Mar 01 Watch live: Apple and the FBI testify before Congress By Larry Neumeister and Tami Abdollah, Associated Press 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, saying it's stretching a 1789 law to get "impermissibly absurd… Continue reading
Feb 22 Apple tells employees why it won’t help hack shooter’s phone By Tami Abdollah, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook acknowledged to employees Monday that "it does not feel right" to refuse to help the FBI hack a locked iPhone used by a gunman in the San Bernardino mass shootings. But he said… Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch 9:36 Judge’s order to Apple over attacker phone encryption unlocks privacy concerns By PBS News Hour Since the San Bernardino attack, the FBI has been trying to read the contents of a cell phone used by attacker Syed Farook, made impossible by encryption. Now Apple CEO Tim Cook is rejecting a federal court order to create… Continue watching
Feb 17 Fight over gunman’s locked iPhone could have big impact By Tami Abdollah and Eric Tucker, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- An extraordinary legal fight is brewing with major privacy implications for millions of cellphone users after a federal magistrate ordered Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by the gunman in the San Bernardino… Continue reading
May 21 Stephen Colbert, Madeleine Albright and others have some advice for the class of 2015 By Colleen Shalby For the past few weeks, college graduates across the country have accepted their diplomas, bidding their academic years adieu as they embark into the world beyond. But not before listening to a classic commencement speech about the time behind them,… Continue reading
Jan 27 Apple just had the most profitable quarter of any company in history By Travis Daub After a rocky day in the markets, Apple computer began their quarterly earnings call and announced historically high numbers. Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch Apple’s CEO helps open the corporate closet By PBS News Hour Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, is the first Fortune 500 executive to come out. "I'm proud to be gay and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," wrote Cook in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek… Continue watching