Свежие новости и отзывы о Apple

Ассоциация по защите авторских прав в интернете (АЗАПИ) направила администрации мессенджера Telegram письмо с требованием удалить бота заблокированного в РФ сайта Flibusta.net, сообщила газета "Известия". По словам представителя АЗАПИ, через бот незаконно распространялись три книги: “Яндекс книга” издательства “Альпина Паблишер”, “Вся королевская рать” Михаила Зыгаря и книга Джона Паркенса “Исповедь экономического убийцы”. Ассоциация дала Telegram 48 часов на удаление спорного контента и угрожает в противно... →

21 марта в Сан-Франциско пройдет мероприятие Apple Special Event. Судя по многочисленным «сливам» в прессе, компания представит 4-дюймовый iPhone, мощный iPad с характеристиками Pro, ремешки Apple Watch и новый внешний дисплей.Редакция vc.ru изучила публикации в зарубежной прессе и собрала в одном обзоре всю известную информацию о презентации.... →

Former Apple chief executive John Sculley believes that his old company is doing an excellent job in the debate with the U.S. government over helping it decrypt San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone. Sculley laid out his views on the subject in an interview today with VentureBeat. Here’s what he said: I have a […]... →

Once again, major browsers fell at the two-day security contest Pwn2Own. Security flaws in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari were all successfully exploited. A total of $460,000 was awarded for 21 vulnerabilities across the three browsers as well as Windows, OS X, and Flash. Last year’s total was $557,500. Pwn2Own has been held […]... →

Rumor has it that Apple is about to introduce a successor to the iPad Air 2 at next week’s press conference. According to 9to5mac’s Mark Gurman, the device could move away from the $499 entry-level price. Next week’s 9.7-inch iPad could start at $599 with 32GB of storage. Read More... →

Сотрудники Apple обсуждают план действий на случай, если суд США поддержит ФБР и обяжет компанию помочь ведомству разблокировать iPhone террориста из Сан-Бернардино. Часть работников намерена устроить забастовку, а некоторые не исключают своего ухода из Apple, пишет The New York Times (NYT).... →

Для ФБР это может создать проблемы, так на создание требуемого ведомством софта нужна команда из 6-10 сотрудников... →

For the past several months, Apple has been working on “Project McQueen,” a plan to become more reliant on its own data center infrastructure and reduce its dependence on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, a source familiar with the matter tells VentureBeat. Apple isn’t happy with the fact AWS […]... →

Technology innovates and disrupts, while public policy regulates and controls — at least according to conventional wisdom. The skirmish between Apple and the FBI is a prime example: Apple is refusing to allow policy to dictate how encryption should be included in products. It’s nearly impossible to ponder emerging resource-sharing technologies without thinking of the restrictive… Read More... →

9 сентября 2015 года корпорация Apple представила телевизионную приставку нового поколения Apple TV и операционную систему tvOS. В конце октября 2015 года приставка официально поступила в продажу. Редакция vc.ru пообщалась с компаниями, которые уже выпустили собственные приложения для tvOS и узнала о сложностях и перспективах разработки программ для новой платформы.... →

DuckDuckGo запустил новую функцию Directions. Теперь при поиске по адресу пользователи смогут выбрать картографический сервис для прокладки маршрута к найденному месту. В списке доступных вариантов значатся Apple Maps, Bing Maps, Here Maps, OpenStreetMap и Карты Google. При выборе одного из сервисов из данного списка в дальнейшем он будет установлен по умолчанию для кнопки Get Directions («Получить маршрут»). Новая функция также работает на мобильных устройствах. После выбора нужного провайдера пользовате... →

Smartphone sales are slowing down, and it looks like Apple might see its first iPhone sales decline in the next quarter. That pinch is now being felt by one of Apple’s key suppliers. UK company Imagination Technologies announced today that it is restructuring its company. It will lay off 350 people and shutter some operations in the process — 200 announced today, on top of… Read More... →

If Facebook announces the “Messenger Bot Store” at F8, as many predict, it would be arguably the most consequential event for the tech industry since Apple announced the App Store and iPhone SDK in March 2008. Even Steve Jobs could not have foreseen the impact of what he described as “a new application that lets users browse, search, purchase and download third party… Read More... →

Автор блога Above Avalon Нил Сайбарт купил новый iPhone и на полгода отказался от Facebook и других продуктов компании. По итогам эксперимента автор пришёл к выводу, что пока Facebook и Apple — скорее дополняют друг друга, нежели конкурируют. Но такое положение вещей не будет сохраняться вечно. Редакция vc.ru перевела материал.... →

As Apple continues to battle the US government’s desire to workaround the security of its mobile operating system, European encrypted email startup, ProtonMail, is choosing the latest skirmish in the crypto wars to launch its end-to-end encrypted email service out of beta — switching from invite-only to public signs up today. Read More... →

SAN FRANCISCO AND FRANKFURT (By Dan Levine and Georgina Prodhan, Reuters) — A German court has ruled against Apple Inc in a case over video streaming patents, handing Kudelski’s OpenTV unit a victory in its ongoing intellectual property licensing campaign against major technology companies. OpenTV sued Apple in 2014, alleging that various products infringe its patents, […]... →

A German court yesterday ruled against Apple in a video streaming patent case brought by Swiss company Kudelski’s OpenTV unit against the Cupertino company back in 2014. Read More... →

(Reuters) – U.S. officials will travel to Brussels this week to drum up support for a transatlantic data transfer pact agreed last month that will facilitate billions of dollars worth of online business but which must overcome European regulators’ concerns over privacy protection. Agreed on Feb. 2 after two years of difficult talks, the Privacy […]... →

Rumors are flying today that Apple is moving part of its cloud business from AWS to Google’s Cloud Platform. We did some asking around and yes, it does appear that Apple has made some moves to diversify its iCloud storage, tapping Google for some of that business. This is another huge win for Google and a — at the very least perceived — loss of ground for AWS, which… Read More... →

If I had to choose a sound to identify the second year of my daughter’s life it would probably be one of the collaborations between Sesame Street superstar Cookie Monster and one of the hot pop stars of the day. Though “Me want it (but me wait)” will never win any lyricist awards, it was catchy, taught patience and provided the kind of cultural crossover that has kept… Read More... →