Sunday, 31 July 2016

Apple begins wrapping up Swift 3 and lays out plans for Swift 4

The final version of Swift 3.0 will be released alongside iOS 10 and macOS Sierra in the fall, but the fact that Apple develops Swift out in the open now means that we know more about its progress than we do about Apple's operating systems. Chris ...
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10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Apple Photos Master

Apple's slow evolution of its Photos app—Camera Roll, iCloud library and all—has been a little confusing for users at times, but with iOS 10 and macOS Sierra now on the horizon, it's finally settling down into a coherent, reliable service.


Google Docs add-ons make the jump from desktop to Android

If you're an avid Google Docs user, chances are you're familiar with add-ons. They're third-party extensions that can help you, say, affix your John Hancock to an electronic document, or produce shareable PDFs from scans of objects.


With ChakraCore on Linux, Microsoft doesn't discriminate

With this move, Microsoft is putting one of its core technologies on a competing platform. This, more than any other Linux-friendly move the company has made, is a clear departure from the Microsoft of Gates and Ballmer that used its technologies to ...


Broods used the Microsoft Band to create music-video magic

Microsoft is no stranger to collaborating with musicians to show off creative uses for its technology. With the Music x Technology project, the company has work...


Review: Standzout's Helix Dock for Apple Watch is Compact and Convenient

Helix While I have long used the Twelve South Forté on my bedside table to dock my Apple Watch each night, I lacked a convenient alternative for on the go until last week.


Microsoft Chopping Another 2850 Jobs; Productivity Is Up, Says UBS

The re-alignment of Microsoft (MSFT) continues, as the company disclosed in a 10-K filing last night that it plans to cut nearly 3,000 people on top of a previously announced cut of almost 2,000 positions, this as it takes on thousands more with its ...
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Apple asks Supreme Court to rule on Samsung patent damages

In 2012, a jury trial awarded Apple $1 billion in damages, finding that Samsung had infringed on six different patents. The award dropped to $548 million when an appeals court in 2015 vacated the jury's award for Samsung infringing on Apple's design ...


Saturday, 30 July 2016

Apple's hurting its own TV service plans (Apple Byte Extra Crunchy, Ep

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Apple Soars Most in 18 Months as Cheaper IPhone SE Catches on

Apple Inc.'s lower-cost iPhone SE is gaining more traction than expected with users, tempering a sales decline and soothing investors' concerns about growth.


Apple's Hard-Charging Tactics Hurt TV Expansion - WSJ

Apple's hard-charging tactics backfire as Apple TV struggles, hurting efforts to battle Netflix, Amazon and Roku and overcome iPhone slowdown.
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Microsoft thinks it can do a better iPhone camera app than Apple

It has already brought over Office and subsumed well-regarded email app Acompli and calendar app Sunrise into a revamped Outlook for iPhone.


Microsoft has found the source of recent Surface Pro 3 battery woes

There's some good news for Surface Pro 3 owners who have been plagued by battery issues. Microsoft has apparently figured out what's causing the hybrids to run through their charge so quickly, and is currently working on a fix.


Cramer solves the great Apple mystery: How it faked out everyone ...

When the stock of the biggest company on earth, Apple, rallied more than 6 percent on Wednesday - it was clear to Jim Cramer that analysts got it wrong.


Schneider Electric does IoT on Microsoft Azure

Schneider has been working closely with Microsoft and its Azure in this transformation effort. In fact, Schneider's work with Microsoft was featured prominently at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, held the week before last, in Toronto. Having ...


Friday, 29 July 2016

Apple, IBM and the digital transformation of everything

IBM and Amica, the oldest US mutual automobile insurer, are this morning announcing a new Apple + IBM plan in which iPads and iPhones will be used to handle insurance claims.


Microsoft investigating significant Surface Pro 3 battery issues

Microsoft is investigating widespread reports of battery issues with its line of Surface Pro 3 devices. Reports of Surface Pro 3 battery drain originated back in May, and some users are now reporting that their devices only last up to an hour after a ...
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Microsoft Highlights Coming Yammer Integrations and IT Controls

Future Yammer development by Microsoft seems to be a question for everyone except for Microsoft itself and its development teams.


