After debuting in the US last year, Apple’s take on “classic MTV,” Apple Music TV, has now landed in the United Kingdom and Canada…
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Apple’s iOS app economy supports 330,000 UK jobs
Apple’s App Store now supports more than 330,000 jobs in the UK — an increase of more than 10 percent over the past year…
Apple closes all California retail stores over increase in COVID-19 cases
As COVID-19 cases in California increased, Apple announced this weekend that the company was closing all of its retail stores in the state…
Apple delivers Health Records on iPhone to the UK and Canada
Apple today announced the arrival of Health Records on iPhone to the UK and Canada. The Health Records feature within the Health app…
Apple rolls out all-new Maps across the UK and Ireland
Today, users in the UK and Ireland can experience the new Apple Maps, with faster and more accurate navigation, and comprehensive views of…
UK government to give 11,000 Apple iPads to care homes so residents can keep in touch
A total cost of £7.5 million, up to 11,000 Apple iPads will be given to thousands of care homes to help residents keep in touch…
COVID-19 contact tracing app based on Apple-Google API launches in England and Wales
England and Wales launched a COVID-19 contact tracing app on Thursday, allowing users to trace contacts, check the local level of risk and…
UK school network delivers 30,000 Apple iPads for students and teachers
Oasis Community Learning will deliver over 30,000 Apple iPads to primary, secondary, sixth form students, and staff in the UK over the next…
Apple demands 50% rent cuts and and rent-free period for UK stores
Apple is pushing for huge rent cuts across its UK stores and the company seeks equal treatment with other retailers, who have had rents cut by landlords…
UK makes U-turn; to use Apple-Google contract-tracing API
In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its COVID-19 contact-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple…
Apple reopening 32 UK Apple Retail Stores on June 15th
All Apple Retail Stores in England, and one in Northern Ireland, will reopen on Monday, June 15th in the UK with new coronavirus related hygiene…
Nearly 80 cell towers burned in UK over 5G conspiracy theories
Almost 80 cell towers have reportedly been burned down in the UK due to coronavirus conspiracy theories that blame the COVID-19 outbreak on 5G tech…
UK’s NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app is fatally flawed and likely illegal
The United Kingdom’s NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app is fatally flawed and likely illegal. “Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster…
Privacy: Apple won’t support invasive French, German contact tracing
A standoff over contact tracing privacy between Germany and France, the two largest nations in the European Union, and Silicon Valley escalated…
ACLU has concerns with Apple-Google’s COVID-19 contact-tracing plan
A well-designed, widely-used COVID-19 contact-tracing tool could offer public health benefit, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says, but…
UK’s NHS in standoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing
The NHS is in a standoff with Apple and Google after the two tech firms refused to support the UK’s plans to build an app that alerts users when they…
President Trump: Some have ‘very big constitutional problems’ with Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing tech
Last week, Apple and Google jointly announced a partnership to create a COVID-19 contact-tracing system that works with both iOS and Android…
What’s wrong with the Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing scheme
There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous COVID-19 contact tracing, including from Apple and Google. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS)…
UK NHS working with Apple-Google on COVID-19 contract tracing app
In the UK, senior sources say NHSX, the NHS’ technology arm, has been working at “breakneck speed” on a COVID-19 contract tracing app with Google and Apple…
iPhone survives underwater for 2 months – and still works
Can an Apple iPhone survive underwater for 2 months? Yes, it can!While feeding the swans, Thayse Bussolo-Vieira’s brand new Apple iPhone fell…
Disney+ launches in the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and Austria
Disney+ launches today in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Switzerland. The service will launch in France on April 7th…
British PM Boris Johnson to meet with major tech companies to discuss ways to control coronavirus outbreak
British PM Boris Johnson has summoned major tech companies to discuss ways of improving communication with the public over a coronavirus outbreak…
UK’s MI5 chief wants ‘exceptional access’ to encryption
MI5’s director general Andrew Parker has called on technology companies to find a way to allow spy agencies “exceptional access” to encrypted messages…
UK network Three rolls out 5G service ahead of Apple’s first 5G iPhones
British network Three is rolling out a 5G service to major cities including London, Glasgow, and Birmingham, in preparation for Apple’s first 5G iPhones …
Disney+ launch moved up in UK, Western Europe to March 24
The Disney+ launch has been moved up a week. Those in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Austria…
Apple working on fix for iPhone XR connection issues on O2 network
The iPhone XR completely lost signal several times a day on the O2 network…
Apple takes second spot on list of best British employers
Rentokil Initial, a U.K.-headquartered global pest control business, has been crowned the best company to work for in Britain…
Apple leases 100,000 square feet in what will be London’s tallest building
The world’s first trillion-dollar company has agreed to lease about 100,000 sq ft at 22 Bishopsgate, a 62-storey skyscraper…
Amazon Music now available on Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD
Starting today, customers can download the Amazon Music app from the App Store for Apple TV and get access to stream millions of songs and thousands of playlists and stations on Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD…
UK House of Commons Transport Committee: Hands-free phone ban for drivers ‘should be considered’
Drivers in the United Kingdom could be banned from using hands-free mobile phones…
Britain’s new leader Boris Johnson vows to get Brexit done
Boris Johnson, the ebullient Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by Halloween…
Why the Apple Card is better than a regular credit card
Apple Card completely rethinks everything about the credit card. It represents all the things Apple stands for. Like simplicity, transparency, security, and privacy…
Apple Card launch imminent as Apple trademark filings appear
With Apple’s new payment card appearing to be set for imminent launch in the U.S.A…
New plans from UK’s EE replace set-top-boxes with Apple TV 4K units
We’re giving customers the TV, film and sport they love in the best quality on Apple TV 4K…
Super Micro ditching ‘made-in-China’ parts despite no evidence of Bloomberg Businessweek’s spy chip claims
Super Micro Computer, the California-based server maker at the heart of spy chip allegations last autumn…
Tests of Super Micro equipment find no malicious chips in current or older-model motherboards
Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc told customers on Tuesday…
Bloomberg Businessweek should retract or unequivocally prove their Supermicro spy chip yarn
Apple, Amazon, the government, national security advisors, and independent technology experts alike have all said Bloomberg Businessweek is wrong…
Investigating implausible Bloomberg Businessweek’s Supermicro spy chip yarn
Bloomberg Businessweek needs to retract the story and investigate how this passed editorial muster and was published…
AWS CEO joins Tim Cook in urging Bloomberg Businessweek to retract its Chinese spy chip yarn
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has joined Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Super Micro to review hardware for malicious chips
Despite the lack of any proof that a malicious hardware chip exists, we are undertaking a complicated and time-consuming review…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Bloomberg Businessweek should do the right thing and retract its Chinese spy chip story
We turned the company upside down. This did not happen. There’s no truth to this…
Alleged hacker threatened to sell details of 319 million Apple iCloud users, demanded more than £133,000 in Bitcoin
An alleged hacker threatened to sell the personal details of 319 million Apple iCloud users…
