Ex-Apple employee explains wide Google location data warrant by NC police

The automatic collection of user location data from smartphones by tech companies, and the ability of law enforcement to access it via warrants will be discussed in Friday's AppleInsider podcast, with criminal defense attorney and former Apple employee T. Greg Doucette explaining how a recent report into the requests by Raleigh, N.C. police came about in the first place.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 9

After Cambridge Analytica scandal, publishers see Apple News as a solid alternative to being burned by Facebook, Google

For years, Facebook and Google have been bleeding the publishing industry dry, appropriating the work of its reporters while replacing the ads that traditionally supported the news business with their own targeted surveillance advertising that does little to support actual journalism. It took a major scandal to wake the industry up, but it's increasing warming to Apple News and its unique model of privacy.

Daniel Eran Dilger 8 years ago 61

Police are casting a wide net into the deep pool of Google user location data to solve crimes

Raleigh, N.C., detectives have obtained warrants to search a wide variety of Google account data, and not necessarily only of suspects — a practice that has raised the ire of privacy advocates.

Stephen Silver 8 years ago 10

Google's AI-powered Google Lens rolls out on iOS

Google in a tweet on Thursday said its Google Lens visual search feature will roll out to iOS devices over the coming week as part of update to the company's Google Photos app.

AppleInsider Staff 8 years ago 16

Android Wear changes name to 'Wear OS by Google'

Google announced that it has pivoted its wearables efforts towards "Wear OS by Google," calling it "a wearables operating system for everyone."

Stephen Silver 8 years ago 18

Google Assistant arrives on the iPad, but still isn't going to replace Siri soon

After a year stuck just on Android devices, and then another year on the iPhone, Siri competitor Google Assistant has come over to the iPad — AppleInsider fires it up, to see how it fares on its own, and compared to Apple's offering.

Mike Wuerthele 8 years ago 42

YouTube rolls out dark theme first to iPhone & iPad app

Google on Tuesday began rolling out a "Dark Theme" for its YouTube mobile apps, initially only to iPhone and iPad owners.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 7

Google Assistant updated with support for iPad's bigger screen

Google has released an update to Google Assistant for iOS with support for iPad, optimizing the virtual assistant app originally designed for use on iPhones to work properly with the larger display of Apple's tablet range.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 1

Amazon continues to claim top spot in Harris reputation poll, Apple plummets to 29th

In the annual poll that measures the reputations of various major companies, Apple has dropped all the way to 29th, after years in the top five.

Stephen Silver 8 years ago 22

YouTube TV increasing subscription cost for new users

Google's YouTube will start implementing its pre-announced price increases for YouTube TV on Tuesday, one that will increase the monthly subscription price for the online streaming television service by $5 to $40 for all new subscribers.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 18

Google looking to turn aspects of AMP caching technology into wider Web standard

Google is hoping to have technology from its Accelerated Mobile Pages — currently used as a more open, though Google-preferred alternative to Apple News or Facebook Instant Pages — adopted as a broader Web standard.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 8

Google gives up on tablets: Android P marks an end to its ambitious efforts to take on Apple's iPad

Back at the beginning of 2010, Google felt quite confident that its Android platform would crush Apple's iPhone in the same way Microsoft Windows had marginalized Mac sales into relative obscurity with 2 percent market share in the late 1990s. However, Apple changed the game by launching another new iOS product: iPad. It split Google's focus and demonstrated that Android as a platform couldn't turn a bunch of commodity PC and phone makers into an innovative, creative challenge to Apple. Eight years later, Google appears ready to give up on tablets entirely.

Daniel Eran Dilger 8 years ago 84

Google to kill support for iPhone 6s-era Nexus phones and all of its tablets in Android P

Google's upcoming release of the next version of Android OS will abandon support for all Nexus-branded phones and its sole remaining tablet product, Pixel C, ending future updates for products that were sold two years ago. The decision isn't just Google's however; Qualcomm also plays a role in ending support for functional phones prematurely.

Daniel Eran Dilger 8 years ago 51

Google's Android P supports same HEIC format as Apple, has software display notch like iPhone X

Google on Wednesday revealed a slew of details about the next version of Android, codenamed Android P, including a pair of features following in Apple's footsteps.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 40

Google Lens visual search lands on Google Photos for all Android devices, update for iOS app expected soon

Google has started to roll out its visual search tool Google Lens to more mobile devices, expanding from its previous exclusivity to the company's Pixel smartphones, making the feature available to Google Photos users on Android before it arrives on the iOS version of the image management app.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 13

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