Apple Watch The Apple Watch has a number of sensors that can monitor the wearer’s environment. A patent application by Apple describes using the information from the sensors to determine when an emergency exists so help can be summoned. See related: “Siri, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” According to the patent application, events […]
Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell. (Image: file photo) Apple’s chief lawyer has fired back at the Justice Dept. for its latest attempt to “smear the other side with false accusations and innuendo.” Bruce Sewell, the company’s general counsel, was responding to the latest filing by the Justice Dept., which filed its latest brief with the […]
Expecting the iPhone 7 to look different to the existing iPhone 6S? The latest leak suggests that the new iPhone will look very familiar to existing iPhone owners. French tech site NoWhereElse – a site with a good track record when it comes to accurate leaks, and Hemmerstoffer has been the first with the scoop […]
We’re a week away from what is expected to be an Apple launch event that will include the roll out of the new iPhone 5SE handset — and the rumor mill, as usual, is churning. A PR firm that we have been working with in China, Beeep, has sent us an interesting video and photos […]
(Image: Stephen Lam/Getty Images) It took just a few hours for the Justice Dept. to gauge how its legal action against Apple would be perceived by the public. Not long after a California court released an order compelling Apple to help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, there […]
The US courthouse in Washington DC which houses the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorizes the government’s surveillance operations. (Image: AP Photo/Cliff Owen) NEW YORK — The US government has made numerous attempts to obtain source code from tech companies in an effort to find security flaws that could be used for surveillance or […]
New data released suggest that big iPhones have not been a huge hit with users, with only 15 percent choosing Apple’s 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6S Plus handsets. Data compiled by mobile engagement platform Localytics gives us a look at the breakdown of different devices within the iPhone and iPad ecosystem, and offer […]
My ZDNet UK colleague Charles McLellan did a fantastic market analysis this week of how Apple sits with its emerging competition from China, Korea and other parts of Asia. It paints a picture of an incredibly wealthy company sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in cash assets, but growth in its core business of […]
The day after announcing it had purchased cross-platform mobile tool vendor Xamarin, Microsoft officials are offering a few new details about the company’s Universal Windows Platforms onboarding strategy. As previously rumored, Microsoft is dropping work on its Android “bridge,” or toolkit for bringing Android apps to Windows 10. It’s putting all its mobile-toolkit eggs in […]
CBS Interactive Apple’s new version of the 9.7-inch iPad said to be announced in mid-March won’t be called the “iPad Air” and will be added to the iPad Pro line instead, according to Mark Gurman of 9to5mac. The new 9.7-inch tablet, which will have Apple Pencil capability and a Smart Keyboard, will join the 12.7-inch […]