Tim Cook: Sideloading is a disaster and proposed App Store reforms would harm user privacy and security
Apple CEO stays on message during interview while Epic case rumbles along
17 Jun 2021 | 25
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Lenovo refreshes workstation ThinkPads with 11th-gen Intel CPUs, RTX graphics, 5G
For those who like a bit of oomph under the bonnet
16 Jun 2021 | 11
SpaceX spat with Viasat: Rival accused of abusing legislation to halt Elon's Starlink expansion
Viasat's 'newfound environmentalism is belied by its actions at every turn'
16 Jun 2021 | 18
Canadian province's supreme court orders Dell to pay nearly $500,000 to sales rep fired in his twilight years
BC judge lengthens notice period
15 Jun 2021 | 20
There was a crooked man who bought a crooked M1 iMac, and we presume they lived together in a little crooked house
It's Crookedgate! Folks report receiving whizzy Apple gear with slightly wonky displays
15 Jun 2021 | 59
UK competition watchdog begins probe into Apple and Google's total domination of the mobile landscape
Authority investigating whether duopoly is harming consumers
15 Jun 2021 | 18
Samsung mulls delaying next 'fan edition' phone in light of semiconductor shortage
'Nothing had been determined', says phone giant
14 Jun 2021 | 2
Mobile market to recover 12% this year. No, not you, small smartphone outfits
Analyst: Big 5 manufacturers should be able to shoulder ongoing semiconductor shortage
14 Jun 2021 |
Vodafone names vendors tapped for Britain's first wide-scale OpenRAN build: NEC, Dell, and Samsung
The big get Huawei: telco starts to rip and replace Chinese network maker's kit
14 Jun 2021 | 4
Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked
Well, that's one way to do it
11 Jun 2021 | 54
New York State Senate first to pass landmark right-to-repair bill – but don't go popping the champagne just yet
Updated ... lower house, the State Assembly, is not likely to pass the bill
11 Jun 2021 | 11
Apple, it's OK. Seriously. You don't need to blind your iOS 15 engineers to prevent leaks
No one expects the Worldwide Loyalty Team!
10 Jun 2021 | 17
Google wants to look like it cares about your privacy with Android 12 Beta 2, but note that's not how Google works
Still, it's this or iOS
10 Jun 2021 | 20
Samsung brags that its latest imaging sensor has the ittiest-bittiest cam pixels in the world
It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it
10 Jun 2021 | 27
Huawei flings open the doors of its third privacy and security transparency centre
The first based in China
09 Jun 2021 | 3
The Newton lives, kinda: Boffin turns Apple eMate 300 into Raspberry Pi laptop
Video Impressive working computer from the corpse of a rarity
09 Jun 2021 | 7
UK launches consultation on forcing landlords to allow gigabit broadband upgrades
We want to give your property better internets for free, pls respond
09 Jun 2021 | 20
With incoming iOS 15, update refuseniks will be given choice to stay where they are while still receiving security patches
Departure from Apple's usual iron-fist approach to iPhone software
08 Jun 2021 | 9
Apple ditches support for pre-2015 MacBook Air, Pro laptops with macOS Monterey
But it seems the iPhone 6 and SE will be looked after until the end of time
08 Jun 2021 | 24
Smartphone shipments jumped 26% in Q1 – only to recapture ground lost to the pandemic
Don't call it growth
08 Jun 2021 |
iFixit voids yet another warranty tearing down the 12.9-inch M1 iPad Pro
Not too difficult to get in, but component serialisation could still be a hurdle
07 Jun 2021 |
Apple settles with student after authorized repair workers leaked her naked pics to her Facebook page
Which pours cold water over Cupertino's insistence that third-party fixes violate privacy
07 Jun 2021 | 115
Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England
Yep. The exec responsible for shambolic Test and Trace programme, and TalkTalk's 2015 mega-breach
07 Jun 2021 | 50
Can a 21.5-inch iMac beat the latest-and-greatest M1 model in performance? Kinda
Extra performance wrung out, but we wouldn't rush to eBay
07 Jun 2021 | 18
