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When it comes to paid apps, it shows that people will spend money to keep themselves engaged in an entertaining and exciting activity. The game Minecraft is the top paid app on both iPhone and iPad.

Here are the top 10 apps for your iPhone and iPad this week

Despite security concerns, Zoom remains the most downloaded free app, followed by another videoconferencing app, Houseparty

15 Apr 2020 6:56 PM

The upcoming iPhone 12 will have triple lenses and a LiDAR scanner in a quad display array on the rear, whereas the iPhone 11 Pro and IPhone 11 featured in this image does not have a LiDAR scanner.

The latest at Apple: Leaks on the iPhone SE, iPhone 12 and iPad Pro 2020 reveal juicy details

Keen Apple enthusiasts have been digging up info on what the tech company will bring out next

06 Apr 2020 10:22 PM

A picture shows a surveillance camera in an underground passage in Moscow on January 27, 2020. - A vast and contentious network of facial-recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in slowing the rapid spread of coronavirus in Russia. (Photo | AFP)

Privacy could become the next victim of the coronavirus as governments step up mass surveillance

Authoritarian regimes such as China use COVID-19 as a pretext to suppress independent speech and restrict fundamental rights

29 Mar 2020 12:12 PM

The 90-day free trial is open to new customers as well as those already on a 30-day trial. Their trial period will be extended to match this offer. (Representative Image)

Apple offers 90-day free trial on Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro X video and audio editing software

Even if you’re just trying to learn a new skill, this offer is perfect; you can add a new skill to your CV at the end of the lockdown period

27 Mar 2020 2:11 PM

Display and other issues related to mails and messages have been fixed in the iOS 13.4 update

Annoyed by the bugs on your iPhone? The latest software update available now fixes it all

Now your phone will use less space to store photos, and you get an iCloud Drive folder enabling instant file sharing, among other things

25 Mar 2020 2:16 PM

This March 11, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, shows workers at the assembly workshop of OPPO (Chongqing) Intelligence Technology Limited in Yubei District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. (Photo | AP)

Supply of phones, computers yet to spring back as China factories struggle to reopen

Over 80% of Apple, Samsung phones, 50% of world’s PCs are made in China but chips must come from US where production is hit by corona crisis

19 Mar 2020 8:23 PM

Facebook is also awarding USD 100 million in grants and ad credits to assist small businesses. (Photo | Pixabay)

Facebook staff to get USD 1,000 bonus as they work from home amid corona outbreak

Employees will also get an automatic ‘exceeds expectations’ rating on their performance review

18 Mar 2020 4:41 PM

According to Microsoft, 100 per cent of Fortune 500 companies and one in seven people around the world use Windows 10 devices.

Microsoft hits target of 1 billion devices running Windows 10 globally

About 80,000 laptop models from over 1,000 manufactures make up a large chunk of the total number of machines running Windows 10

16 Mar 2020 7:36 PM

In this picture taken on March 11, 2020 an Apple staff (C) and customers wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus are seen inside of an Apple shop in Beijing. (Photo | AFP)

Apple to host WWDC 2020 in June, will release iOS 14 and more at online-only event

Upgrades of the iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS are also expected at the developers’ conference

16 Mar 2020 6:35 PM

Apple will now allow dating apps and fortune-telling apps on App Store only if they provide a “unique, high-quality experience”

Now ads may appear on iPhone app notifications as Apple changes App Store guidelines

The good news is that users still have the right to choose whether they want to see ads or not

06 Mar 2020 6:16 PM

The modalities of filing a claim haven’t been worked out yet. So you might have to wait a while to get compensation. (Photo | Apple)

Apple agrees to compensate iPhone users whose phones it slowed down

The iPhone maker has agreed to pay USD 500 million in settlements to users, but don’t get too excited, you’ll get just USD 25 individually

03 Mar 2020 3:42 PM

A representative image of a protest over allegations that Apple supply chains used sweat shop labour to make their products (Photo | Flickr - Annette Bernhardt)

Apple, Sony using Uighur detainees in China factories, says Australian think tank

80,000 people from the ethnic minority interned in Xinjiang camps reported to have been transferred to factories supplying global brands

02 Mar 2020 5:02 PM

Apple captured six places in the top ten list.

Apple iPhone XR became top-selling model globally for 2019

Apple iPhone XR secured the top spot while the iPhone 11 became the second best-selling model.

29 Feb 2020 8:44 AM

The purported iPhone 9 or iPhone SE 2 as some leaks have indicated, is said to mimic the design language of iPhone 8.

Apple iPhone 9 could be announced next month

Apple will introduce the successor to the iPhone SE, dubbed iPhone 9, on March 31.

24 Feb 2020 7:47 AM

China is one of the biggest manufacturing sites for Apple products.

Coronavirus to temporarily constrain iPhone supply, warns Apple

The company has also observed a lack of demand for its products within China.

19 Feb 2020 7:02 AM

Apple's history with designing antennas isn't impressive as seen with the iPhone 4 which led to the infamous Antennagate.

Apple is working on its own 5G antenna for iPhone

The company doesn't feel Qualcomm's QTM-525 millimeter-wave antenna module fits in the sleek industrial design it wants.

18 Feb 2020 8:01 AM

iPhone 11 Pro being available at Rs 93,900.

Apple’s brand-new iPhone 11 is available at lowest price ever in India; grab it now!

Amazon.in ‘Apple Days’ bring offers on latest iPhone 11 series, Apple Watch and other accessories.

14 Feb 2020 6:17 AM

Apple remains heavily reliant on China both for smartphone sales as well as for its supply chain and manufacturing.

Apple to delay reopening of retail stores in China

Earlier, Apple said it would shut all of its official stores and corporate offices in mainland China until Feb.9 due to the outbreak.

10 Feb 2020 7:44 AM

Public health experts had carried out inspections at Foxconn's factories and told the company that there was a "high risk of coronavirus infection" at the facilities, making them unsuitable for a production restart.

Shenzhen denies blocking Apple supplier Foxconn from resuming production

Tens of thousands of workers had already returned from an extended new year holiday and were waiting to start work on Feb. 10.

10 Feb 2020 7:26 AM

The anti-fraud agency has also asked Apple to publish a press release on its French website admitting to its false marketing practice and agreement to pay the fine.

Apple fined 25 million euros for slowing down iPhones

Apple is accused of not informing its users that the iOS updates 10.2.1 and 11.2 which were likely to slow down their devices

08 Feb 2020 8:33 AM

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