Following a report yesterday claiming that Apple was being investigated by the Department of Justice over anti-competitive practices surrounding the launch of its rebranded Beats streaming music service, Bloomberg this evening now corroborates that report. Bloomberg says that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Apple is using its large iTunes store to put rival streaming music services like Spotify at a disadvantage. FTC officials have reportedly been in contact with at least one record label regarding Apple’s practices....

Discover how you can leverage CPA marketing in 2022 and which e-commerce marketing tools you can use to launch and optimize your CPA marketing strategies. An In-Depth Guide to CPA Marketing Tools A Primer on CPA Marketing Cost-per-action (CPA) marketing, also known as pay-per-lead (PPL) or CPA affiliate marketing, is a type of affiliate marketing. In CPA marketing, the publisher or the affiliate earns a commission when they drive traffic and when a visitor or qualified lead completes a specific action, such as signing up for a paid subscription or filling out a survey form....

In a new investor note today, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi has a bizarre suggestion for Apple: sell an Apple Watch for under $250. Why is that bizarre? Well, you can pick up the Apple Watch Series 3 directly from Apple, in brand new condition, for $199. In the investor note (via PED30), Sacconaghi says that Apple could sell 10 times as many Apple Watch units by offering a less expensive model, marketed as “an essential health monitoring device....

Threat alerts and triage Incident response Threat hunting Malware research Analyzing malware can be “static” or “dynamic.” Static analysis does not involve actually executing the malware, while dynamic analysis carries out such an action in a controlled environment. Dynamic analysis is all about behavior and actions that may attract suspicion like opening a network socket, writing registry keys and writing files to a disk. Often, debugging is done by means of putting malware through a debugger to analyze its behavior (API calls, function calls and so on) to reveal its functions....

Here we will discuss the release of Android 9.0 Pie update for Huawei Y7 Prime 2018. Google finally released the 9th iteration of Android OS called Android 9.0 Pie. The update has rolled for Pixel supported devices and few other OEM supported with Android Beta. After putting Android users through four beta updates of Android P, Google has named Android 9.0 as Android Pie. It is expected that in the coming months all the devices that had been signed up for the Android P beta program including the OnePlus 6, Oppo R15 Pro, Vivo X21 and more will receive the Android P update first....

Here we will discuss the release of Android 9.0 Pie update for Xiaomi Redmi Y1. Google finally released the 9th iteration of Android OS called Android 9.0 Pie. The update has rolled for Pixel supported devices and few other OEM supported with Android Beta. After putting Android users through four beta updates of Android P, Google has named Android 9.0 as Android Pie. It is expected that in the coming months all the devices that had been signed up for the Android P beta program including the OnePlus 6, Oppo R15 Pro, Vivo X21 and more will receive the Android P update first....

A new report from Millenial Media, one of the world’s largest online ad networks, shows that Android boosted its share of mobile web usage to 51 percent this year, but that iOS usage is growing at a faster rate. Android’s usage grew five points since Q2 last year, while iOS usage grew eight points to reach 42 percent. In tablets, the iPad held its lead, while the Android share was convincingly led by Samsung’s Galaxy Tab....

From 9to5Toys.com: Best Buy has the entry level 13inch MacBook Air on-sale for $1,099. This Mac retails for $1,299 and sports a 1.7GHz i5 processor, 128GB flash storage, and 4GB of memory (See below for full specs). This is an awesome deal on one of the best portable Macs you can buy. 1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor 4GB memory 128GB flash storage Intel HD Graphics 3000 Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)...

That’s the news coming out of Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Mumster, who reckons most of Wall Street have missed out on the potential sales uptick Apple’s going to see in the coming weeks as partners push the in vogue device. “Our iPhone estimate of 4.1 million units in the Sept. [fiscal 3Q] quarter is like conservative,” Munster said, pointing out that Apple’s market reach now extends to a potential 660 million people....

Apple is one of a number of major companies urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case of alleged employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation … The amicus brief – a submission by parties not directly involved in a case – argues that allowing organizations to discriminate against gay and lesbian employees is harmful to staff, businesses and the U.S. economy. The WSJ reports that the brief was filed after an earlier appeals court ruled against a lesbian employee....

