SPIKE IN COVID CASES MAKES APPLE CLOSE ITS STORES AGAIN

Highlights: 

• Apple closes 30 more stores in the US 
• The closed stores are located in the rapidly increasing covid infection states

The pandemic had already driven Apple stores to close 47 stores. The company has 271 stores in the United Sta...

DROP IN iPHONE SALES RECORDED IN CHINA

Highlights:

• The sales of iPhones have dropped considerably after the rebound in China.
• Other areas of the business such as investing in the company’s App Store grew which indicates resilience for the US technology giant in China.
• The ...

APPLE TO COMMENCE 2020 iPHONE SE PRODUCTION IN INDIA SOON: REPORTS

Highlights

• As per the reports, Apple has asked one of its suppliers in China to ship components for the 2020 iPhone SE to India

• In the period between March 2018 and March, AppleInsider reported sale of $1.5 billion for Apple India

• The Indian gove...

FACEBOOK ACQUIRES MAPPING START-UP MAPILLARY

Highlights

• Mapillary has a street-level imagery platform
• Street-level data of Mapillary could help Facebook to bolster the maps

Facebook has acquired Swedish mapping start-up Mapillary. It is the part of an effort to take on Apple an...

JAPAN WORKING ON LAUNCHING COVID-19 CONTACT TRACKING MOBILE APP

HIGHLIGHTS

• Japanese health ministry is planning to launch an app that can help users to track proximity with coronavirus patients.
• If the user of phone with the app installed is infected, people who have been in close contact with him/her will be noti...

THE U.K. DECIDES TO BUILD COVID – 19 CONTACT-TRACING APP BASED ON APPLE AND GOOGLE’S TECHNOLOGY

Highlights

• Apple and Google technology follows a decentralized approach
• Their platform is designed to offer more privacy

The coronavirus contact-tracing app of the U.K. will use Apple and Google’s technology. It marks a major U...

EUROPEAN UNION INVESTIGATE APPLE INC.’S APP STORE AND APPLE PAY

Highlights –

• European Union antitrust regulators start investigating Apple Inc.
• Investigation towards its App Store and mobile payment system Apple Pay.
• Apple currently asks its customers to mandatorily use its own in-app purchase sys...

APPLE TO PAY $100,000 TO A TECHIE FROM DELHI FOR REPORTING SECURITY BUG

Highlights

• Bhavuk Jain reported the ‘Sign in with Apple’s bug that allowed takeover of Apple account on any third party application or website

• According to the Apple officials, this feature was introduced for extra privacy instead the reported bug wou...

APPLE TO REOPEN FLAGSHIP TOKYO STORES

HIGHLIGHTS

• Japan has started reopening its economy by easing restrictions.
• Apple is set to reopen its flagship stores in Japan, starting from Tokyo.
• By end of this week, all Apple stores in Japan are going to open.

Due to ...

‘BLACKOUT TUESDAY': MUSIC INDUSTRY PAUSES TO PROTEST GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH

The situation in the United States has got worse after the death of George Floyd in the police custody and number of violent protests are increasing in various cities against police atrocities, where black people are specifically targeted. The country is facing two issues at the same time, one in...

HERE IS EVERYTHING ABOUT APPLE’S iPHONE 12 PRO AND iPHONE 12 PRO MAX

Apple is known for releasing multiple versions of its iPhone. The launch of any iPhone is basically an event and insane hype is created around it. Today iPhones are not just mobile phones but are considered as status symbols. People are willing to shed any price to get hands on every upcoming iPh...

AAROGYA SETU TECHNOLOGY NOT UP TO THE MARK SAYS MIT

The Aarogya Setu app developed by the Government of India and was being enforced by Indian authorities is currently under tight scrutiny and falling short. 
After an announcement regarding the development of exposure notification system also known as contact tracing technology was mad...

MICROSOFT PRESIDENT SAYS BLUETOOTH-BASED COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING APPS LESS EFFECTIVE

Highlights

• Microsoft chatbot was launched in March and was used 190 million times in the month of April

• Microsoft announced its entry in the healthcare sector few days back

• Microsoft President Brad Smith raised questions over feasibility of the a...

TECH GIANTS GOOGLE AND APPLE TO ROLL OUT TECHNOLOGY NOTIFYING COVID-19 EXPOSURE

Highlights:

• Tech giants Google and Apple have decided to roll out Smartphone technology which can help notifying people having the COVID infection.
• Last month both the giants revealed the unprecedented collaboration. 
• The software it u...

APPLE, GOOGLE UNVEIL THEIR JOINT TECHNOLOGY THAT NOTIFIES USERS OF COVID-19 EXPOSURES

Two of the industry giants, Apple and Google on Wednesday unveiled long-awaited smartphone technology that will automatically notify users if they might have been exposed to the COVID-19.
Both the companies stated that at present 22 countries along with several states in the U.S. are think...

APPLE LOOKS TO SHIFT A PART OF iPHONE PRODUCTION FROM CHINA TO INDIA

Highlights

• Apple may shift one fifth of its production to India

• Apple will ask its contractors, Foxconn and Wistron to produce smartphones worth $40 billion in India

Technology giant Apple Inc. is planning to move nearly 20 percent of its production cap...

HOW EMPTY TECH OFFICES SHUTTERED TO FLATTEN THE CURVE

• Long before the U.S. President Trump exercised a stay-home option to counter the COVID-19 virus, many tech companies including APPLE, Inc., Salesforce, Inc., and many other companies had closed shop.
• Small companies which don’t get written about or mentioned in tabloids o...

SEOUL: SUCCESSFUL MASS TESTING BEHIND CITY’S RETURN TO NORMAL LIFE?

After successfully conducting elections and Apple’s announcement of reopening a store, things were expected to get back to normal in shorter period of time. First Saturday after city’s decision to end lockdown saw people getting out in numbers as parks in the region got crowded with p...

SEOUL: APPLE INC. WILL REOPEN IT’S STORE ON SATURDAY

As stated by the company officials, Apple will reopen it’s store in Seoul in the Saturday. This store is located in Garosugil in Gangnam-gu and will be the first store outside of China that will reopen ever since shut down due to coronavirus pandemic.
Previously Apple had closed all ...

APPLE SET TO REVAMP THE i12 IN LINE WITH KEEPING THE FRESHNESS INTACT

• Apple to revamp the existing design of i12 phone
• The earlier phone features were leaked which snatched away the enigma in the phone.

Apple Phone is all hunky dory about the launch of its phone with a LiDAR sensor. The phone specifications have been leaked, but...