Featuring a larger, more advanced display, and significant leaps in capability and performance, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus represent the biggest advancement in design and engineering since we introduced the original iPhone. Published on Sep 9, 2014
Apple Watch unites the capabilities of an all-day fitness tracker and a highly advanced sports watch in one device you can wear all the time. Narrated by Jay Blahnik, Director of Fitness, Health Technologies at Apple. Published on Sep 9, 2014 NBCNews.com What you need to know about the new Apple Watch Vox Technology ... The move was hotly anticipated, as Apple enters a competitive and rapidly expanding market. ... There's a reason Apple invited fashion bloggers to the event today. ... It will show Facebook updates and baseball scores, as well as where you left your car (assuming that car is a BMW). Is it time for Apple smartwatch to jump-start wearables market? - USA TODAY Apple Unveils Smartwatch, Its First New Product in 4 Years - Wall Street Journal Is Apple Getting Over Its Allergy To Social Media? - Forbes Best places to trade in your old iPhone - CBS News: "... If you're more interested in getting actual cash, you've got your pick of sites that take trade-ins online. Sites like Next Worth, Glyde, and Gazelle all work more or less the same way, offering you a competitive price based on the phone model, as well as its condition. There's also the trade-in route, in which you literally exchange your used phone for a discount on your next handset. A slew of retailers offer this convenience, including Apple, Best Buy and Target...." Baidu Hires Top Microsoft Executive in China - WSJ: "Zhang Yaqin will become Baidu's president for new business, effective Wednesday, the Chinese company said Monday. He previously served as Microsoft's vice president and chairman of its Asian-Pacific research and development group." Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection | Ars Technica: "Comcast has begun serving Comcast ads to devices connected to one of its 3.5 million publicly accessible Wi-Fi hotspots across the US. Comcast's decision to inject data into websites raises security concerns and arguably cuts to the core of the ongoing net neutrality debate." Facebook’s Value Tops $200 Billion on Mobile-Ad Optimism - Bloomberg: "“This latest rally stems from their last earnings announcement, when they reported higher demand and sales numbers for their mobile ads,” said Jeffrey Sica, who oversees more than $1.5 billion in assets as president of Sica Wealth Management, in an e-mail. “If they can continue to grow their mobile ads, they will have a sustainable demand for their stock.”" EU Asks More of Google - WSJ: "....The decision to reopen settlement negotiations for an unprecedented fourth time marks something of an about-face for Mr. Almunia, who has long insisted that Google's commitments were sufficient to meet his agency's competition concerns. The turnaround comes after the European Commission decided that some concerns raised by complainants in response to letters explaining Brussels' latest settlement with Google were "justified," Mr. Almunia told Bloomberg TV in an interview recorded on Sept. 6...." Maybe The Stock Market Isn't So Dumb - IBM Reaps A 6% Loss On A $156 Billion Investment - International Business Machines Corporation | Seeking Alpha: "Even with an investment of $156 billion, IBM's market value has decreased by 5.99% in the last fifteen years."
New York Times Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone's Price to 99 Cents New York Times Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, announcing the Fire ... usually work,” said Wayne Lam, a senior analyst with IHS Technology. He noted that the so-calledFacebook phone quickly dropped to 99 cents ... Apple, which is releasing its new iPhones on Tuesday, surpasses that every ...
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(Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link below) Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) –- If being online is the future of business, what future does a business have if it can't get online? That's the billion-dollar question in the state of Maine, where internet service is among the worst in the nation. Bloomberg's Michael McKee went to Maine to look for answers. (Source: Bloomberg) Most of the US has no broadband competition at 25Mbps, FCC chair says | Ars Technica: "But will the FCC block Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger? Wheeler doesn't say." T-Mobile's next Uncarrier event coming September 10 - GeekWire: "T-Mobile’s “Un-carrier” train just keeps on rolling. The company sent out invitations to members of the press today inviting them to the Un-carrier 7.0 event hosted on September 10 in San Francisco... the image bears a tagline saying “This time it’s personal.” It’s unclear what that means, though." Baidu Builds Largest Computer Brain for Online Queries - Bloomberg: "With about 100 billion digitally simulated neural connections, Baidu’s computing cluster will be 100 times more powerful than the 2012 Google Inc. project dubbed “Google Brain,” Andrew Ng, chief scientist at the operator of China’s biggest search engine, said in an interview yesterday. Engineers at a Baidu lab in Silicon Valley are designing the project, which will be built in Beijing and completed in about six months, according to Ng." Not Safe For Not Working On | Dan Kaminsky's Blog: "But noise doesn’t matter if nobody is listening. Authentication systems could probably do more to detect brute force attacks across large numbers of accounts. And given the wide variety of systems that interface with backend password stores, it’s foolish to expect them all to implement rate limiting correctly. Limits need to exist as close as possible to the actual store, independent of access method." Tim Cook Says Apple to Add Security Alerts for iCloud Users Wall Street Journal In his first interview on the subject, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said celebrities' iCloud accounts were compromised when hackers correctly ... After nude celebrity hacking, Apple's Tim Cook says company will improve security - Washington Post Apple boosts iCloud security measures after celebrity photo hacks - CBS News
Wall Street Journal Apple's Next Big Focus: Your Health Wall Street Journal Apple on Tuesday is expected to unveil a smartwatch embedded with more than 10 sensors to monitor health and fitness signs, according to people ...
