San Francisco: Apple has disabled its Walkie Talkie Watch app after discovering a vulnerability that could have allowed a person to listen to other users’ iPhones sans their consent. The app on Apple Watch essentially allows two users who have accepted an invite from one another to receive audio chats via a “push to talk” interface. […]
San Francisco: Apple is all set to launch its 16-inch MacBook Pro in September this year, media reported on Monday. “We foresee that Apple will release a new product in September 2019 Apple event if there’s no unexpected development issue,” said Jeff Lin, Associate Director of Consumer Electronics at IHS Markit, reported The Verge. The […]
New Delhi: In 1976, Apple Inc made and sold the first ever Apple computer. Fewer than half of the 200 Apple-1 computers, ever made, have survived and one of them could be yours as it goes for an online sale starting Thursday. A rare Apple-1 computer, the first personal computer ever made, will be sold by […]
New Delhi: In a sign of intense competition in the premium smartphone segment in India, the price gaps among the top brands are narrowing ahead of the launch of OnePlus 7 series on May 14. Apple, Samsung and Google have recently cut the prices of their premium smartphones in India. Apple has even reduced the price […]
San Francisco: Apple has announced a “Voluntary Recall and Exchange Programme” for wall plug adapters allowing users to exchange their possibly affected adapters with new ones. For now, the programme covers wall plug adapters that were designed for use in Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK. The faulty adapters that are now wearing off were […]
San Francisco: In a bid to expand its presence in the competitive content streaming market, Apple has quietly launched the “Apple TV” channel on Google-owned content sharing platform YouTube. Apple’s channel on YouTube is dedicated to the iPhone-maker’s TV app, offering trailers, behind the scenes commentary, interviews, show clips and videos highlighting Apple’s own original […]
Cupertino (California): Apple on Thursday announced to expand its global recycling programmes and introduced Daisy, its recycling robot that is capable of disassembling 200 iPhones per hour. US customers can send their iPhones to be disassembled by Daisy which is 33 feet long, has five arms and can methodically deconstruct any of 15 iPhone models. […]
New Delhi: Google and Apple have blocked the download of TikTok from Play Store and App Store respectively in India, following a request from the government to ban access to the Chinese short video-sharing app that has been downloaded over 230 million times in the country. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had asked Google […]
New Delhi: Apple continued to lead the global premium smartphone segment by capturing more than half of the market (51 per cent) while OnePlus entered the top five brands (with 2 per cent share) in this segment for the first time ever in 2018, a Counterpoint Research report said on Tuesday. According to Counterpoint Research’s […]
San Francisco: Chinese smartphone-maker Huawei could be considering selling its high powered 5G-enabled modems and chipsets to Apple, according to media reports. “A source with knowledge of the situation has confirmed that Huawei is now ‘open’ to selling its ‘5G Balong 5000’ chipsets, but only to Apple,” Engadget reported on Monday. So far, the company […]
