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Apple CEO Tim Cook Interviewed by RTE News Apple has increased its headcount in Cork from 4,000 to 5,000 employees in just the last 12 months, according to Mr. Cook. Over the next 18 months, Apple plans to add another 1,000 people. Mr. Cook said that roughly a quarter of Apple's European staff are based…

Uh oh! More malware found on the App Store! InstaAgent, or more properly Who Viewed Your Profile-InstaAgent, was download more than 500,000 times by people who presumably wanted to know who was looking at their Instagram profile. Instagram is a social networking service owned by Facebook that lets users post photos for others to view.…

Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs Data from Box Office Mojo showed the weekend gross for Steve Jobs was US$823,000, and that so far it has brought in only $16,684,073—a far cry from its $30 million budget. Mr. Sorkin's script was very loosely—more like inspired—by Walter Isaacson's official biography of Mr. Jobs. That, it turns out,…

Court shoots down Apple employee bag check class action lawsuit The class action lawsuit claimed checking their personal bags was demeaning and embarrassing, and that they should've been paid for the time managers spent looking through their belongings needed to be compensated instead of off the clock. Judge Alsup disagreed saying employees weren't required to…

Amazon Books in Seattle's University Village Source: Amazon If you're not familiar with Seattle, but University Village rings a bell, that could be because it boasts an Apple Store, which then led to Microsoft opening up one of its retail stores across the street. I'll get into Apple-envy later in the piece, but the first…

GTAT equipment auction will settle its score with Apple GTAT struck a deal to make synthetic sapphire glass for iPhones, but failed to produce the quantity or quality Apple needed. Apple fronted $578 million to help the company ramp up its sapphire production and transition from being an equipment maker into a glass supplier, and…

The first ever, ever, ever electronic computer? Maybe. Screenshot from The Gothamist video I'll leave it to computer historians to argue the merits of that claim, but it's cool, and according to the same tour guide, “Every year, Apple computer chieftains, ultra super chieftain hoo-has, come down here…they go behind that board, and they literally…

​Apple CEO Tim Cook Here's the full quote from Tim Cook, which came 45 minutes into the conference call in response to a request for clarification from Steven Milunovich from UBS: For customers who purchased an iPhone last quarter, and [original emphasis] replaced a smartphone, that 30 percent of those switched from an Android device.…

This week, Tim Bajarin, the President of Creative Strategies, Inc starts off the discussion with a very thoughtful essay. ” Autonomous Cars and Their Ethical Conundrum.” Mr. Bajarin starts off by noting: …we are years away from getting autonomous cars on the road and getting the right kind of government regulations passed to make this…

Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs First, let's get the elephant in the room out of the way: Michael Fassbender stars as Steve Jobs and no, he doesn't look like the man who gave us the reality distortion field, iMac, and iPhone. That doesn't matter because Mr. Fassbender becomes the Steve Jobs in Mr. Sorkin's tale…

Adobe said the security flaw affects Flash 19.0.0.207 and earlier on Mac and Windows, and 11.2.205.535 on Linux. The company said the exploit is “being used in limited, targeted attacks.” The company promised a fix would be coming this week, but managed to beat its own schedule. The update actually rolled last Friday several days…

iPhone battery draining too fast? It's probably Facebook Here's the back story: My iPhone 6 battery was draining noticeably quicker than it should based on my usage, so I looked at my Battery settings to see what was taking more than its fare share of juice. It was Facebook by a long shot and it…

Apple's antitrust monitor is out this Friday The DOJ filed a letter requesting Judge Cote let Mr. Bromwich's two-year position end without any extension. He had been charged with monitoring Apple's activities to ensure the company didn't engage in anticompetitive practices, and that it set up training programs to teach employees how to avoid anticompetitive…

Elon Musk and Tim Cook Taking a Ride in TMO's Rendering of an Apple Car  “Important engineers?” Mr. Musk told Handlesblatt when asked about Apple poaching employees from Tesla. “They have hired people we've fired. We always jokingly call Apple the 'Tesla Graveyard.' If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple.…

________________________ The sensational, on the surface, news is what Elon Musk said about Apple hiring away his important engineers. Forbes told the story. Important engineers? They have hired people we’ve fired. We always jokingly call Apple the ‘Tesla Graveyard.’ If you don’t make at Tesla, you go work at Apple. However, all that is just…

There are two things that are important to know. First, there is no one true source. That fact will become more and more clear as time marches on. 20 years from now people won't care about that. My second item is far more important, though: the number of people that knew and experienced Steve Jobs…

Apple buys AI company Perceptio The company has been working on an image recognition system that uses deep learning. For those that aren't in the know, deep learning is an artificial intelligence system where computers are capable of identifying and classifying sensory input. In other words, Apple could take Perceptio's work and make an iPhone…

James Bell joins Apple's board of directors Apple CEO Tim Cook seemed pretty excited to have Mr. Bell on the board. He said in a press release, “James brings a wealth of global, financial and industrial experience from his successful career at Boeing as corporate president and CFO. I am thrilled to welcome him to…

The emoji in question are cartoon-like graphics depicting men holding hands, women holding hands, and same sex couples as families. Those emoji are available along side similar graphics of mixed sex couples. Apple's emoji collection caters to the openminded and tolerant crowd You can see the mixed sex family emoji in one column, followed by…

Let’s all agree that Wi-Fi is a marvelous thing. It sets us free, untethered — literally — from cables and walls. It’s usually easy to set up, too — plug a router in, connect your cable modem (or whatever gets you to the Internet), answer a few questions and boom — you’re good to go.…

Apple: We'll put Xcode on servers in China The malware, dubbed XcodeGhost was added into the Xcode installers developers were getting from non-Apple servers inside China. The malware was injected into the iOS apps they compiled without their knowledge, and then managed to get past Apple's screening process and onto the App Store. XcodeGhost wasn't…

“First half (1H) revenues from music streaming services surpassed $1 billion for the first time,” the report said, “growing 23% in 2015 to $1.03 billion – up from $834 million for 1H 2014.” Total sales were up 0.8 percent year-over-year to US$2.3 billion. All told, streaming music accounted for 32 percent of revenues, while physical…

Apple is refunding all Peace app purchases “Apple notified me this afternoon that they’ll be proactively refunding all purchases of Peace,” Mr. Arment said in a blog post. “As far as I know, this effectively never happens. When I decided to pull the app, I asked some Apple friends if this was even possible, and…

Peace was an app that enabled iOS 9's Web content blocking feature. It sped up website loading by using Ghostery's database to block superfluous content which includes some on-site ads, but didn't offer fine-tuned controls for choosing exactly which content would be blocked. Mr. Arment said in a blog post on his website, Peace required…