Category: apple

Federal Agency Warns Millions of iPhone Users to Change Settings Now

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security agency issued an alert to Apple product users this week due to a security vulnerability for iPhones, iPads, and MacOS devices as Apple announced it was releasing security updates for those flaws. The threat was substantial enough to draw an alert from the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),…


Companies Continue to Exit China Despite CCP’s Overture of Strengthening Economy: Observers

China’s ruling communist party has started announcing its plans to stimulate the domestic economy after the week-long Chinese Lunar New Year celebration. However, experts are not optimistic about China’s economic prospects and anticipate another wave of company exits. According to mainland Chinese media, after the Lunar New Year Holiday authorities in many provinces and cities…


Apple and Google Asked to Ban TikTok From App Stores

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their respective app stores, arguing that no company subject to “dictates” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should be allowed such broad access to American audiences or harvest their data. Bennet made the appeal in a Feb. 1 letter to Google…


Sen. Bennet Asks Apple and Google to Ban TikTok From App Stores

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their respective app stores, arguing that no company subject to “dictates” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should be allowed such broad access to American audiences or harvest their data. Bennet made the appeal in a Feb. 1 letter to Google…


Apple Tells Certain iPhone Owners to Update Software or Face the Consequences

People with certain older generations of Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods should install a new security update, said the California-based tech giant. In a recent notice, Apple Inc. noted that a security vulnerability was recently discovered via Google’s Threat Analysis Group. Because of the flaw, it’s possible that users with older-generation Apple devices that use iOS…


Apple Can’t Kick the iSlavery Habit in China

Commentary The history of Apple’s success is so inextricably linked to China that we should start thinking of it as a Chinese rather than an American company. Apple’s leading design engineers, marketing gurus, and what could be called addiction specialists (who impede Apple users from using other brands through hardware and software incompatibilities) rule from…


Apple Wins Appeal to Keep $308 Million US Patent Verdict at Bay

A U.S. appeals court on Friday affirmed a decision to throw out a $308.5 million jury verdict against Apple Inc. for allegedly infringing a patent related to digital rights management. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., upheld an East Texas federal judge’s ruling that Personalized Media Communications LLC’s patent…


Apple CEO Tim Cook Accepts 40 Percent Pay Cut

Apple CEO Tim Cook is taking a significant pay cut in 2023, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday. Cook’s total compensation target for the year will be $49 million, which is 40 percent less than the previous year, according to the filing. He’ll also get fewer restricted stock units…


Big Tech Adopts Communist China’s Tactics

This column is adapted from Ken Buck’s book, “Crushed: Big Tech’s War on Free Speech,” available January 17. Until recently most Americans probably didn’t think censorship occurred within our borders. They thought it happened in other places—China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Myanmar. These repressive countries limit and monitor speech to frightening degrees The…


Apple Kisses Up to China Again

Commentary Apple is doing the splits. The maker of iPhones, MacBooks, and AirPods is moving much of its production outside of China to the United States, India, and Vietnam. Simultaneously, the company is shifting production within China from Taiwanese to Chinese companies. Moves to the West and friendly countries will please Western consumers and governments….