By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) How the circumstances of Steve Jobs’s birth, and his decisions over education, would shape both his entire life — and then the entire world through the creation of Apple and the Macintosh.Steve JobsThe Apple co-founder …
By news@appleinsider.com (Will Shanklin) After 36 years in business, Fry’s Electronics, a big-box electronics store founded during the early days of Apple, announced that it is shutting down effective immediately.A live-music-themed Fry’s location in Austin, TXIn a …
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) India is promoting local technology manufacturing with a series of cash-back incentives, although not as much as Apple reportedly sought.Credit: Andrew O’Hara, AppleInsiderDespite …
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) A Presidential executive order, expected Wednesday, is expected to take steps for US manufacture of silicon chips, and strengthen the international supply chain, following key shortages for firms …
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) The proposal to require Facebook and other big tech firms to pay for news, has passed its last major parliamentary hurdle in Australia, and is now expected to become law.Australia’s Senate has passed the proposal that would see big tech companies pay for news, or be subject to binding arbitration if they cannot reach a deal with publishers. The upper chamber voted to accept the bill with the amendments agreed on following Facebook’s …
By news@appleinsider.com (Mikey Campbell) An Australian patent holdings company on Tuesday filed suit against Apple, targeting Touch ID and Face ID with intellectual property acquired from defunct biometrics specialist Securicom.CPC Patent Technologies in a …