CEO Zuckerberg sets 2018 goal: ‘fix’ Facebook Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday his goal for 2018 was to put the business he co-founded on a more solid footing, a break with his longstanding practice of setting a purely personal annual goal. “The world feels anxious and […]
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Security flaws put virtually all phones, computers at risk Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and ARM Holdings. One of the bugs […]
Galaxy S9 shown powered on in flood of freshly leaked photos Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ were two of the most popular smartphones of 2017, so it stands to reason that the upcoming Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are two of the most hotly anticipated handsets of early 2018. […]
Apple’s Embarrassing iPhone Battery Debacle Is Tim Cook’s First Failure Why was Apple’s apology regarding its practice of throttling older iPhones without informing users not signed by Tim Cook? As Kif Leswing notes on Business Insider, he was ready to publicly acknowledge Apple’s resistance to the FBI over breaking encryption. […]
Apple’s $29 Battery Replacement Program Could Lead to 16M Fewer iPhones Sold in 2018 Apple’s decision to offer $29 battery replacements to customers with older iPhones could cause iPhone sales to drop in 2018, according to Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz (via CNBC). Customers opting for a battery replacement instead of […]
Apple Leak Details 3 Massive New iPhones As a famously (and now infamously) secretive company, Apple AAPL +1.79% never likes anyone to know about it iPhone plans. But given the company’s torrid recent weeks and the immense pressure to do better, I suspect Apple will almost welcome the distraction it […]
Samsung Partner Confirms Radical Galaxy S9? While I have already exclusively revealed the Galaxy S9 final design and Samsung is doing its best to confirm the two new models, it turns out one of Samsung’s biggest partners may have inadvertently spilt the company’s biggest 2018 smartphone plans… GizmoChina claims to […]
Believe it or not, running over an iPhone X with a car will destroy it Before the iPhone X, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s were Apple’s only iPhones that used a glass sandwich design. The glass back looks and feels great, or so I’ve heard. I’ve been using the […]
Apple Just Bought This Canadian Software Startup Apple just bought a Canadian startup that specializes in creating software development tools for coders. Buddybuild, which disclosed the acquisition on Tuesday in a blog post, said its staff will join Apple’s Xcode engineering group. Xcode is the name of Apple’s (AAPL, +1.71%) […]
UK may use taxes to get tech giants to do more to fight extremism, minister says Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants like Google and Facebook unless they do more to combat online extremism by taking down material aimed at radicalizing people or helping them to prepare attacks, […]