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It might be a chance meeting between two people, like when Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak, or a decision, like when Larry Page and Sergey Brin realized they needed “adult supervision” in the form of Eric Schmidt, or an infinite array of other situations that can define or redefine someone's life or the direction of…

iOS 10 may turn your voicemails into text Insider sources speaking with Business Insider said Apple is already testing iCould Voicemail internally, and if it works as the company hopes, will launch next year most likely as a part of iOS 10. Voicemail transcription isn't a new idea, and compared to Google, this is another…

Yup, time to turn on the sprinklers (unless you're in drought-stricken California, of course). We head outside to tackle that task which we dread doing every year – setting the schedule on our sprinkler controllers (because for some reason, we have to do it every year). As we fiddle with the knobs and buttons of…

T-Mobile CEO John Legere iPhone 6 Swap The big news on Tuesday is the offer to let customers who buy a new iPhone 6 now swap it out for whatever Apple announces this fall (likely the iPhone 6s). Customers will pay nothing more and their monthly bills won't change. “Yeah, that's what I said,”Mr. Legere…

Nike FuelBand settlement value is in education, not money. In the Nike case, consumers complained about inaccurate fitness tracking data such as calorie counts were wrong, and that the FuelBand was marketed and sold as if the information it logged was correct. They sued Nike and Apple because both companies were marketing the device. Apple…

Sen. Franken thinks Apple has an unfair advantage in streaming music In his letter to the FTC, Senator Franken said, I am writing to encourage you to examine Apple's current dealing with app developers to determine whether the company is engaging in anticompetitive behavior in the music streaming market. As the digital music industry continues…

Symbolic: iOS unit sales are now matching Windows PCs. pic.twitter.com/4qsNg3ntYW — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) July 22, 2015 TMO is an Apple-centric publication, and you may be wondering why the lede isn't that iOS overtook Wintel. It is, after all, kind of a delicious moment of comeuppance. The great Wintel hegemony, the arch enemy of Mac…

User data from affair site Ashley Madison was stolen. So that's awkward. Ashley Madison is a website and service that connects people in relationships who want to have an affair. Avid Life Media (ALM), the parent company for Ashely Madison, Established Men, and Cougar Life, confirmed the data breach and said it is hard at…

Apple isn't saying how many Apple Watches have been sold At the high end, Jeffries analyst  Sundeep Bajikar estimates Apple sold 5.7 million smart watches. At the low end sits Turley Muller from Financial Alchemist at 2.85 million units. Several analysts are clustered around 5 million, and another group has gravitated towards 3 million. The…

According to Judge Wu's ruling, FilmOn should be considered the same as traditional cable television for transmission even though all of its content is delivered through broadband Internet, reports Reuters. Broadcasters have aggressively resisted giving Internet-based companies licensing even before FilmOn's case landed in Federal court. Aereo was at the center of a high profile…

The GSMA is a trade organization representing wireless carriers around the planet. Hardware makers including Apple, Samsung, and a host of others have long been jockeying to get their pet SIM project included in industry standards, but en electronic SIM could truly change the way devices are manufactured, sold, and dealt with after the sale.…

Facebook wants an official end date for all Flash support In a post on Twitter Mr. Stamos said, It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day. He added that setting an official end date for all Flash support would…

The original Internet address space, referred to as IPv4, provides for 232 (4.29 billion) addresses. You've probably seen examples of those addresses on your Mac and iPhone, for example, 192.168.1.1, where each of the numbers can be from 0-255. With the Internet of things, the proliferation of small Internet devices and the adoption of smartphones…

Episode #131   A long time ago I bought a small mesh bag and packed it with all things I like to have when I travel. After a few years I had filled it completely so I bought a second mesh bag, which is now almost full as well. Last week I tried to pare…

Episode 130 I was really starting to like Apple Music. I had none of the metadata scrambling I’ve heard about and was just starting to fall in love with the new, human-curated playlists that seem to read my mind. Then I encountered my first (and so far, only) problem… I ask Siri to play music by…

Thinking about trying iCloud Music Library? Don't. It's a bag of hurt. iCloud Music Library's problems start showing up after installing iTunes 12.2 on your Mac or Windows PC. Apple's forums are full of comments from users saying their album art, song names, and album titles get jumbled. The Who's Quadrophenia album art, for example,…

Apple releasing iOS 8.4 an hour before Apple Music launches Apple Music is Apple's new streaming music service, Internet radio station, and social platform for artists. Full access costs US$9.99 a month, although you can listen to streaming music and Beats 1 radio for free. The service officially kicks off at 9AM pacific time tomorrow,…

My thoughts are with the victim's families in SC.Let us honor their lives by eradicating racism & removing the symbols & words that feed it. — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 21, 2015 Mr. Cook's comments aren't specific, but have largely been interpreted to refer to the presence of the Confederate flag in South Carolina and…

Apple's planned Ireland data center meets with local resistance The concerns stem from Apple's environmental impact statement, which details the company's plans to generate its own power for the 24,505 square meter (about 263,769 square feet) facility, new trees, landscaping, and an amenity walkway. It also notes Apple plans to build an outdoor classroom for…

Samsung follows Apple with major Galaxy smartphone security flaw The security flaw was discovered by NowSecure security specialist Ryan Welton. He found that SwiftKey is getting language pack updates via unencrypted server connections in plain text. In other words, it's about the most unsecure way Samsung could've found for installing an update. Mr. Welton found…

Episode #127 As you may recall, Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco last week with one of the longest keynotes in recent memory — nearly two and a half hours — offering up a roadmap for the next generations of its three major operating systems, namely OS X, iOS, and…

Mr. Mims's premise is that Apple is stretched thin. Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple Car, iCloud, Apple Pay, iBooks, iTunes, Apple Music, OS X, and iOS. That's just to name the company's major products. He furthermore argues that Apple's executives are only human, and that the company would be better able to “maniacally” focus…

All of Vemedio's app pages, including Instacast, now say “discontinued” In an email to subscribers, developer Martin Hering said, I am sorry to inform you that Instacast andin fact all of Vemedio's products have been discontinued. I will cancel your upcoming membership payment shortly. We'll keep the servers running as long as we can. Instacast…

Apple Maps vans: Coming to a city near you Apple now has a webpage showing where its Maps vans will be between June 15 and June 30, which includes parts of Ireland and England, as well as cities in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington. Apple…