The current fight between Apple and the U.S. Department of Justice, which is trying to execute a search warrant in a criminal matter, has been framed by Apple and its defenders as a battle over privacy.
Apple is not arguing that the information sought should never be seen by the government. The company handed over
Now that Steve Jobs is gone, attention turns to Apple’s Board of Directors (1), a group that’s been criticized in the past for being too deferential to Jobs, as made clear in this Wall Street Journal Story.
Steve Jobs was a business genius, but are these directors good at doing their jobs to inform shareholders
Imagine this: You have an iPhone, iPad and Mac computer. You use all three devices mostly for personal home use, but you also receive work e-mail on them. Medical records, tax returns, and other confidential information goes on these devices. They all sync amongst themselves and you’ve just started using Apple’s new server farm, iCloud.
We now know that Apple will use next week’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference to unveil iCloud, its new cloud storage product. Apple’s first attempt at cloud storage, MobileMe, was such a failure that Steve Jobs publicly tore into the Apple team for tarnishing the company’s reputation.
It looks like the 2.0 version will probably be getting
Two weeks ago, Apple and Google were called to answer growing concerns over privacy practices before Senate lawmakers. Today, executives from both companies responded to questions in a Senate hearing, but did little to alleviate our fears of user tracking.
The tracking of smartphones and their users’ activities is a scary thought. We know that
Apple, Google and Amazon are in the communications business, but their leaders all need to take some courses at Hamburger University to learn how to communicate with their customers.
Any trial lawyer or investigator will tell you that WHEN something happens can be at least as important as the event itself.
Take the responses to