Technology, security analysis

The new Everalbum Explore platform -- available on iOS and Android -- aggregates photo content from a deep range of sources, using app data feeds into services including Dropbox, Google Photos, Instagram, Facebook, iMessage, Flickr, and Amazon.

We cover the CIA’s increasing interest in accessing and interpreting app data for matters of global intelligence and security. All four of the companies disclosed have mechanisms for pulling data from platforms including Twitter.

Twitter acted in early May to restrict access by US law enforcement and security services to access its firehose of user app data. Twitter doesn’t provide this service directly, but rather through a private firm, Dataminr, in which it holds a 5% stake.

This short guide seeks to explain what each type of app data looks like, and how and where it can be useful.

The BBC recently covered a story on how app data is being used to reveal global sleeping patterns. A team at the University of Michigan have been building Entrain since 2014 to help people overcome jetlag.

I’ve spent some weeks now with some Apple Watch Sport models and with the classic Apple Watch. The Monday Note, as ever, managed to condense a lot of insight into their piece on the device, rounding up a number of other good articles.

Are we underestimating the iCloud security? How is Apple protecting its iCloud from privacy breaches? Is it hard to access your iCloud data?

We take an in-depth look at the new features coming with BlackBerry 10 and the new devices that'll run it.

iTunes 11 brings major changes in design and functionality: the overall look and feel gathers more of the simplicity and elegance of Apple's designs.

Upgraded your BlackBerry Playbook tablet to 2.1.0.1032 and lost your contacts and calendar entries? Find out how to fix the issue -- and how to recover your lost contacts and calendar.