AppleMagazine
SEARCH: APPLE COULD RIVAL GOOGLE WITH NEW INDEXING SERVICE
As antitrust battles continue to dominate Silicon Valley, Apple is using its initiative, planning for a future where multibillion-dollar tie-ups aren’t acceptable.
7 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
NETFLIX RAISING US STREAMING PRICES AMID BOOMING GROWTH
Netflix is raising most of its U.S. prices by 8% to 13% as its video streaming service rides a wave of rising popularity spurred by government-imposed lockdowns that corralled people at home during the fight against the pandemic.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
JETBLUE IS THE LATEST AIRLINE TO RETREAT FROM BLOCKING SEATS
The days of airlines blocking seats to make passengers feel safer about flying during the pandemic are coming closer to an end.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
CALIFORNIANS CONSIDER EXPANDING LANDMARK DATA PRIVACY LAW
Two years ago, California became the first state to pass a sweeping digital privacy law seen as the strongest of its kind in the United States. Voters are now deciding whether to refine and expand that law, or leave it as is.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
AIRBNB SETS UP ENDOWMENT, COUNCIL FOR HOSTS AHEAD OF IPO
Airbnb is setting up an endowment fund to support its 4 million hosts as part of its upcoming initial public offering.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #471
Techlife News
Alibaba Revenue Up 30% as Virus Drives Demand for E-Commerce
China’s biggest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding on Thursday reported a 30% jump in quarterly revenue, as China recovers from the virus and online shopping demand remains high.
2 min |
November 07, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
An Epic Phone-a-Thon
India’s smartphone shoppers will be spoiled for choice this festive season
4 min |
November 09, 2020
Techlife News
CLOUD GROWTH HELPS MICROSOFT BEAT WALL STREET EXPECTATIONS
Microsoft reported quarterly earnings this week that beat Wall Street expectations, as it continued to weather the coronavirus pandemic amid increased demand for its flagship software and services.
1 min |
Techlife News #470
Techlife News
SONY'S PROFITS RISE AS PANDEMIC HAS PEOPLE PLAYING GAMES
Profit at Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. more than doubled in the last quarter on healthy gains in its video game sector, as people stayed home during the pandemic, the company said this week.
1 min |
Techlife News #470
Techlife News
CHINA'S LEADERS VOW TO BECOME SELF-RELIANT TECHNOLOGY POWER
China’s leaders are vowing to make their country a self-reliant “technology power” as a feud with Washington cuts access to U.S. computer chips and other high-tech components, hampering Beijing’s industrial ambitions.
4 min |
Techlife News #470
Sound & Vision
Quantum Leap
HISENSE 65H8G QUANTUM LCD ULTRA HDTV
10+ min |
October - November 2020
Techlife News
NOKIA PROFIT UP, NEW CEO PLEDGES TO BOOST 5G INVESTMENTS
Finnish telecommunications company Nokia on Thursday reported improved third-quarter earnings largely in line with expectations but acknowledged it faced challenges in the race for 5G cellular networks.
2 min |
Techlife News #470
Sound & Vision
The A/V Strato-Sphere
KALEIDESCAPE STRATO S MOVIE PLAYER
9 min |
October - November 2020
Techlife News
ITALIAN REGULATOR INVESTIGATES GOOGLE OVER DIGITAL ADS
Italian regulators opened an investigation this week into Google over alleged abuse of its dominant role in the country’s online ad market, adding to the global scrutiny that the Silicon Valley company is facing.
1 min |
Techlife News #470
Sound & Vision
OLED Remastered
The XBR-65A8H rests on legs positioned 40 inches apart for a tabletop setup, allowing it to sit securely on any solid piece of furniture you might reasonably choose for a 65-inch diagonal (57-inch wide) television.
10+ min |
October - November 2020
Techlife News
HUAWEI SALES UP, BUT GROWTH SLOWS UNDER VIRUS, US PRESSURE
Chinese tech giant Huawei, one of the biggest makers of smartphones and switching equipment, said its revenue rose 9.9% in the first nine months of this year, but growth decelerated in the face of U.S. sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic.
