Apple

Foxconn Agrees £4bn Sharp Takeover Deal

Deal could see future iPhones get better screens, but doubts have already been raised following release of 'new information'

9 years ago

US DoJ Wants To Force Apple To Unlock iPhones ‘In A Dozen Cases’

The US Department of Justice wants to force Apple to unlock more handsets as row over encryption continues

9 years ago

Swift Flies To Cloud With IBM For Simpler App Development

IBM demoes updated version of programming language Swift, designed to simplify the way developers build enterprise apps

9 years ago

FBI Says Suspect iPhone Password Reset Was Deliberate

Investigators would have needed to crack the shooting suspect's iPhone even if its iCloud password hadn't been reset, the FBI…

9 years ago

McAfee Offers To Crack iPhone, As Facebook, Twitter Praise FBI Refusal

Maverick John McAfee offers to break the encryption on the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook

9 years ago

Apple Issues Fix For iPhone ‘Error 53’

iPhone maker apologises for issue that had ‘bricked’ iPhones with third-party repairs

9 years ago

Apple Praised By Google, Damned By Rigby Family For FBI Refusal

Apple criticised for refusal to unlock terrorist phone, but its stance also receives widespread support from rivals

9 years ago

IPhone Sales Fall For The First Time

However Gartner figures still show global smartphone sales growing by nearly 10 percent last quarter

9 years ago

Apple Refuses To Hack Terrorist’s Phone For FBI

Tim Cook says FBI demand sets “a dangerous precedent”, despite handset belonging to San Bernardino terrorist

9 years ago

Apple Pay Gets China Launch This Week

Mobile payments platform will go live with three Chinese banks on February 18

9 years ago

New iPhone And iPad Launch Date Revealed

Reports claim that March 15 event will see next releases from Apple

9 years ago

Don’t Tell Your iPhone That It’s 1970

Taking your iPhone back to the future will brick it, unfortunate users find

9 years ago

Apple Pay Suffers First Major Outage

Visa customers left unable to link cars to their account during seven-hour Apple Pay downtime

9 years ago

Apple Open Sources Its Swift Benchmarking Suite

The Swift Benchmarking Suite gives developers a wide range of tools to track the performance of their fledgling Swift applications

9 years ago

iOS ‘Error 53’ Disables iPhones With Third Party Touch ID Repairs For ‘Security’

iPhone users report Error 53 messages that leave their device useless. Apple says the Touch ID checks are to protect…

9 years ago

Apple, Amazon And Google Data Centres Use Far More Coal Than Everyone Thinks

Web giants are underestimating their data centre coal usage by 30 percent because of “obsolete” data tools

9 years ago

IDC: IPad Pro Claims Victory Over Microsoft Surface In Business Tablet Battle

Apple’s super-sized iPad takes top spot but overall tablet sales decline as premium devices become more popular than cheap slates

9 years ago

Alphabet More Valuable Than Apple As Google’s Core Business Beats Expectations

But operating loss from Alphabet's self-driving cars and other moonshots increases to £2.5 billion

9 years ago

Apple ‘Developing’ Long Distance Wireless Charging

Report claims that future Apple devices will be charged without a cable or wireless charging pad

9 years ago

How Secure Is Apple Pay?

Tony Anscombe, senior security evangelist at AVG Technologies, asks if we're giving up our security for convenience

9 years ago

Apple Recalls iPhone, iPad Chargers Over Electrocution Fears

Two-prong chargers are recalled by Apple, UK chargers unaffected

9 years ago

Why 2016 Could Be The Toughest Year For Smartphones Yet

BLOG: Initial signs show that the smartphone market could be in for a rough ride in 2016 - but what's…

9 years ago

Record 1.4 Billion Smartphones Were Shipped In 2015

Record year sees Samsung take top spot despite recent difficulties, but overall growth is slowing

9 years ago

Tim Cook Gives Virtual Reality The Thumbs Up

Apple CEO drops further hints that the company will be working on “really cool” VR technology

9 years ago

Apple Safari Crashes For iOS and Mac Users

Safari users suffer more pain as suggestions blamed for crashing bug

9 years ago

Apple Grows Services, Wearable Revenues As iPhone Decline Fails To Materialise

Apple sees rise in services, 'other products' and flat sales for iPhone and Mac, but iPad continues to fall

9 years ago

Oracle: Android Has Generated £22bn in Revenues For Google

Confidential court documents suggest Google has made huge profits from Android, and pays Apple £700m to be default search engine…

9 years ago

Apple Hires Virtual Reality Expert

Virginia Tech professor Doug Bowman is also an expert in Augmented Reality and has worked with Microsoft HoloLens in the…

9 years ago

IT Life: The Data Storage Philosophy

Sof Socratous details the tech adventures of a Seagate EMEA VP

9 years ago

Apple Faces Potential £5.6bn European Tax Bill

Apple could be facing a bill of more than $8bn (£5.6bn) over its tax practices, as European Commission decision looms

9 years ago