Apple
Analysis
AI
Ask me anything: Chatbots are coming to your phone
AI chatbots may soon find a place as consumer personal assistants, with OpenAI releasing a ChatGPT app for the iPhone.
- by Tim Biggs
Latest
‘Another nail in the cash coffin’: Businesses can now take payments on their iPhones
Apple is switching on technology that allows Australian businesses to accept contactless credit card payments on their iPhones.
- by Clancy Yeates
Latitude hack triggers landmark privacy investigation
The Australian and New Zealand privacy commissioners have announced a joint investigation into the hack of Latitude Financial, which exposed the details of millions of consumer finance customers.Â
- by Colin Kruger
Analysis
Phones
USB-C, periscope camera, solid buttons: iPhone 15 rumours heat up
With the next iPhone six months out and manufacturing kicking into gear, leaks and rumours are starting to build a picture of what to expect from Apple.
- by Tim Biggs
10 things I learnt from 15 minutes with Boris Becker
Wimbledon champion at 17 to prison inmate at 54. Boris Becker’s life seems stranger than fiction.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Apple takes a plunge in personal computer shipments
The tech giant’s personal computer shipments declined by 40.5 per cent in the March quarter after sluggish demand and an industry-wide glut hit the Mac maker especially hard.
- by Vlad Savov
Analysis
Virtual reality
Virtual-reality gadget with expected $4000-plus price tag has Apple insiders rattled
Apple proved its critics wrong with the Watch, but virtual reality could be a far tougher nut to crack.
- by Tim Biggs
Apple is divided over blockbuster new product
As Apple prepares to introduce its long-awaited augmented reality headset in June, enthusiasm at the company has given way to scepticism.
- by Tripp Mickle and Brian X. Chen
328,000 IDs feared stolen in ‘sophisticated’ Latitude Financial hack
Hacked consumer finance outfit Latitude Financial provides services to Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Apple and others.
- by Colin Kruger
Apple’s money and Snoop Dogg’s songs back $1.5b startup
Former Apple executive Larry Jackson has some big-name musicians attached to his new company. But he doesn’t want to call it a record label.
- by Lucas Shaw
‘We don’t have any privacy anymore’, says inventor of the mobile phone
Martin Cooper frets like everybody else about his invention’s impacts on society — from the loss of privacy to the risk of internet addiction to the rapid spread of harmful content, especially among kids.
- by Kelvin Chan