Octopus confirms that Hong Kong Apple Pay is coming later this year to iPhone and Apple Watch.
Google Contractor That Leaked Audio Data Investigated
After a report found a Google contractor accessed and leaked Google Home recordings, the company says it will investigate.
Capto is a Great Way to Make a Variety of Screen Capture Content
I’ve been playing around with a variety of screen capture tools recently and discovered Capto. The Mac App does everything I need, and probably more. It provides a number of options for capturing images, webpages, and video, whilst being pretty straight forward to use. I also like how easy it is to organize images you have captured within the app itself. They don’t just disappear somewhere on a hard drive. It also offers a variety of tools to edit and annotate those screen captures. All-in-all, Capto is a pretty complete package. Capto costs $29.99 and is also available within Setapp.
Apple's Silent Updates, Robocall Blocking – TMO Daily Observations 2019-07-11
John Martellaro and Andrew Orr join host Kelly Guimont to talk about the state of updates from Apple, and the latest in blocking robocalls.
T-Mobile Hosting 'Scam Block Party' on July 15
On July 15 T-Mobile will be hosting an online ‘Scam Block Party’ to raise awareness about its Scam Block tool and share robocall prevention tips.
New UK Digital Services Tax Will Hit Apple
The UK Government announced plans to introduce a new Digital Services Tax which will likely be applied to Apple.
Jamf Launches New iOS Tools for Teachers
Jamf launched a series of new tools ahead of the forthcoming school year. Bradley Chambers, who manages Apple devices for a private school, looked at the update for 9to5 Mac and found much to be positive about.
Ad-hoc classrooms will allow teachers to create a classroom easily and immediately to take control of their classroom iPads…Teachers and parents can now use the Jamf Teacher and Jamf Parent apps to block categories of apps, such as games or social media, ensuring students stay on tasked during the school day and when doing homework. Jamf has been a great partner for my school, and I am excited to see the enhancements.
Bank of England Governor Issues Facebook Libra Warning
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney issued a strong warning to Facebook over its forthcoming Libra cryptocurrency.
Data Aggregator Claims Sign in With Apple Won't Have a Big Impact
Kazuki Ota, founder and CEO of data aggregator Arm Treasure Data, said that although Sign in With Apple will limit some tracking, it won’t eliminate it completely.
Treasure Data’s ID Unification feature can take attributes of multiple IDs and combine them into one profile across data sources. “Eighty to 90% of the work of creating this type of clean profile is actually having a lot of clean-up process of the data and also having a higher quality data,” Ota said. “It won’t be perfect, to be honest, because 100% clean data is almost an imaginary situation.”
I look forward to seeing the impact Sign in With Apple will have.
Apple Disables Walkie Talkie due to Bug
Apple has disabled the Walkie Talkie app on Apple Watch because of a vulnerability that could let someone secretly eavesdrop on your iPhone.
