Apple Names Jeff Williams Chief Operating Officer

Tor Myhren Joins Apple CUPERTINO, California — December 17, 2015 — Apple® today announced that Jeff Williams has been named chief operating officer and Johny Srouji is joining Apple’s executive team as senior vice president for Hardware Technologies. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, will expand his role to include leadership of the revolutionary App Store® across all Apple platforms. Apple also announced...

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Mitsubishi’s SeaAerial is an antenna made of seawater

The company developed a special nozzle to spew out the seawater plumes, since they need to be insulated to work. It also had to determine the plume diameter ideal for transmitting signals and managed to compute for a size that achieves a 70 percent efficiency. Since SeaAerial is comprised of only two components (a pump and an insulated nozzle), it can be installed anywhere where seawater is accessible. In the future, they could be...

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Mitsubishi’s SeaAerial is an antenna made of seawater

The company developed a special nozzle to spew out the seawater plumes, since they need to be insulated to work. It also had to determine the plume diameter ideal for transmitting signals and managed to compute for a size that achieves a 70 percent efficiency. Since SeaAerial is comprised of only two components (a pump and an insulated nozzle), it can be installed anywhere where seawater is accessible. In the future, they could be...

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Record-Breaking Holiday Season for the App Store

CUPERTINO, California — January 6, 2016 — Apple® today announced that customers around the world made this holiday season the biggest ever for the App Store®, setting new records during the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s. In the two weeks ending January 3, customers spent over $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases, setting back-to-back weekly records for traffic and purchases. January 1, 2016 marked the biggest day in App Store...

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Tinder adds GIF support to show matches what you really mean

Beyond that, emoji are bigger when you drop them into a message now, profile pictures have grown and you can add to those directly from the camera roll. Previously, you’d have to go through the rigamarole of pulling from photos uploaded to Facebook. It was kind of a nightmare.The “dating” app’s also brought in support for 3D Touch, with a deep press previewing links within messages on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus....

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