Apple has bought a boring database company you’ve never heard of called FoundationDB. While not as sexy as buying Beats, the acquisition is good news for Apple’s increasingly important cloud services.
The Virginia-based startup, which has raised a little over $20 million in funding, specializes in handling large chunks of data very quickly. TechCrunch first reported news of the acquisition.
Apple's OS X operating system has multiple layers of security to protect users against potentially malicious applications, but according to Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack, Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) hijacking can be used to bypass those protections, potentially putting users at risk.
Wardle is set to formally detail his research at a presentation at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 18. Apple did not respond to a request for comment from eWEEK about Wardle's research.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro and the 13-inch MacBook Air were once very different computers that served very different needs. One was bulkier but pretty fast and user-serviceable, while the other was thin-and-light to a fault, arriving with anemic low-power CPUs and GPUs, slow hard drives, and no easy means to upgrade.
Amidst a series of Apple-occupied offices in the town of Sunnyvale, Calif., is a mysterious company named SixtyEight Research, which has a limited online presence and recently renovated its facilities to add a "repair garage." This, accompanied by sources who say it's located in the office complex is where Apple is working on its secret electric car project, has led to speculation that Apple is using SixtyEight as a cover.
Apple Watch aside, the company's big news from its event on Monday was a freshly designed MacBook. As is its way, Apple then casually announced that it has upgraded the other MacBooks (Air and Pro) in its lineup. While reviewers are starting to come to grips with the new-look MacBook, the teardown specialists at iFixit already have their mitts on the 2015 MacBook Air and Pro notebooks to see how they compare to their predecessors.
Apple has been tinkering with the idea of breaking into the TV market for some time now, but it looks like its late founder Steve Jobs hated the idea of building a TV.
According to an upcoming book, “Becoming Steve Jobs: The Revolution of a Reckless Upstart Into A Visionary Leader,” Jobs told Apple’s design head Jony Ive in the late 1990s, “I just don’t like television. Apple will never make a TV again.”
Hackers have jumped on the unveiling of the Apple Watch as a chance to phish for data through social networks, according to the security vendor Malwarebytes.
Victims are said to be lured into the scam through the promise of a free Apple Watch, but instead are redirected onto a labyrinthine series of links, in what appears to be a phishing exercise to collect people's details.
Apple has had its ups and its downs in the first two days of this work week.
Less than 48 hours after the company triumphed with its launch of Apple Watch and two new MacBook notebook PCs on March 9, its all-important Web storefronts were knocked offline for about 12 hours March 11 -- from about 2 a.m. until 2 p.m. Pacific time.
There is one refrain that, for the last few years, always pops up at Apple events: thinness. Through magical material, design, and manufacturing advances, Apple keeps making its devices thinner. That's why it always amuses me when people slot the 6.9mm-thick iPhone 6 into a chunky case that completely counters Apple's advances. As Phil Schiller unveiled the new MacBook yesterday, a similar thought came to mind: If you buy a MacBook, the svelte silhouette of your new laptop might be ruined by a bunch of dongles.
The Apple Watch can do a lot of things — monitor your heart rate, buy stuff with Apple Pay and even open your garage door.
So how does the wearable, which goes on sale April 24, make sure that you — and not someone who has stolen your Apple Watch — are the one doing those things? While we don't know too much about how the Apple Watch will tackle privacy concerns, the company has a few elements in place to make sure the device is secure.
