For the first time in more than 100 years the Supreme Court will take on a design patent case…
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Google to pay $5.5 million for sneaking around Apple’s privacy settings to collect user data
Perhaps if Google had taken its own ‘don’t be evil’ motto to heart…
IDC: Worldwide tablet market expected to rebound in 2018 as Apple iPads come out of a slump
The decline of the worldwide tablet market is set to continue for the remainder of 2016 as year-over-year growth…
PC Magazine reviews Apple’s CarPlay: ‘Excellent’
It’s no secret that automakers have struggled with infotainment interfaces…
Apple CEO Tim Cook and the rest of Silicon Valley throw big money at Clinton and pretty much bupkis at Trump
Tim Cook will mark his five-year anniversary as the CEO of Apple by doing something that his predecessor Steve Jobs typically avoided: hosting a fundraiser for a presidential candidate…
Google is axing Chrome apps for Mac and Windows
Google will be killing off Chrome apps for both Mac and Windows in the next few years…
Apple held potential acquisition talks with Lyft, sources say
It is not an easy thing to be an independent ride-hailing company these days…
Apple, AT&T, others to work on ‘robocall’ crackdown
AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson will announce laster today that 33 companies including the Apple Inc…
Google’s Santa macOS malware sniffer goes open source
Google’s Macintosh Operations team have been working on a security application destined for Apple’s Mac…
Google launches Apple FaceTime killer ‘Duo’
Google and Apple have battled each other for years for primacy over mobile users…
How to make Google’s YouTube stop tracking what you watch
When you are logged in to your Google Account, YouTube keeps a running list of everything you watch on the site for a few reasons…
Inept Microsoft demonstrates just how right Apple was to stand up to U.S. government overreach
I wrote an opinion piece predating the San Bernardino shootings on why Apple was right to stand firm…
Apple’s Mac is now a threat to Alphabet Inc.’s Google
Later this year, Apple will release macOS Sierra, the next version of its Mac operating system…
Bungling Microsoft singlehandedly proves that ‘backdoors’ are a stupid idea
Microsoft leaked the golden keys that unlock Windows-powered tablets, phones and other devices sealed…
Trump’s nice tweets come from Apple iPhone, the not-so-nice ones come from Android phone
When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he’s tweeting from his iPhone…
Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and the advantages of bigness
At some point in a big, successful company’s life, it comes up against the problem of the law of large numbers….
Are fashion designers undermining their own products by supporting Apple?
In the ongoing legal wranglings between tech giants Apple and Samsung, a group of fashion industry luminaries…
Dieter Rams, Norman Foster, and 100+ of the world’s top designers side with Apple in Samsung patent case
Star designers are being pitted against tech titans in the latest episode of Apple’s legal battle with Samsung…
Beleaguered HTC reports quarterly revenue of $598 million, a 44% YoY decline, net loss of $133 million
The latest HTC results, for its Q2, confirm another loss-making quarter for the phone maker…
Apple to U.S. Supreme Court: Samsung stole our patents, should end its appeals and finally pay up
Apple innovated; Samsung copied…
New York governor bars sex offenders from playing Pokémon Go
The directive applies to nearly 3,000 Level One, Two, and Three sex offenders currently on parole…
Apple asks U.S. Supreme Court to rule against Samsung for infringing iPhone patents
Apple Inc on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd..
Google/Alphabet: Flushing away billions
Google/Alphabet is a modern-day Bell Telephone that is wasting billions of dollars on fruitless research projects..
Verizon to acquire beleaguered Yahoo for $4.8 billion
The one thing that kept Yahoo afloat for this long is Jerry Yang’s risky $1 billion bet on Alibaba in 2005…
Apple Google’s WebP for accelerated image loads in Safari
Apple has begun trial runs with a Google graphics technology in a significant endorsement…
Apple brand power climbing, holds lead over all tech firms
Apple is standing fast for a second consecutive year as the fifth most powerful brand in the U.S…
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Samsung’s appeal of Apple design patent case on October 11th
Back in March, the Supreme Court stated that it would hear Samsung’s appeal in the company’s never-ending design patent battle…
EU alleges Google skews search results to boost its own products and services
Google faces a new antitrust attack from European Union regulators who allege the search engine…
Google quietly brings its forget program to the U.S.
If you are worried about your online privacy, it might be of interest to you that Google has quietly…
Pokémon GO and business model innovation
After months of hype, Pokémon GO finally began rolling out in a few countries this week…
Ten things I wish I knew when I started playing Pokémon GO
I’ve been playing Pokémon GO pretty hardcore now for the past 48 hours or so…
iPhone users: Pokémon GO can spy on your entire Google account
iPhone users of Pokémon GO, beware: the app has access to your entire Google account.
Google plans to release its own smartphone and it will fail
Google has quite a few reasons to design its own smartphone and have better control over its software, services, and users…
Google asks court to sanction Oracle lawyer for disclosing its secret $1 billion deal with Apple
In January, Oracle attorney Annette Hurst disclosed the fact that Google paid Apple $1 billion…
Over 10 million Android phones reportedly infected with Chinese malware
At least 10 million Android devices have been infected by malware called HummingBad…
Apple’s revolutionary iPhone is nine years old – and still no significant malware outbreaks
Apple started selling the Apple iPhone nine years ago today…
Google Maps and Google Earth get sharper satellite imagery
When Google Earth was first released, it was life-changing…
Why the iPhone knockoff peddlers hate ‘The Crutch Of Android’
Apple is the only major tech gadget company that makes the whole widget…
Huawei working on its own OS to escape ‘the crutch of Android’
Huawei, the second largest Android phone maker in market share behind Samsung…
Why we might not see Apple’s answer to the Amazon Echo
Nobody puts Siri in a corner…
Apple’s use of cutting-edge tech will peek at user habits without violating privacy
Apple Inc. is tapping new technology to garner insight into user behavior…
Apple seeks to use AI to keep Google off your iPhones, iPads, and Macs
Apple Inc.’s new artificial-intelligence capabilities may help it protect its software and services businesses…