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iPhone X sets new trends for the smartphone, the device Apple created

Friday, September 15, 2017 1:28 pmFriday, September 15, 20178 Comments

A number of new features that come along with Apple’s newly released iPhone X…

Android malware apps with over 1 million downloads slip past Google Play defenses – twice!

Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:57 amThursday, September 14, 201710 Comments

Researchers recently found at least 50 apps in the official Google Play market that made charges…

Google ‘in final stage of negotiations’ to buy HTC’s smartphone division – report

Friday, September 8, 2017 5:37 pmFriday, September 8, 201711 Comments

HTC could have been the dominant device maker Samsung is today, but the Taiwanese company suffered financial defeat…

iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments

Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:44 pmThursday, July 20, 201711 Comments

Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…

Should America’s tech giants be broken up? Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook may be contributing to the U.S. economy’s most persistent ailments

Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:27 amThursday, July 20, 201723 Comments

Google is as close to a monopoly as the Bell telephone system was in 1956…

Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:17 pm10 Comments

Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…

Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:33 pmTuesday, July 18, 201732 Comments

Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…

Apple’s iPhone at 10: Still no major malware

Thursday, July 6, 2017 5:01 pm19 Comments

One of the biggest successes of the iPhone is its security…

European Union hits Google with record $2.73 billion fine for abusing internet search monopoly

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:23 amTuesday, June 27, 201753 Comments

The penalty is the biggest ever competition fine from the European Commission, doubling the previous record…

Apple’s iOS rises again in urban China; iPhone 7/Plus easily outsells Samsung Galaxy S8/Plus in the U.S.A.

Thursday, June 15, 2017 4:50 pm2 Comments

Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus remained the top sellers during the May period with combined share of…

Security expert: There are several reasons why Apple iPhones are more secure than Android phones

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 3:25 pmWednesday, May 31, 20178 Comments

Apple’s “latest ad campaign features a thief who’s able to break in and steal things from Android phones…

Apple’s App Store took 60% of mobile app sales in 2016 despite a smaller user base vs. Google’s Android

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 1:14 pmWednesday, May 17, 20178 Comments

We estimate Apple recently passed 700 million iPhones in use…

WikiLeaks to give Apple, Google, others 90-day deadline to fix flaws revealed in ‘Vault 7’

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 1:38 pm10 Comments

WikiLeaks promise to give tech companies access to exploits in their systems before being made public…

What WikiLeaks’ CIA data dump tells us: Encryption works

Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:34 am26 Comments

If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures…

Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with tech companies

Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:01 pm7 Comments

WikiLeaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools…

PC Magazine: Apple’s iPhone SE is more fun for less money

Thursday, March 9, 2017 12:01 pmThursday, March 9, 20179 Comments

The best iPhone may actually be the one Apple seems to have forgotten about…

Apple working to close remaining CIA exploits exposed by WikiLeaks, but difficulties remain

Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:46 am11 Comments

Just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, mobile phones belonging to executives on Apple…

WikiLeaks raises prospect of teaming with tech giants, including Apple, to thwart CIA hacker-spies

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:35 pm8 Comments

The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details…

Apple: Many of the iOS vulnerabilities in Wikileaks’ CIA data dump are already patched

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:56 amWednesday, March 8, 201729 Comments

Wikileaks today published a trove of documents, allegedly taken from the CIA..

WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s global covert hacking program targeting Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows and even Samsung TVs

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:11 amTuesday, March 7, 201741 Comments

Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency…

Know Your Mobile reviews Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus: The best camera phone. Period.

