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  • Apple reportedly planning $1B database center and R&D facility in Vietnam

    Wisely hedging their overseas and South-East Asian bets, with a mind to avoid putting all their golden nest-eggs ln the crumbling EU and volatile Chinese baskets...
    tmay
  • Apple investment in Didi accelerated Uber decision to leave China, report says

    In recent months, Didi X has expressed its avowed intention to launch in the USA, if it has not already done so, funded by several tech behemoths, and in collaboration with Uber's deadliest home rival, no less (Lyft):

    : http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-04/12/content_24480260.htm

    I wonder how this merger agreement in China has affected that undertaking?

    Uber would certainly not gladly entertain the prospect of such a major-funded competitor opening shop on its home turf.
    Then of course there is the near-to-medium future prospect of driverless electric cars, an emerging market that will greatly involve tech giants and ride-hailing services. The plot thickens.
    cali
  • Apple hit with lawsuit targeting AppleCare+ refurbished devices

    "Attorney fees" says it all. On this, I rest my case (as do the attorneys)...
    steveh
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook calls for racial equality in light of US shooting deaths

    apple ][ said:
    Real smart Tim Cook! And real smart Obama! 

    Thanks to Obama and the entire liberal media, many police officers have been shot dead tonight, and many more wounded! The liberal media and the left has been on a Jihad against the police for a long time now. This is the result of their lies, their instigation and their rhetoric.

    I wonder if Obama will invite the shooters to the Whitehouse and give them a medal? The Whitehouse has hosted BLM before and Obama loves BLM.

    Once again, Apple is on the wrong side of history, taking sides with the bad guys.


    I'm almost 100% sure that the perpetrators of the cop killings are neither ignorant white working class troublemakers nor ignorant angry black working class agitators, but conniving, cunning malevolent establishment agent-provovateurs hell-bent on fomenting race war among the barely-literate underclasses as a means of deflecting the rapidly growing anger at the economic consequences of the growing debt mountain.
    <b>
     It failed to ignite last year in the wake of the Trayvon Martin / "I can't breathe..." / Sandra Bland / Walter Scott etc shootings, instead eliciting a dignified "Black Lives Matter" civic protest, and so the strategy switched to religion and Islamophobia with the "lone jihadists" shootings. Now the plot swings back full circle to racial war...
    <b>
    No doubt we'll be hearing from many angry and bitter sides of the out-of-control racial debate, and many of those voices will be agent provocateurs enlisted to foment more bitter engagements, and the gutter press will join in under instructions from their baleful masters.
    <b>
    Stay classy, America, stay aware, informed and educated ("ejumacated", LoL), however difficult that may be...

    joseph_went_south
  • As FBI's iPhone exploit remains secret, Apple's security operation in transition

    Kevin L said:
    This entire grandstanding by the FBI and Apple was/is simply a 'pissing match'. I will add the fact that Cellabrite is the ONLY company in the world who can unlock the Apple product (as well as Apple itself).
    If you bothered to read the contributions of noted security experts worldwide, and even those of Edward Snowden who has been away from the current scene for many years now, you would be careful about making this boastful assertion about Cellebrite being the sole "font of wisdom" regarding smartphone access.

    Snowden and many, many other security experts immediately called B$ on the Bureau's claimed inability to unlock the phone, claiming that powerful forensic tools exist in the private and government sectors capable of the exploit. This raises three possible scenarios, all bad for US national security, privacy and civil liberty:

    1⃣ Inter-departmental rivalry and cooperation breakdown: Quantico getting fed up of having to say "Uncle", "Pretty please" and roll over and have their tummy tickled by the boffins at Fort Meade to spare their blushes after the blunder of the reset iCloud password locked them out of the iPhone 5C; so they decided they could instead bulldoze their way with a "JUDELEX" (Judicial/Legislative/Executive) coup to force the issue onto Apple. As Tim Cook eloquently explained, this presented a nightmare scenario of the keys to the iPhone kingdom being handed over to everybody...

    2⃣ The government itself deciding to attempt to reduce costs by "fobbing off" the onus, responsibility and expense of decrypting smartphones on to the manufacturers themselves, whom the govt perceives as affluent enough to bear the cost. Once achieved it is not an inconceivable leap to suggest that lay-offs and redundancies will follow in the FBI and related security departments, endangering the realm even further.

    3⃣ Outsourcing the decryption of security-sensitive devices to a PRIVATE company in a FOREIGN country... No-one seems to bat an eyelid at this alarming development, but just wait until the strategic interests of one country begin to diverge from the other and re-evaluate the situation.

    "Things are hard all over..." as Master Sergeant Jonas Blaine of TV's "The Unit" would tersely call it.
    ration al