China’s Singles’ Day smartphone sales grew 3% year-over-year, driven by Apple’s iPhone 17 series, reports Counterpoint Research. Excluding Apple, this year’s Singles’ Day reflected a cautious consumer environment due to economic headwinds combined with weak momentum...
European Union (EU) antitrust regulators plan to examine whether Apple Ads and Apple Maps should be subject to the requirements of the bloc’s digital rules after both services hit key criteria, reports Reuters. However, the U.S. tech giant saying they should be...
Apple has been granted yet another patent (number US 11611239 B2) that’s one of several that hints that at the abandoned AirPower project could be revived. The patent is dubbed “wireless charging system with solenoids.” About the AirPower The AirPower (pictured in an...
As I said when it was introduced, Apple’s new Studio Display is the external monitor I’ve long wanted — but it could have been even better. Here’s the short version of my opinion: the display and speakers are superb, the webcam is disappointing, and there are features...
The SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive Luxe is a handy, reasonably-affordable tool for sharing data between Lightning and USB-C devices such as Macs, iPhones, and iPads. It can also be used to expand storage on an iPhone or iPad, but having a flash drive constantly dangling...
Let me say upfront that the US$99.99 iD9 (http://www.ihomeaudio.com/iD9SVC/) from iHome has the best sound of any speaker system its size that I’ve tested. Volume is substantial, bass is deep and music tones are vibrant.
The Stellar Drive Toolbox from Stellar Information Systems (http://www.drivetoolbox.com/) is an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to optimizing the performance of your Mac’s hard drive. It’s an all-in-one, pre-crash, hardware maintenance utility that optimizes, protects, manages, repairs, and sanitizes your Mac hard drive volumes.
By Bruce Bicknell
It feels like déjà vu. As you may know, I’ve been fortunate enough to review Poser products from Smith Micro (http://www.smithmicro.com) for many versions now, and with each one I can honestly say that the bar gets raised higher and higher. This one, my friends, is no different, and without a doubt Smith Micro has hit it out of the park with this version.
The McTiVia (http://www.awindinc.com/mctivia/), unveiled at January’s Macworld Expo, sounds like a certain health food promoted on TV by Jamie Lee Curtis. But it’s not.
The McTiVia is an US$199 device that lets you show all the content of your Mac — as well as Windows computers, if you care — on your TV wirelessly. You can purportedly control up to eight computers with your mouse and/or keyboard (I’ve only test driven it with one). You can share any content from your computers with your friends and family in your living room.
