Vox

JANUARY 29, 2021

Apple is rolling out new privacy protections that could affect Facebook’s data-driven ad business. Angry CEOs, operating system updates, and maybe even a lawsuit — the feud continues. Facebook and Apple’s fight over your data is heating up. Now Facebook is considering suing Apple, and Apple is digging in its heels.

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The Verge

MAY 22, 2020

There have already been many iOS 14 leaks over the past few months, and it seems possible the information came from this early version of the operating system. It’s common for small tidbits about Apple software updates to leak in the months and weeks before Apple officially unveils them.

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Network World

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Overall internet traffic continues to grow year after year, with no slowdown in sight. Cloudflare released its annual Cloudflare Radar Year in Review report this week, providing insights into the state of the internet in 2024. The report found that once again Google is the most popular internet service overall.

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IT Toolbox

JULY 26, 2016

They were sued because they were trying to force the windows operating system users to use internet explorer over and above other browsers. Microsoft was claiming that the internet explorer program was an integral part of the operating system and couldn't

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 10, 2022

Once again, people are talking about how Apple won’t play nice with Android devices. This time Google Senior Vice President Hiroshi Lockheimer, who oversees Android, is taking Apple to task over the green bubble struggle and urging the company to embrace a new text messaging standard that will make cross-platform… Read more.

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Vox

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the company’s new operating systems at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The company’s new operating systems want you to know — and control — who’s watching you online. Apple is cracking down on what it allows other companies to know about you.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

After months of mixed messages over whether they could talk about their wages, Apple has explicitly told employees they are free to talk about the money they make, their hours, or their working conditions. Read more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Microsoft now tells me the goal is actually to have full parity between the iOS and Android apps, and that Apple is already reviewing the iOS version now. You see, Apple has a name for apps like these, distinct from the individual streaming game idea that we discussed last week. Left is iOS, right is Android.

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Venture Beast

JULY 23, 2020

Apple invited security researchers to apply to receive modified iPhones designed to help them hunt for flaws in the company’s mobile operating system. Read More.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 22, 2020

The operating system for iPhone and iPod touch is getting long-awaited home screen improvements and a variety of tweaks to core apps. Read More.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2022

Over the last several weeks, we’ve covered what’s happening with Apple , Amazon , Microsoft , Meta , and Google. While the media has given more attention to the antitrust issues of rivals Apple and Meta , Google is potentially in more trouble than any other Big Tech company. The synonym for search finds itself in big antitrust trouble.

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Vox

AUGUST 26, 2020

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during a company product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on March 25, 2019, in Cupertino, California. Apple and Facebook are fighting again. Apple is trying to single-handedly change the way internet advertising works. Michael Short/Getty Images. million users per day.

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Venture Beast

MAY 19, 2021

Android ad spending has jumped 21% as Apple implements its privacy crackdown with the launch of its iOS 14.5 operating system update. Read More.

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Vox

APRIL 16, 2020

Apple and Google’s contact-tracing tool has better privacy, but it isn’t perfect. Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating systems that will use Bluetooth signals to track potential coronavirus cases. The new Apple-Google tool sounds miraculous at first blush.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Hunter Irving with the 1986 Macintosh Plus computer that he managed to connect to the internet. ” A blown capacitor was easy enough to replace, but Irving’s ultimate goal of getting the nearly 40-year-old machine hooked up to the modern internet would take a bit more effort. . But he soon wanted to connect to the internet.

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Vox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This week, Apple did just that with the release of an app called — you guessed it — Journal. Machine learning, a relative of AI , powers the suggestions the app makes for Moments, according to Apple , but beyond that, it’s not clear how AI may factor into the experience. The new Journal app from Apple suggests a different approach.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Microsoft’s first version of Windows might not have been well received, but it kick-started a battle between Apple, IBM, and Microsoft to provide computing to the masses. While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. Carol Halebia. With Windows 1.0,

