Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">For the second time in six months, the FBI is accusing a Chinese national working for Apple of attempting to steal trade secrets related to the company’s secret autonomous vehicle program, according to a <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Another-Apple-Engineer-Accused-of-Stealing-Autonomous-Vehicle-Trade-Secrets-505055701.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a> from <em>NBC Bay Area</em>’s Investigative Unit.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/30/apple-has-revoked-facebooks-enterprise-developer-certificates-after-sideload-violations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>AppleInsider</em></a><em> </em>reports that Apple has stopped Facebook from being able to use its internal apps by revoking its enterprise developer certificates following reports that the social network ignored guidelines relating to user privacy by distributing apps outside the app store. Plus it paid users to install the spyware.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bstock.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline">B-Stock</span></a> – a B2B marketplace for trade-in and overstock mobile phones and devices – reports that the used phone market is currently worth $25 billion and growing faster than the primary market. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple can’t be held liable for slowing down iPhones with iOS updates, according to a motion to dismiss a lawsuit concerning efforts to prolong an iPhone's battery life by reducing its performance, reports <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/30/apple-compares-ios-updates-to-kitchen-renovations-in-motion-to-dismiss-iphone-slowdown-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>AppleInsider</em></a>.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">More than 250 students from the Sewanhaka Central High School District on Long Island were able to use Apple iPad devices for the first time to complete their Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II Regents New York State exam. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Another day, another lawsuit. Apple is being sued over the<a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2019/1/28/be-aware-of-this-facetime-bug-on-ios-devices" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Group Calling exploit </a>that allows a FaceTime video caller to hear the audio from a recipient's iPhone without the call even being picked up.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Starting Friday, Apple Music subscribers will have access to over 50 million songs, playlists and music videos on any domestic American Airlines flight equipped with Viasat satellite Wi-Fi with no Wi-Fi purchase required. American Airlines is the first commercial airline to provide exclusive access to Apple Music through complimentary inflight Wi-Fi.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">OWC has released the second generation of its <a href="https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderblade">ThunderBlade</a> external SSD, with a lower price point and improved performance. It’s targeted to creative pros and prosumers who work to capture and process 4K or 8K video.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">If you want the ultimate protection for your iPad Pro, you can’t do better than the Defender Series from <a href="http://www.otterbox.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Otterbox</a>. It’s available for the 11-inch and 12.9-inch Apple tablets for $89.95 and $129.95, respectively.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">About four years ago, Ben Kunz writing for <em>Bloomberg Businessweek, </em>predicted that Apple devices will someday project holograms "like you’ve never seen." He may have been onto something. The company has been granted another patent (number 10,188,288) for such tech.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has announced the financial results for its fiscal 2019 first quarter that ended Dec. 29, 2018. The company posted quarterly revenue of $84.3 billion, a decline of 5% from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $4.18, up 7.5%.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=dpxmTDxdJl9ivpjRsufbPpyrsUnxx-rZATfrOkyTD2QSL62UTn0sU-NeksIL7_sz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Jamf</span></a>, which speecializes Apple management, says it ended 2018 with another year of record growth, expanding its customer base by 57% to welcome over 7,100 new organizations. Further, the company grew total revenue by 30%, and recurring revenue grew by 40% year-over-year, maintaining an industry-leading retention rate of 96%.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has announced a new Today at Apple release with sessions in three new and expanded formats — Skills, Walks and Labs — which offer hands-on group sessions focused on photography, video, music, coding, app development, art and design and more. </p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple wants Siri, its “personal digital assistant,” to be able to whisper a response.The company has been granted a patent (number 10,192,552) for a “digital assistant providing a whispered speech.”</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2019/1/24/apple-lays-off-200-employees-from-project-titan-its-apple-car-project" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">may have cut 200 folks</a> from its “Project Titan/Apple Car” team, but the tech giant is still working on automotive projects and has been granted a patent (number 10,189,434) for an “augmented safety restraint” for automated vehicles.</p>