Apple’s App Store had a record-breaking holiday season, the company said Wednesday, with customers spending more than $1.8 billion on digital goods and services in the last week of 2020. On New Year’s Day alone, people spent $540 million, a single-day record. Apple said the spending between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve was largely …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s latest Mac operating system, MacOS Big Sur, is now available for download on all compatible Apple devices. Big Sur — first announced at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June — includes major updates to the Safari web browser, and refreshed Maps and …
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A new investor note from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts two new MacBook Pros will launch in 2021, followed by the release of a more affordable MacBook Air in 2022, 9to5Mac reported Wednesday. The devices are all predicted to use new mini-LED panels, a burnout-resistant improvement to Apple’s LCD screen-lighting technology. The analysis also predicts “two or three” new chargers …
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A prolonged outage of Amazon Web Services — a core component for a vast number of sites and apps — brought part of the internet to a halt Wednesday, as reported earlier by The Verge. The affected sites include not only major players on the web like Flickr, Adobe Spark and Roku, but at least three news outlets. The Tampa …
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Hoping for a $2.3 billion bump in the last quarter of 2020, IBM will cut 10,000 jobs in Europe before selling off most of its legacy IT services business in the region, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. UK and German jobs are expected to bear the brunt of the cuts in the division, which manages daily support functions for client data centers …
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After acquiring the Houseparty app earlier this year, Fortnite developer Epic Games is bringing in-game video chat to the popular battle royale game. The new feature, called Houseparty in Fortnite, is available for players on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC, and also requires people to have Houseparty installed on an iOS or Android device. “With accounts linked, fire up Fortnite …
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T-Mobile has nearly doubled its midband 5G coverage area, and plans to offer 5G coverage to 100 million people by end of the year, the company said Wednesday. Following the expansion, T-Mobile midband 5G now reaches nearly 410 cities and towns across the country. The mobile carrier said areas with midband 2.5-gigahertz 5G are currently averaging downloads speeds of around …
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Verizon Communications, the largest wireless carrier in the US, said Monday that it’s buying Kentucky rural wireless operator Bluegrass Cellular. The move is the latest in Verizon’s strategy to expand its rural coverage areas. The deal comes just a month after Verizon announced plans to buy mobile carrier Tracfone in a deal worth up to nearly $7 billion in cash …
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Whether you’re using a free or paid Zoom account, you’ll now be able to get your first look at the videoconferencing giant’s new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature as the company rolls out the first phase of a four-step security plan. The E2EE feature is available as a technical preview both for those who join and those who host sessions with …
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Apple‘s latest wearable operating system WatchOS 7 has arrived on the Apple Watch ($349 at eBay), following an announcement at the tech giant’s annual event in September. Also announced at Apple’s “Time Flies” event were two new smartwatch models, the Apple Watch Series 6 and the more affordable Apple Watch SE. Originally revealed during its WWDC keynote earlier this summer, the WatchOS 7 update has been available …
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