Yesterday, Apple revoked Facebook’s iOS enterprise app certificate for violating its Terms of Service, and today, Apple is giving the same treatment to Google. According to a report from The Verge, Apple has shut down Google’s internal iOS apps for doing the exact same thing Facebook was doing—distributing enterprise apps outside of the company. Apple’s Developer …
When Apple says it takes privacy seriously, it means business. On Wednesday, the Cupertino company prevented Facebook from using its enterprise certificates after word got out that Facebook had more or less reskinned a voluntary user data collection app Apple had previously banned. Now, as The Verge reports, Apple has done the same with Google’s …
Lowe’s will shut down its Iris by Lowe’s Home Automation platform on March 31, according to an email sent to subscribers on Thursday. As part of the shutdown process, customers will no longer be charged for service after January 31, and they’ll be compensated for purchased devices that operate only work on the Iris by …
If you’ve bought a Blu-ray movie over the past decade and redeemed the digital download code, there’s a good chance it ended up in your Ultraviolet library. There’s an equally good chance that you’ve forgotten about it. Now that the service has announced it will be shutting down on July 31, you have six months …
Windows has a pretty poor reputation when it comes to error messages. All too often you’ll get a meaningless hexadecimal number or perhaps a reference to a Knowledge Base article. The Windows setup process used for upgrading to each major Windows feature update is a good example of this; it detects and diagnoses a wide …
Release YouTube, you beast! The latest beleaguered Google product to get a death date is Google+. Google’s controversial Facebook clone is shutting down on April 2. Google has been backing away from the service for years, but it gave the site a death sentence in October, after revelations of a data leak were made public. …
Microsoft has posted the results of the second quarter of its 2019 financial year, which runs up to December 31, 2018. Revenue was $32.5 billion, up 12 percent year on year; operating income was $10.3 billion, up 18 percent; and net income was $8.6 billion, as compared to a $6.3 billion loss due to the …
HDR is a specialized form of photography designed to expose details in both the highlights and shadows of a scene by merging multiple versions of the same image shot at different exposures. It’s hard to do HDR right without overdoing it, especially if your aim is a photorealistic image. The brain sees what the camera …
A serious bug was found in Group FaceTime that allowed a caller to hear conversation and even get video before the other person picked up. This is a substantial black eye for Apple but don’t worry, someone is always around to try to make it seem even worse than it is. Writing for The Atlantic, …
I’ve reviewed a lot of over-the-air DVR options over the past few years: from TiVo and Tablo to HDHomeRun and Fire TV Recast. I’ve even made some recommendations on which ones are the best. But I personally have never relied on a single solution. Instead, my setup involves mixing and matching an HDHomeRun tuner with …