(Reuters) – Apple Inc did not infringe patented technology owned by Android phonemaker HTC Corp, the U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday, the latest ruling in the wide-ranging smartphone patent wars. The complaint – one of several the two companies have filed against each other – is a proxy for the larger fight for [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – This week’s revelations that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies. They are the latest in a long line of missteps by large Internet companies that have faced little [...]
A Wall Street Journal report published Friday revealed that Google, along with several other companies, covertly tracked the online moves of users of Apple’s web browser Safari, in spite of the fact that the browser blocks such tracking by default. The Journal explains: To get around Safari’s default blocking, Google exploited a loophole in the browser’s privacy settings. [...]
BEIJING (Reuters) – Working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants where Apple Inc’s iPads and iPhones are made are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country, according to the head of a non-profit agency investigating the plants. The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is beginning a study of the working [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Under pressure from U.S. legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy controversy by saying that it will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek “explicit approval” in separate user prompts before accessing users’ address book data. Apple’s move came shortly after two members of [...]
Did Apple’s CEO just hint at the possibility of the fabled iTV coming to market? Taking the stage at the annual Glodman Sachs Technology Confernece, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke ambiguously about the future of the Apple TV product and indicated that Apple may be exploring an even more marketable TV product. Currently, the company [...]
The invites haven’t even been sent out and yet the frenzied speculation about what Tim Cook will whip out on stage at next month’s purported announcement has begun. The Wall Street Journal believes Cupertino’s planning to produce a smaller, 8-inch slate to partner its 9.7-inch flagship. Unnamed sources at the company’s suppliers say it’ll pack a screen [...]
It was back in July that Apple quit selling the white MacBook to the general public, and recently the remaining stock — only available through its education webstore — met a similar fate. Although the folks at Cupertino quietly removed the polycarbonate machine from the store, it’s now offering up 5-pack bundles of both the 11- [...]
One of Apple’s major manufacturing cogs, Foxconn, will receive voluntary audits from the Fair Labor Association on factories in both Shenzhen and Chengdu in China. These inspections already began earlier today over in “Foxconn City”, where the FLA has started polling “thousands” of employees, covering both their working and living conditions. Facilities (including dormitories) will [...]
BEIJING — Authorities have seized Apple iPads from retailers in a city in northern China due to a dispute with a domestic company that says it owns the iPad name, an official said Monday. The Chinese company said it is asking for similar action in more than 20 other cities. The dispute with Shenzhen Proview [...]
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