Wednesday 22 October 2014

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Apple planning to bring Apple Pay support to iAd with new buy buttons - report


Posted: 22 Oct 2014 09:54 AM PDT


Tap-to-buy quick purchasing buttons with support for Apple Pay may be coming to Apple's iAd mobile advertising network as soon as this fall, according to a new report.



AppleInsider 2.0 for iPhone and iPad now available as free downloads from Apple's App Store


Posted: 22 Oct 2014 08:32 AM PDT


AppleInsider today is pleased to announce the release of a major update to its universal iOS application on the App Store, delivering a fresh new look, unified subscription features across the iPhone and iPad, favorites, advance font preferences, offline reading, Instapaper support and more.



MasterCard pushes Apple Pay with new 'Priceless Surprises' TV ads


Posted: 22 Oct 2014 07:44 AM PDT


The first television commercials spotlighting Apple Pay did not come from Apple itself, but from launch partner MasterCard, which is running baseball-themed ads hyping the launch of the new iPhone 6-based tap-to-pay system.



Hacks targeting Chinese iCloud users prompt Apple CEO Tim Cook to meet China's vice premier


Posted: 22 Oct 2014 06:13 AM PDT


Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has reportedly traveled to Beijing to meet with the vice premier of China to discuss protecting user data, a meeting prompted by recent hacks targeting iCloud users in the country.



Get your Mac online anywhere easily with OS X Yosemite's new Instant Hotspot iPhone tethering feature


Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:20 AM PDT


One of the new Continuity features between iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite is Instant Hotspot, giving users the ability to automatically connect to the Internet through their iPhone's cellular data connection without the need to touch their phone.



Review roundup: iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 deemed best in class, but changes mostly iterative [u]


Posted: 21 Oct 2014 07:12 PM PDT


The reviews are in for this year's iPad product refreshes and the results are expectedly positive for the new iPad Air 2, though some question whether Apple did enough to warrant the iPad mini 3's price tag.



Apple's Maps Connect portal lets local businesses create, add details to listings


Posted: 21 Oct 2014 05:06 PM PDT


In a continued effort to make Apple Maps more accurate, Apple on Tuesday launched a new Web portal called "Maps Connect" to let local businesses add information directly into the mapping services.



Apple's new A8X powered iPad Air 2 smokes new Android tablets, including Nvidia's Tegra K1 Shield Tablet [u]


Posted: 21 Oct 2014 04:49 PM PDT


New Geekbench processor benchmarks show Apple's triple core, 64-bit A8X Application Processor is dramatically faster than the latest Android tablets, despite their additional cores and faster clock rates.



Apple leadership awarded restricted stock unit bonus currently worth $19M


Posted: 21 Oct 2014 04:31 PM PDT


Eight Apple executives last week were awarded identical bonuses in the form of conditional RSUs worth over $19.6 million at the stock's current price, according to a U.S. SEC filing.



Apple spent $1M on lobbying US government in Q3, focused on health, data privacy, more


Posted: 21 Oct 2014 03:19 PM PDT


According to a recently filed disclosure, Apple spent a little over $1 million over the third quarter on lobbying issues like consumer health data, safe driving, e-books and data privacy, among others.



GT Advanced reaches bankruptcy deal with Apple, will sell off more than 2,000 sapphire furnaces to pay debt


Posted: 21 Oct 2014 02:39 PM PDT


As part of its plan to "wind down" sapphire production operations after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, GT Advanced Technologies will reportedly sell more than 2,000 sapphire furnaces to pay off an outstanding debt to Apple.




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