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Opera Touch promises easy one-handed web browsing, even on the iPhone XS Max

10/2/2018, 10:35:28 AM
Plus a cheeky little dig at Apple ✔ It opens with a blinking cursor in the search bar, ready for your first query without any additional taps or swipes ✔ There's no need for passwords or logins, and everything you sync is protected with end-to-end encryption ✔ It's certainly more convenient than emailing links to yourself, or syncing them to a separate note-taking app


Apple rolls out Business Chat worldwide so you can talk to brands on your iPhone

10/2/2018, 10:54:46 AM
It's Business Chat time ✔ In the UK, users can chat to energy firm nPower about Smart Meters ✔ Europe Burberry (UK) Matchesfashion (UK) nPower (UK) Robins & Day (UK) buddybank (Italy) Engie (France) La Redoute (France) AXA Insurance (Switzerland) Swisscom (Switzerland) Vodafone Germany (Germany) NH Hotels (Spain - Europe-wide)  North America 1800 Contacts  DirecTV (AT&T)  Fairmont Hotels  Kimpton Hotels Freshly  Macerich Malls  Mall of America  Men's Wearhouse  Overstock  Quicken Loans  SnapTravel (US, Canada) west elm   design consultancy through Business Chat Hendrick Automotive Four Seasons (Canada) is expanding to 88 properties around the globe, 100+ languages Burberry  Matchesfashion  Dreamforce Concierge Asia Telstra (Australia) Harvey Norman (Australia)  KDDI (Japan) Credit Suisse (Singapore) Matchesfashion (Japan) Best iPhone 2018: which Apple phone is the best


Secret iPhone 'beauty filter' makes selfies TOO perfect – but it's not real

10/2/2018, 11:24:59 AM
APPLE customers are complaining that the new iPhone XS camera is making them look too beautiful. It’s led some users to accuse Apple of adding a secret “beauty filter” to selfies … ✔ Apple 8 Apple's iPhone XS snaps multiple frames at different exposures very quickly, combining them for a better photo overall It's an easy way to improve photos taken in difficult lighting conditions, particularly when there are dark and light areas in a single shot


Apple Final Cut Pro X review

10/2/2018, 11:45:45 AM
Advanced yet affordable video editing ✔ Editing is fast and easy, and we particularly like Compound Clips: it enables you to group video, audio and other elements together so you can move them around together or just reduce the amount of detail in your timeline ✔ However, if you’re serious about your shoots then Final Cut Pro X is excellent value for money


Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone

10/2/2018, 7:34:32 AM
Browser company Opera is back doing what it does best, offering you beautifully-designed alternatives to the stock browsers from the likes of Google and Apple . This week the company brought its ‘Opera Touch’ browser to iOS to give iPhone owners a new alternative to the basic Safari bro… ✔ One thing it is missing, for now, is more comprehensive management of bookmarks ✔ As ever, the Opera browser comes with ad blocking built-in and there’s the company’s usual protection from cryptojacking that’s the process of being hacked and having your CPU used to mine crypto for someone else ✔ Other options might include Google Chrome, recently given a redesign for its tenth anniversary, as well as Mozilla, UC Web, Dolphin and Brave


Amazon vs. Apple — which should you own if you can only own one?

10/2/2018, 9:26:39 AM
Both Big Tech companies are on the move, but in a comparison of stock-market returns, products and profits, one has an edge. ✔ Earnings results winner: Apple Apple blew the doors off its second-quarter earnings report in July, beating the top and bottom lines and guiding above Wall Street’s expectations on revenue ✔ The shares added about 10% across the next few trading days after that July report ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment


Marks & Spencer launches 'mobile' checkout that lets you buy lunch in 40 seconds

10/2/2018, 7:46:09 AM
The checkout free experience means customers can scan and go in less than a minute ✔ Our customers - especially those who come to us for lunch - are so busy, any tech that can speed up the shopping experience is a massive benefit to them, explained Sacha Berendji at Marks & Spencer ✔ The convenience chain said it introduced the measure after seeing a sharp decline in the number of cash transactions over the past two years


What we still don’t know about the Facebook breach

10/2/2018, 10:12:02 AM
Who did it, who else was affected, and how much will it cost Facebook? ✔ Illustration by Alex Castro / Th The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy ✔ And not always for the better: When she returned home from work in the evening, the testimony was finished ✔ 2) Everybody is confused on actual impact, lots of rumors


U.S. tech sector getting by without Facebook and Alphabet

10/2/2018, 11:24:56 AM
The technology sector appears to be doing just fine on Wall Street a week after ... ✔ Netflix Inc (NFLX.O), another FANG stock, was moved from consumer discretionary to communication services as part of the reshuffle ✔ It has since rallied nearly 6 percent, helping push the communication services index 1 percent higher ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Samsung Electronics third-quarter profit seen at record, but...

10/2/2018, 6:07:55 AM
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS> is set to post a hefty jump in third-quar... ✔ That will hurt Samsung’s operating margin, said Eo Kyu-jin, an analyst at eBest Investment & Securities ✔ While Samsung is forecast to still book decent operating profit growth of 12 percent in the fourth quarter, analysts predict minimal profit growth in the first half of 2019 followed by profit declines, albeit small ones, in the second half, Refinitiv data showed ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


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