Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
2021-05-25

James Damore was correct - Apple edition

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Some of you may remember the story of James Damore, the Google engineer who suggested that perhaps some of the male/female software...
2018-01-21

Prospects for unionizing in Silicon Valley

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A topic I've heard increasing buzz about at parties [1] is the idea that Silicon Valley tech workers should be unionizing. The New Yo...
2015-09-03

Ideas that seem attractive but are corporate suicide

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A huge loss for popular entertainment when Amazon successfully lured "Top Gear" hosts Clarkson, Hammond and May from the BBC: App...
2014-02-23

Apple's SSL bug - better code reviews required

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There's a great technical discussion by Adam Langley at Imperial Violet on the inadvertent security hole that Apple introduced to iOS ...
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2013-10-04

Dancing around the Great Firewall of China

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It seems a little unfair to give Apple heat over its China policies, given how much employment it creates in China, but apparently Apple ha...
2013-09-19

Oh FFS Apple

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It's another lock screen security breach on the iPhone, this time in iOS 7: The exploit can be initiated by swiping upwards on the d...
2013-05-26

The Apple tax bandwagon

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Noted tax expert[1] Robert Reich lays into Apple's tax affairs in the Guardian: The same disconnect is breaking out in the US. A Se...
2013-03-20

A tale of two unlocks

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Bypassing phone lock screens seems to be the story of the day: first, access to the phone book and photos of an up-to-date iPhone: By loc...
2013-02-14

Once is bad luck, twice is careless

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Rather embarrassing for Apple; even if your iOS 6.1 iPhone is locked, a simple sequence of keys gives the phone holder full calling rights...
2012-09-20

Apple Maps - some work required

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It was with no great surprise that I read this morning of certain deficiencies in iOS 6's Maps application that had become apparent. I...
2012-06-11

The landmines of maps serving

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I was intrigued by Apple's announcement that it was moving away from Google Maps to its own mapping solution in iOS6. This is a seriou...
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2011-12-23

Has Apple quality started to slide?

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Over the past month I've noticed a lot more trouble with my OS X machines; networking (especially Airport) being much more reluctant to ...