As the release of the new iPhone is sure to stir up some excitement, the iOS 11 update might also be of interest to tech-lovers. The update that will feature on the iPhone includes indoor maps that will allow users floor-by-floor navigation of complex indoor spaces such as airports and shopping malls, with searchable on-map information about stores and facilities inside them.

  Apple mobility partner WWT Asynchrony Labs, the software development arm of $9bn World Wide Technology, has opened its European headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf. The firm partners with Apple in an R&D role with access to alpha and beta products.

Today’s productivity statistics from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that the manufacturing sector improved its output per hour in the first quarter of this year. This contrasts with a slump in service sector productivity over the same period. The figures, which show a 0.2 percent improvement, do not spell an end to concern around productivity, which still lags behind other G7 nations.

On 29th June 2007 the first iPhone went on sale in the US. Over the past decade, the device has wrought tremendous change in every sector from retail to banking. Derided on its launch, the device sold over 270,000 units in its first 30 hours on sale, and continues to sell at a rate of nearly 400 devices per minute. The growing ubiquity of the iOS operating system – as the iPhone now tops 1 billion devices worldwide – means t...

As the announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference sink in, developers will seek to unpack the implications of the new technology in a range of settings. Asynchrony Labs, a mobility partner of Apple, says that Apple’s HomePod announcement shows the growing importance of voice as a new technology battleground – not only for Apple in competition with Amazon and Google, but for app development more widely.

A patch which may have prevented the NHS ransomware attack was made available to the organisation a month ago, it has emerged. The widespread use of unsupported Windows XP operating systems is thought to have provided an entry-point for hackers to infect computers with ransomware software, effectively paralysing large parts of the NHS. The attack brings into relief the scale of vulnerabilities which can develop as systems are not kept up to ...

Forecast of $20.59bn investment in manufacturing IoT by 2021 as British growth in production relies on manufacturing. UK manufacturing contributed to a 1.1% increase in total production between November and December 2016, according to Office for National Statistics figures published.