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GeekWire

JUNE 18, 2020

Microsoft President Brad Smith wants more scrutiny on app store policies imposed by its competitors such as Apple and Google. In an interview with Politico on Thursday, Smith did not name Apple and Google specifically, though he noted the 30% revenue cut that the companies typically take from app subscription payments.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Then Apple came and threw a wrench in the gears. In June of 2020, Apple announced changes to its mobile operating system that would give iPhone users a chance to tell app-makers not to follow them around the internet. Now Facebook is saying, in public, that Apple’s ad changes have been a really big deal, after all.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Wyze, the smart home company best known for its range of budget internet-connected security cameras, has announced its debut smartwatch. It can also display your notifications, allowing you to read email previews and texts, though Wyze’s press release doesn’t explicitly say which mobile operating systems the watch works with.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

Microsoft showed new integrations between its Copilot artificial intelligence technologies and its Windows PC operating system, and previewed a new class of personal computers designed to further build AI capabilities into its longtime software platform. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) REDMOND, Wash.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 31, 2021

With its App Tracking Transparency policy launched in April, Apple overhauled its iPhone lineup’s privacy settings to give users more control over their data. That decision cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an estimated $9.85 billion in lost revenue in the second half of this year, the Financial Times reports. Read more.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 11, 2023

Apple has issued a new round of Rapid Security Response (RSR) updates to address a Zero-Day bug exploited in attacks and impacting fully-patched iPhones, Macs, and iPads. Mac: Choose Apple menu > System Settings. By default, your device automatically applies Rapid Security Responses.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Computers powered by Google’s Chrome OS have outsold Apple’s computers in individual quarters before, but 2020 was the first full year that Chrome OS took second place. The milestone is based on numbers provided by IDC, which doesn’t typically break out sales based on device operating system. Chrome OS: Up 4.4

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Gizmodo

JUNE 7, 2021

For as many original innovations Apple introduces to its various software platforms, there are just as many “new” features that appear to have been inspired by other tools, apps, and even operating systems, leaving loyal developers to wonder what’s going to happen to their own products now that they’re no longer… Read more.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Oh, nothing much — just the future of the internet. Apple might even catch a lawsuit , too. If the DOJ loses, it becomes a very serious question of what’s it going to take,” Harold Feld, senior vice president at Public Knowledge, an open internet advocacy group, said. Remember Internet Explorer? What’s at stake?

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Gizmodo

APRIL 9, 2021

As part of the ongoing l egal battle between Fortnite maker Epic and Apple , some new information has come to light confirming the most annoying thing about Apple’s iMessage app : that Apple could make a cross-platform version of iMessage for Android phones, but it won’t because it would be bad for business. Read more.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This week brought updates that I consider critical for the “Big Three” — my operating system (Windows), my browser (Google Chrome) and my phone (from Apple). First, prioritize patching Apple devices. Apple typically pushes these updates overnight if your phone is plugged in and charging (and connected to the Internet).

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

IE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought - “A recently announced and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in Taiwan since the beginning of July, according to security researchers.”

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Gizmodo

APRIL 16, 2021

Podcaster and Apple collector Stephen Hackett recently shared a collection of the chimes older Apple Macintosh… Read more. You’re probably very familiar with the sounds your computer makes when it starts, which are comforting noises that everything is working as it should. But your Mac used to make some troubling sounds.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

One month after introducing new Apple Watches, and nearly two years after the first 5G devices became available, Apple will reveal the first 5G iPhones. Read More.

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Venture Beast

JULY 9, 2020

The new Apple operating systems for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV are out for public beta testing today, with Mac and Apple Watch betas to follow soon. Read More.

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2021

Kicking off in federal court today, the closely watched battle between the makers of Fortnite and Apple will include an attorney who is well known for her role in one of the seminal antitrust fights in tech history: U.S. Apple antitrust fight focuses on Apple’s control of the App Store. (Bigstock Photo). The Epic Games v.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 3, 2021

Apple’s Find My app has long been a handy way of keeping track of your iPhone, MacBook, and other Apple devices, but in the most recent iOS 1.5 beta, Apple looks to be expanding item-tracking to a wider range of non-Apple products. Read more.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

Spotify’s chief legal officer on tech’s ‘ruthless bully’ This week I’m talking to Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs and chief legal officer of Spotify, to help me understand why Spotify and so many other app developers are so frustrated with Apple. And of course, there is the trial between Epic Games — maker of Fortnite — and Apple.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple and Epic both filed revised tentative witness lists on April 26th.

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