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Canadian Apple Batterygate lawsuit settlement is approved

John Montgallo
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The iPhone maker has agreed to pay between $11.1 million and $14.4 million to affected customers. Apple has officially agreed to pay an amount between $11.1 million and $14.4 million to settle a Batterygate class action lawsuit in Canada. The company continues to deny allegations While Apple does not admit wrongdoing, it has agreed to settle the lawsuit against it. It will be paying somewhere between $17.50 and $150 to each eligible customer in Canada. The amount paid out will depend on the number of affected customers who make a…

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All social media apps have risks similar to TikTok

John Montgallo
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A transparency group is cautioning that the Chinese platform isn’t the only one posing risks. A nonprofit advocacy group called the Tech Oversight Project is urging Congress to hold US social medias accountable ahead of hearing testimony from TikTok’s CEO. The group says the US platforms pose similar national security and mental health risks to TikTok. The nonprofit has stated that Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc.’s social media apps such as Facebook and Instagram, Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc’s products all employ comparable harmful business practices to TikTok. Moreover,…

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Mobile security app to unlock an iPhone was on device used by San Bernardino shooter

Julie Campbell
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That said, while the service was actually paid for, the shooter never installed it onto his smartphone. As the battle between the U.S. Justice Department and Apple Inc. raged on over the mobile security of an iPhone that had been used by one of the shooters in San Bernardino, California, it was revealed that a software to unlock the device had actually been purchased by the deceased criminal but had never been installed. The feature the shooter had purchased would have provided the FBI with access to the device. The…

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The future of Apple without Steve Jobs as CEO

John Montgallo
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When Steve Jobs announced his resignation from his position as Apple’s CEO, many people in the industry were left to wonder about the future of mobile technology without the man who changed the way the world thinks about personal computing and then did the exact same thing for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The worlds of communication, content, commerce, and marketing are about to be turned on their heads, as they release revolutionary new technologies, but they will need to do it with Jobs in the position of…

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