July, 2020

• 30 July

  Apple’s iPhone sales grew despite coronavirus, but iPhone 5G will launch late

  

  Apple’s iPhone sales showed resilience between April and June, despite the coronavirus pandemic’s continued spread, upending lives and disrupting business across the globe. Apple, in the midst of a strong fiscal third-quarter report, signaled its success navigating the global health emergency has its limits, and that means the new iPhone will be coming later than …

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• 30 July

  Facebook announces internet nostalgia app E.gg

  

  A weird new Facebook app is launching, and it’s based on bringing back the internet of the ’90s. E.gg is the latest creation from Facebook’s experimental app team New Product Experimentation and is aimed at “recapturing that atmosphere” of the early web. The About section of E.gg looks like an old-school Geocities web page, and even has a GIF of the …

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• 30 July

  Adobe online PDF tools tap into Google’s .new internet addresses

  

  Since 2018, Google has let you type doc.new, slide.new and sheet.new into your browser address bar to fire up a blank document for G Suite’s Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. Now there’s a new option using the same approach from Adobe: PDF.new. Adobe invented the Portable Document Format standard, which is now widely used for digital documents like …

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• 30 July

  Amazon Prime Day is coming in the fourth quarter

  

  Update, Sept. 22: Amazon has announced Prime Day will start on Oct. 13. Original story follows. Amazon has revealed a little more detail about when its Prime Day sale is happening. During an earnings call with media on Thursday, Amazon finance chief Brian Olsavsky said Prime Day will be held in the fourth quarter.  The company had previously only said …

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• 30 July

  Twitter’s app is helping stop phones from strangling the web

  

  For years, Twitter has offered both a website and mobile apps for iPhones and Android. But in 2017, it decided to marry the two approaches. The result is one of the highest-profile examples of what’s called a progressive web app, a technology that could rejuvenate the web and challenge the power of app stores. The web got its start as …

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• 30 July

  How to upgrade your TV and home entertainment on a budget while stuck at home from coronavirus

  

  After six months of pandemic and stay-at-home orders, that old TV might start looking too small to you. Or maybe it can’t run the latest streaming apps. Or maybe it’s perfectly fine, but the sound from its puny speakers just doesn’t cut it anymore. You’re not alone. At CNET we’ve seen more interest than ever in home entertainment devices and …

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• 30 July

  Keep cool with this handheld rechargeable fan for $9.39

  

  If that headline sounds familiar, it’s because I wrote about something similar a few weeks back. It was priced at $10.19 and sold out quickly. Thankfully, there’s a nearly identical (and slightly better) version available now for even less, and the vendor tells me they have a big chunk of inventory. For a limited time, and while supplies last, the …

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• 30 July

  The 9 best TV series you can watch free on Peacock and other services

  

  We need “comfort TV” now more than ever. But at what price? Thankfully, if you have an internet connection fast enough for streaming, that price is zero. With the arrival of NBC’s Peacock service, there’s more great free TV to watch than ever. Below I’ve rounded up nine utterly fantastic series you can watch from start to finish, no charge. …

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• 30 July

  Apple confirms new iPhone will be delayed ‘a few weeks’ from typical September launch

  

  Get ready to wait a little longer for Apple’s next iPhone. The tech giant warned investors Thursday that supplies of a potential new iPhone will be delayed, likely because of the coronavirus pandemic. “As you know, last year we started selling iPhones in late September. This year, we project supply to be available a few weeks later,” said Luca Maestri, …

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• 30 July

  CBS All Access widens library of shows and revamps interface

  

  Streaming service CBS All Access on Thursday said it revamped its user interface, and it announced a widely expanded library to include shows from networks like BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Smithsonian Channel and movies from Paramount, as well as some new originals planned for release soon. The addition of about 3,500 episodes increases CBS All Access’ catalog to about 20,000 episodes and movies, which …

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