Apple’s first store in South Korea set to open on January 27th
According to a new sign placed on the covered store’s entry, Apple’s first retail location in South Korea will open on January 27th. The grand opening comes later than expected, with initial reports expecting the store to open before the end of 2017.
Facebook promises to ‘massively simplify and streamline cluttered Messenger app’
Facebook’s messaging lead has acknowledged that the Messenger app has become ‘too cluttered.’ The company’s VP of messaging products, David Marcus, promised a major simplification of the app this year …
iPhone & Mac casing manufacturer Catcher once again accused of violating Apple supplier standards
Catcher – a Chinese company which makes casings for both iPhones and Macs – has been accused of violating a whole raft of Apple’s supplier standards. Catcher was one of the iPhone suppliers reporting high demand into this year, and is rumored to be developing a lightweight frame for a future Apple wearable.
A report by China Labor Watch says that the company violates 14 of Apple’s supplier-responsibility standards, including serious safety-related ones …
WhatsApp reportedly testing new method of catching spam and hoax messages
Report: iPhone’s US activations up 10 points in Q4 2017, up 5 points year-on-year
The latest CIRP data indicates that Apple increased its US iPhone activations ten points in the final quarter of the year, from a 29% share in the September quarter to a 39% share by December. More significantly, activations were up five points year-on-year, from 34% in Q4 2016 to 39% in the same quarter last year.
The popularity of the iPhone X and iPhone 8/Plus pushed Apple further ahead of Samsung …
Hospital reports Natural Cycles ‘contraceptive app’ to regulator after 37 unwanted pregnancies
A Swedish hospital has filed a formal complaint about the ‘contraceptive app’ Natural Cycles after it was blamed for 37 unwanted pregnancies …
Twitter partially denies engineer claims that hundreds of employees read direct messages [Video]
Apple-owned FileMaker debuts ad campaign starring ‘The Office’ cast
Earlier this month, we reported on what fans of The Office had originally believed to be a spin-off revival, noting that it actually looked like something involving Apple. Today, that project has officially been released in the form of an ad for Apple subsidiary FileMaker…
Apple WebKit team releases Speedometer 2.0 for benchmarking web app responsiveness
Back in 2014, the WebKit team at Apple released Speedometer, which it touted as “a benchmark for web app responsiveness.” Almost four years later, Apple today has announced Speedometer 2.0 with numerous improvements for developers…