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After earlier reports claiming that Apple was planning to open a new office of sorts in Hyderabad, India, today the company has confirmed to local publications that it will indeed expand in the area with a new development office planned for later this year. Apple’s statement via a report from The Economic Times is below: The project itself will see Apple invest around $25 million and, according to the report from The Economic Times, employ around 4,500 people during construction....

The company is expected to unveil its new iPhones — or at least the 4.7-inch version, probably an iWatch, rollout of iOS and Mac OS X Yosemite among other things at the event. The venue choice is interesting. The company usually holds its event at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco or its campus, but this time it has picked Flint Center — a place where its corporate headquarters are located....

The wonderful kids’ app Pok Pok Playroom has got its latest update today with “Blocks.” This timeless toy is great for open-ended play that builds spatial awareness, creative thinking, fine motor skills, physics fundamentals, and much more. Shortly after launching, Pok Pok won an Apple Design Award and the app has been launching regular updates adding new engaging toys and features. Today’s update with Blocks offers endless possibilities to play and be creative:...

To celebrate Apple Fitness+’s first anniversary and its biggest expansion a few weeks ago, the app is inviting users to celebrate New Year with its instructors. According to the app, new workouts and meditations inspired by the start of 2022 have arrived. For users, they just need to open the Fitness app to discover new sections, such as “Best of 2021,” “Celebrate,” as well as “New Workouts” and “New Meditations.”...

In celebration of May being Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage month, Apple has highlighted three app founders who cultivate community within their technology. The founders of Coffee Meets Bagel, Weee!, and HmongPhrases sat down with Apple to share their reflections on creating their App Store apps. Coffee Meets Bagel Founded by Dawoon Kang and her twin sister Arum, they teamed up to make a dating app with a “slower approach....

Apple’s decision to disable VPN on demand functionality on iOS due to the virnetX lawsuit isn’t the only patent related Apple news today. Head below for a roundup of Apple’s court woes and wins from earlier today: Samsung infringes key text-selection patent: Reuters reports that the International Trade Commission has handed down a preliminary decision ruling Samsung infringed on an Apple patent related to a text-selection feature. However, the courts also ruled Samsung didn’t infringe another patent related to detecting when other devices are plugged into a microphone jack....

Apple has quietly increased the cost of its iOS & Mac Developer Programs in some EU countries with price hikes confirmed for at least the UK and Germany. In Germany, the programs are up from the previous €80/year to €99/year, while in the UK pricing has been adjusted from £60/year to £79/year. While the price increase is already live in at least the UK and Germany, pricing for the program in the US remains at $99/year....

The network, after all, is composed of many different layers. Above the physical layer where cables are connected, there are a series of additional layers. APIs sit on top of all of them, typically using the HTTPS protocol to implement them to communicate requests and responses. “It is the APIs that connect all the different software components together to provide a service,” said Engel on the Cyber Work Podcast. “The connectivity between the client and the provider, too, is enabled by APIs....

In this episode of the Apple @ Work podcast, Alcyr Araujo from Mosyle joins the show to discuss their recent announcements around DNS filtering. Sponsored by Direct Mail: Bring the power of email marketing to your internal communications, with Direct Mail for Mac. Create, track, and securely send right from your desktop. Request a free trial today! Links Mosyle launches encrypted DNS filtering & security solution with automated deployment for Apple devices Mosyle launches Mosyle Fuse to streamline MDM, identity, and security on macOS Mosyle’s Screen View makes macOS and iOS remote support easier to implement for Apple business customers Mosyle unveils Device Scout, Detection & Removal, and App Catalog for its K-12 focused Apple Mobile Device Management Platform Connect with Bradley Twitter LinkedIn Listen and subscribe Apple Podcasts Overcast Spotify Pocket Casts Castro RSS

Apple hasn’t often made appearances at the Black Hat hacker conference, but this year Cupertino is Thinking Different™ about security. Head of Apple security, Ivan Krstic, today said the company would pay huge (up to $200K) bug bounties to invited researchers who find and report vulnerabilities in certain Apple software. A quick breakdown of max. payments: Secure boot firmware: $200,000 Extraction of confidential material protected by the Secure Enclave Processor: $100,000 Execution of arbitrary code w/kernel privs: $50,000 Unauthorized access to iCloud account data on Apple Servers: $50,000 Access from a sandboxed process to user data outside of that sandbox: $25,000 Earlier this year, the FBI paid out under $1M to extract the data from the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone....

