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  • SVC-19A Apple Service Fundamentals Exam

    Topics for the Apple Service Fundamentals Exam (SVC-19A) Learn about the Apple Service Fundamentals Exam (SVC-19A), and what sections and topics to expect. What’s on the exam?The Apple Service Fundamentals Exam (SVC-19A) is a computer-based knowledge test that Pearson VUE offers online. The test is open resource, and test takers […]

  • 40 years of Apple: Apple’s most innovative products

    Since the 1970s, Apple has been at the front of the new technology pack. Here’s a look at 18 of its most influential and impactful products. Apple’s most innovative products Recently TIME Magazine issued a fascinating list ranking the 50 most influential gadgets of all time. Not surprisingly, Apple’s iconic […]

  • 13 critical questions for Apple heading into 2016

    Keeping the ball rolling Apple had a tremendous 2015. Not only did it make more money in 2015 than ever before, it set a new iPhone sales record and managed to introduce a number of new products, with the Apple Watch and the fourth-gen Apple TV being the two most […]

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    5 dead operating systems, and what their ghosts can tell us

    We conduct a séance of sorts to call forth the souls of operating systems past—not so we can gaze upon their ghastly interfaces, but to learn from their tragic demises. Tremble, mortals! Halloween is upon us. Ghosts, ghouls, and other undesirable creatures are prepared to slink out of their domains […]

  • Apple shows iOS 9’s major upgrades, from multitasking to picture-in-picture

    Apple shows iOS 9’s major upgrades, from multitasking to picture-in-picture Side-by-side apps, video overlays, and much more are coming to iPads when Apple’s mobile OS releases this fall. Major changes are coming to our iPads, from the way we select text, to the way we interact with our favorite apps […]

  • Best Buy remains in MCX group despite move toward Apple Pay

    It’s not clear whether the retailer will ever adopt CurrentC mobile payments Best Buy explained Tuesday that it will support Apple Pay mobile payments, while also remaining a member of the MCX group of retailers that has promoted an alternative payment system called CurrentC. LG bets on battery life over […]

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    Update: A mobile payment battle is blazing

    All eyes are on Samsung Pay and its embedded LoopPay inside the Galaxy S6 smartphone Mobile in-store payments could grow dramatically in the U.S. as the result of a battle brewing among tech giants Google, Samsung and Apple. In the latest development, Samsung today revealed Samsung Pay, a new mobile […]

  • Apple readies another crack at ending Yosemite’s Wi-Fi ills

    Quickening tempo of 10.10.2 beta releases hints at impending release Apple is putting the final touches on the next update to OS X Yosemite as it again tries to stamp out Wi-Fi problems customers have experienced — and reported — since the operating system launched three months ago. In a […]

  • The must-have iPad office apps, round 9.5

    Google’s newly completed Apps suite can’t beat Apple’s improved iWork or Microsoft Office The on-the-go business app toolkit for the iPad Of the tens of thousands of apps available for the iPad, only a relative few are must-have tools for business use. In the last year, the landscape for iPad […]

  • 4 security tips for Apple Pay users

    A payments industry expert shares four tips to help you get safely and security started with Apple’s new contactless payment system, Apple Pay. Many security experts agree that Apple Pay and contactless payment systems like it are an improvement over traditional credit-card based systems. However, Apple Pay is still new […]