The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Epic Games and Spotify, united in their fight against Apple, each released statements on Wednesday slamming the iPhone maker following news of its new App Store fee reduction for developers making less than $1 million per year. But consumers will still pay inflated prices marked up by the Apple tax.”. Both are ongoing. “By

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Apple proceedings kicked off, and the news has been relentless. 1] Apple keeps iMessage closed in order to sell more iPhones. 3] Apple pulled out all the stops to keep Netflix selling subscriptions on the iPhone. But for a while, Apple was willing to do just about anything to keep Netflix from giving in to the obvious economics.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Apple has released public betas for the next big Apple Watch and Mac software updates. The link behavior popped up on Twitter yesterday : if you’re an Apple News Plus subscriber, clicking links to publications that are part of that subscription bundle will take you to the Apple News app instead of your browser.

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The Verge

MAY 1, 2021

Microsoft shook up the PC gaming industry this week with the announcement that it was cutting the fee it takes from game sales on the Windows store. But the cut is also a tactical move: Microsoft wants to help pressure Apple, and this week’s changes could play a role in the bigger app store battles kicking off next week.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It’s been hard to be an Apple power user for the last half-decade. And while Apple’s first wave of M1-powered computers have been excellent, they’ve all been — relatively — low-powered. And while Apple’s first wave of M1-powered computers have been excellent, they’ve all been — relatively — low-powered.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. If you’ve been listening to Decoder , you know there’s a lot of controversy about Apple’s App Store fees and the control it has over developers on its platforms.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This time last year , Apple Arcade was still a fledgling service, but one with a lot of potential. If you just picked up a new Apple device and have signed up for Arcade (a new device gets you three months free ) the sheer number of games available can be overwhelming. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Image: Amanita Design.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Microsoft President Brad Smith at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Microsoft outlined a series of principles for its development and deployment of artificial intelligence, including a pledge to partner with a “broad array” of companies and other players in the industry. Screenshot via webcast.)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

iOS 14 has a lot of iPhones looking pretty different these days — some with classy monochrome color schemes, others with pastel styles ripped right off of Pinterest, and some that look like they’re straight out of Animal Crossing or emulating Windows Mobile. There’s no reason that Apple couldn’t do more here.

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2021

Kicking off in federal court today, the closely watched battle between the makers of Fortnite and Apple will include an attorney who is well known for her role in one of the seminal antitrust fights in tech history: U.S. Apple antitrust fight focuses on Apple’s control of the App Store. (Bigstock Photo). The Epic Games v.

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Kitaboo

APRIL 26, 2024

The Top ePub Readers of 2024 KITABOO Apple Books Amazon Kindle V. The ePub format is a versatile standard for eBooks developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Assess compatibility with different operating systems, such as iOS, Android, and Windows, to guarantee a seamless reading experience.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Google recently announced that passkey support is now available for Chrome users on Windows 11, macOS, and Android. Back in May 2022, Apple, Google, and Microsoft announced plans to support a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. This is no small feat given that Microsoft wasn’t even part of FAANG , the name Jim Cramer coined in 2013 for the tech stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) driving the market and consumer mindshare. This Sunday, Feb.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 20, 2021

Microsoft is reportedly reworking its entire Store app in Windows 10, including policy changes for developers and making the UI easier to navigate. Windows Central reports the changes are a sweeping rejuvenation of the Microsoft Store, changes that will hopefully encourage Windows 10 users to use the app more often… Read more.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 5, 2011

Yesterday I completed co-presenting the three-part Ketchum webinar series on Tapping the Power of Mobile. I began by looking at the mobile operating system landscape, showing the forecasts recently made by Gartner, as below. UNCERTAINTIES: APPLE. Whether Apple releases low-end iPhone. UNCERTAINTIES: WINDOWS PHONE 7.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Apple CEO Tim Cook in front of a silicon wafer platter | Screenshot: Sean Hollister / The Verge. Earlier this week, on what Tim Cook called a “historic day,” Apple announced that it’s moving Macs away from Intel processors to its own silicon chips. Developers won’t need to make any changes to their old apps; they’ll just work.

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Galido

JUNE 30, 2016

VMI stands for Virtual Mobile Infrastructure and basically, it provides end users with a highly effective and an efficient way to have access to delicate mobile applications and information without much hassle. It creates virtual versions of mobile applications and sends them to a vast collection of devices.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

While a number of M1 components are shared with Apple’s mobile chips, the non-standard chips made it challenging to create Linux drivers to get Ubuntu running properly. Apple hasn’t designed its M1 Macs with dual-boot or Boot Camp in mind. It’s a process that has angered Apple enough to file lawsuits against Corellium.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

GeForce Now will supposedly run inside of Safari, the web browser, rather than as a standalone app, because of Apple’s restrictions on game streaming services that make it onerous to support them through the App Store. Apple so far has won a ruling that allowed it to continue blocking Fortnite.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

“The Alexa Custom Assistant addresses this challenge by allowing companies to leverage Alexa’s world-class technology stack to create their own intelligent assistant without the investment, long development cycles, and resources to build it from scratch and maintain over time.”.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Apple hit Intel hard with its first M1 chips, offering a rare step-change improvement in performance with its 2020 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. While Windows laptops had looked increasingly tempting to the Mac crowd over the past five years, Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips shift the balance , particularly in the GPU realm.

