US attorney general latest gov’t official to challenge Apple on smartphone encryption

United States Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced plans to resign earlier this week pending confirmation of a successor, has criticized Apple and Google for encrypting smartphone data beyond law enforcement official access, Reuters reports. “It is fully possible to permit law enforcement to do its job while still adequately protecting personal privacy,” Holder said in a […]

USA Today for iPhone outs itself as a future CarPlay app

USA Today has revealed that it will soon be added to Apple’s list of supported third party apps with support for CarPlay. The mention slipped into the release notes of the USA Today’s latest iPhone app update mentioning that the app would no longer feature audio versions of articles as it prepares to add integration with CarPlay. […]

Seagate announces massive 8TB hard drive for bulk data storage

In the market for a whole lot of digital storage? Seagate has an announcement you’ll want to hear. The Cupertino-based company announced today that it is now shipping the ‘world’s first’ 8TB hard drives surpassing the previous storage capacity limits in a single 3.5-inch hard disk drive. As the company mentions in their announcement, packing that […]

Apple adds 3D Yosemite Flyover to Maps ahead of new OS X

Apple has steadily been adding new cities and locations with support for its 3D Flyover feature to its Maps app this year. The latest Flyover addition to Apple Maps includes support for two new locations: Wellington, New Zealand and Yosemite National Park, California. The addition of Wellington marks the third location in New Zealand to support […]

Live blog: Apple’s Q3 2014 earnings call

As we mentioned last month, Apple will today host its quarterly conference call to discuss its earnings report from the third quarter of its fiscal year: this includes 35.2 million iPhones, 13.2 million iPads, 2.9 million iPods, and 4.4 million Macs. Apple reported today that it earned $37.4 billion in revenue during its Q3 period. This will be the first […]

Apple adds MLB At Bat to list of CarPlay-supported apps

We already saw MLB.com At Bat make an appearance in USA Today’s demo of CarPlay during Apple’s WWDC developer conference earlier this month, and today Apple has updated its CarPlay microsite to include the baseball-dedicated app to its list of apps that support the feature. In the shot above and below you can see the […]

Apple pushes OS X security update, Safari 7.0.3

Alongside the release of iOS 7.1.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, Apple has released a security update for OS X. Security Update 2014-002 is recommended for all users and improves the security of OS X. This update also includes Safari 7.0.3. While the update does not seem as severe as the previous security update containing […]