Свежие новости и отзывы о Apple

Android Pay, Google’s forthcoming payments platform and rival to Apple Pay, will soon launch, allowing consumers to pay using their Android smartphones at point-of-sale as well as make purchases within mobile applications. However, according to sources familiar with Google’s plans, Android Pay is not arriving today – or any time this week, in fact – despite a… Read More... →

We’ve been hearing rumblings that Facebook was working on an “assistant” within Messenger, but today we’ve gotten the details that pull it all together. This puts the company squarely in competition with Apple, Google and Microsoft in the digital personal assistant space. In a Facebook post, Facebook Messenger lead David Marcus spoke a bit about Facebook’s… Read More... →

Coin, the device that wanted to replace all of your credit cards with a… card, is prepped and ready to dig into the future with Coin 2.0. Coin 2.0 uses NFC and is EMV-compatible so that users can not only tap to pay, the way you would with Apple Pay on an iPhone, but can integrate their chip-and-pin cards to the device. The original Coin, debuted in November 2013 on Kickstarter… Read More... →

Apple has lost a challenge in the German court system that sought to overturn an earlier ruling, which voided its patent for ‘swipe to unlock’ in Europe. The patent (EP1964022) was granted back in 2010 and was used to win an injunction against Motorola smartphones (back when Moto was owned by Google) in 2012. Motorola has since appealed the injunction, with a decision dependent… Read More... →

Portal, a recently launched Android app that lets you move large files between your computer and your smartphone via your Wi-Fi connection, has today made its way to iOS. The new version offers a better alternative to something like Apple’s AirDrop, for example, as it lets you transfer as many files as you’d like, with no file size limits, while also not counting against your data… Read More... →

Apps in search are a big deal and becoming a bigger deal every single day, both with Google, but also with Bing and even Apple...... →

Docady, an iOS app that lets you store and manage all your important documents, has been doing well in the App Store since its official launch in mid-July, including being featured by Apple as a ‘best new app’ for the last few weeks. And to help continue with that momentum, the Tel Aviv-based startup has just closed a $1.5 million funding round. Read More... →

Apple’s professional-level music creation tool, Logic Pro X, just received a major update today (10.2) that adds the well-known Alchemy synthesizer into the mix, while also allowing artists using the product a more seamless means of sharing their work with fans via Apple Music’s Connect feature. This is the second major update to come to Logic Pro X this year, and like the… Read More... →

Apple patents covering the “slide to unlock” feature on smartphones are invalid, Germany’s highest appeals court ruled on Tuesday, reaffirming a 2013 decision rejecting the U.S. company’s claims by a lower court. The ruling by the Federal Court of Appeals in Karlsruhe covers one of the Apple iPhone’s most popular defining features, of which makers […]... →

Верховный суд Германии 25 августа отклонил апелляцию Apple и признал недействительным патент компании на функцию Slide to Unlock, подтвердив тем самым решение нижестоящей инстанции. Об этом сообщает Reuters.... →

Суд США приговорил бывшую помощницу старшего вице-президента HP Холли Дон Коулман (Holli Dawn Coulman) к 1 году и 9 месяцам тюрьмы за незаконное списание около $1 млн с корпоративных кредитных карт ИТ-компании. Как сообщает The San Diego Union Tribune, женщина несколько лет тайно оплачивала за счёт работодателя личные расходы — от дорогостоящего отдыха в SPA-отелях до перелётов в Европу и покупок в Apple Store.... →

Чуть больше года назад ЦП узнавал у российских предпринимателей и инвесторов, что они носят на руке. Сейчас пришла пора спросить у них, перешли ли они на Apple Watch — и если нет, то почему. В скобках указаны модели часов, названные в предыдущем опросе.... →

Технологические компании столкнулись с резким колебанием стоимости своих акций из-за опасений на фондовом рынке по поводу замедления темпов роста китайской экономики. Так, после открытия фондового рынка в понедельник стоимость акций Facebook снизилась на 12,1% - до 75,62 долл.; Apple – на 10%, до 95,17 долл.; Amazon - на 6,4% - до 463,03; Microsoft - на 5,8%, до 40,59 долл.; Twitter – на 8,9%, до 23,56 долл. Китайский фондовый рынок пережил свой худший торговый день с 2007 года, и Европа последовала его пр... →

Somebody must have forgotten to brief Apple’s (relatively) new retail chief Angela Ahrendts on her employer’s long-standing respect for education. In a new sales training video shown to Apple Store employees today Ahrends reportedly says that students should use their Apple Watches in class before the teachers realize what the device can be used for. […]... →

 After a multi-year bull cycle that raised the prices of domestic equities to levels that made value-focused investors squirm, the U.S. markets are suffering from a stiff correction, dropping in partial step with international shares and other assets. It’s a global cold, and everyone is sneezing. Apple opened dramatically lower this morning, mirroring broad index declines. Twitter… Read More... →

Normally when some new phone maker startup pops its head up, we sigh and maybe feel a tinge of sympathy for another young company entering a brutally competitive business. But NextBit has managed to drum up some real interest in media and mobile circles with its forthcoming phone, which it has called “the future of Android.” […]... →

Things didn’t look good this morning. When stock markets opened, Facebook was down 12.1 percent, Apple was down 10 percent, Google was down 6.5 percent, etc. But public tech companies are already recovering from this brutal drop, with Apple leading the way. Read More... →

Apple investors are willing to overlook many things, but the health of the Chinese iPhone market isn’t one of them. On news of a tanking Chinese stock market early today Apple investors were running for the exits. Apple stock dove way below the $100 market for the first time this year — to $94.87. Apple […]... →

This morning, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) suffered from a stark drop when the stock market opened. Its shares tanked 10 percent to $95.17 compared to Friday’s closing price. Shortly after, Apple bounced back. As of this writing, Apple is back to $105.48 down only 0.2 percent compared to Friday’s closing price. Read More... →

Tech companies are suffering from the current hostile stock market environment as stock markets around the world are plummeting following concerns over China. All tech companies are tanking right now, with some suffering from a stark correction. When the stock markets opened, compared to Friday’s closing price, Facebook was down 12.1 percent to $75.62, Apple was down 10 percent to… Read More... →