Amazon is set to release its first Android-powered tablet, marking a significant shift from its Fire OS platform to address user complaints…
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Apple TV app now available to those who settle for Android
The Apple TV app is now available to download from Google Play offering those who settle for Android devices access to hit, award-winning…
Apple sold an estimated 14.249 million iPads in Q2 2020
Worldwide tablet shipments hit 37.5 million units in Q2 2020, a remarkable 26% year-on-year increase. Apple sold an estimated 14.249 million iPads in…
Xiaomi claims China smartphone sales already close to full recovery
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said on Tuesday, as the country claims it is returning to normal…
8 things Apple’s iOS does better than Android
There are many things that Apple’s iOS does better than Google’s Android…
Apple, Gucci, Burberry, and Nike among counterfeit goods seized before Christmas
Thousands of imitation products originating from China were seized by Border Force officials in recent weeks from ports…
Google to knock off Apple iPhone yet again with ‘Face Unlock’ Face ID clone in Pixel 4 phone
Google on Monday previewed a pair of features coming to its Pixel 4 smartphone, including “Face Unlock,” to compete with Apple’s Face ID technology…
Pixel 3a: Google takes a desperate step into the Android morass of cheap commodity phones
When Google decided to stop rebranding its partners’ Androids as Nexus models and launched…
Solid middle-ground is needed on ‘Right to Repair’
The debate over whether or not to have the so-called ‘Right to Repair’ guaranteed has both sides…
Ontario’s ‘Right to Repair’ bill killed after big tech lobbying including Apple
The bill aimed to force companies like Apple to provide…
California pulls its right-to-repair bill following pressure from Apple, other firms
An Apple lobbyist has quietly managed to get California to postpone its right-to-repair bill until 2020 at the earliest…
Leaked internal documents show Apple is capable of implementing ‘Right to Repair’ legislation
As Apple continues to fight legislation that would make it easier for consumers to repair…
Apple’s big services push has iPhone written all over it
Apple just can’t shake that iPhone addiction…
Google trims size of its Pixelbook laptop and Pixel Slate tablet division, raising questions about future hardware plans
Google has moved dozens of employees out of its laptop and tablet division…
Allstate buys mobile device repair company iCracked, becoming powerful proponent of ‘Right to Repair’ movement against Apple
Allstate, one of the largest insurance companies in the United States…
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…
IDC: Worldwide tablet market declined 13.5% during the Q218
The worldwide tablet market declined 13.5% during the second quarter of 2018…
Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…
Facebook stock plunges as users vanish
Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…
Under Tim Cook, Steve Jobs’ ‘thermonuclear war’ against iPhone copiers ends not with a bang, but with a whimper
The smartphone patent wars are finally over…
Apple, Samsung settle U.S. patent dispute
Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday settled a years-long patent dispute…
Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy
Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..
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…
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 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 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…
Apple wins $538.6 million from Samsung in latest iPhone patent retrial
Nearly six years after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion in damages against Samsung…
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…
Original Mac designer Susan Kare takes stand in Apple v. Samsung trial
Two Apple expert witnesses took the stand in the recently restarted Apple v. Samsung patent trial on Wednesday…
Apple executive admits Steve Jobs ‘bet the company’ on the iPhone in drawn-out court case with Samsung
It’s been eight years since the original iPhone was first released, but Apple still regards…
Apple wants $1 billion from Samsung at iPhone copying retrial; Samsung wants to pay just $28 million
Apple Inc. is seeking about $1 billion from Samsung Electronics Co. in another go-round stemming from…
Samsung tries to further reduce Apple’s iPhone patent award
Samsung Electronics Co. is trying again to chip away at Apple Inc.’s long-ago patent victory…
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…
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…
