Surfeit of stories , thy name is Tuesday ! We ’ve collected a few of the most interesting patch from around the web for your poring over .
Code / red : Apple Looks outdoors for New Comms VP
Re / code say that Apple ’s on the lookout for a new straits of PR to replacethe of late take leave Katie Cotton . Speculation is high that this could assist set a friendlier , more candid tack for the party , specially in light of the loosened NDA strictures around last week ’s Worldwide Developers Conference . ( Also worth scan : John Gruber ’s depth psychology . )
New iPhone Lock screen beltway discovered — here ’s how to protect against it !
Yet another iPhone whorl - screen ring road is making the daily round . Over at iMore , Rene Ritchie has some good pourboire on how to avoid falling prey to it . As long as we ’re talking about the ship’s company twist over a new leaf , a quick patch for this issue would certainly go a long mode to bring forth goodwill from users .
Hackers suspected of hold Apple devices to redeem delay in Russia
While we ’re babble security , Russia ’s Interior Ministry has picked up two human being who may be the ones responsible for the “ Oleg Pliss ” hack that locked folks in Australia and elsewhere out of their iPhones last calendar month . The gadget were moderate for ransom money using the Find My iPhone service , though Apple by and by said that the ward-heeler did n’t exploit vulnerabilities in iCloud .
The New Look of OS X Yosemite
If you did n’t watch last week ’s tonic , you might have overleap Apple ’s television about the Modern aesthetic of OS X Yosemite . But if you ’d wish to watch it without skimming the entire two - hr presentation , the ship’s company ’s now posted the video to YouTube . Squint just right and you’re able to pretend you ’re at WWDC again ( or for the first time ! ) .
For Apple , Marketing Is a Whole New Game
AdAge has an in - depth look at Apple ’s move totransition much of its merchandising in house . report card say the internal squad — many of whom Apple is poach from ad agencies — may finally be composed of more than 1000 folks , and that the troupe is having that team face off against TBWA ’s Media Arts Lab , as well as purportedly inviting other advertising agency to hawk . Anyone else getting goosebumps picturingSterling Draper Cooper Pryce ’s presentation ?
Apple and the FDA have hash out FDA regularisation regarding possible raw wandering product , sensors and a glucometer
One Apple site submit a Freedom of Information Act postulation for detail about a meeting between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Apple in December 2013 . The two apparently met to discuss how the FDA would regulate sensor - base electronics product , such as a gadget incorporating a glucometer . While you ’re not of necessity going to suss out details about what Apple has up its sleeve ( see what I did there ? ) , it still makes for interesting meter reading .
What form of Buddhist was Steve Jobs , Really ?
Was Jobs just a trendy Buddhist ? Steve Silberman take a deep dive into information from Walter Isaacson ’s biography , as well as other sources , to conclude that the late Apple carbon monoxide gas - founder was actually quite occupied in the teaching of Zen Buddhism — a warmth that could arguably be seen as ponder in Apple ’s own products .
