• Apple, Microsoft, HP among companies shunning GOP convention

    Apple, Microsoft, HP among companies shunning GOP convention

    Jul 09, 2016 02:30 PM EDT

    ... 2016 Host Committee. She declined to provide a list of sponsors. Trump's campaign did not respond to requests for comment. Apple and the Republicans Apple made headlines after Politico reported the tech giant won't support the GOP convention because of Trump's divisive statements. Apple declined to comment ...

  • Feds unlock iPhone in NY drug case, drop fight with Apple

    Feds unlock iPhone in NY drug case, drop fight with Apple

    Apr 23, 2016 03:13 PM EDT

    ... Judge Margo Brodie that investigators were able to access the iPhone late Thursday night after using the passcode. The government said it no longer needs Apple's assistance to unlock the iPhone and is withdrawing its request for an order requiring Apple's cooperation in the drug case.  "As we ...

  • Apple turns 40 today. It almost didn't make it to 20

    Apple turns 40 today. It almost didn't make it to 20

    Apr 01, 2016 02:39 PM EDT

    In 1996, Paul explored the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft. Today, on Apple's 40th birthday, we share it with you again. Twenty years ago, Apple was rotting. Its stock price hovered around $1 per share (adjusted for stock split and dividends). On Jan. 18, 1996, the day my story ...

  • Apple remains in dark on how FBI hacked iPhone without its help

    Apple remains in dark on how FBI hacked iPhone without its help

    Mar 29, 2016 09:02 PM EDT

    ... puzzled Apple software engineers — and outside experts — about how the FBI broke the digital locks on the phone without Apple's help. It also complicated Apple's job repairing flaws that jeopardize its software. The Justice Department's announcement that it was dropping a legal fight to compel Apple to ...

  • Justice Department cracks iPhone, withdraws legal action against Apple

    Justice Department cracks iPhone, withdraws legal action against Apple

    Mar 28, 2016 10:30 PM EDT

    ... requires Apple's assistance. Farook and his wife died in a gun battle with police after killing 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December. Apple did not immediately comment on the development. A U.S. magistrate last month ordered Apple to provide the FBI with software to help it ...

  • Why Apple vs. FBI might be the worst cybersecurity dilemma ever

    Why Apple vs. FBI might be the worst cybersecurity dilemma ever

    Mar 11, 2016 01:00 PM EDT

    ... Apple and the FBI regarding the tech giant’s refusal to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters. The FBI needs Apple to modify the operating system on the attacker’s phone so that it can gain access to its contents; without doing so, the phone ...

  • News Wrap: Big tech supports Apple’s defiance of court order

    News Wrap: Big tech supports Apple’s defiance of court order

    Mar 04, 2016 12:28 AM EDT

    ... from the other guys. JUDY WOODRUFF: All that and more on tonight's "PBS NewsHour." (BREAK) JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news, both Apple and the FBI picked up allies today in their legal fight over encryption. There was word that Google, Facebook, and Microsoft will oppose efforts ...

  • Apple, FBI stake out conflicting positions before Congress

    Apple, FBI stake out conflicting positions before Congress

    Mar 02, 2016 04:05 PM EDT

    ... told a House judiciary panel Tuesday, referring to a locked iPhone tied to the deadly December shooting in San Bernardino, California. "The FBI is asking Apple to weaken the security of our products," Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell countered later that afternoon. Tuesday's hearing shifted attention from the courts ...

  • Watch live: Apple and the FBI testify before Congress

    Watch live: Apple and the FBI testify before Congress

    Mar 01, 2016 10:00 AM EDT

    PBS NewsHour will live stream today's congressional hearing with testimonies from the FBI and Apple at 1 p.m. EST. WASHINGTON — A Brooklyn jurist has scolded the government in a stinging rebuke of arguments it has used to shame Apple for refusing to surrender information from its customers' iPhones ...

  • FBI chief: Apple issues are hardest he's seen in government

    FBI chief: Apple issues are hardest he's seen in government

    Feb 25, 2016 04:01 PM EDT

    ... a country, and how do we want to govern ourselves," Comey told the House Intelligence Committee. A week ago, a federal magistrate in California directed Apple to help the FBI hack into a phone used by one of the assailants in the December shootings in San Bernardino, California. Apple was ...