A UK consumer champion has launched a £750 million ($907 million) legal claim against Apple over the 2017 iPhone throttling controversy that saw a software update effectively slow down older devices (via The Guardian). Market researcher Justin Gutmann has filed the claim with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal seeking the damages for up to 25 […]
Read MoreThe UK’s competition watchdog seeks to “remedy” Apple’s restrictions on browser engines in iOS and cloud gaming through the App Store via a high-level regulatory process, the organization announced today. The announcement comes upon the publication of the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) year-long study into Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems, which finds that Apple […]
Read MoreThe Glasgow Times today reports that employees at Apple’s Buchanan Street store in Scotland are about to become the first branch in the United Kingdom to unionize. Staff at Apple Glasgow are said to have filed for Voluntary Union Recognition with Apple after joining the country’s general workers union, GMB Scotland. They claim low wages, […]
Read MoreFollowing reports that the UK government had dropped plans to heavily regulate Apple and other big tech companies using a new Digital Markets Unit (DMU), the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has assured that it will empower the DMU with statutory powers to penalize firms that do not meet its rules (via Reuters). […]
Read MoreDid you know that if you buy a Samsung product, you’re basically living like royalty? If you’ve never visited Samsung UK’s website, you might not be aware that Samsung Electronics has a Royal Warrant in the United Kingdom. A Royal Warrant doesn’t last forever. If the royal in question doesn’t like the products they’re supplied […]
Read MoreThe UK is set to abandon plans to heavily regulate Apple and other big tech companies using a new competition authority, the Financial Times reports. In a paywalled report, the Financial Times claims that the British government’s new legislative agenda, due to be set out in the Queen’s Speech next week, will not include a […]
Read MoreApple has today begun new ground surveys across various regions of the United Kingdom, including London, Manchester, and Birmingham, to gather pedestrian data for Apple Maps (via Bloomberg). Apple will use cameras and sensors mounted on pedestrian backpacks to gather map data in Berkshire, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands, across over […]
Read MoreA group of UK network operators have formally urged the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to regulate iCloud Private Relay, claiming that Apple’s privacy service is anti-competitive, potentially bad for users, and a threat to national security. In its response to the CMA‘s Interim Report on mobile ecosystems, Mobile UK, a trade association of […]
Read MoreApple has aggressively defended its ecosystem in a newly-published response to the UK’s competition watchdog. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today published Apple’s response to its Interim Report on mobile ecosystems, as well responses from dozens of other companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Epic Games. The detailed 47-page response from Apple aggressively dismissed […]
Read MoreThe British Government is reportedly preparing a publicity attack on end-to-end encryption in an effort to mobilize public opinion against the technology by framing it as a child safety issue, with its main aim being to derail Facebook’s plan to end-to-end encrypt its Messenger platform. According to Rolling Stone, the Home Office has hired the […]
Read MoreUsers of Virgin Mobile and O2 networks based in the UK will not face EU roaming charges when traveling abroad, the company that owns both networks has announced (via BBC News). Based on an analysis of rates from other provides, Virgin Media O2 said a family of four going abroad for two weeks could see […]
Read MoreApple’s AirPods Team Wants ‘More Bandwidth’ Than Bluetooth Provides Apple in October introduced the redesigned third-generation AirPods, which have an updated design, Adaptive EQ support, spatial audio, and other new features. To explain some of the design decisions Apple made with the AirPods 3, Apple’s vice president of acoustics Gary Geaves sat down for an […]
Read MoreThe United Kingdom will phase out and turn off its 2G and 3G networks by 2033, the British government today announced (via TechRadar). BT already committed to ending its 3G service by 2023, but now all major carriers in the UK are in agreement to retire 2G and 3G over the next decade. The networks […]
Read MoreWednesday November 10, 2021 2:23 am PST by Sami Fathi The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court today sided with Google in restoring its appeal against a lawsuit that accused it of wrongly tracking users within the iPhone‘s Safari browser without their consent. According to the ruling, the judge believed that the lawsuit, which sought to ask […]
Read MoreGetting firmware update notifications from Samsung is a routine matter. Most of the time you might just tap on the install button without even looking at the changelog. Imagine the one time that you did and saw that the update was actually installing apps mandated by the Russian government. That might not make a difference […]
Read MoreThree has become the latest UK mobile network to reintroduce EU roaming fees, in another post-Brexit setback for customers traveling abroad. A flat £2 daily charge when roaming within an EU country will apply to customers who are new or upgrading from October 1. The changes will not come into effect until May 23 2022. […]
Read MoreVodafone is bringing back roaming charges for U.K. users traveling in Europe, the second mobile operator do so post-Brexit after originally saying they had no plans to re-introduce them. New and upgrading customers on “selected plans” will be charged at least £1 per day to use their mobile phone in EU destinations. The rules will […]
Read MoreRoyalties from music streaming services, including Apple Music and Spotify, are weighted unfairly against artists, according to a committee of Members of Parliament in the UK (via BBC News). An investigation by the UK parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee into music streaming found that artists see “pitiful returns.” The committee called for […]
Read MoreLawyers representing Apple have suggested that the company could exit the UK market if the terms of an ongoing patent dispute are “commercially unacceptable” (via This is Money). UK patent holder Optis Cellular Technology is suing Apple for patent infringement after it refused to pay license fees worth around $7 billion for using “standardized” smartphone […]
Read MoreU.K. mobile operator EE plans to charge customers almost $3 (£2) a day to use data roaming within the EU, a result of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, BBC reports. The new charge will go into effect in January 2022, and at first, will only apply to new EE customers or customers […]
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