This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. Young Americans send almost ten times as many texts as Americans over 55. According to Experian, U.S. smartphone owners aged 18 to 24 send 2,022 texts...
Henry Blodget / Business Insider Apple’s email app. A consensus has developed in the techo-chamber of late: Apple is crappy at developing software and services. Google, meanwhile, is great. Directionally, and generally, that characterization might have some truth to it. Google makes some fantastic software and services–search and maps, for example–and Apple’s native mobile apps...
Is that a pulse in shares of Apple? A trader IMs us to note that shares of Apple just closed above their 50-day moving average (the blue line) for the first time since October. These moving averages are watched by technical traders, and crossing over them is seen as a sign of momentum in...
Apple has suspended the iForgot password page from its website after a report claimed that there was a security hole that allowed unauthorized password resets. The method involved manipulating a URL generated on reset of a password. Update: Apple has informed The Next Web that it is working on a fix for the issue, saying that “Apple...
California may beat the United States as a whole to change email privacy laws to better protect individuals from government snooping. State Senator of California, Mark Leno, has introduced Senate Bill 467, a piece of legislation that would raise the legal requirements in place before the state’s government can dig through your digital missives. There...
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a second ruling in favor of Microsoft in a patent infringement suit brought by Google and Motorola against video compression technology used by the company on its Xbox console. In the initial ruling, Microsoft was found to have violated the patents in question, but the investigation...
For the first time, Microsoft has released information on its level of cooperation with law enforcement requests for information about users of its online services. And, as the company oh-so-delicately puts it, “18% of law enforcement requests to Microsoft resulted in the disclosure of no customer data.” Which, of course, means that Microsoft did...
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We might look back on 2013 as the year when wearable computing came in vogue. Apple is reportedly working on a smartwatch. Samsung too. The rumor mill now tells us that Google is working on the concept of a smartwatch and has been for some time. According to a report from the Financial Times,...
When it comes to user security at Apple, it’s one step forward, two steps back. Yesterday, the company belatedly announced long-needed two-step verification security for Apple IDs, only two years after Google rolled out the protective measure for its users. Today comes word of a massive security flaw that reportedly lets anyone reset your Apple...
Startups offer all sorts of digital health products and services but One Medical Group is using health technology to power an entire health care practice. On Friday, the company said it had raised $30 million in a Series F round that brings its total amount raised to $77 million. Google Ventures led the round...