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Google Maps for iOS adds iPad support, live traffic updates and indoor navigationGoogle unveiled a significant update to Google Maps on Tuesday, finally bringing support for Apple's iPad, while adding enhanced features like indoor…
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WebKit adds support for high-resolution displays, paves the way for Retina-friendly WebWebKit, the Apple-supported open source project behind Safari, is the first browser layout engine to support a new Web standard that makes it easier …
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IDC data shows 66% of Android's 81% smartphone share are junk phones selling for $215IDC reported 251.1 million smartphone shipments for Q3, reflecting 40 percent year over year market growth but an implosion in Average Selling Prices…
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Review: Philips Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Starter PackPhilips's Hue Light Bulb combines energy-efficiency, wide-spectrum LED lighting and remote control capabilities via iOS app into a neat little packag…
... is a photometric measurement that defines differences in color. In short ... -
Apple exploring device pairing with Touch ID, camera privacy using diffusersA pair of newly released patent applications detail potential future capabilities for Apple devices, with the first detailing a system by which two d…
... Between Devices Using Biometric Data," defines a manner in which users ... "Information Display Using Electronic Diffusers," defines a way in which optical ... -
Analysis affirms Apple's A7 processor closer to a desktop CPU than regular mobile chipAn independent analysis of the microarchitecture behind Apple's latest A7 processor has shown that the company was not overstating when it called the…
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Tight-lipped Apple could keep quiet on Beats deal thanks to SEC rulesApple has rarely issued press releases trumpeting new acquisitions since the landmark 1997 deal for NeXT that brought Steve Jobs back into the fold, …
... deal "materially significant?" The SEC defines three tests that acquiring companies ... -
Inside Metal: How Apple plans to unlock the secret graphics performance of the A7 chipAmong the surprises that Apple unveiled at WWDC 2014 is the company's new Metal framework and shader language, aimed at radically enhancing the hardw…
... new shader language for Metal defines both typical GPU graphics operations ... -
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Google to resurrect Bump app as "Copresence," like Apple's AirDrop without privacyBump, an app developer Google acquired last year, is bouncing back under the codename Copresence, an effort to deliver AirPlay-like file sharing that…
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With Apple Watch near, FDA clarifies regulatory stance on health-tracking wearablesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued preliminary guidance that defines the agency's criteria for determining when wearables which provide…
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Adobe acknowledges critical remote vulnerability in Flash, exploits already in the wildAdobe on Saturday released an updated version of its Flash player software that patches an undisclosed vulnerability which could allow remote attacke…
... knowledge or explicit consent. Adobe defines CVE-2015-0311 as "critical ... -
Android Wear stumbles out of the gate with just 720K units shipped in 2014Though Google and its manufacturing partners hoped to get the jump on the Apple Watch with the debut of its own wearable platform last year, it didn'…
... platform for wearable devices. Canalys defines smart wearable bands as multi ... -
On its 5th anniversary, Apple's iPad remains world's best tablet, but tablet market is due for changThe iPad has proven to be a bigger success than just about anyone, including Apple, ever predicted. But while the overall tablet market exploded, rid…
... Apple's iPad not only defines the tablet, market, but it ... -
Future iPhones might automatically broadcast IM-style operating status data to contactsiPhone owners may soon have an easier way to determine whether a friend is available to take a call, as a new Apple patent describes a system in whic…
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Next Apple Watch extremely unlikely to get FaceTime video callingA recent rumor claims Apple's next revision of Watch hardware will include FaceTime video calling, and despite offering no actual evidence to back th…
... 's watchOS 2 transition guide defines this new video encoding as ... -
Apple revises down capital expenditure projection 8% for fiscal 2015Apple revealed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday that it plans to spend $12 billion on capital expenditures for the 2015 …
... quarter ending in September. Apple defines capex as product tooling and ... -
Apple refutes Apple Music survey, says 79% of trial customers still using serviceCommenting on a recent survey conducted by research firm MusicWatch, which claimed only 52 percent of Apple Music trial customers still use the servi…
... is unclear how the company defines active users. The 79 percent ... -
Hands On: Apple TV 2015 with tvOS apps, Remote featuring touch, motion & SiriApple has been selling its Apple TV as long as iPhone, but the set top box has neither sold in similar quantities nor earned even a significant fract…
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In-depth review: Apple's iPhone 6s & 6s Plus with 3D TouchLast year's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus introduced a larger, slimmer form factor housing higher resolution Retina HD screens and improvements in processors, …
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Apple assigns App Store oversight to Phil Schiller in apparent nod to developer issuesApple's decision to split its App Stores out of Eddy Cue's iTunes and iCloud oversight and instead assign them to Phil Schiller, its head of worldwid…
... of a label itself. Apple defines the development platform for interactive ... Apple TV, a product that defines the type of software that ... -
Apple's competition is going to have a tough year in 2016: part 2While Apple's detractors see a bleak future for the world's richest tech company, the reality is that it will be much easier for Apple sell iPhones, …
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Safari 10 brings fast, native App Extensions to the macOS browser, web contentBuilding on work completed last year to enable Web Content Blockers, Apple's new Safari 10 enables a wide range of native code App Extensions that us…
... App Extensions, the new architecture defines a broad Extension Point for ... -
Inside Apple Campus 2 and its vast expanses of sedak glassApple's ambitious Campus 2 project makes extensive use of massive glass panels built by German fabricator sedak, specifically chosen to blur the line…
... , we considered every element that defines a pro computer -- graphics, storage ... -
Back in black: iPhone 7 & iPhone 7 Plus mega reviewApple's latest iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are faster, sport significantly better cameras, expand system-wide haptics in iOS 10 with a new solid state Home b…
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Apple allegedly working on Siri stand-alone speaker with HomeKit integrationApple appears to be stepping up efforts to combat Amazon's suite of Alexa voice recognition devices, with a Siri-based home voice assistant reportedl…
... technology" but what that specifically defines is not clear. The stage ... -
Apple patents panel-type acoustic system for portable devices, woven displaysApple on Tuesday was granted a pair of patents for maximizing space in portable devices, one covering a panel acoustic system that provides high qual…
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Apple received national security letter in 2016, US government sought data from 20K device...In its latest report on government requests for user information, Apple on Monday said the U.S. government lodged at least one national security lett…
... disclosed for 372 accounts. Apple defines account requests as filings that ... -
Hands On: LookUp 4.0 for the iPhone and iPad can make browsing a dictionary a pleasureAn updated design makes LookUp fast to use on your iPhone or your iPad, and it even has an Apple Watch implementation -- but it is not the dictionary…
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Apple dominates all electronics, jewelry companies in ethical sourcing of conflict mineral...A report from a conflict mineral advocacy group puts Apple well ahead of other companies including Google, Microsoft, and Intel in efforts to develop…
... the scale. The Enough Project defines "conflict-free minerals" as minerals ...