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The social media and advertising conglomerate Facebook, has removed its Onavo VPN app from the App Store after Apple warned the company that the app was in violation of its policies governing data gathering.—The new rules, introduced in June post the implementation of the European Union’s GDPR, restrict the ability to sell user data to third parties. Onavo functions as a virtual private network VPN (Virtual private network) app is to monitor the behaviour of smartphone users outside Facebook’s core apps. Among other things, this has helped the social network work out its live video strategy, and competition from other social media apps. It was found that Facebook was using the traffic from its private servers for detailed analysis. Also, Onavo Protect has been found violating the App Store’s rules on app makers using data outside a software’s core functions. VPNs work by encrypting users’ traffic and redirecting it through a private server to avoid th...

RIP AirPort, AirPort Extreme, and Time Capsule. Roughly 6 years, AirPort products have not been updated since 2012 (Express) and 2013 (Extreme and Time Capsule), and in late 2016 by Apple Inc., which instigated that the longstanding rumours of Apple exiting the WiFi router market were true, according to Bloomberg, which explained that Apple had stopped development on the AirPort line up with the AirPort engineers reassigned to other products. And now, as reported, the company is officially discontinuing its AirPort and Time Capsule base stations. Apple has officially ended development on its AirPort line of products, which includes the AirPort Express ($99), the AirPort Extreme ($199), and the AirPort Time Capsule ($299). "We"re discontinuing the Apple AirPort base station products. They will be available through Apple.com, Apple"s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers while supplies last” an Apple spokesperson told iMore . WiFi has become a commodity. Apple int...