Apple Inc - SERIES 259 {10 articles}

Apple on Black Friday: which products and deals to look out for

11/16/2018, 9:15:34 PM
Find the finest Apple deals this shopping season ✔ Black Friday and Cyber Monday offer that incredibly rare opportunity – to actually find some nice deals on slashed-price Apple products ✔ So, the year-end deals season is one of the few times when iPads, MacBooks, Apple TVs and iPhone deals are attainable ✔ Here are the current top MacBook Pro 13-inch deals: Today's best Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch (2018) deals

Apple is 1/3 of the way through major remake of retail stores

11/16/2018, 11:34:53 PM
Flagship stores refocused as education first, sales second, in bid to win customers for life. ✔ Join us on a gallery of photos of Apple's Santa Monica store ✔ Microsoft comes in second with about 6,000 retail employees ✔ Customers can't miss it--the Forum is flanked by a giant video screen at the back of the store ✔ Rows of iPhones in the remodeled Apple Store in Santa Monica (Photo: Jefferson Graham)

How Apple is suddenly a player in an unlikely Hollywood realm

11/16/2018, 11:32:24 PM
With the swipe of a deal pen, Apple is suddenly in the Oscar game. And that could change everything. ✔ Lady Bird principals Saoirse Ronan, Greta Gerwig and Laurie Metcalf attend the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 21 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California ✔ With A24 movies, Apple will have a compelling palette of content to lure young subscribers to its video service

Costco Black Friday 2018 deals: $300 Dyson, $800 Surface Pro bundle and more

11/17/2018, 12:12:12 AM
One of the best Black Friday deals of 2018 deals arrives Nov. 16: a complete Surface Pro 6 package for $800. ✔ Bestblackfriday.com Costco was one of the first big retailers to reveal its Black Friday sales, and now that many of its competitors have joined the mix, it's worth revisiting ✔ But according to a preview of the company's circular published earlier this month by bestblackfriday.com, Costco has some doozies on deck ✔ Just note this deal is also available at Walmart, Target and elsewhere

Your Phone's GPS Is About to Get More Accurate

11/16/2018, 8:19:39 PM
The FCC has approved the use of the EU's Galileo system in the United States. ✔ What you may not realize is that GPS is actually an American technology owned and operated by the U.S. Air Force ✔ That means if your phone can support both, then you’ll likely start to see improved location reliability as well as improvements to your estimated time of arrival when you’re using maps ✔ The iPhone 8 and Apple handsets released after it support Galileo as do a number of phones from Huawei and Samsung, The Verge notes

Black Friday TV deals 2018: The best and the cheapest

11/17/2018, 12:01:24 AM
The lowest TV prices of the year start now. Here are our favorite deals so far. ✔ The chill is in the air, the leaves turn, the holidays beckon ✔ In other words, in the latter case you're often paying extra just for a brand name ✔ Meanwhile the better, higher-end name-brand sets we do review are also on sale, but they're not nearly as cheap as these entry-level models

This might be Google’s budget Pixel, complete with headphone jack

11/16/2018, 9:23:07 PM
Makes you wonder why it ever left ✔ Image: Rozetked Surely you remember the fateful week when Google’s big day was spoiled when Russian bloggers revealed the Pixel 3 phone to the world in all its glorious detail ✔ First off, it’s bugging me that the logo on the back of the phone looks wrong

College Sports are Yours to Watch Live Online With an ESPN+ Free Trial | Digital Trends

11/17/2018, 12:57:59 AM
It can be difficult to catch all the college games, especially for smaller conferences. Well, thanks to ESPN+ that’s no longer the case. Now, with this service (that offers a free trial), you won't need to miss any of your alma mater's games. ✔ College Football on ESPN+ ESPN+’s college football coverage will have you feeling as though you practically live on the gridiron ✔ Digital Trends may earn commission on products purchased through our links, which supports the work we do for our readers

Costco Black Friday 2018: Get huge deals through Nov. 26

11/16/2018, 10:21:25 PM
Not all of the big doorbusters are available yet, but Costco’s sale is going on. Many of the best deals are for members-only. ✔ Costco's Black Friday savings are for more than just members this year ✔ If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue ✔ But it's still possible to take advantage of some of the deals without a membership, however it will cost you

Instagram's 'Your Activity' feature shows how often you use the app

11/16/2018, 8:11:28 PM
Instagram has begun rolling out a new dashboard that shows you how many hours you spend using Instagram each day and even set time limits so that you don't become too addicted. ✔ For Instagram, users will need to load the settings page, and then scroll down to the option marked 'Your Activity' ✔ 'We all recognise that technology is playing a greater role in our daily lives,' he said ✔ You can toggle the statistics between the last 24 hours and the last seven days