Apple is continuing to add to its team of machine learning experts in Cupertino. TechCrunch reports that Apple has acquired Tuplejump, which describes itself as a service that “presents all your data in a familiar format” on their now-removed website. An Apple spokesperson gave TC the usual non-denial confirmation regarding the acquisition: The report notes that Tuplejump is based in part in India as well as the United States and doesn’t disclose the terms of the acquisition....

As shutdowns caused by COVID-19 remain in place, Apple has committed to paying its contractors. The Wall Street Journal reports that initially, some contractors were told their jobs would be suspended without pay during the shutdown, but Apple has clarified that position. As the report explains, Apple employs “hundreds of contractors who work as janitors, bus drivers and perform other functions on its campus.” According to janitors and union representatives, Apple told employees that they would “lose wages and health-care benefits” during the shutdown....

Thanks to Hyper for sponsoring our Apple October 30th event coverage! Get 25% off the new HyperDrive USB-C Hubs for MacBook & MacBook Pro. Read on for all the latest… For a summary of what we expect to see today: [Update: Event details, iPad mini 5, and Mac models] October Apple expectations: Redesigned iPad Pro, Mac lineup refresh, iPhone XR, more Apple has already taken its online store offline ahead of the event start which means we should see new products posted as soon as the event wraps up:...

In a new interview, Bob Borchers, Apple’s VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, and Sebastien Marineau-Mes, VP, Intelligent System Experience at Apple, talked about iPadOS 15 and everything new with iPad’s operating system. TechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino was able to talk with these two Apple executives about the company’s new choices on iPadOS 15. Before WWDC21, for example, users were expecting iPadOS 15 to unleash the M1 iPad Pro’s full potential. Although the conference brought improvements to the iPads overall, some users were expecting more....

Apple is facing a Dutch antitrust investigation into whether it favors its own apps over those of rival developers. It looks likely to have an initial focus on Apple Music and Apple News, but will probably extend to other app categories, and may also include Google’s Play store. Spotify has already filed a complaint with the European Commission, alleging that Apple Music has an unfair advantage over Spotify, and today’s report references that and says that ‘apps for news media’ is another focus …...

Update: Apple has also shared its roundup of Mac mini and MacBook Air reviews. Just as it did for the iPhone XS and iPhone XR, Apple has rounded up today’s iPad Pro reviews and pulled the best quotes from each, compiling them into one shining press release. While the common theme from many reviewers was that the new iPad Pros are incredibly powerful tablets hindered by iOS, Apple has glossed over the latter part of that in its roundup....

Users can expect a lot of under the hood and some debatable user-facing improvements in this release. The new update is big on emojis, which are becoming as ubiquitous and essential as air it seems—over 70 of the expressive characters are included with this update. Read on to learn more about the update and whether you should get it now. What’s New in iOS 11.1 and Why You Should Upgrade Version 11....

By now, Anthem’s reputation has been essentially solidified. EA and BioWare’s ambitious title has become synonymous with squandered potential, despite an adamant and large number of Freelancers still populating the title’s gorgeous, empty world. There’s something so enticing about what could have been with Anthem that, a month after it launched and without much hope in the way of it being salvaged. Thousands of people are still desperately digging at the world’s surface, clawing at the dirt, just to try and uncover the bones of a game that, structurally, remains quite appealing....

An Any Person, Living Or Dead movie is in the works, with Kumail Nanjiani set to star. The upcoming film is based on a short story from author and comedic actor Simon Rich, who appeared on SNL for four seasons, from 2007-2011. The film will be one of three upcoming projects with screenplays by Rich. In addition to his work as a writer and star of SNL, Rich’s career is a rapidly growing one....

Reuters reports today that Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel have settled in the long running antitrust lawsuit filed by employees alleging the companies entered into agreements to not hire employees from one another. Apple previously settled out of court in a lawsuit brought on by the Department of Justice for the same practices, but the class-action suit from employees settled today was given the go ahead last year. The lawsuits have exposed many emails between Steve Jobs, Google executives and others showing the companies regularly discussed agreements in place to prevent hires from the other companies....