Employees at the Towson Town Center Apple store in the state of Maryland have voted to unionize, forming the first US union of Apple workers following the conclusion of the vote on Saturday. With 65 voting for and 33 against, they joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has penned a letter to the US Congress urging lawmakers to enact federal privacy legislation. The law being requested would forbid app developers from passing user data to third parties without consent, and would crack down on targeted advertising. Apple is apparently better positioned than its …
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Tech giant Apple has unveiled the new iOS 16 system, offering new features that bring iMessage up to speed with other popular messaging apps, during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. Set for release this fall on all iPhones models 8 and up, the operating system upgrades iMessage to …
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The EU Commission issued a Statement of Objections to Apple on Monday over the US tech giant’s supposedly abusive practices in the field of mobile wallets technology. The company has been using its “dominant position” in the market to bar third-party services from accessing software and hardware on its devices …
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Apple and Facebook’s parent company Meta were persuaded to give up customer data to hackers posing as law enforcement agents bearing phony “emergency data requests,” Bloomberg revealed on Wednesday, citing three sources familiar with the matter. The fraudulently obtained information allegedly included users’ phone numbers, IP addresses, and even physical …
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The state of Arizona has become the first to partner with tech behemoth Apple to merge a digital driver’s license and state ID with Apple’s Wallet app. Users can pass through Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport with “just a tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch,” VP of Apple Pay …
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The makers of iPhone and iMac computers rolled out a series of measures on Tuesday in reaction to the “Russian invasion of Ukraine,” including disabling some software features, censoring apps, and halting sales and certain services inside Russia. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, Apple said it had already stopped …
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Apple is working on a new feature that will allow businesses to accept payments on their iPhones without extra hardware, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources. Small businesses, like cafes or flower shops, that don’t use traditional payment terminals but use their Apple smartphones as such, currently require external hardware …
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While publicly demonstrating intentions to shut down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Republican and Democratic US presidents alike kept the notorious prison running for two decades, Moazzam Begg told RT. Begg is one of hundreds of men who went through the military prison created by the George W Bush …
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The new year started with a fresh highwater mark for Apple, which became the first company to hit a market value of $3 trillion as investors poured new money into stocks on the first day of regular trading. Apple’s shares traded as high as $182.88 on Monday, up 3% from …
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