Geoff White
Apple Pay: who profits?
Hand over your fingerprint and credit card details to your iPhone 6, and you can swipe your handset to make purchases up to £20.
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Apple apologises for slowing down older iPhones
It is perhaps the humbling of a technology titan. Having already admitted slowing down older iPhones, Apple has now taken the rare step of apologising to customers around the world. Not only that, but it has slashed the price of battery replacements. A necessary step to restore customer trust? Or simply bowing to the inevitable…
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Apple and Ireland pledge to fight EU tax ruling
Apple and Ireland say they will contest an EU tax ruling that has landed the American tech giant with a 13 billion euro bill.
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How Taylor Swift became more powerful than Apple
Apple will now pay artists during free trials of Apple Music, after pop star Taylor Swift threatened to hold back her latest hit album from the tech giant’s new streaming service.
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Apple’s Sir Jonathan Ive promoted to top design job
British technology guru Sir Jonathan Ive, a driving force behind many of Apple’s biggest selling products, is promoted to the company’s chief design officer.
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Geoff White
Apple Watch: why it isn’t the new iPhone
The depressing truth: the watch doesn’t have to be a killer product to keep its place in Apple’s stable.
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Geoff White
Apple iPhone: profit but where’s the vision?
What we have under Tim Cook is a company with rock-solid accounts, but a serious case of creative drought.
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Geoff White
Crime is changing, and technology is playing a major role
News last week that crime rates had fallen to a record low gives an indication as to how that shift is taking place.
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Geoff White
Kerching! The tech battle for your wallet
Tech giants hope to consign the grubby leather wallet/purse to the dustbin of history. The US is leading the charge and it’s a three-way fight.
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Geoff White
Can Apple’s ‘two sizes fit all’ watch make customers tick?
The launch of Apple’s new watch had the audience in Cupertino on their feet. Hopefully, the company’s product supply chain proves more robust than its live webcasts.
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Geoff White
You don’t have to be a nude celebrity to be caught under a ‘dark cloud’
Celebrities or not, the devices in our hands are a window onto vast amounts of data gathered and stored all over the world.
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Apple patches security hole after explicit celeb photo leak
Apple updates its security measures after reports that a hacker who leaked hundreds of explicit images of celebrities may have exploited a weakness in its system.
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Real-life pop-up ads: coming to a phone near you
New smartphone technology can pick up adverts when shoppers pass nearby “beacons”. It is government funded, but privacy campaigners are worried about what happens to the data collected.
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Geoff White
The perils of not owning your mobile phone
Got your phone? It’s in your bag, right? Along with all the other things you own. Not quite: in fact, the vast majority of us don’t actually own our phones at all, we rent them.
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Is Apple teaching Google a lesson in internet ethics?
Apple is teaming up with privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo to offer an alternative to internet giant Google.
