A Russian regulatory authority earlier this week named Apple, along with more than a dozen Russian retailers, as a target for an investigation into price-fixing activities. The Federal Antimonopoly Service, or FAS, has seen signs of price-setting coordination among iPhone resellers in Russia, according to a notice published on the agency’s website. A preliminary investigation revealed that since last fall, …
Sketches filed in a patent bearing the company’s name show an articulated vehicle which runs on tracks. The vehicle is in two parts and is joined in the middle, similar to a bendy bus. The application is specifically for the steering mechanism, but the tank design itself caused a flutter of excitement in the tech world. But since the patent was …
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has likened the fear of cyber crime to the levels of panic seen during Cold War. Speaking in Sydney, Australia, he said: “We used to fear the atomic bomb when I was young, and you used to come home from school and sirens would go off for a test on every corner. “Now we fear all …
A teardown press report by research firm IHS reveals that for Apple, it costs only Rs. 10,563 to manufacture the iPhone SE. Apple priced the 16GB iPhone SE at $399 in the U.S., and has a margin of $230 to tackle logistics, distribution, and other expenses and profits. In India, a price of Rs. 39,000 leaves a margin of Rs. 29,000 …
Don’t call it a comeback. Apple TV has been here for years. And yet, here is Apple, launching an upgraded Apple TV with a new interface, remote, and plan to dominate your living room and grow its ever-expanding universe of technology and entertainment offerings. That new plan? Apps. That would seem a bit flip, except for the fact that Apple made …
I’ve been wearing an Apple Watch for a month now, and to tell the truth, I’m not sold. It’s a great-looking device, but it’s an expensive way to wear my notifications. At Apple’s iPhone launch event this week, I got to check out some of the features in the new Watch OS 2. It makes the watch even more fashionable, …
One company Apple watchers perhaps did not expect to see at Wednesday’s iPhone event was Microsoft, but Redmond was there to show off how its updated Office software will play well with Apple devices. In a blog post, the Office team said it has “developed a number of new features for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Translator” to take …
According to Strategy Analytics, the Apple Watch owned 75.5% of the global smartwatch market in the second quarter. While the 4 million units that shipped might have disappointed some Wall Streeters who thought another iPhone had been launched, it is way too early to call the timepiece a failure. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that for its first quarter after …
Rumors of a metal-clad 4-inch Apple iPhone 6c are everywhere. Just yesterday, we showed you an image of a battery that was allegedly earmarked for the model. The 1715mAh juicer would have a 14% higher capacity than the cell employed by the Apple iPhone 5c. In May, there was talk that Apple was monopolizing the purchases of Sony sensors for …
LG’s flexible display efforts aren’t stopping with the G Flex 2, it seems, or even the Apple Watch, as the company just issued a press release, announcing a huge investment in a 6th Generation flexible OLED display production line. As per the company: LG Display’s investment will help pioneer future display technologies such as foldable displays and large-size auto displays. The …