China lashes India’s app ban, calls for return to ‘win-win cooperation’
Nice economy you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if the World Trade Organisation got involved
04 Sep 2020 | 14
Applications
NHS tests COVID-19 contact-tracing app that may actually work properly – EU neighbors lent a helping hand
Not just Germany stepping up to the plate – Ireland, too, we're told
14 Aug 2020 | 125
India bans 59 apps it says have privacy, national security problems. In a massive coincidence, they’re all Chinese
They may have a point with some of them, though
29 Jun 2020 | 19
NY Attorney General warns Apple, Google to police COVID-19 tracing apps in their souks – or she will herself
Worry about user privacy also results in Norway pulling its virus tracker
17 Jun 2020 | 39
Google India says Play store policy, not geopolitics, behind removal of Chinese-app-deleting app
And we’d do it anywhere else, anytime, says veep
05 Jun 2020 | 3
Switzerland 'first' country to roll out contact-tracing app using Apple-Google APIs to track coronavirus spread
Launch comes ahead of UK rolling out its controversial version
28 May 2020 | 49
Rabobank security cert expires and gives its Australian Android app a case of internet-blindness
Needs bank staff to sort things out, but a certain virus means the contact centre is rather busy right now
27 Apr 2020 |
Philippines considers app to trace coronavirus carriers
Privacy perspective: President has also threatened quarantine-breaking troublemakers may be shot
03 Apr 2020 | 10
Revolut-won: British banking app gets half a billion bucks in backing, seeks to subvert today's market incumbents
Biz bags fat funding round
26 Feb 2020 | 28
Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?
Taylor Swift of apps or ultimate ironic hipster shout-out?
20 Feb 2020 | 47
Iowa has already won the worst IT rollout award of 2020: Rap for crap caucus app chaps in vote zap flap
Untested tech, no training, last-minute rollout, buggy code – sound familiar?
04 Feb 2020 | 89
UK parcel firm Yodel plugs tracking app's random yaps about where on map to snap up strangers' tat
Shipped from expensive shop X? In the shed, you say? Researcher spots badness
03 Dec 2019 | 98
Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?
Plus Facebook Pay has launched: Why not give them access to your financial data?
12 Nov 2019 | 99
40 million emoji-addicted keyboard app users left with $18m bill – after malware sneaks into Play Store yet again
Bogus charges being racked up by Android tool
01 Nov 2019 | 33
Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin' Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography
Ordnance Survey map app update left some users lost, but they're really sorry, m'kay?
17 Oct 2019 | 69
Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
Updated Trying to avoid cops, live rounds, tear gas? Oh no, you don't, say Cook & Co
02 Oct 2019 | 51
You know what the NHS really needs? Influencers, right guys? #blessed
Hey nurses, it's not like you've got anything else to do
06 Sep 2019 | 39
Generous Google gives Chrome users Inbox Zero: Sign-in outage boots own browser out of webmail, services
Baffling bug forces folks to use Safari, IE, etc
19 Aug 2019 | 11
Apple hits back at devs of axed kiddie screen-time apps
It's about privacy, not competition, sniffs Jesus-phone maker
29 Apr 2019 | 22
Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests
You wouldn't download a car – oh actually...
18 Apr 2019 | 32
'Sharing of user data is routine, yet far from transparent' is not what you want to hear about medical apps. But 2019 is gonna 2019
Study finds Android software slinging deets all over the place
21 Mar 2019 | 16
We don't want to be Latch key-less kids: NYC tenants sue landlords for bunging IoT 'smart' lock on their front door
Updated Residents claim net-connected, app-controlled system is harassment, surveillance
18 Mar 2019 | 44
Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data
Internal FB apps in chaos, lawmaker on warpath
30 Jan 2019 | 134
Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo
Hipsters choke on pumpkin spice latte as the beloved original is tipped into a dumpster
17 Jan 2019 | 41
Nissan EV app password reset prompts user panic
Looks like a functionality fail rather than a data breach, though
14 Jan 2019 | 45
Medical advice app Your.MD could have been tampered with by anyone, alleges ex-veep
Did he really blow the whistle on security fears? tribunal asked
11 Jan 2019 | 13
Sneaky phone apps just about obey the law, still have no trouble guzzling your data, says Which?
Probe shines light on epic Ts&Cs and clever tactics to make users cough up
26 Sep 2018 | 19
I want to buy a coffee with an app – how hard can it be?
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Mindlessly self-indulgent app developers have a laugh at our expense
21 Sep 2018 | 145
Apple takes an axe to its App Affiliate Program
Review sites? Who needs 'em! Fanbois need never leave the App Store again
02 Aug 2018 | 22
Facebook Android app caught seeking 'superuser' clearance
Updated And what reason would you have not to trust Facebook with your personal data?
18 May 2018 | 73
Oracle demands dev tear down iOS app that has 'JavaScript' in its name
Ordinary folk may be confused by title, takedown demand suggests
18 Apr 2018 | 53
Security? We've heard of it, say web-app devs. 31 in 33 codebases have at least one big bad vuln
HTTP 404: Secure programming not found
16 Apr 2018 | 9
Grindr: Yeah, we shared your HIV status info with other companies – but we didn't charge them!
Coitus collaboration code claims – THE TRUTH
03 Apr 2018 | 29
Microsoft Store adds ‘private audience’ apps to its Store
A velvet rope for digital tat, to help with betas, promos and maybe Windows 10 S
29 Mar 2018 | 16
Facebook Onavo Protect doesn't protect against Facebook
VPN app collects all sorts of details
07 Mar 2018 | 19
Techno-senator tells Tinder to hook up its app with better security
Swipe-a-shag tool gets the dreaded sternly-worded-letter treatment from Wyden
16 Feb 2018 | 3