Microsoft Translator发布粤语文本翻译

7月21日,Microsoft Translator发布了粤语的文本翻译,新的语言增加将继续丰富微软翻译产品的生态系统*,让更多组织和个人能够快速且高效地实现翻译应用。在中国,大有约5500万人使用粤语(语言 ...
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What I Learned From 10 Years of Doing PR for Apple

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Steve Jobs had just returned to the company and the product line was a shamble of computers with confusing names, printers, scanners, and a curious ...
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US stocks edge mostly lower despite a big gain for Apple

Stocks ended Wednesday's trading slightly lower as shares of energy companies and consumer goods makers outweighed gains in technology companies like Apple. Investors also worked through the Federal Reserve's latest policy statement. The Fed didn't ...


Thursday, 28 July 2016

Microsoft workers using a 'hackathon' to help those in need

Enter nearly 14,000 Microsoft employees worldwide who are using this week to provide their expertise in 72 countries to create products that non-profits and special causes most likely could never afford ...


A New Microsoft Tool Aims to Help iOS Developers Port Their Apps to UWP

Shortly, Microsoft App Analysis tool will be able to identify all frameworks an app uses, both from Apple and third parties.
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Apple Buys 'Carpool Karaoke' in Original Content Push

Apple has bought the rights to the popular TV series “Carpool Karaoke,” as the technology giant looks to add more original and exclusive content to its music, TV and movie services.


Google wants to improve artificial intelligence to prevent robot screw-ups

More and more artificial intelligence will soon enter our lives. And Google would very much like its AI systems to be front and center.


Google will aid 999 calls by dropping in your location

GOOGLE IS going to insert itself into the emergency services and provide the location of panicked callers to the 999 line. You might wonder why and how, but don't worry, people, as nanny will explain it all.


Google expanded text ads are live, and device bidding & responsive ads for native roll out

The day has come: Google has officially launched expanded text ads. The extra-long ads with double headlines began rolling out across devices Tuesday morning.
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Wednesday, 27 July 2016

Microsoft Corporation: Time to Position for a MSFT Breakout

Following a well-received earnings report, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock is set to get reacquainted with the good old days, but in a new and improved sort of way.


Some last-minute thoughts about Apple's earnings

In about an hour, Apple will announce its quarterly earnings. So you'll soon be able to read all about it on TechCrunch as we have a team ready to look at all these numbers and find out if they're moving up or down.


Here's my plan to quickly make 317% on Apple: Trader

Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com starts by pointing out that the tech giant is expected to rise or fall just $3.50 on earnings. Yet Apple moved more than the options market expected in the past two earnings events. For instance, when its April ...


Apple 1 'Celebration' model heads to charity auction, expected to reach $1M

Apple fans and historians take notice, starting this week an incredibly rare Apple 1 model computer is being auctioned for charity, where it is expected to sell for up to $1 million.


Rumor: Apple's 'iPhone 6SE' will be available on September 16 (Apple Byte Extra Crunchy, Ep

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Google's Omnitone surround sound project brings us closer to web-based VR

As has been the case with so many industries, the pendulum of VR will eventually swing back from dedicated apps toward web-based systems - and when that happens, Google will be ready. It published details of a new method for delivering serious ...
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Apple Taps Bob Mansfield to Oversee Car Project

Mr. Mansfield, who joined Apple in 1999 and was one of its top executives under former Chief Executive Steve Jobs, had been an adviser at the company since leaving Apple's executive team in 2013. At the time, Apple said Mr. Mansfield was going to ...
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Google celebrates the Chromecast's third birthday

Has it already been three years since the original Chromecast came out? My, how the time flies when you're streaming video. Google marked the occasion on the Google Store's Plus page with the nifty animation below, but there aren't any promotional deals.
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Google's Phone app now shows a warning about spam callers and makes it easy to block and report them [APK ...

The APK is signed by Google and upgrades your existing app. The cryptographic signature guarantees that the file is safe to install and was not tampered with in any way.


Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Apple's June quarter predicted to be 'neutral event' for stock price, 'good enough' for investors

Previewing Apple's June quarter results, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray told investors that low expectations will likely make the company's Tuesday earnings call a "largely neutral event.


11年前开发了Google Earth 这个人如今又缔造了Pokémon Go神话

2005年,Google Earth上线,人们首次得以从空中鸟瞰自己的房屋,对这种新奇概念的尝试导致谷歌服务器一度崩溃。 11年后,任天堂旗下Pokémon Go在北美地区上线的头三天,游戏服务器便崩溃三次, ...


Apple's Touch ID blocks feds—armed with warrant—from unlocking iPhone

Ever since 2013, when Apple popularized this form of unlocking technology, legal experts have predicted that these types of government demands would slowly become more common.


