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I am utterly pathetic, says nagging voice in iPhone queuer’s head
From The Daily Mash: THE inner voice of a man queueing for the new iPhone is telling him that he needs to get his shit together. 38-year-old Tom Booker spent the night on the pavement of Oxford Street...
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Lord Sugar investigated over allegation of racist tweet
From the London Evening Standard: Lord Sugar has been investigated by police after he was accused a posting a racist message on Twitter. The tycoon posted a photograph of a crying Chinese child and...
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Orwellian Themed Apple Ad That Aired During The Super Bowl In 1984
Filed under: Apple, Science & Technology, Surveillance, The Web
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Report: Steve Jobs, Google CEO plotted ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ to keep wages...
From RT: Two of the most powerful people in the technology world secretly and perhaps illegally coordinated business strategies in which they agreed not to poach each other’s employees, thereby keeping...
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How Much Tech Companies Spend on Gaining Political Influence
Filed under: Apple, Big Tech, Congress, Google, Science & Technology, USA
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Secret ‘Minority Report’ Tech In All Post-2010 iPhones
Apple’s iBeacon tracks, guides shoppers Privacy advocates worry over new Apple iPhone tracking feature Filed under: Apple, Big Tech, Science & Technology, Surveillance
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5.4 Million Dead in Conflict Mineral Wars to Put an iPhone in Your Hands
‘Abby Martin reports on the disclosures of hundreds of multinational corporations being unable to definitively prove that their products aren’t made with ‘conflict minerals’.’ (Breaking the Set)...
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Occupy Silicon Valley & the Facebook Cop: Interview with Robbie Martin
‘Abby Martin speaks with journalist and host of Media Roots Radio, Robbie Martin, going over why Facebook is hiring police officers to aid in surveillance, as well as why more people aren’t outraged...
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FBI: New Apple, Google phones too secure, could put users ‘beyond the law’
Jacob Axelrad reports for Christian Science Monitor: ‘The FBI director James Comey has expressed concern that Apple and Google are making phones that cannot be searched by the government. Speaking to...
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Apple Still Has Plenty of Your Data for the Feds
Micah Lee writes for The Intercept: ‘In a much-publicized open letter last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged to protect user privacy with improved encryption on iPhones and iPads and a hard line toward...
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Your iPhone is now encrypted. The FBI says it’ll help kidnappers. Who do you...
Trevor Timm writes for The Guardian: ‘Much of the world has been enthralled by the new iPhone 6, but civil liberties advocates have been cheering, too: Along with iOS 8, Apple made some landmark...
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FBI Director: If Apple and Google Won’t Decrypt Phones, We’ll Force Them To
Jason Koebler reports for VICE Motherboard: ‘Everyone is stoked that the latest versions of iOS and Android will (finally) encrypt all the information on your smartphone by default. Except, of course,...
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iEmpire: Apple’s Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think
Arun Gupta writes for AlterNet: ‘Behind the sleek face of the iPad is an ugly backstory that reveals once more the horrors of globalization. The buzz about Apple’s sordid business practices comes...
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Apple Allegedly Deleted Songs From Users’ iPods That Were Downloaded From...
Editor’s Note: Deleting music that you like and replacing it with U2? Despicable behaviour :) Jeremy Gordon reports for Pitchfork: ‘A class-action antitrust lawsuit alleges that between 2007 and 2009,...
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iPhone has secret software that can be remotely activated to spy on people,...
Andrew Griffin reports for The Independent: ‘The iPhone has secret spyware that lets governments watch users without their knowledge, according to Edward Snowden. The NSA whistleblower doesn’t use a...
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