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Kitaboo

MARCH 29, 2023

The format is a technical standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPP). This includes the Google Play Books app (available for iOS and Android devices), Apple’s iBooks app (available for Mac and iOS devices), Adobe Digital Editions, Calibre, and many other reading applications. Here’s what we’ll cover.

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Kitaboo

APRIL 30, 2024

Amazon Kindle The Amazon Kindle read aloud app is free to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, allowing you to purchase and download publications directly to your device. Kindle The Kindle read aloud is another Amazon reading app available for Windows and Mac users. It instills a love of reading in the digital age.

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Vox

APRIL 12, 2023

Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty Images They stayed true through Zunes, Windows Phones, and the original Bing. In my opinion, they had better products in the past, but they never stuck because they were released too late and/or never got enough user adoption (Zune, Windows Phone).” Now Microsoft’s fans are enjoying its big AI moment.

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CTOvision

MARCH 21, 2016

Technology|Apple vs. the FBI: How the Case Could Play Out - New York Times. AMD is Willing To Make '14nm FinFET' GCN Based Mobile GPUs For The Right Customer - WCCFtech. GeekWire Deals: Get lifetime access to thousands of development courses for under $50. Katie Kennedy.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Safari 14, the version of Apple’s browser that will ship with iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur, will let you use Face ID or Touch ID to log in to websites built to support the feature. The functionality was confirmed the browser’s beta release notes , and Apple has detailed how the feature works in a WWDC video for developers.

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Vox

JULY 20, 2022

That era, in the early 2010s, was Mark Zuckerberg’s first big attempt at making Facebook much bigger than just a social network and more like a platform for developers akin to Windows. It was a formative period for the internet, when mobile phones and the app economy were just taking off.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

What if there was a fourth console, an indie success, a crowdfunding darling that took Kickstarter by storm, that could expand the world of mobile gaming to the big screen? Oh, Windows Phone. Microsoft definitely tried: it spent years reworking Windows Phone 7 (and its Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1,

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 28, 2015

For example, Apple's Siri or the capabilities they embedded directly in IOS9, or Google's many savvy search solutions or Amazon's very smart recommendations. The list is by no means comprehensive, but is definitely representative of what is available now: Artificial Intelligence On Your Phone: Siri : Part of Apple's iOS, watchOS and tvOS.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Lucovsky previously worked at Meta developing an in-house alternative to Android to power the company’s hardware, and also co-authored the Windows NT operating system. This is far from Google’s first stab at developing AR software, and follows the company’s work on ARCore for Android and Tango. This morning I became a Noogler.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Apple , and as a reward, Phil Schiller — currently an “Apple Fellow,” whatever that is, and previously the senior vice president of worldwide marketing — took the stand like a twinkly App Store St. To hear him tell it, Apple is a wonderful partner to developers, selflessly improving dev tools and responding to their needs.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The PC attack surface is much wider; therefore, criminals develop malware that works on PCs because the payout is much higher. James Plouffe, lead solutions architect at mobile-security company MobileIron, said there are, however, a couple of oft-overlooked things that also protect Macs.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

The two companies are partnering together on everything from mobile gaming bundles , to optimizing their apps and integrating their software. They even announced that you’ll soon be able to use and control multiple apps from your Samsung phone directly on your Windows 10 PC, as well as use your Samsung tablet as a secondary display.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 17, 2011

Yesterday I was interviewed on ABC TV about Google’s bid for Motorola Mobility. ROSS DAWSON : One view is that Apple has done a fantastic job of providing one package of the hardware and the software. ROSS DAWSON : One view is that Apple has done a fantastic job of providing one package of the hardware and the software.

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GeekWire

JULY 31, 2020

Microsoft will shut down Cortana on a wide range of devices, reflecting the challenge for third-party voice assistants attempting to compete with built-in programs like Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant. (Microsoft Image). The company announced Friday it will discontinue all third-party Cortana skills on Sept.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Last week I wrote that Apple seemed “astonishingly confident” in its new M1-based Macs. We can make educated guesses based on what we would expect from the current chip and Apple’s philosophy. We do know, however, that Apple is remarkably stable in its Mac product lineup. Apple news that isn’t so good. ?

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