Don’t fall for this scam: con artists are calling people across the U.S. and Canada and claiming that their iCloud accounts have been hacked. As noted by the Herald-Dispatch, BBB Scam Tracker has received numerous reports of this scam in the past few weeks, and some targets say they've gotten 10 or more calls a day.
Read MoreKalypso Media has released Sudden Strike 4, a World Ware II strategy title for macOS. It sends you off on three extensive campaigns set amongst the battlefields of the second World War.
Read MoreThe percentage of global point of sale transactions occurring through contactless payments — accounted for about 15% of transactions this year — will grow to 53% within five years, according to a new POS [point-of-sale] study from Juniper Research. What’s more, according to research by Pymnts , which covers the payments and commerce markets, Apple Pay had the highest usage rate among those who could use contactless payment for a transaction.
Read MoreGood morning, campers! Yours truly is currently at the Jackson Golf & Tennis Club in Jackson, Wyoming with my lovely spouse, for the eclipse. Depending on the amount of bandwidth available, I hope to dazzle your eyes with a VR video of the time just around totality and a time-lapse of the the Grand Teton Range before, during and after the event.
Read MoreThe trial for Andrea Electronics, which sells PureAudio Pro Recorder and Live Recorder apps for iOS devices, and Apple is slated to begin at the U.S. International Trade Commission today. The former company is suing the tech giant on five counts of patent infringement relating to noise cancellation technology.
Read MoreScanning software is great, but it's worthless if you can't actually search or edit the text that's on a scanned document. That's where optical character recognition (OCR) comes in, and for years one of the best solutions out there for Mac has been Prizmo from Creaceed. This week in the Apple World Today Deals Shop we have Prizmo 3 on sale at 40% off -- that's just $29.99 for the Standard package and $39.99 (actually 46% off list price) for the Pro version.
Read MoreApple is now accepting donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based non-profit organization.
Read MoreForget the “personal digital assistant” (that would be Apple’s Siri, of course). The tech giant wants your Mac to serve as your “lifestyle companion system.” The company has been granted a patent for “systems and methods for providing audio and visual cues via a portable electronic device.”
Read MoreIf you need to keep in-depth stats on your Mac's system operation, iStat Menus for Mac is arguably the best app for the job. The latest version (5) boasted a new design, more statistics, and more languages.
Read MoreTechnavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global smart speaker market report that covers a time period through 2021. Apple’s on the list. Since the tech giant doesn’t make smart speakers, I’m assuming that the company makes the list based on expected sales of the HomePod when it debuts.
Read MoreOn a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are today's picks.
Read MoreThere’s a lot happening in the world of Apple news this week. Following are the hottest articles for the week of August 14-18.
Read MoreThe AWT News Update is on hiatus while my compadre, Steve, takes a road trip. In its place, I’ll offer a text-only (no podcast) summary of breaking stories with a tip o’ my hat to my former website, Apple Daily Report.
Read MoreFeral Interactive says F1 2017, the official videogame of the current 2017 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, will be released for macOS on Aug. 25. System requirementshaven’t been announced.
Read MoreMovie studios such as Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures are “pressing on” in discussions with Apple and Comcast Corp. on ways to offer digital rentals of films mere weeks after they appear in theaters, reports Bloomberg, quoting unnamed “people familiar with the matter.” Naturally, owners of theater chains aren’t happy about this.
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