Apple is deadly serious with its App-driven vision for life in the clouds, with a new patent application describing its new way to share and buy apps from the cloud. Published today and spotted by Patently Apple the application reveals the concepts behind the Apple vision, whch essentially allows users to share apps on their phones — say you were impressed the first time you saw Angry Birds, for example....
Update — Apple’s statement via CNBC: “We thank the jury for their service and we applaud their verdict.” A jury has decided that Apple is not guilty of violating antitrust laws in the decade-old lawsuit involving the iPod, iTunes Music Store, and digital rights management usage. The jury had to determine if the iTunes updates affecting customers’ iPods were “genuine product improvements” with Apple citing security concerns for implementing the usage of DRM....
April Fool’s Day is officially in full gear, meaning you need to be on high alert when skimming the news today. Like previous years, big Internet players jumped on the opportunity to play practical jokes on their users. Be it a Kinect-like Gmail interface, Geocities-hosted Hulu, or YouTube’s first blog post from 1911 with President William Howard Taft as a guest blogger, worry not – we have you covered with our selection of the best April 1 jokes....
James Wan offers up a look at his underwater action scenes in Aquaman. After a rather tumultuous year in 2017, Warner Bros. is hoping their lone 2018 DC film can help right the DCEU once again. That’s at least how one producer believes Aquaman is shaping up and it’s easy to see why. They’ve allotted Furious 7 director James Wan creative freedom to flesh out Jason Momoa’s rocker version of Arthur Curry in the character’s solo film....
Aquaman has officially passed Wonder Woman at the worldwide box office, becoming the second highest-grossing film in the DCEU, when not accounting for inflation. This milestone comes just 12 days after Aquaman’s domestic release, and a little over a month after its release in key foreign markets. While Aquaman received only mildly positive reviews from critics when it released, audiences have embraced DC’s latest sea-faring adventure film, directed by James Wan and starring Jason Momoa....
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out today with some new predictions on how Apple can continue to reduce its reliance on China. According to Kuo, Apple is adjusting its “supply chain management strategy” in response to the ongoing “de-globalization trend.” Based on recent supply chain surveys, here’s what Kuo predicts… The changes include shifting more iPhone production to India, as well as moving more MacBook production and assembly to Thailand. While these moves will take years to complete, Kuo says the US market could be entirely supplied by assembly non-China locations within 3-5 years:...
We learned today about Apple’s satellite project: a team working on ways to establish direct two-way connections between iPhones and satellites. If that sounds like crazy science-fiction, it’s actually not. The technology to do it exists today and has been proven to work with today’s phones. You shouldn’t, however, expect to have ubiquitous access from anywhere on the planet, nor for satellite connections to replace your existing mobile data plan....
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has voted to charge Broadcom with an antitrust complaint today for “illegally monopolizing markets for semiconductor components.” Specifically, the charge is related to Broadcom chips used in set-top boxes and broadband internet devices. The FTC shared all the details about the antitrust complaint against Broadcom in a press release today: The FTC charge alleges several findings with the main one being Broadcom acting as an illegal monopoly through the sale of “three types of semiconductor components, or chips, used in devices that deliver television and broadband internet services....
Apple Car rumors may have taken a backseat to augmented reality headset ambitions over the last year, but recent reports show the ambitious project to put Apple technology on the road is alive and well. New today is news of a prominent hire at Apple: Porsche’s Vice President of Chassis Development. That’s according to Insider Deutschland, which first reported Apple poaching Dr. Manfred Harrer from the German sports car company....
As we explained in our original report on Monday, third-party applications that rely on cloud infrastructure for syncing and other tasks have faced numerous issues over the last several months. These issues oftentimes resulted in an error message reading “Service unavailable” citing that the “Request failed with HTTP Status Code 503.” Apple briefly elaborated that the errors typically occur when request-throttling kicks in for a specific user, but a bug was seemingly impacting this safeguard that resulted in a higher-than-usual number of errors....
