Finally – Mac Apps Can Be Installed on External Drives
In the latest macOS Sequoia developer beta, Apple has introduced a new feature that allows users to install Mac App Store apps directly onto external drives, thereby saving storage space and costs.
This change, though appearing minor,…
10 Top iPhone Tricks
Here are 10 top iPhone tips / tricks you may not know about that could make your life easier and help you to be more productive:
1. Digitally Sign Documents
Gone are the days when you needed a printer or scanner to sign important documents.…
Apple More Responsible In Training Its AI Models?
Following concerns about AI companies scraping data from the web to train their AI models, Apple has sought to present itself as being a better and more ethical AI provider by highlighting how the training and development of its AI models have…
iPhone Smishing Scam Warning
Apple has warned iPhone users to be on their guard against a new ‘smishing’ (SMS phishing) scam where the perpetrators are posing as Apple. The scam involves the scammers contacting iPhone users with the excuse of needing to sort out a…
EU Rules and Regulations Hit Apple
Apple has announced that because of regulatory uncertainties due to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), it will be delaying the EU region rollout of three new AI features – Phone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing enhancements, and Apple…
Apple Avalanche!
Following Apple’s 5-day Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC24) recently at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, we take a look at the many new products announced and their key features.
Showcasing New Products
At Apple’s…
Apple Announce Latest Version Of OS
Apple’s macOS Sequoia, the latest version of its OS for Macs and the successor to macOS Sonoma, has been given a range of new features including a new Passwords app, redesigned Reader view in Safari with machine learning integration, upgrades…
New Standalone Apple Password Manager App
At Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC24), the company announced the launch of its new, standalone, homegrown, password manager app for iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, Mac and Windows.
The free app, simply called ‘Passwords’,…
DMCC Bill May Force Apple To Open Up
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCC) which becomes law later this year (autumn) and is aimed at promoting fair competition, regulating digital markets, and protecting consumer rights in the UK, may mean that Apple will…
iPhone Bluetooth Stalking Warning
Apple says it has worked with Google to create an industry specification that can alert users across both iOS and Android if a Bluetooth tracking device is being used to track them (also known as Bluetooth Stalking).
The new capability,…
iPhone Users Get Google’s ‘Circle to Search’
iPhone users can now use a version of Google’s “Circle to Search” thanks to Google Lens and iOS Shortcuts.
The “Circle to Search” gesture, launched in January (which Google Pixel phone users may already be familiar with)…
Apple’s $110 Billion US Stock BuyBack Is Biggest Ever
Apple Inc’s Board has just approved a $110 Billion Stock buyback which will be the biggest buyback in US history.
Apple is already responsible for the top six of the 10 largest share-repurchase announcements ever made in the US, and this…
$900,000 For Netflix AI Product Manager
Leading Streamer Netflix has added more fuel to the fire in the actors and writers’ union strike by advertising for an AI product manager with a salary up to $900,000.
Could Have Paid For Actors
With US actors and writers…
What is ‘Y Combinator’?
In this insight we look at what ‘Y Combinator’ is, how it works, who it’s worked with, and how it’s made the news recently.
Startup Accelerator and Venture Capital Firm
Y Combinator is a well-known startup accelerator and…
Nightmare at Netflix?
In this article, we look at the possible causes of the recent large losses of Netflix subscribers, and what’s next for the global streaming giant.
200,000 Subscribers Lost
In its Q1 results, the world’s biggest global streaming…
Want a Payrise? Apple Boss Earned $100 Million in 2021
A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Apple CEO, Tim Cook, earned $100 million in 2021.
1,477 Times Higher Than Average
The filing showed that his pay, fuelled by stock awards, if compared to the new median…
Five-Year High For Tech Hiring
New figures from job search engine Adzuna and data provider Dealroom show that hiring in the tech industry has reached its highest level in five years.
Vacancies Exceeding Pre-Pandemic Levels
The data, which was compiled by Adzuna and…
Tech News : Huge Lockdown Profits For Amazon
Changing consumer habits due to lockdown are believed to have been a big factor in Amazon’s Q1 profits being a massive three times larger than last year.
Huge Profit Growth in Just One Year
In the first 3 months of 2020, before…
What’s all the fuss about ‘Robinhood’ ?
In the light of the recent controversy over GameStop shares, we take a look at the growing trend for casual, amateur investing and how the Robinhood app has enabled this.
Robinhood
Robinhood is a is a free-trading app that lets…
Google Going In Oz?
Australia’s intention to introduce a new law to make tech companies like Google and Facebook pay publishers for news content has prompted Google to threaten to withdraw its search engine from Australia.
What Law?
The proposed law is…
Sanctions Hurt Huawei
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.’s 9.9 per cent revenue increase in its figures for the first three quarters of 2020 shows a significant slowing in growth compared to the 24.4 per cent increase for the corresponding period of 2019.
