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Vudu App for Apple TV Shown

by Bob Raikes

Vudu has released in a blog post some screen shots of its AppleTV app that is due to launch in the autumn. Vudu already has content (which is free, with ads) that is in …

According to Forbes, Apple is the most valuable brand followed by Google and Microsoft. This helps to understand how a downgrade of Apple’s stock by Mizuho Securities’ Abhey Lamba caused a massive shift in …

Tags:Apple| Investment| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Apple Adopts HEVC Across the Range

by Bob Raikes

Apple said at its developer’s conference that it would update the tvOS used on the Apple TV and will include new features including support for the HEVC codec, on Apple TVs from version 4. …

Tags:Apple| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

… and iMacs and MacBooks

by Bob Raikes

Apple has updated the processors on the iMac and MacBook and added Thunderbolt 3, and added a Retina 4K display to the 21.5″ iMac. Displays are boosted in brightness to 500 cd/m² The iMac …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Apple| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Samsung Starting Apple Flex OLED Production

by Bob Raikes

ETNews of Korea said that Samsung will start mass production of flexible displays from this month, as the company has approved samples from Samsung. The site also said that although a flexible display is …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Foxconn Adds Apple and Amazon to Toshiba Bid

by Bob Raikes

Terry Gou of Foxconn has told the Nikkei that Apple and Amazon are participating in the bid that Foxconn is making to try to acquire the Toshiba semiconductor business as the Japanese company tries …

Apple Updates iPad Pro Models…

by Bob Raikes

Apple introduced a new 10.5″ iPad Pro and a new version of the 12.9″ iPad Pro. The new 10.5″ tablet features small borders to reduce the size and with the weight of 1lb (450 …

News Sites Can’t Add Up – Fake News?

by Bob Raikes

Close to press time, we were writing up a story, widely reported by many web blogs that ran, as below: “Strategy Analytics pointed out in a report that Apple took 83.4% of the profits …

Mobile AR Users to Reach 1bn+ by 2021

by Bob Raikes

Digi-Capital has published an interesting blog that suggests that there will be an ‘epic battle’ between Facebook, Apple, Google, Tencent, Snap, Alibaba, Baidu, Samsung, Huawei and more after Mark Zuckerberg’s comment in April that …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Apple Announces iOS 11 with Many New Features Including AR

by Norbert Hildebrand

At its Worldwide developer conference, Apple announced many new features for iOS 11 that will be coming to the consumer in the fall of this year. For now, the features will be made available …

Xiaomi and Apple Tie for the Top Position as the Wearables Market Swells 17.9% During the First Quarter, According to IDC

by Isaac Oburu

The worldwide wearables market maintained its upward trajectory during the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17) with Xiaomi and Apple leading all companies and multiple products experiencing double- and triple-digit growth. According to the International …

Tags:Apple| Wearable Market| Xiaomi

Apple to Support External GPU & VR

by Bob Raikes

As part of its announcements at the WWDC 2017, Apple said it would support a development kit that is an external GPU enclosure, with an AMD Radeon RX 580 that can connect to PCs …