Author: Ben Lovejoy

Apple researcher Aaron spotted backend code showing that Apple Pay Morocco has been activated, and CIH Bank has announced that it is now supporting the service.
Morocco is only the second African country to see Apple Pay rolled out, after South Africa…

Anyone with a VanMoof ebike is likely concerned after the Dutch company confirmed that it is in financial trouble.
Update: VanMoof has now officially been declared bankrupt. Even if the company is sold, that means that orders which have been paid for …

Samsung, together with its lawyers, will have to fork out a little more cash following its loss in its second patent battle with Apple. A court has fined lawyers Quinn Emanuel and Samsung a total of $2M for misusing confidential details of a patent deal struck between Apple and Nokia. The documents were supplied by […]

  If a leaked royalties report posted by a musician’s blog is genuine, Beats Music subscribers certainly played no part in Apple’s presumed decision to acquire the company. The report appears to indicate that the service paid first quarter royalties to musicians based on total subscriber numbers of just 110,992. As Business Insider notes, there are a couple […]

Well, the rumor was true: Apple really has taken what was seemingly a less popular phone than expected, and made it worse. Even more surprisingly, the company confirmed to Fortune that the 8GB version of the iPhone 5C will be sold in only five markets: U.K., France, Germany, Australia and China. I could understand Apple keeping the […]

Apple is missing out on iAd sales opportunities because the company is too “slow, cocky and downright stingy” according to Madison Avenue media buyers cited in a piece in Advertising Age. One exec told Ad Age that Apple doesn’t even have official sales targets for its ad business. Cary Tilds, chief innovation officer for GroupM, said […]

The fingerprint sensor is said to be embedded in the home button If a report by SamMobile is correct, Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy S5 won’t just have a similar name to the iPhone 5s, it will also have a fingerprint sensor embedded in the home button. The S5 is expected to be officially announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 24th February, […]

With Tim Cook having as good as confirmed that mobile payment via Touch ID is on the way, numbers released by the People’s Bank of China and reported in TechNode provide an insight into just how big the mobile payment market could be. Total mobile payments in China last year hit 9.64 trillion yen – equivalent to […]

Apple’s Your Verse advertising and marketing campaign for the iPad, depicting some of the inspiring ways in which people are using iPads to help with everything from ice hockey coaching to concussion treatment, has been expanded to include mountaineering. Elevating the expedition is a new addition to the Your Verse microsite illustrating the ways in which mountaineers Adrian […]

If you’re finding that your Mac fans are running a lot more than they used to, you might want to check out whether a couple of Spotlight processes are consuming more than their fair share of CPU cycles. Ever since the latest Mavericks update, I found that my MacBook Pro seemed to be running hot […]

While Tim Cook and the rest of the Apple board may be content for Apple to take its time in launching new product categories, investors may be less patient, warns BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk. He also argued that neither the Mac Pro nor a rumored larger-screen iPhone 6 would meet market expectations of innovation. When we […]

Despite Apple returning to growth for the first time in a year, AAPL stock opened almost 8 percent down, as iPhone sales fell below analyst predictions and Apple’s mid-point guidance on Q2 earnings forecast was for zero growth. Analysts had predicted 55.3M iPhone sales, while Apple reported sales of 51M. Analysts were also disappointed in […]

A billion smartphones were sold in 2013, according to IDC data, the first time the milestone has been hit. The number represents one smartphone sale for every seventh man, woman and child on the planet. IDC says that price has been the main driver for growth, putting yesterday’s market share stats into perspective. Markets like […]

Jailbreaking may be for those who want the freedom to step outside of what Apple has decided iOS devices should do, but even jailbreakers are not immune to the influence of the company’s design guidelines, it seems. The Cydia app, which allows users of jailbroken iPhones and iPads to install software not available on the […]