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12 great apps for your new iPhone in 2020

The Verge

We’ve included great apps that are just generally fun or useful to have on your phone, and apps that you should download to replace the default ones that Apple ships. With iOS 14, Apple made it easier to customize the way your iPhone looks, offering new widgets and easier methods for setting custom application icons. Widgetsmith.

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Book excerpt: What makes a great startup idea? Lessons from a veteran entrepreneur

GeekWire

Before the advent of Windows, WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were the de facto market leaders on the MS-DOS operating system. However, Microsoft had very little success beating WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3. came on the scene in 1990 and started becoming popular, things shifted in Microsoft’s favor. Figuring this out is no easy task.

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CES Day 1: TCL takes its shot and Intel hunkers down

The Verge

One of the things that usually happens at CES in Las Vegas is you get a sense that one company or another is really going hard. And another company, Intel, is trying to drum up excitement for its processors even as we’re still goggle-eyed at the performance Apple achieved on its own chips. Image: TCL. You can subscribe here.

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Rainway’s Andrew Sampson on powering xCloud, challenging Google, and reimagining desktop apps

GeekWire

Back in October, Microsoft began pursuing alternative methods to bring xCloud to iOS, after Apple made it logistically impossible for it to be offered via Apple’s App Store due to restrictions on cloud gaming apps. (Andrew Sampson photo). The company remains independent despite several acquisition offers.

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Voting in Chicago - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

by Brian Katz on September 24, 2012 · 2 comments. Apple released iOS 6 on Wednesday and then released the iPhone 5 on Friday. They had over 2 million preorders for the phone and delivered a heck of a lot of those on Friday. Voting in Chicago. Last week was a pretty big week for any one who is an iPhone fan.

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The slow pace of change in distribution channels - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

At the same time, it says, WalMart is actively lobbying Hollywood studios not to allow Apple to provide these downloads. Of course Apple and Wal-Mart are hardly the only players in this market, with an array of pretenders to the online movie distribution market, notably Amazon.com. for new movies and $9.99 for back catalogue.

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Delivering Tomorrow’s Newspaper: The view from 2020 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.” “Indeed the more that life becomes globalised, digital and virtual, the more, I would argue, people will seek out products like newspapers that slow things down a little and tell us what’s important and what’s not, especially at a local level.

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