Apple may be behind what fans of ‘The Office’ believed to be a spin-off revival
Apple: App Store customers spent record $300M on New Year’s Day, over $890M Christmas week
Apple today announced a record-breaking holiday shopping season for the App Store. In a press release, the company said that customers spent over $890 million during the seven-day period beginning on Christmas Eve…
Intel provides update on Spectre and Meltdown flaw patches as Apple stays quiet
Intel has shared an update today on its efforts to patch the major CPU vulnerabilities that came to light earlier this week.
Apple joins consortium to help with more efficient video compression tech called AV1
Apple has joined the Alliance for Open Media, a technology consortium that is working on a new industry standard, high-efficiency video codec called AV1.
The group includes Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Hulu, Intel, and many others. Apple was quietly added to the website’s homepage today, and is even considered a founding member (via CNET). Here’s how the consortium describes its goal:
Spotify hits 70 million paid subscriber milestone as it pursues public offering
Busy week for Spotify news. Just yesterday it was reported that the music streaming company privately filed plans to go public, and now Spotify has announced that it has hit 70 million total subscribers. For comparison, Apple Music which launched years later but has Apple’s backing last disclosed 30 million customers.
Analysts suggest CPU security flaw won’t create long-term economic hit for Intel
After the CPU security issue that was revealed to affect Intel, AMD, and ARM processors this week, it might sound logical for the companies involved to take a financial hit. However, Barclays analysts think Intel shares won’t see any downturn.
Swap-apocalypse: Upcoming iOS update will swarm Apple Stores with iPhone battery replacements
Apple Stores always seem to be packed to the gills with customers waiting for tech support at the Genius Bar, and that’s doubly true now with Apple’s discounted battery replacement program for iPhones throttled by aging batteries. A promised update to iOS coming in the future will certainly increase the number of users who are aware of the need to replace batteries even more, so now is the best time to take advantage of the replacement discount.
Report: Smart speakers like HomePod will be ‘fastest-growing’ tech of 2018
A new report from Canalys today shares its prediction that smart speakers are on track for record growth and will be the hottest consumer tech items of 2018. Canalys believes that consumers will buy 56.3 million smart speakers in 2018, just shy of doubling from 2017 sales.
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Apple sues French activist group ‘Attac’ for €3,000, wants to block protests in retail stores
While Apple has been hit with a number of lawsuits recently, the company has now filed one of its own against a French activist group over an episode that occurred in an Apple Store in France.