Former Apple vice president of corporate law Gene Levoff has pleaded guilty to six counts of securities fraud for insider trading, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release (via The Verge). The former Apple lawyer “misappropriated material, nonpublic information about Apple’s financial results and then executed trades involving the company’s stock” from February…
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After briefly taking down the Apple Store, Apple today began offering U.S. customers a $50 gift card with every Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD purchase made through its online store. The promotion runs for the next two weeks from July 1 to July 14, and the gift card can only be used for…
Infinix currently has four smartphones in its Note 12 lineup – Note 12, Note 12 G96, Note 12i, and Note 12 VIP. None of these support 5G networks, but the company will soon launch Note 12 series smartphones with 5G connectivity. This revelation comes from Indian online retailer Flipkart, which set up a promo page…
Apple today began selling refurbished Mac Studio models for the first time in the United States, Canada, and select European countries, such as Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, two refurbished Mac Studio configurations are currently available, including one with the M1 Max chip (10-core CPU…
OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7T are the company phones in line for an Android 12 upgrade, the company revealed. The beta was previously halted, but now the Oxygen OS 12 Open Beta 1 is again available for download. The beta version brings all new Android 12 features and is available to anyone with a OnePlus…
Apple today released a new ad for Apple Watch Series 7 highlighting the device’s durability when exposed to various wearing conditions. In the ad titled “Hard Knocks,” a number of scenarios are played out involving people either intentionally or accidentally exposing their Apple Watch to various weather conditions, liquids, and physical impacts. Some examples include…
Google has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit in the US that accused it of having a monopoly on distributing Android apps and using that to charge “exorbitant fees”. The lawsuit was filed by law firm Hagens Berman, which will set up a fund to compensate developers. US devs with annual earnings…
Citizens of European Union countries can keep avoiding mobile roaming fees when using their devices across borders within the bloc, after lawmakers extended the regulation to last until at least 2032. Mobile customers generally haven’t had to worry about roaming charges when using their phones in the EU, with most phone tariffs counting calls, texts,…
How much of a beating can an Apple Watch Series 7 take? Apple has just the video to demonstrate titled Hard Knocks and accompanied by artist Jack White’s Power of Love tune. The short 98-second clip gives the Apple Watch Series 7 a run with all kinds of objects, surfaces and liquids of varying temperature…