Apple recently changed its App Store policies in a move intended to bolster privacy, specifically regarding apps that access user contact databases. As reported by Bloomberg, Apple is cracking down on a contacts harvesting technique that has been in use for years: Apple already makes contact sharing an opt-in option for users, but what apps can do with those contacts after they’re accessed has been less restricted until now. Apple had announced several privacy-focused changes at its WWDC conference this past week, however, what it didn’t emphasize was its updates to the App Store Review Guidelines....

The anti-poaching case rumbles on … After an antitrust class-action suit last year accused Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe of secretly agreeing not to poach staff from each other, the case appeared to be all over back in April when the parties reached a $324M settlement. Settlements have to be signed-off by a court, however, to ensure that it is considered fair to all parties. Earlier this month, Judge Lucy Koh rejected the settlement, saying the amount should have been $380M....

Ubiquiti announced its first Wi-Fi 6 mesh router today, the AmpliFi Alien. It features true Gigabit speeds with 8×8 MIMO, a color touchscreen, 2.2 GHz 64-Bit Quad-Core CPU, four Ethernet ports, and much more. Ubiquiti announced the news in a press release today: AmpliFi Alien Highlights: Beyond the breakthrough Wi-Fi performance, AmpliFi Alien offers all of the software features praised by the growing AmpliFi user-base including simple setup, powerful connected device management, and a free, zero-configuration VPN service through the АmpliFi Teleport app that places travelers within their home network like they never left....

Asus Zenfone Max Shot and Zenfone Max Plus M2 (codename: A001D) launched in March 2019. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the AOSP Android 11 on Asus Zenfone Max Shot. Recently, Google released its latest stable Android 11 for the general public. And with that, many OEMs were quick to adopt the same. First in the line were the Pixel devices, which were anyways along the expected lines....

We’ve been hearing tips and all over the web from articles on Engadget, The Next Web and twitter that the iTunes store might have been compromised. Apparently a Vietnamese developer might have juiced the “Books” section of the App Store, as well as several iTunes accounts. As you can see in the screenshot below a plethora of the books in the Book section are these oddly named titles (eg: Conan 1, Conan 2, 7 Vien....

Apple has been no stranger to environmental concerns regarding their manufacturing and supply chain abroad, most recently a report from five independent environmental organizations in China in August accused the company of taking “advantage of the loopholes in developing countries environmental management systems” and awarding contracts to known polluters. Yesterday Apple responded to the accusations in a three-hour meeting with five Chinese environmental NGOs, admitting fifteen of their current manufacturing partners are contributing to pollution in surrounding areas by agreeing to perform audits of the companies....

Apple has agreed to back a new initiative along with a host of Android manufacturers and all of the major U.S. cellular carriers that would require all smartphones manufactured after July 2015 to come with specific anti-theft features. The program is the latest attempt to prevent theft of smartphones, which some have blamed for increasing crime rates. To this end, Apple introduced a first-of-its-kind system in iOS 7 that blocks freshly-restored iPhones from being used until the original owner logs in with the Apple ID associated with the device....

According to the experts at Rotten Tomatoes, The Angry Birds Movie 2 is on track to become the highest-rated video game movie on the review site. The first Angry Birds Movie came out in 2016 and boasted an all-star voice cast featuring the likes of Jason Sudeikis, Peter Dinklage, Maya Rudolph and Bill Hader. Based on Rovio Entertainment’s smartphone game, the film focused on the ongoing war between the angry birds of the title and their mortal enemies – a horde of evil green-colored pigs....

Phishing occurs when a fraudulent email or other mediums such as social media and phone calls that mimic that of a reputable company is distributed to individuals to unveil personal information such as credit card credentials and passwords. It is amongst the most prevalent security threats that companies must contain to keep their data secure. It has been reported that hackers send over 156 million phishing emails every day, and that doesn’t consider other methods that are growing more popular with the widespread use of social media and smartphones further develop....

