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Google’s Nest Secure system contains a hidden microphone that Google kept secret from users
If your IoT device secretly contained a microphone, which was previously undocumented…
Apple’s HomePod shipments surged 45% in holiday quarter
Smart speakers were the hottest consumer electronics product in 2018
Some 17,000 Android apps track users, even when told to stop
Roughly 17,000 Android apps collect identifying information that creates a permanent record…
Disney dethrones Apple in survey of most ‘intimate’ brands
Disney took the crown from Apple, which ranked first in the last three iterations of the study…
Apple fails to block porn and gambling apps abusing Enterprise Certificate program
Facebook and Google were far from the only developers openly abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate program…
Goldman Sachs: Google paid Apple $9.5 billion in 2018 to be Safari’s default search engine
Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate more than 20 percent of Apple’s burgeoning services…
YouTube unseats Apple atop ‘Brand Intimacy’ survey of millennials
Apple topped the chart last year in MBLM’s annual Brand Intimacy survey…
Apple has proven just how much power it has over tech giants
If those companies want access to the 1.4 billion Apple devices on the market…
Apple’s stock surges again; company again the most valuable company
Shares of Apple Inc ran up 1.8% in morning trade, enough to pace the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Apple again the world’s most valuable company
Technology stocks led the upside in afternoon trading Monday….
Apple finally stood up to Facebook and Google – and made a powerful point
Apple finally stood up to Facebook and Google on matters of privacy, and it made a powerful point…
Apple stands up for privacy, but does it even matter?
Apple CEO Tim Cook might be futilely trying to sell something that nobody’s buying…
Maybe only Apple can correct Facebook’s penchant for trampling users’ privacy
Tim Cook, who has called privacy a ‘fundamental human right’ and taken Facebook and Google to task…
Should Apple’s power over Facebook worry the rest of us?
At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program…
Big surprise: Google is also abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate system to collect extensive data on users
It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps …
Apple blocks Facebook from running all of their internal iOS apps by revoking distribution certificate
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps…
Apple bans Facebook’s ‘research’ app that paid teens to install VPN that spies on them
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install…
Google is working on Face ID knockoff for Android
In 2017, the Apple iPhone X [was] the first smartphone from a major device maker…
He reports on data privacy for The New York Times, that why he uses an Apple iPhone
Nick Confessore, an investigative reporter who has written about social media and data privacy, has changed his tech habits…
Google nabs senior macOS engineer from Apple to work on Fuchsia OS
Fuchsia was created from scratch to overcome the limitations of Android…
Hackers infiltrate California family’s Nest surveillance camera, send warning of incoming North Korea missile attack
Laura Lyons was preparing food in her kitchen Sunday when the lazy afternoon took a turn for the absurd…
Hidden documents reveal how Facebook made money by bamboozling children
Two Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child whom they refer to as a ‘whale’ – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders…
Roger McNamee: I mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I loved Facebook. But I can’t stay silent about what’s happening.
I am disappointed. I am embarrassed. I am ashamed…
Apple CEO Cook calls for U.S. Congress to pass comprehensive federal privacy legislation in TIME op-ed
In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy — yours, mine, all of ours…
Senator Marco Rubio introduces privacy bill to create federal regulations on data collection
Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at creating federal standards of privacy protection…
The voice assistant war: What if nobody wins?
One of the clearest developments that came out of 2018, and prominently on display last week….
Apple’s iOS dominates as mobile platform of choice for corporate America
Apple’s iOS is the preferred operating system for mobile in American business…
Apple’s HomeKit was a surprise winner of CES 2019
Without stepping foot in Las Vegas or making a single announcement of its own, Apple is having one of its best CES conferences in years…
Americans warming to use of facial recognition tech – survey
A growing number of Americans are OK with the facial recognition technology…
Apple reportedly to support RCS, the iMessage-like successor to SMS
Touted as an upgraded version of SMS, RCS is being spearheaded by the carriers…
Apple can transform enterprise communications — if they do this
While enterprises are certainly (and appropriately) adopting Apple’s solutions across their internal infrastructure, they must still communicate with customers…
Huawei wishes followers ‘Happy 2019’ in a tweet sent from a real Apple iPhone
China’s Huawei Technologies has punished two employees for New Year greetings…
Google’s Android platform exists as it does today because of Apple’s iPhone
This might be a difficult pill for hardcore Android fans to swallow…
How Apple could double its services revenues by 2022
Apple’s Services business has grown at a rate of over 20% over the last three years,…
Apple’s Siri has gotten a lot more accurate over the past 9 months
We recently tested four smart speakers by asking Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana…
Is Google purposefully breaking Microsoft, Apple browsers on its websites?
In what can only be described as painfully ironic, Microsoft engineers are seemingly convinced…
Apple’s secret weapon
The conservative valuation of this vertical would be $111 billion to $148 billion…
Google CEO Pichai denies company’s political bias in congressional hearing
Google’s chief executive officer Sundar Pichai rejected claims of political bias against conservatives…
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others denounce Australia’s ‘deeply flawed’ anti-encryption law
Apple, Google and Microsoft have denounced the Australian government’s decision to pass an anti-encryption law that…
Backdoors: Australia passes laws allowing spies and police to snoop on encrypted communications
Australia Thursday passed controversial laws allowing spies and police to snoop on the encrypted communications…
Google killing Allo messaging service
Allo, once the vanguard platform of Google’s plans for messaging, will officially shut down…
