Microsoft on Wednesday launched preliminary support for Google Calendar and Contacts data in Office 2016 for the Mac, filling in a significant gap in the email and scheduling app. Along the same lines, Gmail accounts can now make better use of Outlook features.
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Microsoft apparently sees the same market potential for augmented and virtual reality as Apple CEO Tim Cook, and will include support for “mixed reality” in future Windows and Xbox updates in conjunction with future headsets heralded by the new Mixed Reality Development Edition headset.
Source:: Apple Insider
Microsoft apparently sees the same market potential for augmented and virtual reality as Apple CEO Tim Cook, and will include support for “mixed reality” in future Windows and Xbox updates in conjunction with future headsets heralded by the new Mixed Reality Development Edition headset.
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A new video conferencing service for business users from Google called Meet has partially gone live before an official launch, with an iOS app for the enterprise-focused meeting tool briefly appearing in the App Store before being pulled.
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Apple this week turned on carrier billing in Italy, Austria, and Singapore, allowing some people in those countries to charge iTunes, iBooks, App Store, or Apple Music expenses to their phone bill instead of a credit card.
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U.S. retailer Target is allegedly telling its stores to return some iPhone SE units to Apple, a report claimed on Wednesday, ahead of a March press event in which the company could announce a new high-capacity 128-gigabyte model.
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Netflix is attempting to try and make its video streaming service accessible to its subscribers through lower-bandwidth connections, as well as minimizing buffering, with a new Dynamic Optimizer tool.
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The latest leak of the Samsung Galaxy S8 offers what may be the clearest view yet of the phone, which will apparently beat Apple’s “iPhone 8” to the punch in combining a curved edge-to-edge OLED display with no physical home button.
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Facebook has recently launched its Videos app for the Apple TV, providing shared videos to users freed from most of the commentary the social network provides — AppleInsider examines the offering.
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The chairman of Apple supplier Foxconn declared Wednesday that he is “very serious” about bidding for Toshiba’s memory chip business, which could potentially guarantee supplies for products like iPhones and consolidate Foxconn’s position as a primary Apple manufacturer.
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