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02:17 08.03.2016

Did Apple do a shady deal to get more movies/music in the Middle East?

GUEST: Apple is notorious for running eyeballs over every single app submission and holding a tight leash on the strict guidelines it sets to ensure that the App Store experience is always sleek and polished. It also prides itself on its efforts to guide and support developers so that they can minimize the chance of their […]... →

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00:53 08.03.2016

Pandora Should Revive Rdio As Pay-For-What-You-Want Streaming

Music listeners are cheapskates. Few will pay Spotify or Apple $10 a month even to stream almost every song ever. Meanwhile, radio services Pandora hardly scrape by on the meager ad rates after they pay out royalties. So if Pandora wants to resuscitate the battered corpse of Rdio it acquired for $75 million last year, it can’t just be another unlimited monthly subscription. The… Read More... →

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19:17 07.03.2016

Apple loses e-books price-fixing appeal in Supreme Court

Apple looks to have come to the end of the road in a long running legal saga involving allegations of an e-books price inflating conspiracy. Read More... →

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19:02 07.03.2016

Apple to pay $450 million as U.S. Supreme Court rejects e-books price-fixing appeal

WASHINGTON (By Lawrence Hurley, Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Apple Inc’s challenge to an appellate court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices, meaning it will have to pay $450 million as part of a settlement. The court’s decision not to hear the case leaves […]... →

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18:49 07.03.2016

Apple has shut down the first fully-functional Mac OS X ransomware

Apple has shut down what appears to have been the first, fully-functional ransomware targeting Mac computers. This particular form of cyber threat involves malware that encrypts the data on your personal computer so you can no longer access it. Afterwards, the hackers request that you pay them in a hard-to-trace digital currency – in this case, bitcoin – in order to for you… Read More... →

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14:20 07.03.2016

Apple vs FBI: Lavabit warns FBI’s “extraordinary” action may drive US businesses offshore

Lavabit, the former encrypted email provider that shut down its service in 2013 after the FBI demanded its encryption keys, has filed an amicus brief in support of Apple in its legal battle with the agency. Read More... →

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10:52 07.03.2016

Apple users reportedly targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign

Apple customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers using a pernicious type of software known as ransomware, researchers with Palo Alto Networks told Reuters on Sunday.... →

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09:16 07.03.2016

Цифры дня. Apple Watch за 25 долларов

Каждое утро Rusbase рассказывает о трендах в мире бизнеса и технологий на цифрах.... →

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06:24 07.03.2016

Apple head of software engineering says FBI’s demands compromise the safety of all iOS users

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering (and one of its most popular WWDC presenters) says the FBI’s demands on the company will make all iOS users more vulnerable to malicious attacks in an opinion piece for the Washington Post. Read More... →

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07:16 06.03.2016

500 rare Apple II programs and games are now preserved online at the Internet Archive

In an industry that constantly lusts toward the future, the Internet Archive has once again helped retain tech’s past by announcing that it has saved more than 500 Apple II programs. The San Francisco-based non-profit has been doing yeoman’s work for years now, maintaining everything from historical copies of webpages to archiving sound and video […]... →

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06:44 05.03.2016

San Bernardino DA: Apple is not ‘the Orwellian arbiter or definer of privacy’

The U.S. District Court handling the Apple-FBI encryption case today published the entire amicus curiae brief from San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos in support of the U.S. government. And oh, is it contentious. Ramos, an elected official in the county where the shootings took place in December, takes several shots at Apple specifically. […]... →

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23:36 04.03.2016

The Sony Future Lab could be as forward-thinking as the Walkman

Sony is doing something unheard of in the consumer electronic space: It’s going to show off prototypes. Can you imagine Apple or Samsung doing that? Not really, no. For several good reasons, electronic companies like to keep products under wraps until they’re completely finished and the company can unveil it with many dogs and ponies. Sony’s calling this program Future Lab… Read More... →

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22:11 04.03.2016

Apple’s best defense against the FBI is the one it can’t share publicly

To put it briefly and bluntly: The iPhone is already vulnerable to hackers around the world. This is also true of Android and other smart device platforms. Read More... →

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17:49 04.03.2016

Apple is selling more phones in India’s biggest cities than you might think

Conventional wisdom dictates that Apple performs best in Western markets, where operator-subsidized contracts are most popular and consumer spending power is greater, but it turns out the U.S. company is doing better in India than many expected. Read More... →

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15:39 04.03.2016

FBI forcing Apple to weaken iOS security could endanger lives, warns UNHCR

The legal tussle between Apple and the FBI over a locked iPhone, and the security weakening measures the security services want the iOS maker to take to help it extract data on the device, has now attracted comment from the UN’s commissioner for human rights. Read More... →

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15:20 04.03.2016

Companies will sell employees Apple Watches for $25 to reach health goals

In an effort to motivate employees to maintain healthier lifestyles, a handful of companies are experimenting with providing Apple Watches for only $25. According to the Wall Street Journal, Vitality Group, a health-services firm, is launching the program this year at a handful of companies, including Amgen Inc., DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. and ad insurance firm […]... →

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08:59 04.03.2016

San Bernardino DA claims Syed Farouk’s iPhone may house ‘cyber pathogen’

On Thursday, the San Bernardino District Attorney speculated that the phone in question may be housing a “dormant cyber pathogen” that threatens the county. The DA’s comment represents the first time that any law enforcement agency has said publicly what may be on the phone, which the FBI has ordered Apple to open. Read More... →

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08:10 04.03.2016

Former heads of NSA and Homeland Security unlikely supporters in encryption battle

At a panel discussion today at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Apple found two unlikely allies when the former heads of the NSA and Homeland Security threw their support behind encryption technologies. Michael Chertoff, who was the head of Homeland Security under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and who helped author the USA Patriot Act, and former NSA head Mike McConnell… Read More... →

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06:05 04.03.2016

Encrypted email service Lavabit rises from the dead to file brief in Apple’s defense

Lavabit, a company that operated an encrypted email service for more than 400,000 people — reportedly including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden — before it shut down in 2013 under legal pressure from the FBI, rose from the dead today. In an federal court filing, the company came down in defense of Apple as the major […]... →

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05:14 04.03.2016

Amazon drops encryption feature in Fire tablet software

(Reuters) – Amazon has quietly dropped support for disk encryption on its Fire tablets, saying the feature that secures devices by scrambling data was little used by customers. Privacy advocates and some users criticized the move, which came to light on Thursday even as Apple was waging an unprecedented legal battle over U.S. government demands that […]... →

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