Apple ads from the 1970s to the present day have been archived by graphic designer and marketer Sam Henri Gold. The archive includes literally hundreds of TV ads, print ads, promo photos, and more, organized by decade and then year … Gold says that he plans to get everything hosted on the Internet Archive later this year, but for now he has uploaded it to Google Drive so that people can check that everything is in the correct year....

An American woman is suing US Customs and Border Protection over what she claims is the illegal seizure and search of her iPhone at Newark airport … The BBC reports that agents asked her to unlock the phone at Immigration, and retained it when she refused to do so. The complaint alleges that the seizure and search were illegal. Her iPhone was seized by agents after she refused to unlock it for them […] According to legal documents, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) kept the phone for more than 120 days before returning it to Ms Lazoja […]...

Requirements and system Setup In order to follow along with the fuzzing exercises in this article, you will need two networked systems – one Windows system (Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7) running the vulnerable application Vulnserver which will act as our fuzzing target, and one Linux system to perform the fuzzing using SPIKE. I recommend using a copy of BackTrack 4 Final or later as your Linux system, as all of the software that we require to perform our fuzzing work comes already included....

While noting its March numbers indicate continued growth for the iPhone’s marketshare, Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley (via AllThingsD) said the iPhone is currently outselling “all other smartphones” at both AT&T and Sprint together. He also said Verizon is selling roughly as many iPhones as all Android phones combined: Canaccord’s month-over-month comparison of the top three selling smartphones on the four biggest carriers shows Samsung’s Galaxy S II right behind the iPhone 4S since December on AT&T and Sprint, and the Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Razr lineup is not far behind on Verizon....

A particularly notable Apple AirPods deal highlights today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break, along with a Sony CarPlay unit, and the ecobee HomeKit Switch+. Hit the jump for all that and more. Latest Apple AirPods deal delivers best prices of 2019 We have a particularly notable Apple AirPods deal for you this afternoon courtesy of Rakuten. The second-generation model with a wireless charging case is now down to $159. That’s good for $40 off the regular going rate and the best offer we’ve tracked all-time....

Beyond that, the chipmaker said architecture work has begun on Celestial, its third-gen CPU, that will appeal to the ultra-enthusiast segment. Intel also said it is planning a new service to deliver access to Intel Arc GPUs for an “always-accessible, low-latency computing experience.” The service, currently called Project Endgame, should be available later this year. All told, Intel expects to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022. Intel previously revealed that first-gen Arc consumer graphics products, code-named Alchemist, will have hardware-based ray tracing, use artificial intelligence to power super sampling, and have support for DirectX 12 Ultimate....

Norton Mobile Security includes several groovy features including Anti-Theft, Anti-malware, call blocking, and web protection. Norton says that its software can find your phone when you lose it, lock your phone if you think it’s stolen, and protect you from unwanted calls or texts. It sounds good in theory, but from a free Norton app, is it too good to be true? According to my testing…. yes. The first screen you see when loading the Norton Mobile Security app shows right away that half of the features advertised won’t be available unless you upgrade to the “Full Version....

We first heard a report of an ‘entry-level’ 13-inch MacBook back in January. That was backed by Ming-Chi Kuo in March, who suggested that it would be branded as a new MacBook Air … A couple of reports suggested that the machine would debut in June, which obviously didn’t happen. What’s been reported so far is that the machine would have a lower price than the current MacBook Air, which starts at $999, and have a Retina display....

In an attempt to remind their fellow Apex Legends players of how easy it is to blow a wild amount of money on loot boxes, one gamer admits to having spent $500 on Apex Packs in their pursuit of unlocking the game’s rarest item set. Apex Legends is a massively popular and incredibly well-received free-to-play battle royale game by Respawn Entertainment, the creators of the Titanfall series. The watchword here is “free-to-play,” though, and the game’s monetization scheme is designed to compensate for the title’s lack of an entry fee....

Apollo, one of most the popular Reddit clients for iOS, has just been updated with iOS 14 widgets and picture-in-picture support, which is now available for iPhone and iPod touch users. Today’s update follows the release of Apollo for Reddit version 1.9 last week with crossposting support, image flair, and more. Version 1.10 of Apollo for Reddit brings more than 10 widgets that can be added to the Home Screen of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14....