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Apple Pay expands, launches in South Africa

If you’re headed to South Africa any time soon, you’ll be able to use Apple Pay while you’re there. Apple Pay has officially launched in South Africa, and is currently backed by the following three South African banks: Absa Group, Nedbank Group, and Discovery Bank, part of the Discovery Group. To set up Apple Pay […]

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Apple Maps boosts directions, lane guidance in several cities, assorted countries

This could definitely be helpful. Apple on Wednesday boosted its transit directions and lane guidance for its Apple Maps apps. The feature, which originally provided transit directions for Baltimore, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, and around 300 cities in China upon launch added several other […]

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iPhone 7 to launch in wider array of international markets on October 14th

The iPhone 7 is about to hit the road with a wide international debut over the next 10 days. Following an October 7th debut in India, the handset will be available in Turkey, Malaysia, and South Africa, as well as smaller markets like Macao, Macedonia, and Montenegro and possibly other regions on October 14th. A […]

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Apple adds new data for 20 locations to Apple Maps

It never hurts when a new clump of data is added to the Apple Maps database. On Wednesday, Apple announced that 3D Flyover, traffic and point of interest data had been added for 20 locations to its in-house mapping solution, including popular locales like the Virgin Islands and Taiwan. The company listed the following locations:

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MacBook Air falls 1,000 feet from airplane, survives

Your MacBook Air may be tougher than you think. Apparently, a South African pilot managed to drop his MacBook Air notebook from the light aircraft he was flying when the canopy flew open. The MacBook, along with his flying license and logbook, fell 1000 feet into the fields below–but amazingly survived the experience.