The US giant faces a probe into its lucrative App Store and, more interestingly, the tech behind its phone payment systemOn 16 June, the European commission opened two antitrust investigations into Apple’s App Store and Apple Pay practices. The firs…
Lees meerThe firm will now delete its saved records of a new user’s activity after 18 monthsGoogle will no longer save a complete record of every search made by new users, the company says, as it launches a push to promote its privacy credentials against con…
Lees meerMove in autumn will let users set Gmail as default email app and Firefox as main web browseriPhone users will be able to set Gmail as their default email app, Firefox as their main web browser, and listen to Spotify on their HomePod speakers, after …
Lees meerFirm starts transition to Apple-made chips for faster performance, longer battery life and innovative technologiesApple WWDC 2020 – live updatesApple iOS 14: new features coming to iPad and iPhoneApple has announced the biggest change heading to its…
Lees meerApple says it will switch to its own brand of processors for Mac computers, ditching Intel after nearly 15 years. The shift was announced at the firm’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in the US, held virtually for the first time due to the C…
Lees meerFollow the launch of Apple’s latest hardware and software updates as they are announcedApple iOS 14: the new features coming to iPad and iPhone 8.33pm BST And if you want more in-depth views of what’s happened today, I leave you in the capable hands…
Lees meerFirm announces latest innovations including for iPad and watch at US conferenceApple WWDC 2020 – as it happened Apple ditches Intel for ARM processors in Mac computers with Big SurApple has announced the latest features heading to user iPhones, iPad…
Lees meerCut of up to 30% charged by app stores obstructs fair competition, claims Brad SmithMicrosoft has thrown its weight behind calls for an antitrust investigation into App Store monopolies, piling yet more pressure on Apple as the iPhone maker prepares…
Lees meerMatt Hancock had doubts about US software’s accuracy in measuring proximity to potential coronavirus carriers Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageApple and Google did not know the UK government planned to build a “hybrid mode…
Lees meerFrom Hancock being forced to bin the test and trace app to Raab’s BLM gaffe, who can rival the cabinet for incompetence?For months now the government has been prefacing all its coronavirus briefings as world-beating when the only thing in which we a…
Lees meerNHS will switch to alternative design by tech giants, says Matt Hancock in latest embarrassing U-turnCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe NHS has been forced to abandon a centralised coronavirus contact tracing app after s…
Lees meerHow the government came to scrap its contact-tracing app in favour of Apple and Google’sCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDesigned to be a key component of the test, track and trace programme to forge a way out of lockdown,…
Lees meerWhy the government has stopped work on its Covid-19 app, and what comes nextCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government has abandoned its efforts to build a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app after nearly thre…
Lees meerGovernment will switch to contact-tracing model preferred by tech giants in latest embarrassing U-turnCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe NHS has abandoned a near three month attempt to build a centralised coronavirus con…
Lees meerGovernment will switch to contact-tracing model preferred by tech giants in latest embarrassing U-turnCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK is poised to announce it has abandoned its attempt to build a centralised corona…
Lees meerGovernment will switch to contact-tracing model preferred by tech giants in latest embarrassing U-turnCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK is poised to announce it has abandoned its attempt to build a centralised corona…
Lees meerA trillion-dollar tech giant can brush off fines but altering the way it operates is a different matterThe only certainty about the EU competition commission’s inquiry into Apple is that it will take years to complete, which is probably why the iPho…
Lees meerEU will look at Apple practices after years of criticism from competitors and regulatorsApple Pay and the iOS App Store are being investigated over potential breaches of European competition rules, the EU’s competition commission announced on Tuesda…
Lees meerIn Latvia we wanted to harness smartphone technology for contact tracing. We ran into a Silicon Valley-built brick wallCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Covid-19 pandemic has led to a rush by governments, private compan…
Lees meerThe app’s robot curator chose a third of its content from just two sources: CNN and Fox NewsWhen algorithms replace humans in charge of editing news, they tend to select more stories about celebrities from a less diverse selection of publications, a…
Lees meerShoppers will have to get used to new rules as coronavirus lockdown is easedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLong queues of shoppers formed outside stores around England on the first day that non-essential shops were allow…
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