Early this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave us the bad news in broad strokes. On Tuesday, we’ll find out just how bad it was. In a letter shared with investors on Jan. 2, Cook revealed that revenue in the company’s fiscal first quarter, ended on Dec. 29, would miss Apple’s own forecasts by about 15 percent. …

Hit hard by the longest government shutdown in history? Verizon says it “has your back.”  The carrier on Monday said it’s “waiving late fees and agent assist fees for federal government employees directly impacted for the duration of the shutdown.  “We appreciate everything you do and we’ll continue to do what we can to help you stay connected,” Nancy Clark, …

You know those voice mails you get claiming to be from “Windows support”? It looks like scammers are upping their game with convincing phishing calls claiming to be from Apple, security expert Brian Krebs said in a report Thursday.   The scam starts an automated call showing Apple’s logo, address and legitimate Apple phone number that warns the user to …

You’d have thought having 280 characters to tweet would free up our inner Hemingway. Turns out, old habits die hard and we’re still posting short tweets, according to data Twitter released Tuesday.  The company’s latest analysis showed the length of tweets has barely changed since the character limit was doubled last year. The most common tweet length under the 140-character …

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Tuesday launched a fact-finding inquiry into the policies and practices of 13 platforms used by consumers to trade virtual currencies like bitcoin and ether.  Cryptocurrency exchanges match buyers and sellers of virtual currencies. As part of the attorney general’s inquiry, his office sent questionnaires asking the exchanges to explain how they operate …

Under Armour on Thursday said an “unauthorized party” had grabbed information including usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords, from about 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts.  The company said it began sending emails and in-app messages to the mobile app’s users on Thursday, four days after discovering the breach, which it said occurred in late February. “The affected data did not include …

The National Rifle Association on Friday gave Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai its “Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award” for his push to repeal net neutrality regulations.  The award was handed out on the second day of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Maryland, about 6 miles outside of Washington, DC. CPAC is the country’s largest …

Google removed roughly 60 apps that contained hidden pornographic malware from its Play Store after a security research company found the code. Many of the games were aimed at kids.  Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies reported the malware on Friday. Dubbed AdultSwine, the malware displayed pornographic images that looked like ads but were designed to prompt users to download fake security …

No matter how you describe Apple’s deliberate battery slowdown — be it gaffe, snafu, royal screw-up  or just #batterygate — the company’s PR mess could cost it 16 million iPhone units in 2018, according to analysis from investment firm Barclays Capital.   Depending on a number of factors, Apple’s iPhone 6S could have slowing performance.   Josh Miller/CNET That estimate …

Facebook on Thursday signed a multiyear licensing deal that lets its users post videos containing songs from the world’s biggest record label, Universal Music Group. The agreement works across all of Facebook’s platforms, including its news feeds, Instagram and Oculus, according to a joint press release.  “Under this partnership, users will be able to upload videos that contain licensed music and …