Impact
Financial…
PayPal To Support Cryptocurrencies
It has been reported that US-based payments giant PayPal is ready to allow its users to buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin BTC and other cryptocurrencies.
Millions of Merchants
The decision by PayPal will also mean that 26 million merchants…
Record Broadband Compensation Pay-Outs
Ofcom's annual report shows that a record-breaking £20.7m in compensation was paid to broadband customers under the new automatic compensation scheme in the last six months of 2019.
The Automatic Compensation Scheme
Back in November…
No More Laptops From Toshiba
Tokyo-based Toshiba Corporation has announced that it has now transferred the remaining 19.9 per cent of its outstanding shares in its PC business (re-branded as Dynabook Inc.) to Sharp Corporation.
Helped By Foxconn
Back in June 2018,…
Apple Wants Rent Cuts With UK Landlords
It has been reported that due to the effects of the pandemic on the UK high street, even tech giant Apple is trying to negotiate a 50 per cent rent cut with its retail landlords.
Reports
The reports, which appeared in the UK’s Sunday…
Antitrust and Big Tech
With U.S. Congress members grilling the bosses of the big tech companies this week with a view to deciding if their companies have become too big and powerful, in this article we take a look at the Antitrust laws and issues.
Antitrust Laws
In…
Virgin Media and O2 Merging To Compete Against BT
Virgin Media and O2 are merging to compete against BT in a £31 billion deal. The aim is to create an entertainment and telecoms company that can provide some serious competition to telecoms giant BT.
Mobile & Broadband
O2, owned…
Amazon Can Own Deliveroo Because of Pandemic
After the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) worries last May, the CMA has now announced that Amazon can invest in food distribution company Deliveroo.
Last May
Last May, Amazon was a leading investor in a funding round of $575…
Amazon Sacks Employees Who Questioned Pandemic Safety Measures
Amazon is reported to have sacked three employees, two of whom had recently made public statements questioning Amazon’s pandemic safety measures and one who had tried to organise better working conditions.
User Experience Designers
The…
Coronavirus Affecting Tech Shares
Coronavirus is firstly a threat to public health but the impact of the virus hitting the Chinese economy (a centre for tech goods), the threat of widescale illness among workers, the effects of measures to contain the virus and other factors…
SurveyMonkey’s Bold Dublin Move
California-based online survey software company SurveyMonkey has opened a datacentre in Dublin with a view to attracting enterprise customers in the EMEA region.
SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey, which was established in Portland by Ryan and…
Discovery of Microphone in Google’s Nest Guard Prompts Backlash
The discovery of a microphone in Google’s Nest Guard product that was not listed in tech spec has been put down to an erroneous omission by Google, but it has also caused a backlash that escalated to the US Congress.
What Happened?
One…
Form-Jacking Attacks Hit High Profile Companies
Research by Security Company Symantec has revealed that high profile companies such as BA and Ticketmaster are among the many thousands of businesses whose websites are being targeted with "form-jacking" attacks every month.
What Is Form-Jacking?
Form-jacking…
Does Your Business Take Cash?
Cashless businesses that only take contactless card payments, such as cafes and bars may be growing in number in major cities but despite their apparent convenience for their target market, they are also attracting accusations that they are…
02 Outage – What Happened
02 Outage - What Happened
After last week’s major O2 4G mobile network outage which left millions of customers with no network data access has been blamed on an expired software certificate that 3rd party supplier Ericsson had installed for…
Facebook Hack Keeps Getting Worse
As if the recent Facebook hack of 50 million user accounts that was discovered on 25th September wasn’t bad enough, it became apparent that it could also affect "Facebook Login" service, which allows other apps to use people's Facebook account…
BA Security Fallout
A discovery of the file containing the code used in the recent hack of the British Airways website and app that affected 380,000 transactions has revealed that it only took 22 lines of JavaScript to cause the massive data breach.
Skimming
The…
Uber Moves Into Bikes & Scooters
Ride-hailing service Uber, which has until recently been associated with cars, has announced a shift in focus towards bikes and scooters in order to drive growth and keep people using the platform.
The Challenges
Uber has faced a number of…
Superdrug Customers Informed of Hack
Superdrug is reported to have advised online customers to change their passwords after it was targeted by hackers who claim to have stolen the details of approximately 20,000 Superdrug customers.
Hundreds Compromised - Could Be More
To date,…
Facebook Uses Scoring System To Manage Misinformation
It has been reported that Facebook allocates a trustworthiness score to some members to help it manage misinformation issues such as some members continually flagging / reporting stories as fake if they don’t agree with the content.
Score?
It…
Amazon Pays Less Tax In UK While Profits Rise
The latest figures show that even though Amazon’s profits trebled last year, their UK tax bill has significantly reduced.
How Much?
