With the most anticipated Apple event since the last one mere hours away, something’s been bothering me. For Apple, the introduction of its own iPhone payments product will end years of speculation about when it will take advantage of its massive file of hundreds of millions of credit cards from iTunes and App Store customers […]
I was fortunate in that I travelled to some amazing places in 2013. Something that astounded me regardless of location, was the number of people using an iPad as a camera. Apple appear to be embracing this use case in their latest advert, What Will Your Verse Be? As I travelled between tourist hotspots, there […]
I’ve been reading with interest the coverage around Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s phone division and it’s got my head spinning (more on that later). Something that did pop in to my mind when reading TechCrunch’s assessment of what’s left at Nokia, specifically the HERE Services, was that they must be prime target for Apple? They’ve […]
There’s a fascinating interview with EA executive Frank Gibeau on Venture Beat. Amongst the golden nuggets: We burned the ships and marched inland. [Laughs] About 76 percent of our revenue this quarter was digital, not disc-based. We’re off to the races. EA is the third biggest games publisher in the world, and they’re seeing more […]
Apple’s Board of Directors has elected to modify the award of restricted stock that Tim Cook received after being promoted to CEO in August 2011. The modification, made at Cook’s request, changes the award of 1,000,000 restricted stock units — originally supposed to be awarded in two lump sums over 10 years — to a […]
From December 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013, Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data. Between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in those requests, which came from federal, state and local authorities and included both criminal investigations and national security matters. The most common form […]
iOS 7 has some really delightful visual flourishes to it. But, the one aspect that seems to be particularly troublesome for people is the icon design. The Next Web has a bit of a scoop on where these designs came from: First of all, many of the new icons were primarily designed by members of […]
For the first time since Apple opened the App Store in 2008, it’s explicitly opening up iOS to hardware game controllers, enabling console-like gaming experiences to be powered by its mobile devices. The implications are big: game developers will be able to target all controllers that conform to Apple’s standard, removing a lot of the […]
It’s been an interesting week for Samsung. First, we learn that Apple is growing marketshare significantly faster than Samsung: Apple and Samsung both continue to increase their share of the United States’ smartphone market, but according to new data, Apple is growing at a faster clip and extended its lead over rival Samsung as iPhone […]
PRISM is out. And there’s been a lot written about it. From denials at the very top of some of the world’s (nee America’s) biggest internet and technology companies to lawmakers defending the approach. It’s also emerged that the UK’s GCHQ has access to at least some of the data being collected. There are a number […]