Rosenblatt analyst Jun Zhang is out today with a new investor note in which he predicts Apple could cut iPhone production by another 4 million units during the March quarter of 2019. Zhang’s prediction comes as Apple has reportedly already cut iPhone XS and iPhone XR production at least once. In his investor note, Zhang says that Apple faces challenges in China, particularly relating to the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou....

UPDATE [Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:50am ET]: RIM just reported quarterly earnings. They shipped 200,000 PlayBooks, barely half the figure analysts projected. That means that sales ratio to iPad is 1:46, not 1:19. Shares slumped 20 percent on the news, Financial Times reports. We’ve suspected Research In Motion’s seven-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet may have been met with muted response from the iPad-maddened fans of technology. Bloomberg polled a group of analysts and concluded that RIM during last quarter may have shipped just one PlayBook for every nineteen iPads....

Inadvertently exported components Improperly protected exported components Intents which are vulnerable to interception or eavesdropping Improper x.509 certificate validation Creation of world-readable or world-writeable file. Activities which may leak data The use of Sticky Intents Insecurely created Pending Intents Sending of insecure Broadcast Intents Private keys embedded in the source Weak or improper cryptography use Potentially exploitable WebView configurations Exported Preference Activities Tapjacking Apps which enable backups Apps which are debuggable Apps supporting outdated API versions, with known vulnerabilities...

We’ve already described most of JMeter in part 1 and part 2, but let’s summarize what we’ve learned so far. We’ve seen that JMeter consists of the following elements: – Thread Group: A mandatory element that specifies the number of concurrent users that will use the target application. – Sampler: Sends requests to the server and waits for a response. – Logical Controller: Specifies when to send requests from samplers....

Apple has released an update to its professional photo-editing and management software, Aperture, that includes both bug fixes and some minor enhancements. These bug fixes cover stability and performance while the minor enhancements include a new gestures toggle, improved image cropping, photo uploading, and loading slideshows in the background. The full change log is pasted after the break. Improves reliability and performance when syncing web-published albums Slideshow exports are now handled as a background operation Crop tool now correctly supports use of gestures to define crop size Gesture support can now be enabled or disabled in Preferences Fixes an issue that could cause a blank sheet to display when placing a book or print order Published MobileMe, Facebook and Flickr albums now appear in a Web section in the Projects Inspector Shift-clicking snapshots on the Faces corkboard now allows you to make contiguous selections Metadata presets are now correctly applied to imported audio files Fixes an issue that could cause Aperture to quit unexpectedly when trimming audio in full screen mode Resolves various issues when adding names to Faces using accented, Japanese, Korean or Simplified Chinese characters Improves stability when browsing video clips Addresses reliability of library repair and rebuild Update: Aperture goes full screen now with the native Lion full screen button....

Steven Spriggs, a Fresno man who was ticketed for using his iPhone while driving in January of 2012, won an appeal of his conviction today in a ruling that could potentially impact how drivers are allowed to use their phones while on the road. Because Spriggs was using his phone’s mapping application when he was pulled over, the court overturned his conviction, stating that maps do not fall under the state ban on texting or talking on a cell phone while driving....

Apple and IBM today unveiled three new enterprise apps developed for iOS as part of their ongoing ‘IBM MobileFirst for iOS’ partnership. The new apps include Advisor Alerts, Passenger Care, and Dynamic Buy. The three apps, a combination of both iPhone and iPad software, join the original set of 10 announced last year and another new app recently announced bringing the collection of apps announced under the deal to 14 total across eight industries including retail, banking, and transportation....

In any period drama, the story cannot get by without a few romances along the way. Anne With An E is no different. While most of these relationships are just school-ground crushes, they still are core parts of the show. It really helps show the childlike heart of it all. Anyway, with so many people in danger of diseases, fire, and other small-town perils, romance goes a long way to brighten everything up....

Anthem, Bioware’s new IP, is releasing its demo this weekend, which gives anyone still on the fence about the game a great chance to test it out before the release of the game in just a few short weeks. There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the game’s release, but the real question is how do you get the most out of the game straight away? PREVIOUSLY: 6 Promising Co-op Games Coming In 2019 So whether you’ll be playing on PC, PS4, or Xbox One, there are a few steps you can take to ensure that you’re getting all the best loot as quickly as possible....