Apache NiFi is easily extensible through the development of custom components. In this Apache NiFi tutorial, you will learn- What is Apache NiFi? Why Use Apache NIfi? History of Apache NiFi NiFi Architecture Apache NiFi Features How to Install Apache NiFi Nifi Use Cases Best practices Running Apache NiFi Disadvantage of Nifi Why Use Apache NIfi? Here, are reasons for using Apache Nifi: Allows you to do data ingestion to pull data into NiFi, from numerous data sources and create flow files It offers real-time control which helps you to manage the movement of data between any source & destination Visualize DataFlow at the enterprise level Provide common tooling and extensions Allows you to take advantage of existing libraries and Java ecosystem functionality Helps organizations to integrate Nifi with their existing infrastructure NiFi is designed to scale-out in clusters which offer guaranteed delivery of data Visualize and Monitor performance, behavior in a flow bulletin which offers insight and inline documentation Helps you to start and stop components separately or at the group level It helps you to listen, fetch, split, aggregate, route, transform and drag & drop Dataflow...

One of the iOS 14 features Apple highlighted in its new-format WWDC keynote was App Clips: a really quick way to download just enough of an app to carry out a specific task, like paying for a car parking space. An interesting take by PC Mag suggests that the feature is just the first step into a new approach made possible by the 5G iPhones we’ll be getting later this year …...

In its ongoing efforts to ensure strong security for customers, Apple will require the use of app-specific passwords from June 15th. This affects you if you use a third-party app that logs in with an iCloud email and password (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) to access contacts, calendar and mail messages. If you don’t migrate to app-specific passwords by the June 15 deadline, then those apps will stop working. Luckily, it’s easy to fix: read on for step-by-step instructions on how to make app-specific passwords for your Apple ID....

During its Q4 2015 earnings call today, Tim Cook revealed the first numbers for its new Apple News service saying that the app has around 40 million users since launching alongside iOS 9 in September. Apple didn’t specify exactly where it’s pulling that data from. It’s possible a user could mean everyone that’s ever opened the app, or it could be using some other arbitrary way of measuring, like those that have used the app in the past week, as it has done with Apple Music....

Apple Senior Vice President of Retail Angela Ahrendts is continuing to go all in on growth in China. In video messages to employees in recent days and weeks, Ahrendts has been recruiting employees from United States-based Apple Retail stores to relocate to China to help build up Apple’s retail efforts in the region. In a note to employees late last week, sources say that Ahrendts reported that approximately 200 Apple retail workers from the U....

At the Postback conference last week in Seattle, Apple’s vice president of advertising Todd Teresi sat down with TUNE to discuss the company’s continued efforts in analytics and and mobile measurement. Teresi discussed how Apple plans to continue working with developers to improve metrics in the App Store, and more. Teresi explained that one area Apple is specifically focusing on is closing the gap between install and engagement numbers. Currently, installs are measured by the first time a person opens the app, and thus the install number rarely correlates with the downloads number....

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One or two people might suggest that, with the current pandemic, this idea was mere madness. We, though, wanted to see what traveling abroad and working abroad truly meant right now. The first step was booking flights. We chose Lisbon simply because we love Lisbon. (It’s that rare example of peaceful, decent civilization in a world gone twisted.) Not so long ago, the Portuguese national airline, TAP, instituted direct flights from San Francisco to Lisbon....

At WWDC earlier this month, Apple once again recognized some of the top designers of iOS and Mac apps with the annual Apple Design Awards. This year, one of the apps that won the student category was Finish, a unique task management app which we reviewed when it launched in January. Finish was created by Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen, a high-school duo from Colorado. This week, we sat down with Orbuch and discussed the inspiration behind Finish, the ADA, and more....

Apple is believed to be developing its own custom power management chips for iPhone and iPads, at least according to one industry analyst (via Reuters). The report from Bankhaus Lampe said that Apple is looking to replace a PMIC component currently supplied by Dialog with its own custom silicon as soon as 2019. The analyst notes that Apple has been aggressively hiring engineers from the third-party supplier and already has a significant team of employees working on Apple-designed power management chips....

— Android (@Android) November 12, 2014 The Android 5.0 update was supposed to roll out earlier this month for Nexus 5, but was delayed apparently due to a WiFi bug. There were also reports that Google wanted Nexus 6 to go on sale before releasing the latest OS update to the older Nexus devices. Android 5.0 Lollipop comes with lots of new and interesting features and a complete overhaul of visual design....