Google Daydream VR: 'Daydream-ready' phones and compatible devices

Google's Daydream VR platform is probably a little confusing to you right now, especially when it comes to which devices will support it.
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小i机器人硅谷拜访美国科技企业受Google、Nuance等热情接待

刚刚参加完国际人工智能联合会议(IJCAI)的小i机器人董事长袁辉、总裁朱频频博士一行,受邀来到美国高科技企业云集的硅谷,对Nuance、Google、Infosys等科技创新企业进行拜访,受到了这些企业的热情 ...


Monday, 25 July 2016

Google introduces Bubble Zoom preview for an easier comic book reading experience in Play Books [APK Download]

Do you read comic books from the Play Store? if not, you might want to start. Google just announced a great new feature at San Diego Comic-Con 2016 that changes the experience of reading comic books.


Apple hyping this week's opening of first-ever Brooklyn retail store

Get the Lowest Prices anywhere on Macs, iPads and Apple Watches: Apple Price Guides updated July 19th · AppleInsider · Home · Reviews · Deals · Price Guides · New Macs · New Macs with AppleCare · iPads · Closeouts & Refurbs · Certified Used iPhones ...


Google开始销售商业AI驱动的语言分析服务

在云计算市场Google已经落后于微软和亚马逊等竞争对手。然而,公司不仅仅只是依靠云计算能力来赢得观众,也希望加大人工智能在其中的筹码。今年早些时候,Google宣布已经尝试为消费者提供基于云端 ...


Microsoft and SAP Expand Partnership in the Cloud

Microsoft and SAP recently announced, at SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW conference, an expanded partnership. This expanded partnership includes deeper SAP platform support in Azure including SAP HANA Enterprise workloads.
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Geek on the Street: What is the name of Microsoft's search engine?

Seven years later, with the news this week that Microsoft's Bing search engine is making new progress against Google in the search market, we decided to repeat the experiment, taking to the streets and asking the same question: What is the name of ...


West Des Moines' data center will be Microsoft's 'largest' in US

Microsoft is set to build its largest data center in the U.S. in West Des Moines, spending $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion on a complex that will be larger than Jordan Creek Town Center.


S&P At Highs Before Critical Earnings Week: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Report, What's Next?

Stocks finished the week with the S&P 500 closing at a new all-time high. Is the market prepared for next week's gargantuan earnings revelation?


Sunday, 24 July 2016

A hedge fund founder is betting on Apple becoming the first $1 trillion company

Michael Lee, Hypotenuse Capital Management, LLC: Buying stocks just because they are statistically cheap is superficial and what really got me to commit capital was the quality of Apple's business and executive leadership. We're all familiar with ...


Apple to report fiscal Q3 numbers July 26

Tech titan Apple ( AAPL ) will report its fiscal third-quarter numbers after the market close on July 26. The company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $1.39 per share, down from $1.85 during the same period last year.
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Investing Action Plan: Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Big Oil

More tech giants -- Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOGL) -- report earnings, as do the biggest names in oil, such as Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX), along with fast-food leader McDonald's (MCD) and aerospace giant ...


Microsoft stock jumps as its cloud product's sales double

Analysts expected Microsoft to report earnings of 58 cents per share on revenue of $22.15 billion, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate.


Microsoft surveys job seekers, partners up to help you find your dream job

Do you love your job? If not, Microsoft wants to help you find a job you do love by using its products. The OS and productivity software mega force partnered with digital print and design company Moo and sponsored career expert Maxie McCoy to give ...


Apple Watch Sales Fall 55% in Second Quarter, IDC Report Says

Apple Watch sales fell 55 percent in the second quarter of 2016, dragging the global market for such devices lower, as potential customers hold off for an update coming later this year, according to a report from market intelligence firm IDC.


渣打信用卡客户用Apple Pay付款可享25%现金回赠

《经济通通讯社20日专讯》渣打香港表示,正式推出ApplePay,今日至今年8月31日期间,凭合资格渣打信用卡透过Apple Pay完成任何零售购物或App内之交易,即享25%现金回赠。是次优惠每位信用卡持卡 ...
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Be Safe: Update Your iPhone, iPad and Other Apple Devices Now

“This vulnerability is especially concerning as it can be triggered in any application that makes use of the Apple ImageIO API when rendering tiled TIFF images,” said Tyler Bohan, a Talos researcher, in a blog post.
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Microsoft adds Pokémon detector to OneDrive to locate monster screenshots

