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Apple has reported revenue of US$90.8 billion (A$137.34 billion) for its fiscal 2024 second quarter which ended on 30 March, down 4% year-on-year.

It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

The US has announced funding of US$6.6 billion to help Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's biggest manufacturer of semiconductors build fabs in Arizona.

Apple has recorded quarterly revenue of US$81.8 billion (A$124.5 billion) for its third fiscal quarter which ended on 30 June, a drop of 1% year-on-year, the company said on Thursday.

A class-action lawsuit against Apple over a 2018 comment by its chief executive, Tim Cook, about sales in China, will go ahead with a US judge giving the green light on Monday for accusations of defrauding shareholders to be tested in court.

Apple has performed the best among big technology companies for the current quarter, posting US$90.1 billion (A$140.6 billion) in revenue, an increase of 8% year-on-year.

One thing Apple has never lacked — except for a period in the late 1990s — is money. The green stuff. The American dollar. The company has cash reserves far in excess of the budget balances of a large number of countries.

Apple's product launches always see those who have drunk the Kool-Aid from Cupertino come out drooling and shouting "best ever" even in their sleep. It has been said that Apple is something like a cult and that does not really seem far-fetched.

Apple's competitors are often forced to compete on price, because when it comes down to it, that's all they've got, but with the new 5G iPhone SE, the new M1-equipped 5G iPad Air, the new Mac Studio, the new 27-inch Studio display and the M1 Ultra processor, Apple boldly goes where no-one has gone before.

If you're not downloading Android apps from official, trusted app stores, if you're not checking multiple reviews, if you're not carefully checking permissions or using strong anti-virus, then Android users beware - fake apps and banking trojans could find their way onto your Android-powered smartphone.

Somewhat buried beneath all the fanfare about the updates to Apple's iOS and iPadOS operating systems on Tuesday was the main dish of the day: the privacy changes that Facebook and some advertisers have been railing about, but which now have to be dealt with.

Social media giant Facebook will make a number of technology tweaks to cope with the changes that Apple is introducing in iOS 14.5, with the update of the mobile operating system set to be released in the coming week.

Apple will enforce new privacy notifications in the weeks ahead, a measure that Facebook and other companies that depend on digital advertising have claimed will affect their revenue.

On the first of April, 1976, Apple was launched, and today, while it has plenty of detractors and copycats, it is the world's most impressive technology company that sets the pace all others follow.

Whenever one picks up a book with an eye to writing about it, one necessarily needs to know the subject matter therein. The recent book This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends — an ungrammatical title if anything — claims to be a book about the zero-day "industry" as per the author, Nicole Perlroth, a staff reporter for the New York Times, who covers cyber security. (I dislike that word "cyber" and will use infosec right through this piece.)

Disgruntled shareholders have been given the go-ahead to file a class action against Apple, after its chief executive, Tim Cook, allegedly played down the falling demand for iPhones in China, resulting in huge losses for investors.

Apple's iPhone sales fell sharply, both for the fourth quarter of its financial year and also for the full year, the company's results, released on Friday, show.

Protesters have rallied in numbers outside the Apple Store in Washington DC, demanding that the company take steps to protect free speech and human rights.

An American executive order on H-1B visas will only hit US firms badly, as it will prevent intra-company transfers by Indians who are working for American banks, automobile companies and pharmaceutical firms, the head of Tata Consultancy Services, India's biggest outsourcing company, has warned.

The US has suspended the issue of green cards and new H-1B visas in a move that has been slammed by the IT industry, a sector that depends on H-1B holders to carry out a sizeable amount of work.