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Hacking Charges Against China Unprecedented: Brown: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play) FTI Consulting's Thomas Brown and Bloomberg's Phil Mattingly discusses the U.S.-China cyber war with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg video. May 19, 2014) The US Justice Department on Monday charged members of the Chinese military with conducting economic cyber-espionage against American companies, marking the first time that the United States has leveled such criminal charges against a foreign country. Industries targeted by the alleged cyberspying ranged from nuclear to steel to solar energy, officials said. In some cases, they said, the hacking by a military unit in Shanghai was conducted for no other reason than to give a competitive advantage to Chinese companies, including state-owned enterprises. (source infra) -- this has been going on for a very long time, but Chinese hacking must have been really successful in stealing US trade secrets, intellectual property, and other data, for the Obama administration to take this action -- U.S. announces first criminal charges against foreign country for cyberspying - The Washington Post: "...Holder said the Obama administration “will not tolerate actions by any nation that seeks to illegally sabotage American companies and undermine the integrity of fair competition in the operation of the free market.”...." China's theft of business secrets is beyond espionage: "....But U.S. officials have consistently said that Chinese spying for the benefit of private companies oversteps the bounds of traditional espionage done for national security reasons. Chinese officials have said the United States is acting hypocritically, since it also engages in cyber espionage. The Justice Department said Monday it charged five Chinese hackers with breaking into U.S. companies, stealing reams of data and then providing it to Chinese firms. The United States engages in cyber spying activities but does not penetrate commercial companies for the benefit of domestic firms, said James Lewis, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies...." China's Baidu Hires Andrew Ng, Stanford Professor and Google's Deep Learning Collaborator, for New Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab | MIT Technology Review: "Baidu has long been referred to as “China’s Google” because it dominates Web search in the country. Today the comparison grew more apt: Baidu has opened a new artificial-intelligence research lab in Silicon Valley that will be overseen by Andrew Ng, a Stanford professor who played a key role at Google in a field called deep learning. He was also a cofounder of the online education company Coursera...." More than 100 charged in Blackshades crackdown ZDNet Over 100 people in the United States and around the world have been charged following an international effort to crack down on the remote access malware, Blackshades. The coordinated crackdown involved 18 countries, including Australia, Canada and ... Google in Talks About Possible Acquisition of Twitch Wall Street Journal Google in Talks About Possible Acquisition of Twitch. Google's ... For Google, Twitch would be a potential boost to its YouTube video service. YouTube ... Amazon's Drone Team Is Hiring: Look At These Nifty Job Ads Forbes Amazon.com's founder, Jeff Bezos, keeps saying that he wants to revolutionize package delivery by using drones. Skeptics snicker, but Bezos won't ... Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2B Computerworld Computerworld - Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's ... Microsoft Brings SAP Apps To Azure Cloud InformationWeek SAP apps are coming to Azure and BusinessObjects now talks to Microsoft Power BI, but in-memory cloud options for Hana, SQL Server must wait. Microsoft Just Short Changed Everyone Who Has Bought An Xbox One Forbes ... Of course this wasn't in the official announcement that Microsoft will sell a $399 ... Microsoft even had a superficially convincing reason: “We've also heard ... Microsoft devices in their larger battle with Apple and Google Yahoo Japan drops $3.2 billion plan to buy eAccess from SoftBank Reuters Yahoo Japan, the country's biggest Internet portal and 42.6 percent owned by ... YahooJapan President Manabu Miyasaka had said after the March ... Apple, Samsung Blame Each Other for Lack of Settlement Bloomberg Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) blamed each another for impeding progress toward a settlement of their patent disputes in a ... Google buys corporate mobile-device manager Divide Boston Globe Divide also offers an app for Apple Inc.'s iPhones. Although Divide is joining Android, the company reassured existing iPhone customers that their ...
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