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US court rules against Samsung over iPhone design
Published in Mobiles


Neither side happy

A US court has ruled that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, but there are major reasons why Apple will not be happy with the verdict.

TSMC starts work on Apple's A12
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 23 May 2018 12:09

TSMC starts work on Apple's A12


7nm

The dark satanic rumour mill has started a hell on earth yarn claiming that TSMC has started work on Apple's custom built Apple A12 CPU built on a 7-nm process.

Google sued for tracking Apple fanboys
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 22 May 2018 11:37

Google sued for tracking Apple fanboys


It cared what they did, apparently.

Google is being sued in the UK high court for as much as $4.3 billion for the alleged "clandestine tracking and collation" of personal information from 4.4 million iPhone users.

Apple fanboy Trump refuses to part with his two iPhones
Published in Mobiles


Despite security fears

Despite the fact that he is placing the United States in the hands of Apple's unique security system, President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump refuses to give up his two iPhones, even if his security staff plead with him to be a little more sensible.

Apple developers form a union
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 21 May 2018 11:22

Apple developers form a union


Cheesed off with the company's heavy handed antics

Fed up with the way that Apple treats developers, a group of iOS developers have marked the tenth anniversary of the Apple app store by forming a trade union.

Lenovo rejects notches
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 15 May 2018 12:00

Lenovo rejects notches


It was a silly idea

While some smartphone makers think that since Apple put a notch on its phones,  they have to follow suit, Lenovo believes the whole thing is silly.

Apple sued over its terrible but nice looking keyboards
Published in PC Hardware


What do you mean you want them to work too?

Fruity cargo cult Apple has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the butterfly-switch keyboards found on the current generation MacBook Pro and MacBook lineups.

Apple to start its own credit card
Published in News
Friday, 11 May 2018 11:15

Apple to start its own credit card


Needs to offset losses from falling iPhone sales

Fruity cargo cult Apple is hoping that it can offset some of the money it is losing as the great unwashed lose interest in its smartphone by offering an Apple Pay credit card.

Chinese and US spooks use sound to control AI assistants
Published in AI


A spy in your house

For two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.

Apple pulls out of big Irish project
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:13

Apple pulls out of big Irish project


Blames two people for thinking different

Jobs' Mob has ditched plans to build an 850 million euro ($1 billion) data centre in Irelan?,  citing delays in the planning process.