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Apple hires top Google executives for new hardware team

Friday, April 21, 2017 2:55 pmFriday, April 21, 20176 Comments

After revolutionizing phones, Apple Inc. is testing self-driving cars and exploring augmented reality…

Google’s Chromebooks are still spying on grade school students

Friday, April 21, 2017 10:46 am31 Comments

Google is successfully dumping millions of low-cost Chromebooks on U.S. schools, enabling the mass collection and storage of information on children without the consent of their parents…

At the start of the Trump era, Apple spent more on lobbying than ever, but outspent 2.5 times by Google

Friday, April 21, 2017 9:17 amFriday, April 21, 201716 Comments

Since the election of President Donald Trump, Apple’s been been cultivating some good old fashioned Washington influence….

Leaked document details Apple employee eye injuries, hints at Apple AR glasses

Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:40 pm13 Comments

An incident report compiled by an Environment Health and Safety contractor working for Apple…

Woz: In 2075, we’ll have a ‘bigger’ Apple, Google, Facebook — and we’ll be living in deserts

Monday, April 17, 2017 2:56 pmMonday, April 17, 201728 Comments

When Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976…

Samsung’s Siri knockoff ‘Bixby’ not ready for Galaxy 8 global launch

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 9:35 am8 Comments

Samsung has gone to great lengths to position its new Bixby assistant as the automated centerpiece…

Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘U.S. will lose its leadership in technology’ unless more women are hired

Friday, April 7, 2017 4:05 pmFriday, April 7, 2017119 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook says that society, including the tech community, is not moving fast enough on issues like equal rights and diversity…

Android surpasses Windows in online OS usage share worldwide

Monday, April 3, 2017 2:58 pmMonday, April 3, 201721 Comments

Google’s Android is now the most popular OS in the world across all hardware platforms…

Protecting against possible ISP snooping by using a VPN and https

Monday, April 3, 2017 11:28 amWednesday, April 5, 201713 Comments

The Obama Administration created a new set of restrictions on Internet service providers…

Why Congress’s rejection of proposed FCC data rules will not affect your privacy in the slightest

Friday, March 31, 2017 4:21 pmFriday, March 31, 201736 Comments

Congress was right to disapprove them…

Privacy 101: Why you need a VPN

Friday, March 31, 2017 12:01 pmFriday, March 31, 201752 Comments

Earlier this week, the Republican-led Congress voted to repeal FCC rules that blocked ISPs…

India turns down Apple’s tax incentive demand

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 11:01 am12 Comments

The Department of Revenue has said no to the tax incentive demand of US-based iPhone maker Apple…

LG to launch Apple Pay knockoff in South Korea in June

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:55 amWednesday, March 22, 20172 Comments

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc said on Wednesday it will launch a new mobile payments service…

SoftBank scraps $100 million investment in Android creator Andy Rubin’s ‘iPhone killer’ startup due to Apple pressure

Monday, March 20, 2017 4:57 pm7 Comments

SoftBank Group Corp. scrapped a planned $100 million investment in a smartphone startup…

Apple trying to make a foothold in India, despite roadblocks

Monday, March 20, 2017 3:35 pmNo Comments

Apple’s iPhone is by far its most important product. In Q1 2017, the handset generated $54 billion…

Samsung officially unveils its Siri knockoff ‘Bixby’

Monday, March 20, 2017 1:55 pmMonday, March 20, 201719 Comments

Apple gave us Siri, Microsoft gave us Cortana, Amazon gave us Alexa, Google gave us, um, Google, and now Samsung…

Apple is working on several AR products, including glasses, but first in iPhone, sources say

Monday, March 20, 2017 9:59 amMonday, March 20, 201712 Comments

Investors impatient for Apple’s next breakthrough will be happy to know that Cook is very serious about A…

Apple still won’t give India what it really wants or something

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3:44 pmWednesday, March 15, 201712 Comments

Apple’s newest iPhones have just cost too much to be a big hit in India…

Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android push towards two-OS smartphone world

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:30 pmWednesday, March 15, 201710 Comments

iOS achieved continued growth across most regions tracked, except for Japan, Spain, and Urban China…

Apple joins group of companies supporting Google in resisting FBI email warrant

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 1:01 pm4 Comments

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Cisco have filed an amicus brief supporting Google…

36 widely-used Android devices ship with malware preinstalled

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:25 amTuesday, March 14, 20179 Comments

The Check Point Mobile Threat Prevention has recently detected a severe infection in 36 Android devices…

California DMV backs allowing self-driving cars with no human on board

Saturday, March 11, 2017 1:01 pmSaturday, March 11, 201725 Comments

Self-driving cars with no human behind the wheel…

Has Apple finally found the right formula to crack this emerging market?

Saturday, March 11, 2017 12:02 pm14 Comments

Apple is moving at a fast pace to realize its dream of making a dent in the Indian smartphone industry…

Apple CEO Cook and Google CEO Pichai spotted dining together at restaurant

Friday, March 10, 2017 12:02 pmFriday, March 10, 201731 Comments

While often made out to be fierce competitors, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai…

Mossberg: Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 6:42 pm30 Comments

What we have now in consumer tech, in 2017, is an oligopoly, at least superficially similar…

Apple, other Silicon Valley firms imperiled by President Trump’s proposed import tariffs, Republicans’ border adjustment tax

Monday, March 6, 2017 11:50 amMonday, March 6, 201750 Comments

That shiny new iPhone may say ‘assembled in China’ on the back, but its origins are scattered around the world…