According to Bloomberg, Apple and Google are teaming up on a $500 million bid to acquire Kodak’s patent portfolio. Prior to this new bid, several reports had claimed that Apple and Google were leading separate groups of several companies that wanted to acquire Kodak’s patents. Kodak’s patents have become available for acquisition following the company’s move into bankruptcy earlier this year. Bloomberg‘s report also notes that Apple’s previous consortium of potential bidders, prior to this new bid with Google, included Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures Management....

19 Kids and Counting and Counting On star Amy Duggar and husband Dillon King’s baby already has a name picked out, and the-mom-to-be explained the significance behind the name. The couple will be welcoming baby Daxton Ryan King in the next two months. Amy Duggar, the niece of 19 Kids and Counting’s patriarch Jim Bob Duggar, was often spotted on the show with all of her cousins. The vivacious cousin was often seen in the background of the show....

The iPhone 4S is no longer king. For the first time since it launched in October 2011, according to BusinessInsider, Apple’s Siri-equipped smartphone did not outsell its competition in the United States for August. Get the full story at 9to5Google. Related articles Nano SIMs begin arriving at telcos ahead of new iPhone launch (9to5mac.com) Will the new iPhone come with totally redesigned headphones? (9to5mac.com) As Apple event approaches, new iPhone fakes, mockups, and hoaxes become more elaborate (9to5mac....

In a new development in its legal battle with Qualcomm, Apple is arguing that the patent deal which forces the company to pay a licence fee for every iPhone manufactured is invalid. It is accusing Qualcomm of double-dipping by charging once for a licence fee for use of its patented technology and again for the chip which uses that technology. Apple had previously accused Qualcomm of exacting revenge against the Cupertino company, but this is the first time it has specifically attacked the basis of the licence deal between the two companies …...

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the company’s Q2 earnings call this evening that he anticipates Apple Watch will launch in additional countries by late June. As of right now, Apple Watch is only available in 9 countries. A report earlier this month claimed that Apple would launch Watch in a second-wave of countries on May 8th, but we quickly debunked that rumor. Cook went on to say that Apple is quickly leaning about customer preferences when it comes to Apple Watch....

All of these could be knockoffs of course as we’ve said countless times since news of the plastic iPhone is months old and Chinese companies are already confirmed to be building Android knockoffs. BenjaminTech via Gene More iPhone plastic shells in Yellow, Green, Gray, Blue and Red (9to5mac.com) More leaked photos & concept of purported plastic iPhone shells in colors hit the web (9to5mac.com) Plastic iPhone case put together in high quality video/gallery (9to5mac....

Policy makers Security policy development is a joint or collective operation of all entity of an organization that is affected by its rules. In general, security policies should not be developed by IT team itself as it is a responsibility of everyone that has a stake in the security policy should be involved in its development so that they could too, mold the policy according to their requirement. During policy creating following entity typically involves;...

Lenovo K8 Note was launched in August 2017. Here we will discuss the release of Android 9.0 Pie update for Lenovo K8 Note. 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....

Marvel Studios is making Ant-Man 3 with an eye on a 2022 release, but it doesn’t have a specific release date yet, so here’s our prediction for when exactly it will come out. The sequel will pick up with Scott Lang aka Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) after the events of Avengers: Endgame and will once again be directed by Peyton Reed. With the reported production schedule Marvel is aiming for, it appears that they are ready to move relatively quickly with what Ant-Man 3 will offer....

After a plethora of complaints, Apple this week has posted a new support document acknowledging an issue with the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus that causes the battery percentage indicator in the status bar not to update as the battery itself drains. This means that the battery percentage icon could display that you have much more battery life left than you actually do. In the support document, Apple addresses the issue and assures iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus users that it is working on a fix....

And you thought iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 were code-names for exactly the same thing, a fifth-generation iPhone… Taking the rumor mill reporting to the next level, Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley is calling for a late September launch of the next-generation iPhone, with production kicking off in August. So far so good: The time-frame jibes with various tidbits we’ve been hearing from Asian component suppliers for some time. But check this out: It’ll be two phones, speculates Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore in a note to clients this morning....

Apple’s software engineering SVP Craig Federighi has warned that developers must follow the company’s anti-tracking rules, or else their apps will be removed from the App Store… The new App Tracking Transparency rules were initially meant to be part of iOS 14, but were delayed after protests by Facebook and advertisers. They are now expected to come into force during the summer, at which point apps will have to display a privacy pop-up asking permission to enable ad-tracking....

Even though estimated iPad 2 shipping times are better than they were following the gizmo’s launch, the online Apple Store still has a three-week wait on the iconic device. Buying it from third-parties is a time-consuming process as a lot of calls need to be made in order to figure out best iPad 2 availability at your nearby retailers. Why not save yourself valuable time and let an iPhone app search for the device for you?...

So here we go: WiiSHii has a large set of travel applications for the both the iPad and iPhone. Their apps are very similar, all different editions of each other. They all start with the same name of “GYOYO.” As you can see the screenshot below they have made their way into chunks of the Top Paid iPhone Travel section. This is very similar to last week’s app farm story....

A common discussion among the IT administrators on various email lists and subreddit forums is Mac malware and whether or not you need to install security solutions when deploying a fleet of Macs. Are Macs more secure than PCs? Do Macs get malware? Do you need endpoint security software solutions? Let’s discuss in our look at Apple in the enterprise for this weekend. About Apple @ Work: Bradley Chambers has been managing an enterprise IT network since 2009....

Apple’s director of AI research Russ Salakhutdinov has announced at a conference that the company’s machine-learning researchers will be free to publish their findings. This is an apparent reversal of Apple’s previous position. It was suggested in October that Apple’s extreme secrecy was harming its prospects in AI … Refusing permission to publish was said to be keeping the company out of the loop and meaning that the best people in the field didn’t want to work for Apple....

Apple recently dished out a new update for its flagship music production software and we thought it would be fitting to take a closer look at some of the best new Logic Pro X features in 10.4.5. While it might not have been a full numbered jump up to 10.5 – which usually indicates a collection of boring but welcomed bug exterminations and performance enhancements – 10.4.5 is significantly more exciting than that....

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the AOSP Android 11 on Realme 3 Pro (codenamed RMX1851). 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. Later Google released the AOSP source code for Android 11 which is undoubtedly the main ingredient to compile Android 11-based custom ROMs....

One sentence from the presentation stuck in my mind. “The version of Android does not matter,” the presenter said. “The quality of hardware and features that we have placed around it make the difference.” It was a theme whose variation we would hear again. And again. The years that followed saw Android displace Symbian as the most popular smartphone OS in the world, transforming it from Smartphone eminence to a ‘burning platform....

Angry Birds artwork by ijul Does it bother you that you cannot continue playing a game on your iPad right where you left off on an iPhone? It always frustrated me that Game Center, Apple’s social network for games, only keeps record of your achievements and leaderboards but not other game data pertaining to your progress and current state of the game. Unfortunately, until a system-wide sync of app data across all iOS devices via cloud iTunes takes off – if ever – it’s just a pipe dream....