Retailers and consumers call on the government to stop manufacturers squeezing third party repairers out of the industryIndependent phone repairs companies could soon become extinct, small business owners have warned, as tech conglomerates such as A…
Lees meerMeasure would allow developers to use own payment systems as tide turns against industry that has been largely unregulatedA controversial Arizona bill that addresses the fees technology companies like Apple and Google charge app developers is raisin…
Lees meerOur updated list of the best pay-TV and streaming services in the UKThe choice of how you get your TV and movies in the UK has exploded in recent years, with a growing number of premium pay-TV providers and streaming services available at a wide ran…
Lees meerUK watchdog opens inquiry over claims US firm is imposing ‘anti-competitive’ terms on app developersBritain’s competition regulator has opened an investigation into Apple over claims the company is using its control over the App Store to impose “unf…
Lees meerOur updated list of the best pay-TV and streaming services in the UKThe choice of how you get your TV and movies in the UK has exploded in recent years, with a growing number of premium pay-TV providers and streaming services available at a wide ran…
Lees meerMajority of member states back proposal to bring in country-by-country tax reportingThe EU has moved to force multinational companies to publish a breakdown of the tax they pay in each of the bloc’s member states and in tax havens such as Seychelles…
Lees meerGuardian music writer Laura Snapes, singer-songwriter Arlo Parks and musician Nitin Sawhney discuss the impact that Covid, Brexit and the ‘streaming economy’ are having on the sectorThe Guardian music writer Laura Snapes talks to Rachel Humphreys ab…
Lees meerMy wife was in hospital and couldn’t monitor her spending on in-app purchasesMy 11-year-old daughter made more than 300 in-app purchases over five days on Roblox, the online games platform, resulting in a £2,400 bill on my wife’s PayPal account. At …
Lees meerMy wife was in hospital and couldn’t monitor her spending on Roblox in-app purchasesMy 11-year-old daughter made more than 300 in-app purchases over five days on Roblox, the online games platform, resulting in a £2,400 bill on my wife’s PayPal accou…
Lees meerOptions for couples with different skin tones and a bearded man or woman also part of iOS 14.5More than 200 new emojis will arrive on iPhones with the release of the next operating system update, including a vaccine-ready syringe, a flaming heart an…
Lees meerFacebook says collecting user data across the internet makes for ‘better experiences’. Apple – and privacy groups – are pushing backFacebook is taking lessons from its debacle over WhatsApp privacy changes in a bid to prevent millions of its users o…
Lees meerGoogle failure to update more than 80 apps to comply with Apple’s ‘nutrition label’ requirement means users are being told apps are out of dateGoogle’s privacy standoff with Apple has lasted so long that even the company’s own apps are complaining a…
Lees meerWe are all in thrall to the corporate giants that control digital technology. Only by seeing that can we hope to change themHypocrisy,” wrote Somerset Maugham, “is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceas…
Lees meerThe Covid crisis has turbo-charged profits and share prices. But are the big six now too powerful for regulators to ignore?The coronavirus pandemic has wrought economic disruption on a global scale, but one sector has marched on throughout the chaos…
Lees meerPaying $14.99 a month for workout videos when you can find them free on YouTube might seem pricey, but Josh Taylor finds some advantages I abandoned my paltry selection of panic-bought fitness equipment and the hastily cobbled-together workout video…
Lees meerCompany’s iOS 14.5 release will allow masked users to access devices with help from Apple Watch heart-rate sensorA year into the global pandemic, Apple has solved the problem of how to unlock iPhones with Face ID without removing your face mask – at…
Lees meerTim Cook lambasts firms ‘built on misleading users, data exploitation, on choices that are not choices at all’Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, has launched his strongest attack on Facebook yet, as the two companies face off over Apple’s plans for …
Lees meerCompany announces sales for last three months of 2020 totalled $111.4bn, fueled largely by release of latest iPhonesApple finished 2020 with its most profitable quarter ever as sales of its high end iPhones, tablets and laptops soared amid the pande…
Lees meerCompany attempts to chart middle ground between Apple’s privacy-first approach and the needs of advertisersGoogle has announced a plan to tackle privacy issues in online advertising, as the company attempts to chart a middle ground between Apple’s p…
Lees meerThanks to too-useful apps and gadgets I have managed to lose some basic skills, from map-reading to finding my phone. Is this the real threat from AI?On New Year’s Eve I watched The Matrix for the first time. I appreciate I’m late to the party on th…
Lees meerParler could go down from Sunday night after Amazon reportedly said it would stop hosting the network in the wake of the US Capitol attack Parler faces an uncertain future after Amazon reportedly said it would no long host the social network, and Ap…
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