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Apple falls to third place behind Google, Roku in U.S. streaming device market

As much as you may love and adore your Apple TV, it’s fallen to third place in sales next to its competitors. Per Gigaom, Google sold 3.8 of its Chromecast streaming devices in 2013, making the device about as popular as Roku’s streaming devices. Roku and Chromecast were the two most successful streaming devices sold […]

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Apple apparently assembling team of speech-recognition experts to create neural network-powered Siri

It’s time to have a more meaningful chat with Siri. Per Wired, Apple is apparently assembling a team of A-list speech recognition researchers, including high-ranking employees from Nuance, to create an in-house Siri engine based on neural networking. The article states that Apple has created a group of software engineers and researchers from Nuance, the […]

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Walmart now offering iPhone 5s for $49, iPhone 5c for $29 with two-year contract

You may not love Walmart, but you can get a cheap iPhone 5s and 5c there if you sign a two-year contract… Per Engadget, in an announcement on Thursday, Walmart announced it will be slashing prices on Apple’s latest iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c models on Friday ahead of an impending refresh cycle expected this […]

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Apple releases MacBook Air SMC 2.0, looks to resolve battery drain issue in 2013 MacBook Air notebooks

If you were having some battery issues with your 2013 MacBook Air notebook, this might be the answer. On Monday, Apple released its MacBook Air SMC Update 2.0. The update, an 804 kilobyte download, addresses an issue wherein the notebook continues to use the battery when its lid is closed (a time when it should […]

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Apple’s iOS App Store nets $10 billion in 2013

According to an announcement by Apple on Tuesday, the company took home more than $10 billion last year from iOS app sales. Christmas sales put them over the top with customers downloading almost 3 billion apps, making December Apple’s most lucrative and successful month in the App Store’s history. BusinessWire’s coverage of the record setting sales quoted […]