Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Apple's big iPhone payoff? It's on track to top $1 trillion from iOS by mid-year and other top stories.

  • Apple's big iPhone payoff? It's on track to top $1 trillion from iOS by mid-year

    Apple's big iPhone payoff? It's on track to top $1 trillion from iOS by mid-year
    iOS hardware units sold will probably reach two billion by 2018. Image: Asymco At some point before June, Apple's revenues from its mobile platform, iOS, will exceed $1 trillion, according to Asymco mobile analyst Horace Dediu. The bulk of that revenue has come from the 1.2 billion iPhones that Dediu estimates Apple will have sold by the end of the first half of 2017, which, as he's previously calculated, is by..
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  • Galaxy S7 finally receives its Android 7.0 Nougat upgrade

    Galaxy S7 finally receives its Android 7.0 Nougat upgrade
    We knew it was coming, and Samsung finally released it into the wild. The Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge is rolling out as we speak, and you should soon receive it. The launch follows a beta testing period that allowed existing Galaxy S7 series owners to test the software and help Samsung iron out existing bugs. A few weeks ago, Samsung did confirm that the Nougat update will roll out in January, with January 17th being the rumored date for it. Samsung has star..
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  • Facebook Takes on a Bigger Role in Journalism

    Facebook Takes on a Bigger Role in Journalism
    Facebook is launching a journalism project aimed at strengthening its ties with media organizations to help them expand their audiences, come up with new products and generally promote trusted news in today's 'post-truth' era. Jan. 11, 2017, at 6:09 p.m..
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  • How Amazon won the voice war — for now

    How Amazon won the voice war — for now
    Amazon's Echo and Dot connected speakers are sold out, and 35 new products will have Alexa built-in this year. Did Alexa win over Siri, Cortana and Hey Google? Jefferson Graham reports on a #TalkingTech video. LOS ANGELES — Apple’s Siri has been around five years, but Amazon’s Alexa is the coolest kid on the voice- computing block now.At least, so it seemed at this month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where many manufacturers touted their Alexa functionality as a major sellin..
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  • Nintendo Switch Preorders Will Launch Jan. 13 In New York, But In Limited Quantity: Uh-Oh, Supply Shortage?

    Nintendo Switch Preorders Will Launch Jan. 13 In New York, But In Limited Quantity: Uh-Oh, Supply Shortage?
    The world is all set for the Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017, which will be held on Jan. 12 at 11:00 p.m. ET. Through the livestreamed event, Nintendo will finally be revealing all the details regarding the upcoming hybrid console, including its price, launch games lineup, and release date. The day after the announcement, the preview tour for the Nintendo Switch will start, in which the press and the public will be able to try out the hybrid console. The first stop is New York, with the tour ..
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  • Moto G5 Plus In Silver Flavor Shows Up In A Leaked Render

    Moto G5 Plus In Silver Flavor Shows Up In A Leaked Render
    A seemingly official render of the silver variant of the Moto G5 Plus recently appeared on the Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo. A series of related leaks and rumors also suggests that the Lenovo-owned Motorola is now preparing to release the ...
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  • Ads added to Instagram Stories

    Ads added to Instagram Stories
    Facebook Inc's Instagram is bringing more than 30 advertisers into one of its fastest-growing features, Instagram Stories, in a bid to boost advertising revenue, the company said on Wednesday. The social media company will become a more important player in maintaining Facebook's growth in advertising revenue in 2017. During the last two earnings calls, Facebook executives said they may soon reach a limit on a number of ads they can place before users, one of the factors that had driven ad reven..
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  • Opera launches Neon, a new experimental desktop browser

    Opera launches Neon, a new experimental desktop browser
    Browsers have gotten boring. After a flurry of innovation, especially around the time Google launched Chrome, things slowed down over the last few years. We’ve seen a few interesting experiments, mostly from smaller players like Yandex, Brave and Vivaldi, but the largest players have pretty much stuck to their script. Opera, which was sold to a consortium of Chinese companies last year, is now doing its part to mix things up with the launch of Opera Neon, an experimental desktop browser for Win..
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  • HTC's new Hail Mary: Two U phones with novel ideas

    HTC's new Hail Mary: Two U phones with novel ideas
    HTC made two of the best smartphones money can buy, but the company can’t talk about them. The Pixel and Pixel XL are Google’s phones even if they’re actually made by HTC. Aside from the Pixels, HTC isn’t doing very well in the mobile business, but it’s not ready to throw in the towel. The company came forward with a couple of new phones which have new branding and novel features (for HTC phones). HTC avoided the early January CES show and didn’t want to wait until late February to unveil the U..
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  • Apple Plans to Launch Original TV Shows Comparable to 'Westworld' and 'Stranger Things' By End of 2017

    Apple Plans to Launch Original TV Shows Comparable to 'Westworld' and 'Stranger Things' By End of 2017
    Apple is building a "significant" business centered around creating original, scripted television shows and possibly even movies, according to a new report by The Wall Street Journal. The content would be made available on Apple Music, falling in line with previous reports and accompanying already-announced projects for the music streaming service, including Carpool Karaoke and Vital Signs. Apple executives have told Hollywood that the new original content will launch by the end of 2017, acco..
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