Author: Yoni Heisler

When Apple announced Apple Pay earlier this month, PayPal was conspicuously absent from Apple’s list of secured partnerships. Now comes word via Ian Kar of BankInnovation that PayPal was initially part of Apple’s vision of Apple Pay, but that…

Over the weekend, Ariel Adams of aBlogtoWatch posted an incredibly detailed and informative hands-on review of the Apple Watch. While there’s still a lot of mystery surrounding the Apple Watch in terms of pricing, availability, and even…

MacRumors is reporting that mobile Safari in iOS 8 includes support for Animated PNGs (APNG). What’s that you say? You thought animated GIFs were the only game in town? Well, they really are, but who’s to say how animated PNGs might fare in the…

A few weeks ago we reported that FXNOW would soon be making its way to the Apple TV. Well, friends, that day has come.

Apple today added the FXNOW channel to the ever expanding Apple TV lineup. FXNOW is effectively an on-demand service featuring…

Apple Pay won’t be active until sometime next month, but companies in the payment space are already reacting to the newest kid on the block. Some, like PayPal, have resorted to fear-mongering. Others, like Square, are making adjustments to welcome…

Verizon today announced plans to roll out Voice over LTE support in the coming weeks, thus enabling subscribers to experience crisper and higher fidelity phone calls. In addition, subscribers will be able to take advantage of HD video calls,…

In April of 2011 Apple kicked off a wave of international litigation when it filed its first lawsuit against Samsung for “slavishly copying” the user interface of the iPhone. These days, Apple and Samsung are seemingly on a path to finally put their…

Following in the footsteps of other high-tech companies, Apple today released a report detailing employee diversity across the company.

Some of the more noteworthy data includes the following information compiled from Apple’s 98,000-strong employee…

Jean-Louis Gassee’s suggestion that Apple should abandon its App Store algorithms and rely instead on human curation entirely is well-intentioned, but flawed. It also ignores the tremendous amount of curation that already exists on the App Store…

As part of Apple’s 30th anniversary celebration of the Mac, the company devoted a little bit of ink to Sportstec, a increasingly popular sports analytics company with products that have always been available exclusively on the Mac.

Sportstec, the…

According to a report from Jessica Lessin of The Information, longtime senior engineering manager Chris Blumenberg will be leaving Apple to take on a position with Uber, the increasingly popular ride-sharing service.

Over the past six years,…

Before Apple retail stores began sprouting up all over the place in the early 2000s, there weren’t many ways for users to get their hands on a Mac and give it a proper test drive. Indeed, the shoddy presentation and second-class status afforded to…

In August of 1997, Apple and Microsoft decided to put the past behind them and focus on the future. At that year’s Macworld event, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates announced that the two companies had entered into a historic agreement. In addition to…

Given that Apple and Samsung’s second California trial is now underway, not to mention that today is April 1, we thought you might enjoy this comical take explaining how Samsung came up with its logo. Apparently Samsung’s Apple-inspired design has a…

In case you missed it, I recently posted a not-so-nice review of Yukari Iwatani Kane’s new book about Apple. Titled Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs, the book characterizes Apple as a company on the decline as it struggles to recapture the…

With a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in hand at The Oscars, Bradley Cooper this past Sunday took what quickly became the most retweeted photo in Twitter history. But what was supposed to be yet another Samsung advertising coup turned into yet another Samsung…