Tag: Apple

San Francisco: Escalating its longstanding dispute with chipset maker Qualcomm over licensing fees and patents, iPhone maker, Apple is reportedly designing products for 2018 that will not feature chips by Qualcomm. The Cupertino-based giant is exploring to get its modem chips from Intel and possibly MediaTek, The Wall Street Journal reported late on Monday. Qualcomm is […]

San Francisco: Apple has allegedly sacked an engineer after his daughter’s video of an unreleased iPhone X went viral on YouTube, the media reported. In the video posted earlier this week, Brooke Amelia Peterson documented her trip to Apple’s campus, where her father is an employee and was seen carrying an iPhone X. The video […]

San Francisco: Apple has bought New Zealand-based firm PowerbyProxi which specialises in wireless charging technologies for an undisclosed amount. “PowerbyProxi employs about 55 staff and holds more than 300 patents relating to wireless charging,” a report published in stuff.co.nz on Wednesday. Powerbyproxi’s team would be “a great addition as Apple works to create a wireless […]

San Francisco: Tech giants Samsung Electronics and Apple will face each other in court for another trial looking into design patent infringement as a US federal judge has ordered a new trial in the case. “The judgement was made by Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, […]

San Francisco: Apple and GE on Wednesday joined hands to deliver industrial Internet of Things (IoT) apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics on iPhones and iPads. The two companies unveiled a new Predix (GE’s industrial IoT platform) software development kit (SDK) for iOS, which gives developers the tools to make their own powerful […]

Seoul: As Samsung plans to launch a bendable smartphone “Galaxy X” in 2018, Apple has reportedly begun work on a foldable iPhone with LG Display. According to a report in the Korean website The Investor, Apple has decided to go with LG and not Samsung (Samsung OLED displays are the best in the industry) owing to […]

Mumbai: Apple Music on Wednesday said it will set up two Mac Labs at the A.R. Rahman-founded KM Music Conservatories (KMMC) based in Chennai and the upcoming campus in Mumbai. The Mac Labs will teach students how to create music using Logic Pro X, Apple’s professional music creation app for the Mac. Apple Music said […]

San Francisco: After scrapping a deal with the Weinstein Company for a Elvis Presley biopic series, Apple has reportedly struck a deal to revive the Steven Spielberg anthology series “Amazing Stories,” earmarking $5 million per episode. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal late on Tuesday, Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment production company will produce […]

San Francisco: Apple has scrapped a deal with Weinstein Company for a Elvis Presley biopic series after producer Harvey Weinstein was fired from the company he co-founded. Weinstein was asked to leave after a New York Times investigation detailed numerous incidents of alleged sexual harassment by the media mogul. According to a report in Deadline.com […]

San Francisco: Within a couple of weeks after the rollout of iOS 11, Apple has released its second update to address bugs which include a crackling noise coming from the earpiece of some iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus smartphones. The latest update — “iOS 11.0.2” was released over-the-air, that can be downloaded to all […]

Beijing: In a setback for Apple that is trying to make deeper inroads into China, smartphone buyers in the country have chosen domestic brands over the iPhone maker with Huawei being their first choice, a survey revealed on Monday. According to a survey by Financial Times, Huawei was the top choice, with more than 31.4 […]

New Delhi: After a cold response at the doors of Apple corporate resellers for the latest iPhones — iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, smartphone users have said the lack of innovation coupled with high price of the devices have affected their decision to buy the flagship models. The iPhone 8 64GB costs Rs 64,000 […]

San Francisco:  A user from Taiwan claimed her iPhone 8 Plus, which belongs to Apple’s latest line-up of devices, split open while it was charging. “So far, the finger of blame is being pointed at the battery. Unconfirmed reports state the iPhone 8 Plus uses the same battery manufacturer, Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), as the […]

San Francisco: Apple has switched the default provider of its web searches for Siri on iOS and Spotlight on the Mac to Google from Microsoft’s Bing. Now if you ask Siri to search something on the internet, you will get Google results instead of Bing on iOS and Spotlight — a system-wide desktop search feature of […]

San Francisco: Apple’s newly-launched devices — iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X — do not have the requisite supporting apparatus that enables Android smartphones to use superfast wireless network technology being developed by internet service providers. The devices cannot deliver high speed under the superfast netwrok called Gigabit LTE while several premium Android […]