Apple entertainment booted out of China
We already have a nice walled garden thanks
It looks like Apple's hopes to make up some of the cash it is losing to slumping smartphone sales by getting into the entertainment business have been thwarted by Chinese censors.
Outfit creates “super-secure” mobile
Yours for $20,000
A British-Israeli start-up wants to flog a super-secure smartphone which will cost $20,000.
Apple’s car talks with BMW and Daimler fail
Looks like the Germans would not obey orders
Last year it was reported that Apple was going to change the world with its super-cool, game changing car which was set to be made by BMW and Daimler.
Apple pays out on Siri suit
Yeah we didn’t invent that
Apple has admitted that it did not invent some key technology behind Siri and paid Dynamic Advances who owned the rights to the technology.
Apple updates its 12-inch Macbook
Gives it Core M Skylake CPUs and new color
Apple has rather silently updated its Macbook line by equipping it with new Intel Core M Skylake CPUs as well as the new fancy Rose Gold color option.
Intel will not get a big slice of iPhone 7
Qualcomm still favoured
While it had been expected that Chipzilla was going to score a huge win by taking some of Qualcomm’s modem business, it looks like things might be a little more modest.
AMD getting design wins for Polaris
Apple and Sony sign up
AMD is rumoured to have won some key contracts for its forthcoming Polaris GPU.
Japanese earthquakes could damage IT supplies
Sony plant damaged
The two major earthquakes rocked southern Japan this week damaging Sony's image sensor plant.
Apple freezes production for another quarter
Has no hope for the iPhone SE
Remember how the Tame Apple Press told us that the world wanted to go back to small phones and that the iPhone SE would be a money spinner? It turns out that we were not the only ones who thought that idea was rubbish – Apple does not believe it either.
Apple expects your gear to be dead in three years
It does not matter how much you paid
It might have cost you an arm and a leg, but Apple does not expect its shiny toys to last longer than three to four years.