaling’
Apple is taking active steps to block Facebook’s data collection practices…
Facebook gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung
Facebook struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information…
Apple’s $539 million in damages is a ‘huge loss’ for iPhone knockoff peddler Samsung
Samsung Electronics Co. took a gamble when it appealed a finding it infringed Apple Inc.’s smartphone design patents…
Batterygate: Apple offers $50 refund for iPhone batteries replaced in 2017
Apple Inc. will give a partial refund to some customers who paid full price for iPhone battery replacements…
Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU
Turns out “sorry” doesn’t seem to work as much for the social network’s chief anymore…
ZipperDown vulnerability may impact 10% of all iOS apps, Android apps also affected
Security researchers from Pangu Lab, a well-known company that provides iOS jailbreaks…
Another day, another reason to never downgrade from Apple’s iPhone to Android
Android is the world’s most popular mobile platform by a landslide…
Google’s latest Android version tries to make Android phones more like Apple’s iPhone X
Google has a new version of Android coming to your phone with features…
Apple sells an iPhone X every three seconds in Europe
Apple sold at least one iPhone 6-type phone for every iPhone X…
Canalys: Apple’s iPhone X was Europe’s No.1 smartphone in Q1
This is a new era for smartphones in Europe…
Yet another reason I’ll never downgrade from Apple’s iPhone to an Android phone,
For a period of time, I almost always carried an Android phone with me in addition to my main iPhone…
How to remove third-party accounts like Facebook from your Mac
With the release of iOS 11, Apple nixed its built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Vimeo…
Apple responds to personal data request with 9MB file: The personal data archives from Facebook and Google were 881MB and 243MB respectively
Following Facebook’s acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of millions of users…
Apple’s flagship iPhone X continues to be the best-selling smartphone in urban China
The latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveals that in the three months…
Apple facing complaints over its iPhone battery-replacement pledge
At the end of last year, Apple admitted to slowing down older iPhones to preserve battery life…
Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user-data scandal
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…
Why Apple should release Messages for Android
In light of last week’s news that Google is backing a next-gen version of text messaging with iMessage-like features…
iOS 11 adoption rate hits 76%
Apple’s iOS 11 operating system now powers 76% of active devices in the wild…
Apple targets Android switchers with two new iPhone ads
The two ads continue Apple’s recent ‘Switch to iPhone’ campaign, which specifically urges…
Google’s ‘Chat’ is not end-to-end encrypted like Apple’s iMessage
Google has been quietly corralling every major cellphone carrier on the planet into adopting technology to replace SMS…
Beleaguered Facebook heading down a troubled path
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica saga is not going away quietly, underscored by Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Apple’s App Store is destroying Google Play in services and subscriptions
Apple’s U.S. customers installed 45 new iPhone apps in 2017, a growth of 10 percent over last year…
Facebook points fingers Google, Amazon and Twitter for also harvesting user data
Facebook wants users to know that it’s not the only one tracking their every move on the internet…
Beleaguered Facebook may face billions in fines over facial recognition tool storing biometric data without user consent
Facebook could face billions of dollars in fines after a federal judge ruled that the company…
Next Android version’s flagrant iPhone X imitation shows how little Google is innovating
Android P is still in super-duper developer-only beta mode, but you only need to look at an iPhone X…
I was one of the very first people on Facebook. I shouldn’t have trusted Mark Zuckerberg
Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake…
Facebook AI predicts your future and sells this info to advertisers
Facebook’s artificial intelligence software can predict your future behaviour and sells this information to advertisers…
Android’s trust problem isn’t getting better
Android is used by 2 billion people around the world, tolerated more than loved, and susceptible to major lapses in user privacy and security….