Apple drew the line in the sand officially today. If you are a merchant who makes money selling anything in the App Store either through subscription or in-app purchases, Apple will be taking a 30% cut. And if you sell anything for use on an app, you now have to sell it for the same price or less in App. You can argue for or against this policy but Apple is going to do this starting at the end of June....
Had it not been for Justice League director Zack Snyder, Amber Heard might not have ever considered playing Mera in director James Wan’s upcoming Aquaman. Some words of encouragement helped convince Heard to take the role, despite her initial hesitation. Stuck between a battle pitting the underwater kingdom of Atlantis against the surface world above, the titular Arthur Curry/Aquaman (played by Jason Momoa) is ripe with internal and external struggles in the upcoming comic adaptation Aquaman from Warner Bros....
Animated comedy series Archer has been renewed for season 11. It was initially an espionage show, featuring its assortment of oddball characters operating a small spy agency in spite of their best efforts to undermine each other, all the while constantly bickering and sniping. As well as the character interaction, a lot of the show’s humor came from a mashup of anachronisms that made dating the setting impossible, and a number of running jokes so regular that at one point there was even a running joke about a running joke....
Gaming computers are great for video editing, as they often have processors that are powerful enough to produce high-quality video content. In addition, most gaming PCs have graphics processors, the power of which allows you to play video of any format and use various special effects that were created on a computer. Gaming PCs have enough RAM, so when editing video on a gaming PC, you don’t have to worry about how fast the processing will be because with a powerful processor, you can create high-quality video content in a few minutes....
With some high profile exceptions, it is generally accepted that Apple ships some of the most reliable high-tech products out there – at least if you believe the customer satisfaction reports. Things are far murkier for Tesla in that department, especially at its relatively early age. Last year, Consumer Reports pulled their recommendation of the Tesla Model S citing “worse-than-average” reliability issues. It became one of Tesla’s top priority over the last year and the automaker has made some significant improvements as evidenced by the declining replacement rates for major components, thanks in part to a growing reliability and test team....
In the first official statement about Apple’s decision to allow Tim Cook and other senior executives to be interviewed for Becoming Steve Jobs, company spokesman Steve Dowling said it was from a sense of responsibility to Steve’s memory. Apple had initially refused interview requests by authors Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, the company taking 18 months to change its mind, reports the NY Times … After a long period of reflection following Steve’s death, we felt a sense of responsibility to say more about the Steve we knew....
Apple announced today that it will release its third quarter earnings on July 31st. That same day, it will hold an earnings call with investors at 2PM PT/5PM ET. The date was first reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As a refresher, Apple announced its Q2 earnings on May 1st. The company reported $61.1 billion in revenue and $13.8 billion in profit earned from selling 52.2 million iPhones, 9.1 million iPads, and 4....
Apple announced on its Investor Relations page this afternoon that it will release its Q4 earnings Oct. 25. In typical fashion, Apple releases its earnings in a press release at 4:30 p.m. after the market closes and follows with an earnings call with key Apple executives at 5 p.m. This quarter’s call will be one to tune in for, as CEO Tim Cook will surely discuss iPhone 5 sales and more....
A day after the event, Apple today has uploaded its entire ‘See you on the 7th’ iPhone 7 event to YouTube. Yesterday, the company shared a handful of videos from the event on YouTube, as well as new videos focused on living a healthy lifestyle. In the description for the video, Apple invites everyone to take a look at its latest announcements: In the full keynote, which comes in at just under 2 hours in length, Apple made a variety of different announcements....
Apple is once again using its retail stores to promote Computer Science Education Week and Code.org by hosting Hour of Code computer programming workshops for kids on Thursday, December 11th. Apple describes the workshops as fun, hour-long introductions to coding: “Hour of Code is a fun one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anyone can learn the basics of programming.” Potential attendees can now register to reserve a spot at the programming basics workshop at Apple Stores in the United States and around the world, and Apple is hosting special events at several of its international stores including London, Berlin, and Tokyo next week....
