Articles by Ben Lovejoy

Apple shuttle drivers – the people who drive the buses who normally ferry staff to work – are still being paid their full wages during the coronavirus shutdown, but the Teamsters union says that it had more trouble agreeing with the iPhone maker than …

Apple yesterday announced what it calls the new iPhone SE. The latest budget iPhone is many things. It’s a great upgrade for owners of the iPhone 6. It’s a lot of phone for an affordable price. It’s an efficient way for Apple to offe…

The latest TSMC earnings report suggests that the company is reasonably optimistic about demand for the new iPhone SE, but is far less certain what may happen in regard to the iPhone 12 launch later in the year.
The iPhone A-series chipmaker beat anal…

A Chinese site claims that the iPhone 9/iPhone SE 2020 is launching today, and will begin shipping on April 22. It echoes an earlier ‘finger in the air’ report which was likewise made without credible sourcing …
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We suggested Houseparty as an alternative to Zoom back in January, and a report today indicates that it has seen 50 million sign-ups in the past month.
It has been the most popular social networking app in the App Store every day since March 20, givin…

Consumers are increasingly turning to apps that offer them remote doctor’s appointments during the coronavirus crisis, say health providers …
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All 27 members of the European Union now seem set to adopt the Apple/Google coronavirus contact tracing API.
The European Commission last week said that all EU countries should adopt the same app, or at least a common standard known as the Pan-Europea…

We shared details last month of Folding@home, a distributed computing project designed to help find a cure for the coronavirus. By running the app on your Mac, you can contribute to a system which has now become seven times faster than the world&#8217…

If there’s one thing that’s become abundantly clear since Apple and Google’s API partnership, it’s that the coronavirus contact tracing privacy protections need to be spelled out in terms that non-technical people (even POTUS) …

A collector has managed to obtain six seemingly-genuine Apple Watch prototypes which date to a year before the launch of the wearable device.
The man says that all the prototypes are broken, but are sufficiently complete that he believes they can be r…