South Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd on Thursday said it did not supply any organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for Apple’s iPhone X smartphones this year.
Källa: LG Display says did not supply OLED panels for Apple’s iPhone X this year
Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, was paid $102m (£76m) this year after collecting a huge share bonus linked to the iPhone maker’s stock market performance.
Cook was paid a basic salary of $3.06m, a cash bonus of $9.3m (up from $5.4m last year), and collected share awards worth $89m taking his total 2017 payout to $102m, Apple disclosed in a regulatory filing.
Källa: Apple’s Tim Cook paid $102m this year including bonuses worth $98m
Former U.S. president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their own biases.
Källa: Obama urges ’leaders’ not to split society with online biases
Charging your mobile device wirelessly is certainly less of a hassle than plugging it in, but still requires the device be in physical contact with its station to actually work. That’s about to change now that the Federal Communications Commission has approved the first wireless charger that works from up to three feet away.
Källa: FCC approves first wireless ’power-at-a-distance’ charging system
Matthew Green at Lawfare has an interesting analysis of Apple’s responsibilities (or lack thereof) to the government in terms of letting law enforcement access secure communications:
Apple does not provide the encryption keys for iMessage, thus there is no current legal obligation for Apple to redesign the system to provide law enforcement access. In fact, it’s exactly these explicit limitations of CALEA that apparently have been driving law enforcement to push for new legislation (whoch has in the past been referred to as “CALEA II”). That effort has not yet born fruit, despite a number of high-profile speeches.
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the Russian authorities should monitor the activity of ”some companies” on social media during next year’s presidential election and assess the extent of their involvement in domestic politics.
Källa: Russia’s Putin calls for Web activities of some firms to be monitored