2 min |
Techlife News #470
Sound & Vision
Instant Theater
VAVA VA-LT002 4K LASER DLP PROJECTOR
10 min |
October - November 2020
Techlife News
MOON HOLDS MORE WATER IN MORE PLACES THAN EVER THOUGHT
NASA’s astrophysics director Paul Hertz said it’s too soon to know whether this water — found in and around the southern hemisphere’s sunlit Clavius Crater — would be accessible.
3 min |
Techlife News #470
Techlife News
NEW PROGRAM ALLOWS SOLDIERS TO INNOVATE FROM THE BOTTOM UP
In combat, U.S. Army Maj. Evan Adams is a tank officer responsible for leading intricate cavalry and reconnaissance operations.
2 min |
Techlife News #470
Techlife News
CHINESE FINTECH COULD SHATTER RECORDS WITH $35B SHARE OFFER
The world’s largest fintech company, China’s Ant Group, will try to raise nearly $35 billion in a massive public offering of stock that would shatter records.
2 min |
Techlife News #470
Techlife News
AS WORLD GOES ONLINE IN PANDEMIC, ANOTHER MAMMOTH CHIP DEAL
Advanced Micro Devices is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chipmakers and accelerate an already rapid-fire pace of mergers and buyouts in the industry.
1 min |
Techlife News #470
AppleMagazine
VIDEO APP TIKTOK LEANS INTO E-COMMERCE WITH SHOPIFY DEAL
The popular short-form video app TikTok, still under U.S. government scrutiny for its Chinese ownership, is moving closer to becoming a marketplace for buying stuff.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
T-MOBILE OFFERS UP YET ANOTHER TV STREAMING SERVICE
Yet another service provider is jumping into the TV streaming wars. This time it’s T-Mobile and its TVision service with live news, entertainment and sports channels, starting at $10 a month.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
STRESSED FRESHMEN MISSING QUINTESSENTIAL COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
It’s a major life milestone, the first time many U.S. teens have ever been on their own. Even in normal times, freshman year in college can be a jumbled mix of anticipation, uncertainty and emotional highs and lows.
6 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
SOME BALLOT REQUESTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY COUNTY CYBER ATTACK
A hacker attack against an upstate New York county’s computer system raised concern that some emailed absentee ballot applications may not be processed, but the state Board of Elections said voting won’t be affected overall.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
MUSIC TV: TAKING SHOTS AT MTV WITH NEW DIGITAL TV STATION
In an unexpected move, Apple announced in late October that it would launch Apple Music TV, a new 24-hour curated live stream of chart-topping music videos, designed to encourage more consumers to subscribe to its Apple TV+ streaming service.
6 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
SOCIAL MEDIA CEOS GET EARFUL ON BIAS, WARNING OF NEW LIMITS
With next week’s election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were scolded by Republicans at a Senate hearing for alleged anticonservative bias in the companies’ social media platforms and received a warning of coming restrictions from Congress.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
MEDIA ELECTION PLANNERS PREPARE FOR A NIGHT OF MYSTERY
This coming weekend, CNN’s Sam Feist will distribute to his staff copies of the testimony news executives gave to Congress when they tried to explain how television networks got 2000’s disputed election so spectacularly wrong.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
HALLOWEEN IN 2020: SOME FUN WITH DEATH AND FEAR, ANYONE?
The setting: a rolling patch of Pennsylvania farmland, about 15 miles from the little town where “Night of the Living Dead” was filmed. The moment: Halloween season 2020, a moonlit Friday night.
7 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
BORAT IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE FITS RIGHT IN
Since Sacha Baron Cohen first appeared as his Kazakh journalist on “Da Ali G Show,” Borat Sagdiyev has been remarkably consistent. The accent is the same. The gray suit is still rumpled. “Nahce” and “Mah Wahfe” regularly exude from him with a mangled melody. Borat hasn’t changed in the last 20 years. But America has.
2 min |