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Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing its secrets to help Intel

9/25/2018, 1:14:11 PM
Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday alleged that Apple Inc stole its trade secrets and gave ... ✔ Qualcomm, the world’s largest mobile phone chipmaker, has in turn accused Apple of patent infringement ✔ Qualcomm provided modem chips for the iPhone, which helped the device connect to wireless data networks ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



macOS 10.14 Mojave problems: how to fix them

9/25/2018, 3:32:25 PM
All of your macOS Mojave issues solved ✔ Mac won’t start after installing macOS 10.14 Mojave If you've installed macOS Mojave, but your Mac won't start, then restart your Mac and hold down Command, Option, P and R, which will reset the NVRAM (non-volatile RAM) ✔ Make the most out of the new OS with our macOS 10.14 Mojave tips and tricks guide



Qualcomm Says Apple Stole Secrets to Help Intel

9/25/2018, 1:51:04 PM
Mobile chipmaker expands its 2017 lawsuit against the iPhone maker ✔ Unlawful use of Qualcomm’s valuable trade secrets to try to help a competitor catch up irreparably harms us and must not be allowed to continue, Qualcomm general counsel Donald Rosenberg told CNBC ✔ Shares of Qualcomm, which had gained 18% so far this year, lost 1% in early trading on Tuesday



Qualcomm Accuses Apple of Giving Its Intellectual Property to Intel

9/25/2018, 2:18:22 PM
Qualcomm accused Apple of funneling proprietary information about the chip supplier’s technology to rival Intel, broadening a long-running legal battle between two companies central to the smartphone industry. ✔ That dispute has upended a partnership that dates back to 2010, when Qualcomm entered an agreement to begin supplying Apple with modem chips for iPhones and iPads ✔ It later abandoned its own planned takeover of NXP Semiconductors NV because it couldn’t secure regulatory approval from China due to the trade battle with the U.S. Apple has withheld billions of dollars in payments as the royalty dispute marches on



iPhone XS camera vs. iPhone X: Officially Apple's best camera phone

9/25/2018, 2:13:14 PM
Looks like the same dual 12-megapixel cameras as last year. Trust us, they’re not. ✔ Rather than the blown-out backgrounds and crunchy high-contrast look from the X, selfies look more flattering on the XS ✔ Larger pixels generally mean they can collect more light ✔ Stay tuned for that, plus more comparisons with phones from Samsung and the yet-to-be-announced Google Pixel 3



Apple's new Mac software cleaned up years of messy files that accumulated on my desktop in less than a second

9/25/2018, 1:39:55 PM
MacOS Mojave is worth downloading to your computer, if only for its best new feature: Stacks. ✔ Apple on Monday released MacOS Mojave, its latest free software update for Mac computers ✔ You just go to your Finder , click View , and then click Use Stacks ✔ I love organization, but it's hard to keep all of my desktop files tidy since I'm continually adding to the pile every single day I take a lot of screengrabs as part of my job, and when I'm collecting dozens of photos from videos and live events, the last thing I'm thinking is which folder I'm going to put them in later ✔ Even when I do take time to organize my desktop, it just gets messy again a few days later



Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing trade secrets

9/25/2018, 3:55:12 PM
undefined ✔ Apple added Intel’s networking and communications chips alongside Qualcomm’s in different models of the iPhone 7 in 2016 ✔ We believe deeply in the value of intellectual property but we shouldn’t have to pay them for technology breakthroughs they have nothing to do with



Qualcomm claims Apple stole trade secrets and sent them to Intel

9/25/2018, 3:29:24 PM
The chipmaker is looking to add this claim to a current lawsuit against Apple. ✔ Apple sued Qualcomm previously as part of a royalty dispute and it also retaliated against Qualcomm's November lawsuit with another one of its own ✔ Earlier this year, amid these ongoing disputes, Qualcomm announced that Apple wouldn't be using its chips in the newest iPhone models



Please Comb Your Hair. Phones With Facial Recognition Get Judgmental With Their Owners

9/25/2018, 3:28:13 PM
Lack of makeup and shaved beards can throw off the increasingly popular facial-recognition technology on devices, leading users to wonder what’s so wrong with how they look; “It was an existential crisis.” ✔ Karen Cummings's Microsoft Surface computer scans her face as she logs in ✔ The advances led Toronto-area plastic surgeon Philip Solomon to devote a page on his website to the crucial question: Will getting facial plastic surgery alter the facial recognition of the iPhone X



'Screen Time' is a good start to curbing our smartphone addiction, but Apple needs to do more

9/25/2018, 1:37:34 PM
Apple's Screen Time feature is designed to let us know how much time we're wasting fiddling with our phones. But it doesn't do nearly enough to keep us from wasting it. ✔ Screen Time, part of the operating system that iPhone owners began downloading last week, represents the biggest move yet by a technology company to encourage less use of a device, not more ✔ Even small speed bumps like that make us less likely to start scrolling through Instagram on autopilot



Five major features your Android phone sorely needs

9/25/2018, 3:03:36 PM
A decade after Google brought us Android, these fixes are still MIA. ✔ The very first Android phone -- the HTC Dream, aka T-Mobile G1 -- impressed us with its vast potential ✔ Deliver a more intuitive interface It's right there in our very first Android phone review: Google's overall interface just isn't as intuitive compared to the iPhone's simplicity



EBay starts managing payments in first step of move away from PayPal

9/25/2018, 1:07:15 PM
undefined ✔ The move is the first step of the online marketplace's plan to shift away from PayPal Holdings Inc ✔ PayPal didn't immediately respond to a MarketWatch request for comment ✔ EBay's stock is down 11% over the past 12 months, as the S&P 500 SPX, -0.35% has gained 17%



Trump insists US is ‘stronger' as he prepares for UN speech

9/25/2018, 2:39:25 PM
DONALD Trump claims the US is “much stronger and much richer” since he came to power ahead of his speech at the UN General Assembly today. This morning, the US President tweeted: “… ✔ Guterres called for a renewed commitment to a rules-based order with the United Nations at its centre and warned against a spreading politics of pessimism ✔ Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thesun and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun



Laughter at UN as Trump boasts of his ‘extraordinary’ work

9/25/2018, 3:42:47 PM
DONALD Trump’s speech at the UN drew laughter from world leaders as the US President boasted of his “extraordinary” achievements. The brash billionaire said: “The American economy is booming like n… ✔ He said: The missiles and rockets are no longer flying in every direction, nuclear testing has stopped, some military facilities are already being dismantled ✔ Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thesun and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun



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