Microsoft is making a number of changes to OneDrive today, but the feature that stands out is a new Pokémon detector. OneDrive has been sorting pictures into tags by detecting if photos are of food, buildings, animals, drink, and many more.
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Saturday, 23 July 2016

Why Alphabet's Nest doesn't (and probably won't ever) support Apple's HomeKit

After his time with as a contractor, Fadell was hired to run the iPod and Special Projects group inside Apple in April 2001.
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有iOS 使用者回报Apple ID 被锁

各位有志尝鲜试用iOS 10 beta 的朋友,如果你同时有着两步验证功能的需要,或许你要停一停、想一想。因为有不少的使用者都回报指他们的Apple ID 在进行两步验证的时候出现问题,在部分iOS 版本上,输入 ...
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Canalys:预计2016年Apple Watch出货量将达750万只

现在市面上的智能手表越来越多了,苹果会感到压力吗?这个问题的答案自然是肯定的。不过,随着智能手表市场规模越来越大,也证明苹果的机会也越来越多。更何况,目前的智能手表产业基本上都是由Apple ...


Google Messenger v1.9 is installable on Android 7.0 developer previews and restores Wear support [APK Download]

This happens because the stock apps included with the developer previews are missing the the micro-apks for Wear. As the official release of Android 7.0 draws near, Google has been slowly releasing app updates that can install over the stock versions ...
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Microsoft to support Stack Overflow Documentation for Microsoft developers

Microsoft today announced partnership with Stack Overflow to support Stack Overflow Documentation for Microsoft developers.


Microsoft Surface Pro 4 now available at limited period discount

Microsoft is now offering a limited period discount on Surface Pro 4 in collaboration with Amazon India and Reglobe. As part of the offer, the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 powered by Intel Core M processor will be available for Rs 58,890 in exchange of ...


France orders Microsoft to stop tracking Windows 10 users

France's data protection commission has ordered Microsoft to "stop collecting excessive user data" and to stop tracking the web browsing of Windows 10 users without their consent.
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Friday, 22 July 2016

Google's new Bubble Zoom feature will make reading comics on your phone easier

San Diego Comic-Con is officially in full swing, and Google is getting in on the action with a new feature meant for comics fans.
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Google's secretive and deep-pocketed foe heavily funded by Gates, Hewlett foundations

For the second time in three months, the shadowy Campaign for Accountability has attacked Google. First, at the end of April, the group launched “The Google Transparency Project” with a report on the revolving door between Google and the federal ...


Microsoft beats Wall Street expectations on strength of cloud business

Stripping out accounting moves and one-time charges that reduced Microsoft's net income, the company earned 69 cents a share, up from 62 cents a share a year earlier.


Cramer: Risks of owning Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft in an ...

As stock valuations rise each day, Jim Cramer says investors need to figure out what they can handle in the market. He compared Amazon, Facebook and ...


微软继续大刀阔斧裁员解散出版社编辑团队

据悉,微软出版社(Microsoft Press)部门成立于1984年,其一直负责出版关于微软技术和软件内容的书籍,目前内容包括Windows 10、 Windows Server、 Office 365等其他应用的开发和部署。 其出版的书籍 ...
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Google uses DeepMind AI to cut data center energy bills

Well, Google has a different solution to this problem: putting its DeepMind artificial intelligence unit in charge and using AI to manage power usage in parts of its data centers.


Microsoft debuts Bookings, a new Office 365 service for online ...

Microsoft this morning announced an expansion to its Office 365 suite with the debut of a new service called Bookings, which will allow customers to schedule..


Google tests ads that load faster and use less power

Google says it has found a way to make adverts load faster on web pages viewed on smartphones and tablets. The company said the ads would also be less taxing on the handsets' processors, meaning their batteries should last longer.


Thursday, 21 July 2016

How These Artists Used Google Spreadsheet for Beauty Not Drudgery

Marina and Mallory connected a handful of times on Google Hangouts to plan and sketch out ideas, and creatively “hack” Sheets in order to make art: resizing cells into thousands of pixel-like squares, merging cells to create color blocks, creating ...


Google's deleted an artist's blog, along with 14 years of his work

In a stark reminder that the internet isn't forever, artist Dennis Cooper has reported that Google has deleted his entire blog without warning - completely erasing 14 years of work in the process.


MICROSOFT PROFIT, SALES UNEXPECTEDLY RISE

Microsoft earned 69 cents a share on sales of $22.6 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected Microsoft to earn 58 cents a share on sales of $22.15 billion. On a year-over-year basis, earnings per share rose 11 ...