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Remember the Australian High school teenager who had managed to hack into Apple’s servers multiple times over the course of a year and stole around 90GB of customer data? Well, he has now been handed his punishment. He has been sentenced to eight months of probation and no jail time. This is despite the magistrate calling the offense “serious, sustained, and sophisticated.” However, he has likely been let off lightly due to his age when he carried out the crime. At the time of hacking, the Australian teenager was 16 years old, though he is now an adult. It is also for the same reason that his identity cannot be revealed as per Australian laws. Contrary to the original report though, investigators managed to recover around 1TB of data from the teenager’s PC. He was also helped by another teenager younger to him. Investigators in the case recovered about 1 Terabyte of sensitive information copied from the tech giant’s systems during attacks, a prosecutor told an e...

It’s safe to say that the relationship between Qualcomm and Apple is a bit strained these days , but it sounds like the CEO of Qualcomm has some high expectations that things will go back to normal at some point in the future. Qualcomm chief executive, Steve Mollenkopf has sat down with Bloomberg to talk about the future, and what that looks like between Apple and Qualcomm. Basically, the need to advance technology forward is going to be one of the driving factors that brings the two companies back together. Basically, the “leadership technology” will end up dominating the “business relationship”. Mollenkopf believes that shouldn’t be any different this time around, as it has been like that in the past with other companies. Moreover, Mollenkopf believes that the only reason this particular situation is any different is because of the size of the company Qualcomm is currently disputing with. Mollenkopf says that he believes the “technology leader...

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are two technologies that Apple is taking seriously, one of which is a rumored behind-the-scenes effort while the other has already seen a big platform push with ARKit out in the wild. Meanwhile, other companies like the Facebook-owned Oculus have been hard at work in their own VR efforts for quite some time, and now the company has just unveiled its newest headset called the “Quest”. The biggest new feature here is that it’s a standalone unit that manages to match the company’s Rift headset in terms of experience. The Rift headset is a full rig that requires a connection to a PC, while the Quest headset is completely standalone, so no smartphone or PC connection required to work. The new Quest will arrive sometime this spring, and when it does it will cost $399. The headset supports six degrees of freedom, and will support the Oculus Touch controllers. The display resolution per eye is set at 1600×1440, and th...

When Apple launched the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and the iPhone X last year, the company was ready for the High Dynamic Range craze with three new smartphones that support the richer colors and higher detail. But while the hardware was ready, apps that actually serve content onto those screens weren’t necessarily prepared right out of the gate. Indeed, it wouldn’t be until May of this year before YouTube finally added support for HDR content on those iPhone models. And now that Apple has a pair of new iPhones out there in the world, YouTube needed to get back to the support system and add the new hardware. Thankfully, it didn’t take as long as the first time around. Today, not even a week after the new iPhone’s global launch, YouTube has added support for HDR content on the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. Be aware, though, that with HDR support doesn’t mean higher resolution than 1080p HD while watching YouTube videos, as that’s still the cap. This chan...

If you manage I.T. for a small business or an organization that uses iPhone, iPad or Mac devices, you know how frustrating it is to actually deploy and manage multiple devices at the same time. Setting up, deploying, maintaining and monitoring dozens of devices can take a surprising amount of time and effort. There’s a better option: Jamf Now . Easily Configure All Your Apple Devices Jamf Now is a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution that is feature-rich and easy to use. Using Jamf Now, you can remotely configure settings for all of the iPads, Macs, and iPhones in your organization. Using one admin panel, you can deploy settings which quickly and maintain consistency between all the devices. You can set up Apple devices in mere minutes with all the apps and settings your employees require to do their job. This means your employees won’t need to spend time setting up their devices. Jamf Now will increase your employee’s productivity, while giving them a streamlined onboarding experie...

While some auto manufacturers were more than happy to put Apple’s in-car infotainment option, CarPlay, into their vehicles, some manufacturers weren’t too thrilled with the idea right away. But it looks like all of that is changing. Toyota was one of the longest holdouts for CarPlay adoption and that company finally announced earlier this year it was supporting the feature moving forward. And now it appears that both Jaguar and Land Rover are going to start supporting Apple’s in-car system feature as well. MacRumors is reporting on Wednesday that a spokesperson for the brands confirmed to the publication that CarPlay support is coming to all of its vehicles, both incoming models and existing units, that feature the InTouch Control Pro and Touch Pro Duo infotainment systems inside. The new models will gain a “smartphone connectivity package” that will offer support for Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto. That package will apparently cost...

The new Shortcuts app launched alongside iOS 12 is easily one of the highlights of Apple’s software offering this year. The app is a supercharged version of Workflow which Apple acquired last year. We have already compiled a list of some cool things that you can do with Siri Shortcuts but today, we have something even better for you. In the video below, we have shown 12 incredibly useful Shortcuts you should be using on your iOS 12 device. Below is a list of some of our own favorites Shortcuts as mentioned in the video. 1. Convert Burst Photos to GIF A relatively simple shortcut which allows you to essentially convert a series of burst photos that you have taken into a GIF which you can then easily share with your friends or family. ➤ Download 2.  Daytime for LIFX If you use LIFX bulbs, you can use the Daytime shortcuts to simply toggle all of them on. You can even assign this — and all the other shortcuts in this list — to a Siri phrase which you can then trigger di...