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Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the company’s quarterly conference call that Best Buy will be launching Apple Pay support in stores later this year with support in app already being accepted. This is definitely surprising news as the big box electronics store is a supporter for the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) consortium. MCX is a group of retailers that decided to take Apple Pay out of the stores ...

According to a display expert Raymond Soneira of Displaymate Technologies, the best screen image quality can actually be found on Apple’s entry-level Apple Watch Sport. This is because the costlier stainless steel and Apple Watch edition versions of the device feature sapphire covers that degrade image quality with higher reflectance.

His detailed testing results found that the scratch resistant sapphire found ...

The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA recently updated its electronic health records system to support data from Apple’s HealthKit platform. The move should affect over 80,000 patients as their data has been moved over to the new platform. As of right now, there don’t appear to be any plans for how HealthKit data will be used. According to the hospital’s chief information officer, Darren Dworkin:

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According to a recent report, Apple may intentionally be slowing the release of updates to Tidal’s iOS app in an effort to weaken the music service ahead of an impending Beats Music relaunch. Sources in the music industry noted to the New York Post that while Tidal has fallen out of the top 700 iPhone apps in the App Store, only weeks after its March 30 relaunch, positioning is affected by the number of downloads. Apple “deliberately ...

NBC Sports Live Extra has been added to the Apple TV recently and the current NHL playoffs as well as this week’s 141st Kentucky Derby will both be available on the new channel. Similar to the iPad app, the Apple TV also has sports event clips and videos. Those who have the Apple TV will be able to gain access to highlights from past events, previews of upcoming events, and video clips. Live NBC Sports ...

After the recent Apple Watch teardown, the experts over at Chipworks ended up taking a closer look at the parts that make the Apple Watch function. Their closer examination included X-Ray imagery of Apple’s new S1 system-on-chip design. Chipworks noted that with the new and proprietary technology that Apple built into the Apple Watch, the device appears to be the most sophisticated attempt at a wearable ...

A new report from research firm Slice Intelligence is claiming that only 376,000 Apple Watch preorders (approximately 22%) shipped during launch weekend between Friday and Sunday. The numbers are based on estimates by the firm. Slice analyzed about 2 million shoppers’ electronic receipts and they noted that around 17 million wearable devices were ordered in the U.S. based on 10,744 transactions. ...

Apple did it again.

Fueled by a stellar performance of iPhone, Mac, and App Store sales, Apple had a phenomenal first three months of 2015.

All told, Apple posted quarterly revenue of $58 billion (quarterly net profit of $13.6 billion). Apple's earnings of $2.33 per share beat estimates pegged at $2.16 a share on $56 billion in revenue.

For the quarter, Apple sold 61.2 million iPhones ...

Monday came and went without any numbers.

To be sure, we'll get some numbers later this afternoon when Apple reports earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2015. But the numbers many were hoping for relate to preorders/sales of Apple Watch.

In previous years, with regard to iPhone and iPad launches, Apple has routinely provided a post-launch weekend update on sales. The fact that Apple hasn't ...

Apple's FaceTime has a new competitor on the block. Facebook has just announced on Monday that the social network is rolling out free video calling to its Facebook Messenger application for iOS and Android.

While the application has supported voice-calling for ages, this is the first time that video calling will be a part of the Facebook Messenger platform. The newly-added function is accessed by tapping on the video-calling icon at ...

On Monday, Instagram announced a new update for its iOS application. The update, version 6.11.0, is now available in the iOS App Store. Those that already have the application installed will find the update waiting for them under the Updates tab in the App Store application.

The update adds some goodies that users will be able to use to improve their social networking experience. Among the new features are three all-new photograph filters, which are named ...