Duan Yongping may have figured out how to beat Apple at its own game in the Chinese marketplace. The reclusive billionaire founded both Opposition and Vivo, the twin smartphone brands that dealt the world’s largest company a stinging defeat in China last year. Once derided as cheap iPhone knockoffs, they leapfrogged the rankings and shoved […]
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You can use your new Nintendo Switch’s wireless controllers with your Mac. The wireless controllers can be fully utilized by macOS. The units charge via USB-C and has a small Bluetooth pairing button next to the charging port atop the controller. As expected, Nintendo’s JoyCon gamepads can connect to macOS as individual controllers. That means […]
The good news is that the Meitu app adds some cool selfie editing tools, allowing you to pretty much transform your selfie pictures into nifty anime characters. The bad news is that the app is apparently sending back as much private information as it can to a Chinese source. The MeituPic app, launched in 2013, […]
The Christmas gifts have been exchanged, the Chanukah ones are being given this week and it looks like Apple is leading the pack in terms of smartphone activations for the 2016 holidays. This year, 44% of new phone and tablet activations were Apple devices with Samsung seeing 21%. While Samsung is slowly growing in popularity […]
Even if you have gripes about AT&T, this should come in handy. This week, AT&T revealed a new service that automatically blocks robocalls and identifies other suspicious spam calls for users on a voice and data contract with a smartphone that supports HD Voice. The free service, dubbed “Call Protect”, arrives with a free companion […]