Yet another country is investigating Apple for allegedly monopolistic practices. Columbia’s Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) has opened an administrative investigation against the tech giant and Apple Services Latam LLC for alleged pr…
Lees meerWorldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 1.0% year-on-year (YoY) in 2025 to 1.24 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This represents an improvement from the previ…
Lees meerYesterday we reported that, per The Information (a subscription is required to read the article), Senior Vice President of Services Eddy Cue and Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federigh disagree on whether or not to purchase a co…
Lees meerAn upcoming iPhone update is raising alarms among Republican fundraisers who say a new text filtration system set to hit the market in September will “disproportionately block conservative fundraising and voter outreach efforts,” according to Fox Ne…
Lees meerThe number of camera lenses embedded in smartphones is on the decline, according to Omdia’s Smartphone Model Market Tracker 2Q25 report. Globally, smartphones shipped in the second quarter of 2025 featured an average of 3.19 camera lenses, down fro…
Lees meerApple TV+ has announced a new animated fantasy adventure series “The Sisters Grimm” to premiere globally on Friday, October 3. Based on Michael Buckley’s New York Times bestselling book series, “The Sisters Grimm” is a described as “a journey of ad…
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Lees meerApple wants to make it easier to share an electronic key as evidenced by a newly granted patent for “User Interfaces for Sharing an Electronic Key.” An electronic key (or eKey) is a digital or electronic version of a key that allows for secure, app-…
Lees meerApple will hold a special event dubbed “Awe Dropping” on Tuesday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. There’s a 99.99% chance that Apple will unveil the iPhone 17 line-up (including an “iPhone Air”), new phone cases, as we…
Lees meerApple can no longer advertise its Apple Watch as a “CO2-neutral product” in Germany, following a court ruling on Tuesday that upheld a complaint from environmentalists, reports Reuters. The ruling found that the tech giant had misled consumers. App…
Lees meerYoung up-and-comer Indie DesRoches (“The Madison”) has been tapped for a role alongside Mark Wahlberg and Vera Farmiga in the untitled Stephen Chbosky film for Apple TV+, reports Deadline. DesRoches comes to the project after working with Wahlberg o…
Lees meerApple has released the fifth public betas of macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and tvOS 26. Public betas are available on Apple’s Beta Software Program website. Just remember that beta software is unfinished software, so proceed with care. Apple do…
Lees meerLast week it was announced that Apple has raised the monthly price of its Apple TV+ streaming service from US9.99 to $12.99/month in the U.S. Now the tech giant wants to keep subscribers from canceling by offering a discounted subscription if they t…
Lees meerWhat a doofus. Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit in a Texas court against Apple and OpenAI, accusing the companies of colluding to prevent competition in the artificial intelligence industry, notes 9to5Mac. From the lawsuit: Apple and OpenAI’s exclusive…
Lees meerApple TV+’s “Acapulco” and “Land of Women” were among the honorees at the 40th Imagen Awards, which celebrates Latino talent across film, television and streaming. You can find a complete list of winners here. Among the wins for “Acapulco”: ° Cami…
Lees meerOn August 22, Apple filed a lawsuit in Northern California against Chen Shi, a former employee who left Apple and took a job at Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, reports MacRumors. According to Apple, Shi stole trade secrets relating to Apple Watch de…
Lees meerA piece of Silicon Valley history—the sixth-ever check drawn on Apple Computer’s first bank account, filled out and signed by Steve Jobs and bearing the names of the company’s three original co-founders—has sold for US$87,940 in RR Auction’s “Steve …
Lees meerMeta Platforms is hiring Frank Chu, an Apple artificial intelligence executive, to join Meta Superintelligence Labs, reports Bloomberg. Chu is the sixth Apple AI employee to defect to Meta, the article notes. The others are Ruoming Pang, Tom Gunter,…
Lees meerHere are some of the latest accessory and hardware announcements of the week: ° Apple subsidiary Beats and Japanese graphic artist Verdy have teamed up to bring back a collectible Beats Pill holder. This time the “Vear” bear holds the Beats Pill in …
Lees meerTwo organizations filed a joint amicus brief, siding with Apple over a U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruling on attorney–client privilege limits in the Epic Games lawsuit, reports 9to5Mac. On May 1 US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Roger…
Lees meer“Nine current and former employees” who worked with or for Apple’s Vice President of Fitness Technologies Jay Blahnik have accused him of creating a “toxic work environment”, reports The New York Times (a subscription is required to read the article…
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