Monday, March 6, 2017 11:37 amMonday, March 6, 20171 Comment

Apple’s decision to move to a three-year hardware cycle has been met with a lot of resistance…

Apple’s iPhone 8 will build on record sales with all-new 5.8-inch OLED

Sunday, March 5, 2017 11:58 am18 Comments

Turns out that iPhone addiction is much harder to kick than previously thought…

Gartner: Apple again world’s No. 1 smartphone vendor

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 5:36 pmWednesday, February 15, 201727 Comments

Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 432 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016…

Apple is destroying Samsung where it really matters

Friday, February 3, 2017 4:29 pm12 Comments

Apple is widening the gap where it matters the most…

Apple’s iPhone 7 keeps converting Android users

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 4:35 pm8 Comments

Apple on Tuesday released its financial report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017…

Apple v. Samsung lawsuit over iPhone patents officially reopened

Friday, January 13, 2017 5:35 pmFriday, January 13, 201718 Comments

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday reopened a longstanding patent lawsuit…

U.S. Supreme Court’s Apple v. Samsung ruling could change the landscape for design patent cases

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 12:01 pmTuesday, December 6, 201622 Comments

The Supreme Court handed a huge victory to Samsung on Tuesday, tossing out nearly $400 million in damage…

U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules for Samsung in Apple patent damages dispute; case sent back to lower court

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:43 amTuesday, December 6, 201649 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled for Samsung in a dispute over damages related to Apple’s iPhone design…

Court denies Samsung bid for second appeal of $119.6 million iPhone slide-to-unlock patent verdict

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 2:01 pmTuesday, November 29, 201616 Comments

The U.S. Court of Appeals has denied Samsung’s bid for a second re-hearing of the storied 2014 patent trial…

Apple reaps 106% of smartphone industry profits

Monday, November 21, 2016 3:04 pm12 Comments

Apple has seized everything worthwhile from rivals in the smartphone industry…

Google attempts to defend Android in European Commission antitrust case

Thursday, November 10, 2016 3:58 pmFriday, November 11, 20161 Comment

The Commission is focusing on three potentially illegal practices…

Apple iPhone achieves ‘an impossible dream’

Friday, November 4, 2016 2:25 pmFriday, November 4, 201614 Comments

That money can be used to fund more research, more development, and more design…

Total dominance: Apple iPhone takes 104% of smartphone industry profits

Friday, November 4, 2016 9:55 amFriday, November 4, 201634 Comments

Among major vendors, Samsung was No. 2 in smartphone profits with a tiny 0.9% share…

Gloom falls over beleaguered Samsung as phone group faces lost bonuses and jobs

Friday, October 21, 2016 5:54 pmFriday, October 21, 201626 Comments

As beleaguered Samsung took the unprecedented step of killing off an entire generation of its smartphone after persistent problems with battery fires and explosions…

Why the U.S. Supreme Court asked if Apple’s iPhone design is like a Volkswagen Beetle

Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:28 am13 Comments

The Volkswagen Beetle took center stage as the Supreme Court argued about iPhones on Tuesday…

Seemingly frustrated U.S. Supreme Court hears Apple, Samsung patent case

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:36 pmTuesday, October 11, 20166 Comments

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared frustrated over how to resolve a high-stakes battle between…

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Samsung, Apple damages dispute today

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 10:28 am5 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court is to hear arguments Tuesday in a closely-watched dispute…

U.S. Supreme Court to rule on how much Samsung should pay for copying Apple’s iPhone

Monday, October 10, 2016 11:15 am4 Comments

After five years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday…

Apple wins appeal reinstating $119.6 million verdict against patent-infringer Samsung

Friday, October 7, 2016 12:00 pmFriday, October 7, 201622 Comments

Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling that reinstates a patent-infringement verdict it won against Samsung Electronics Co…

Samsung to U.S. Supreme Court: Ruling in Apple’s favor would inspire a new breed of patent troll

Thursday, September 1, 2016 4:27 pmThursday, September 1, 201610 Comments

For the first time in more than 100 years the Supreme Court will take on a design patent case…

Apple iPhone is attracting millions of Android switchers

Friday, August 26, 2016 12:03 pmFriday, August 26, 201611 Comments

29 percent of all iPhone users will definitely buy a new phone this year, and while 87 percent…

Are fashion designers undermining their own products by supporting Apple?

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 3:35 pmTuesday, August 9, 20165 Comments

In the ongoing legal wranglings between tech giants Apple and Samsung, a group of fashion industry luminaries…

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