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Apple’s not the only tech giant being hurt by a slowdown in the smartphone market. Samsung on Wednesday reported a steep drop in revenue and profits, just as it had warned earlier this month.  Most of its businesses, from chips to displays, felt the effects of stronger competition and weaker demand in the handset sector. Its …

A hacking tool enabled the United Arab Emirates’ government to spy on iPhone users with just a text message, according to a Wednesday report by Reuters.   Called Karma, the tool let spies steal photos, messages, emails and location data from iPhones by uploading victims’ email accounts or phone numbers to an automated system, the report said. The cyberattack worked …

Mozilla should concede defeat to Chrome and adopt Google’s browser technology, a Microsoft executive suggested Friday, provoking rebuttals over the weekend that Firefox’s independence is now more important than ever. Chrome is built atop Google’s Chromium open-source software project, which lets anyone else use the code for their own projects, modify it and offer their changes back. With Chrome’s dominance …

The US Federal Trade Commission’s case against Qualcomm is now in the hands of a judge.  On Tuesday the two sides presented their hour-long closing arguments in a case that could have big implications for the technology world. The FTC has accused Qualcomm of operating a monopoly in the mobile chip market, which hurt rivals and caused handset makers to …

A foldable phone by any other name may not sound as sweet. Samsung has already shown off the foldable Galaxy phone on stage and confirmed it’ll come in the first half of 2019 — but it doesn’t yet have a real name. There are at least four rumored front-runners, including the Galaxy X, Galaxy F, Galaxy Flex and Galaxy Fold. Samsung, …

Apple may not share how many iPhones it sells each quarter anymore. But it did offer a tantalizing tidbit as part of its latest earnings. The consumer electronics giant has an active install base of more than 900 million iPhones, Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestra said on a conference call with analysts on Tuesday. The number is up year over …

When Apple warned earlier this month that sales over the holidays were as much as 11 percent lower than expected, it was a shock. Now it looks like a trend. Now playing: Watch this: Apple earnings report confirms iPhone slowdown 5:56 On Tuesday, Apple forecast sales of between $55 billion and $59 billion for the second fiscal quarter, compared with average …

If your current phone is on its way out, or you have a phone sitting in a drawer somewhere collecting dust, think twice about tossing it away blindly. In addition to all the precious digital content and media your phone accumulated, it holds a wealth of sensitive personal data that you don’t want disappearing or falling into the wrong hands. …

Apple has partnered with health insurance provider Aetna to create Attain, an app that rewards users for healthy behavior.  Attain combines a person’s health history with his or her Apple Watch activity to create personalized goals. Users who try to meet those goals, or succeed, earn points they can put toward gift cards or use to offset the cost of …

Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox that lets you strike a better balance between maintaining privacy and breaking websites. Firefox 65 updates its controls for how the web browser manages content like tracker software and cookies — small text files a website can store on your computer that are handy for things like remembering what’s in your e-commerce …