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Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, eBay, Microsoft & Yahoo paid just a million in tax

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Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, eBay, Microsoft & Yahoo paid a combined total of 1.251.608 euros in tax last year in Spain. Not news, after the UK fuss, but it seems to have shocked Spain. They follow the usual protocol of just having a local subsidary to look after advertising, merchants, etc in the country, but booking all revenue offshore. What’s worse, is that they have a very small combined staff in Spain. Meaning that, unlike the Continue reading Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, eBay, Microsoft & Yahoo paid just a million in tax→

Apple plans to switch off iphone camaras during live events

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From The Times: There was a time when the crowd at a rock concert was marked out by small flashes of fire emanating from cigarette lighters, waved in the air. Now those pockets of light are more likely to emanate from the glowing screens of mobile phones, held aloft, as festival-goers take photos or video of their favourite bands. But new technology being developed by Apple may mean that this may soon be at an Continue reading Apple plans to switch off iphone camaras during live events→

iPhone & iPads tracks users’ movements

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I always knew there was something about Apple I didn’t like. Here’s the scoop from the BBC: Apple iPhones and 3G iPads are secretly recording and storing details of all their owners’ movements, researchers claim. Location data is kept in a hidden, unencrypted file according to security experts Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden. With the right software, it can be used to map exactly where a person has been. Writing on the technology website O’Reilly Continue reading iPhone & iPads tracks users’ movements→

iPhone 4 is as crap as we expected

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Despite being billed as the worlds thinnest, sexiest and faster touchscreen phone, the new iPhone 4 doesn’t actually appear to work. Users are reporting that holding it by the bottom left hand corner causes a short between the two built in antennas (one for the mobile phone, one for wireless internet) causing bothing of them to fail. Apple’s response so far appears to have been “don’t hold it like that. If you must hold it Continue reading iPhone 4 is as crap as we expected→