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Apple offers Office 365 as option with new iPad Pro

Buyers of Apple’s new 9.7-inch iPad Pro can opt to add a subscription to Microsoft’s Office 365 suite. Unveiled Monday at Apple’s iPhone event, the new tablet is essentially a smaller version of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro introduced last October, minus a few features. One option buyers will see, though, during the ordering process is …

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AT&T spreads Wi

AT&T subscribers with an iPhone 6 or higher can now make and receive calls via Wi-Fi outside the United States. Through text messages sent this week, the carrier informed customers of the change to its Wi-Fi calling feature introduced in October. Previously, the feature was limited to calls within the US, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Now, you can …

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Apple’s iOS 9.3 glitching some older iPads

Apple’s new version of its mobile operating system is causing headaches for some owners of older iPads. Certain older iPads are unable to install iOS 9.3 and are “bricking” at the activation stage, which means the update leaves them inoperable, according to posts on Apple’s Support Communities site, tweets on the Apple Support Twitter page and readers of the AppleInsider …

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Apple turns to smaller iPhone to win over China, India

Apple is wagering that its iPhone SE will appeal to consumers in China and India who aren’t fixated on big-screen phones. At an event Monday, Apple unveiled the iPhone SE with a 4-inch screen, an aluminum body, a 12-megapixel camera, Apple Pay and the latest version of Wi-Fi known as 802.11ac. The new phone starts at $399 with 16GB of …

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Google doodle winner explores her ‘Afrocentric life’

Google has awarded the top prize in this year’s doodle contest to a teen whose artwork conveys her “Afrocentric life.” Akilah Johnson, a 10th grader from Washington DC, beat out 100,000 contenders from the 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and her hometown. The annual Doodle 4 Google contest asks students from kindergarten through 12th grade to create art that incorporates …

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Apple Watch starting price slashed to $299

Consumers eyeing an Apple Watch will now be able to save a bit of money. At its iPhone event on Monday, Apple announced a price cut for its smartwatch, trimming the starting price to $299, from $349. That’s the first price cut for the wearable device since Apple introduced it a year ago. The price drop applies specifically to the …

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Apple’s online store closes in advance of iPhone event

Sorry, folks, the online Apple Store is closed for shopping right now. But don’t worry, it will reopen in just a little bit. The company took the Web store offline at approximately 4 a.m. PT on Monday as it prepares to update the site with new products scheduled to debut at a press event starting at 10 a.m. PT. A …

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Your Instagram feed will no longer be in chronological order

Instagram is taking a page from its parent Facebook with plans to display posts by relevance rather than in chronological order. The service, which lets you share your own photos and videos and view those of other users, currently puts the newest posts up top in your feed. But in a blog posted on Tuesday, Instagram said “your feed will …

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Now Google will help you send canned replies to Web

Google is already reading your email, so why not let it help reply too? Users of Google’s Inbox email Web service can now save time and effort responding to messages, courtesy of a feature called Smart Reply. Already available for Google’s Inbox mobile app, Smart Reply scans your email and then suggests up to three automated responses based on the …

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Dual camera for iPhone 7 Plus allegedly revealed

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 may come with three cameras 1:09 Apple’s expected iPhone 7 Plus will sport two cameras, assuming the latest series of leaked photos are legit. A batch of photos leaked on several Taiwanese websites and displayed collectively by blog site Pocketnow show six different modules allegedly to be used as a dual-camera system in this …

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