Update: While the meeting apparently didn’t result in any resolution, ZDnet reports the ITU’s Malcolm Johnson said the ‘heated debate’ “has gone a long way to help clarify the positions” of the companies involved: ZDnet also reported Motorola argued “Apple was misunderstanding the way FRAND works in the telecoms industry”: The world’s biggest tech companies are meeting today for a Patent Roundtable with the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union to “assess the effectiveness of RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) – based patent policies....

The Facebook application is by far the most important application on both the iPhone and the iPad. Without the Facebook application, my own opinion is the iPhone would never have become as important as it is. It’s the single most widely used application. It’s so heavily used compared to other apps that I have been told by someone who thought he knew the data — this is highly secret data and I don’t know the actual numbers — that more than half of all usage of the iPhone of apps, other than those provided by the phone itself like telephony and email, is coming from Facebook....

Here we will discuss the release of Android 9.0 Pie update for Xiaomi Redmi 4. Xiaomi Redmi 4 is a dual SIM smartphone released in May 2017. The phone comes with a 5.00-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. It is powered by 2 GHz octa-core Qualcomm MSM8940 Snapdragon 435 processor. It runs on 2/3/4 GB of RAM. The phone packs 16/32/64 GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB....

Apex Legends revealed today that the game has hit 50 million players in exactly a month after its release. On top of being an impressive achievement in its own right, that fact also means that Apex Legends is currently growing four times faster than Fortnite’s playerbase did at equivalent player number counts. Apex Legends was the darling of February gaming, despite a few high-profile releases in Metro Exodus and Anthem threatening to steal the spotlight....

Following the publication of an NPR article detailing the security of major email services, Apple has informed the network that it is working on an update to its iCloud Mail service that encrypts emails in transit from other providers. As of right now, iCloud emails are solely encrypted in transit from one iCloud email account to another, but an email sent from iCloud to Gmail or Yahoo (as examples) or vice versa is not currently encrypted....

Thanks to social media, we get plenty of practice, and we’ve honed our whiny skills to near-perfection. We need to talk about all this. Please lie down on my purple chaise-longue and think of all the things that fill you with distaste, disaffection and even downright loathing. Now narrow those feelings in the direction of gadgets. Which ones fill you with despair? Which ones force you to scream at them?...

Anyone who has used ANC headphones in a noisy environment will know that active noise-cancellation makes a big difference. But Danish company Jabra claims that it’s latest headphones go one better, using AI to tune out specific types of noise … Standard ANC works by using external microphones to detect surrounding sounds. The headphones then play an inverted version of the soundwaves along with the music, and this cancels out the external noise....

At its developer conference I/O 2015, the Mountain View-based giant announced Android M, the latest iteration to its mobile operating system. The new version brings with it a number of interesting new features including Now on Tap, Chrome Custom View, and improvements to battery life among others. While the company didn’t choose to make a big deal out of it, there is another very interesting feature the new Android version will ship with....

This 65W desktop charger sports a streamlined design with three 2.4A USB-A ports and a USB-C port, as well. That makes it a great option for powering up your gear daily, whether it be a MacBook, iPhone, iPad, Chromebook, or Android device. Notable deals on Apple’s 2018 iPad Pro Apple’s 2018 iPad Pro sports a Liquid Retina edge-to-edge display with ProMotion, True Tone, and wide color. Other features include Face ID, 12MP camera, four speakers, and up to 10 hours of battery life, all of which are powered by Apple’s A12X Bionic chip....

[vodpod id=Video.16054122&w=650&h=420&fv=] After The New York Times published a lengthy two-part piece covering the controversial working conditions of Apple’s supply chain within Foxconn factories in China, other publications are doing their own investigative work to find out more informtion. The NYT’s second installment brought us the backstory of Foxconn worker Lai Xiaodong leading up to his death at a factory explosion in Chengdu. Today, CNN published a video of journalist Stan Grant who recently sat down for an interview with a current Foxconn employee and iPad display assembler:...

Apple is responding to the COVID-19 virus in real time as the global pandemic worsens, and the latest coronavirus response is a new App Store effort to ensure the credibility of health and safety information. Starting now, Apple is expediting approval for specific apps from reputable sources related to COVID-19. The App Store is also waiving the annual membership fee for distributing free apps for select groups. Apple will not approve apps that use COVID-19 themes for entertainment and games to limit apps that take advantage of the current health crisis....