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PayPal now an integrated payment option on Apple devices

iTunes has added PayPal.  Starting Wednesday, PayPal is a payment option for iTunes customers in 12 countries: the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain, the US, UK, according to a PayPal blog post.  The advantage of using PayPal is that you don’t have to give your credit card …

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Aussies can now use PayPal in iTunes and the App Store

You want Minecraft on your phone, but don’t want to use your credit card to pay for it? Apple and PayPal hear you.  From today, Australians can use PayPal to purchase from Apple‘s digital stores — iTunes, iBooks, Apple Music, the App Store, Apple TV — on both iOS and desktops.  To set it up, sign in to your PayPal account through your Apple …

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Apple TVOS 11 is now available through Apple’s public beta program

Now playing: Watch this: WWDC 2017 recap and reactions (Apple Byte Extra Crunchy,… 0:44 For the first time Apple TV owners have a chance to test an upcoming software update before it’s done. Alongside releasing the iOS 11 public beta, Apple published TVOS 11 as part of the same beta program. Installing the unreleased, and sometimes buggy, software update only …

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iOS 11 public beta: What it does for the iPhone

Now playing: Watch this: The best parts of iOS 11 on iPhone 2:33 The iPhone 8 could end up being an amazing, transformative 10th-anniversary iPhone. At first glance, iOS 11 doesn’t seem quite so ambitious. It’s more of a series of targeted upgrades, with some of them being downright fantastic.  Apple‘s newest version of its operating system for iPhones and …

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Use this trick to watch Google Play movies on your Apple TV

Apple TV owners had cause to celebrate last month when Apple announced the totally unexpected arrival of an Amazon Prime Video app. Can a Google Play app be far behind? It seems pretty unlikely, but never say never. Fortunately, there’s already a way to watch your Google purchases on your Apple TV. You don’t need to jailbreak anything, nor even …

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DirecTV Now offering free Roku Premiere to new subscribers

In the past, AT&T, which owns DirecTV, has offered incentives to get people to subscribe to its DirectTV Now streaming video service. There’s been the free Apple TV and free-year-of-HBO offers. Now it’s hoping to entice new customers with a free 4K-capable Roku Premiere media streaming box, a $70 value. Like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue, DirecTV Now offers a slate …

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Sling DVR adds Fox channels, new features

Sling has announced that users are now able to record Fox programs on its cloud-based DVR service including Fox Local, Fox Sports 1, Nat Geo and FX.  The company says that If the recording is available from Fox on demand, users will directed to the on-demand content instead. In addition users are now able to “protect” recordings from being deleted, organize …

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New Google hire points to custom chips in next Pixel

Could Google build its own chips for future versions of its flagship Pixel phone? That’s the implication behind a key new hire for the search giant — an engineer named Manu Gulati who worked at Apple to reportedly build custom chips for the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, according to a report Tuesday by Variety.   Google declined to comment, …

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NBA Finals cord

I’m not a Warriors fan, but I like Cleveland even less. And I always enjoy watching the kind of exciting, team-oriented basketball Golden State employed when it summarily dismantled the Cavaliers last night to claim the NBA title.  And even though I watched most of the game via live TV streaming over the internet, it was still awesome. Read more …

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Amazon Video app coming to Apple TV later this year

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. After years without an official Amazon Video app, Apple TV is finally jumping into the river.  Apple Monday confirmed rumors that an official app for the popular Amazon Video service will be available later this year on its fourth-generation $150 Apple TV streaming and gaming box, which …

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