Amazon’s reported pre-tax profits have jumped from £24.3m to £72.3m with the company making £1.98bn…
10 Million Affected by Dixons Carphone Data Breach
Dixons Carphone has announced that, after a review following a hack of its customers’ data, 10 million customers rather than the original estimate of 1.2 million have actually been affected.
What Happened?
Back in June, Dixons Carphone announced…
Departing CEOs Steal Intellectual Property Says Report
A new report by Code42 that surveying 1,634 senior company employees in the UK, US and Germany, has found that most CEOs take what they regard to be their Intellectual property (IP) with them when they leave a company.
It Belongs To Me
The…
£500,000 Fine For Facebook Data Breaches
Sixteen months after the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) began its investigation into the Facebook’s sharing the personal details of users with political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, the ICO has announced that Facebook will…
Trump’s Tariff’s For Tech Firms With China Links
While Apple Inc has had good news that it will not face traded tariffs on its iPhones assembled in China, Intel Corp may need to shift its assembly work away from China to avoid a big revenue hit.
What Tariffs?
President Donald Trump’s administration’s…
Facebook Losing the Battle For Teenage Attention
A study by Pew in the US has found that Facebook is now lagging behind YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat, as a platform where teenagers spend their time.
Down To 4th Place
The study, which involved 750 teens in one month earlier this year, found…
834% Rise in TSB Customer Attacks
Following the IT ‘meltdown’ at TSB last month which led to chaos for customers who were locked out of their own accounts, research has found that the number of phishing attacks targeting TSB customers leapt by 843% in May compared with April.
Fraudsters…
Instant GDPR Complaints For Web Giants
In an almost inevitable turn of events, the social media and tech giants Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp faced a barrage of accusations that they were not compliant within hours of GDPR being introduced on May 25th.
What’s Wrong?
The…
Microsoft Future Decoded Event
Microsoft held their annual Future Decoded event last week in London. This is where Microsoft tells the UK where they are expecting to go in the Future.
Keynote Highlights
They announced a new Surface Pro with integrated super-fast LTE phone…
GMA win Trusted Advisor of the Year Award
GMA are delighted to be selected by intY as the winner of "Trusted Advisor of the Year 2017"
Thanks for our colleagues at intY for giving GMA this award at their ceremony in London at "The Brewery", near the Barbican centre, on 27th Sept…
Equifax hack – highlighting the importance patch mismanagement
US company Equifax is under the spotlight after losing data of nearly half the US population.
What Happened
Equifax is one of the three largest American credit agencies. It gathers information about you — without you even knowing —…
Everything you need to know about Ransomware
Ransomware is one of the most talked about and publicised security threats in the modern era. What started as a few high-profile attacks caused by a handful of malware variants has developed into epidemic in which increasingly unskilled attackers…
Are you ready for the GDPR?
The new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will be taking force in May 2018. The updated piece of EU legislation will be the legal framework for data protection across Europe. Its purpose is to protect individual’s personal information…
GMA Awarded 3CX Platinum Partner
Gregory Micallef Associates are proud to announce that we have been awarded an elite Platinum Partner status by 3CX. An industry-leading provider of innovative soft-ware based phone systems. GMA is the only 3CX Platinum Partner in the London…
GMA Celebrates 25 Years!
It is quite hard to imagine our world without GMA in it, but 25 years ago GMA didn’t exist. In the IT world of 1992 the market was just blossoming. The most dominant introduction around this time was the World Wide Web. Around this…
Top Technology Trends of 2017
2016 was definitely a year many would rather forget and I think we are all ready for 2017. From events in politics which will rewrite history, to a never-ending stream of bad news. However, 2016 had its fair share of important technological…
Microsoft open multiple Data Centres in the UK
Microsoft have announced the opening of multiple UK Data Centres. The aim is to allow customers to use their cloud services whilst knowing that their data remains in the country. The centres in London, Cardiff and Durham will host their range…
What does Brexit mean for the UK’s technology sector?
Now that the UK has decided to leave the European Union, technology firms have been left to wonder what the future holds. For years, the UK – and London in-particular – has championed the role of tech firms in the economy.
As news of…
What do technology companies say about Brexit?
The European Union referendum is looming and a big question GMA have is, do technology companies want to remain or leave? As the Technology Sector is a growing and high-profile part of the UK economy, there is little wonder that there are many…
Top tech trends of 2016
2016 was a year many would rather forget and I think we are all ready for 2017. From events in politics which will rewrite history, to a never-ending stream of unwelcome news. However, 2016 had its fair share of important tech breakthroughs.…
How to prepare your business and its IT systems for the Olympics?
The 2012 Olympic Games is fast approaching and will put extra pressure on your business and IT systems. The Olympics will bring to London:
-10,000 athletes
-37,000 members of the press
-800,000 spectators per day
-At 37 venues
The…