[This is an advertorial. Maclife gets a portion of each unit sold.] The iPhone’s camera is a great way to capture the events that are happening right in front of you. Just pull out your phone, point toward the action, and record it all for posterity. But there’s plenty going around all around you that you don’t capture by pointing [...]

Big UK net firms have begun blocking access to two movie streaming sites accused of flouting copyright laws. BBC News – Technology Author: BBC

It seems the good news just keeps coming for Apple, even if it’s tempered with grim reports over the past few months about its declining stock prices. Today we learned from Asymco’s Horace Dediu that Apple’s bringing in more money than ever through its American retail stores (already ranked as the most profitable in the country), and at such a [...]

Apple is accused of being “among America’s largest tax avoiders” by a Senate committee, who says the company avoided paying billions of dollars in US taxes. BBC News – Technology Author: BBC

In a stunning shift from their previous stances on mobile video chat, AT&T announced to The Verge today that it plans to extend cellular use of Apple’s FaceTime to all users in the coming weeks, particularly those who aren’t covered by the new tiered plans it introduced last year. By the end of the year, AT&T plans to allow video chat apps [...]

Yahoo says its .1bn (£723m) purchase of blogging platform Tumblr will boost its revenue as soon as 2014. BBC News – Technology Author: BBC

Google is making a big push for Hangouts to be your new best friend, but users of the company’s free Voice service are discovering that enabling messaging on their Gmail account eliminates convenient access for the elder service. The Verge reported Sunday that Google’s new Hangouts has created a bit of a conundrum for users of Google Voice: Gmail users [...]

A smartphone created by former Nokia employees is unveiled ahead of its release later this year. BBC News – Technology Author: BBC

Aside from some rumblings of a big Yahoo! deal (we’ll get into that shortly), it was a relatively quiet, low-key weekend for the tech world. Temperatures are starting to rise as summer fast approaches, but news on the Apple front should really heat up with WWDC in early June. In the meantime, let’s reflect on how Intel let the iPhone [...]

State-sponsored hackers are renewing their attacks on the US after a three-month hiatus, according to the New York Times. BBC News – Technology Author: BBC