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Fashion - SERIES 445 {30 articles}

'Queer Eye' star Jonathan Van Ness opens up about two of his obsessions — comedy and fashion 11/16/2018, 7:11:11 PM The Netflix personality also talks about hitting the road for his 10-night comedy tour and more. ✔ From the Fab Five, I learned oh, my God, I think I could cry they are four of my best friends, Van Ness said ✔ A camera crew was there to capture all of the action ✔ A piece of the sandwich broke free, falling in what seemed like a slow-motion Hollywood tumble Cate Blanchett shoots fashion campaign for Giorgio Armani in Barcelona 11/16/2018, 4:54:10 PM Keeping herself warm in between takes, she covered her shoulders with a fluffy white bathrobe and matching slippers as she walked through the bustling metropolis on Friday. ✔ Cate Blanchett was spotted adding her personalised touch of glamour to the streets of Barcelona on Friday, as she shoot a new campaign for Giorgio Armani ✔ When the award-winning star was announced as part of the Armani team, the lux...

Travel - SERIES 369 {18 articles}

Into the melting pot - Travel 11/10/2018, 3:51:09 AM undefined ✔ In the day, the streets are always bustling with people from all over the world ✔ Even before the break of dawn, pensioners can be found gathering in parks, ready to kick start their day with a tai chi session ✔ Indeed, it does not take long for one to realize that Shanghai's charm lies in it being a binary of old and new Lucia Berlin’s new books: An illuminating memoir, more sublime stories - Los Angeles Times 11/9/2018, 8:27:21 PM Lucia Berlin' 68 years were almost impossibly full of travel, adventure, loves found and lost, alcoholism and its defeat, and the struggle to get by as a single mother of four boys. We are lucky to have two new books by her. ✔ In a standout story, Andado, a 14-year-old girl enjoys a sumptuous weekend on a Chilean estate breakfast in bed, horseback riding, flirting with her dashing older host until the host forces the flirtation too far, into what would now be considered r...

Trade War - SERIES 279 {22 articles}

Japan downgrades view of export picture as costs of trade war rise 10/23/2018, 7:51:59 AM Japan's government downgraded its assessment of exports for the first time ... ✔ Washington and Beijing have slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on each other in recent months, and plans for bilateral trade talks to resolve the dispute have stalled ✔ Japan is at risk because it exports to China much manufacturing equipment and electronic parts, which are used to make finished goods for the United States and other markets ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles United States’ fury at China over trade war: ‘They don’t respond – NOTHING!’ 10/23/2018, 10:41:51 AM CHINA has refused to engage with the United States for months to discuss ways to defuse the escalating trade war, Donald Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow has said. ✔ China’s demands include the US to scrapping a ban on exports to China of integrated circuits, and giving Chinese companies equal treatment in nation...

War Countries - SERIES 378 {16 articles}

The Observer view on the ‘cessation of hostilities’ in Yemen | Observer editorial 11/4/2018, 6:27:39 AM Donald Trump’s intervention in the Yemen war would be welcome if it didn’t seem so cynical and ill-judged ✔ But Trump is under growing bipartisan pressure in Congress over the humanitarian disaster in Yemen, for which the Saudis are primarily blamed ✔ We must hope, in the first instance, that the Saudis desist from a new offensive on the besieged port of Hodeidah in the 30 days before the cessation supposedly begins 20 world wonders that you're not supposed to visit 11/4/2018, 7:24:58 AM Beautiful destinations around the world that are currently off-limits to British travellers. ✔ Lots of world wonders are currently off-limits to ordinary travellers, such as the following.. ✔ Hotels and guesthouses used by foreign nationals and the government of Afghanistan are subject to regular threats, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) warns ✔ It consisted of two parallel ...

Trade War - SERIES 344 {11 articles}

Taiwan's 10-year iPhone boom shows signs of ending 11/13/2018, 5:55:51 PM Big month for Apple suppliers does not change maturing market or trade war ✔ Allen Horng, chairman of iPhone metal frame maker Catcher Technology, said he did not rule out a correction given the market dynamics ✔ Just a month after the release of the XR, it may be too early to judge the model's performance ✔ Nikkei staff writers Chien Chia-Hung and Hideaki Ryugen contributed to the report Land acquisition sinks 63% for China's top developers 11/13/2018, 4:51:52 PM Trade war concerns and faltering sale values put Vanke and others on guard ✔ A China Vanke showroom displays a model residential compound ✔ Acquisition value fell 10% during the quarter for China Overseas Land & Investment, which purchased 16 plots in total and just two in a major city -- specifically Beijing -- where demand for condominiums is strong Boeing CEO: US, China mutually interested in successful aerospace eco...

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