May 16th, 2016Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc revealed a more than $1 billion stake in Apple Inc, a rare foray into the technology sector that the billionaire has largely shunned, apart from a poorly performing investment in IBM.
Shares of Apple got a boost from the Berkshire imprimatur, rising more than 3 percent on Monday. Berkshire made...
May 16th, 2016Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook will visit India this week and meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the second leg of his Asian tour, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the company seeks to revive sluggish iPhone sales.
Cook's visit, following a trip to China, comes at a crucial time as Apple looks for new growth markets...
May 13th, 2016As Apple slugs it out with FBI on privacy issues, Indian govt has said strong encryption technology to secure data and communications in smartphones, including those made by the US-based firm, is a challenge for law enforcement agencies.
It said however that a tool for mobile forensics has been developed to handle smartphones...
May 8th, 2016Now you can speak to Amazon's Alexa through your iPhone. Yes, the company's voice assistance can connect to iOS 9.0 devices through an app named 'Lexi'.
Lexi gives users the access to most of Alexa's useful functions, including smart home controls, re-ordering Amazon products and of course, the ability to ask for anything, the Verge...
April 7th, 2016The US government purchased "a tool" from a private party to unlock the iPhone used by a Pakistani-American shooter involved in the San Bernardino terror attack, according to FBI Director James Comey.
"Litigation between the government and Apple over the San Bernardino phone has ended, because the government has purchased, from a...
April 3rd, 2016“If I were to anthropomorphize Siri, I would imagine that it would think of me somewhat like a father: someone who wants the best for them, who teaches them, who is occasionally demanding, annoying, or embarrassing, but who loves them and is proud when they do well.”
A pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Adam Cheyer has spent most...
February 23rd, 2016A day after some victims of theSan Bernardino shooting said that they would file a legal brief in support of the U.S. Government's attempt to force Apple Inc. to unlock the encrypted iPhone owned by one of the shooters, technology giant Microsoft came out in support of the victims and asked Apple Inc. to unlock the iPhone.
The...
February 21st, 2016The US investigation agency FBI demands that Apple Inc unlock an iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Farook might have been avoided if his employer, which owns the device, had equipped it with special mobile phone software it issues to many workers.
San Bernardino County, which employed Farook as an environmental health...
November 24th, 2015Apple Inc plans to launch its mobile payment system Apple Pay in China by early February, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The iPhone maker has struck deals recently with China's big four state-run banks, the newspaper reported late Monday, citing people familiar with the discussions.
When launched, Apple Pay will mainly compete...
November 9th, 2015China plans to crack down on the sale of fake goods online by using cloud computing, big data and tighter rules on user identity in its latest moves to quash counterfeiting.
China has been trying to reign in its counterfeiters, who have copied everything from Apple iPhones to Louis Vuitton handbags, since it joined the World Trade...
April 25th, 2015Android and iPhone debate has always been the hot topic, but this time it has taken a giant leap when an image of Bugdroid (the mascot of Android) urinating on the Apple logo was found in Google Maps.
However the image has already been removed by Google, which is the most visited site. Google has also apologized for the...
