Tag: Service industries
How to use Apple Cash to send and receive money on your iPhone
Over the past few years, Apple has been getting perilously close to becoming a full-fledged bank. Features like Apple Pay, Apple Cash, the Apple Card, and the most recent additions, the Apple Card Savings Account and Apple Pay Later service, are blurring the lines between your bank account and your iPhone — and that’s not a bad thing for those who enjoy life in Apple’s walled garden.
Next to Apple Pay, perhaps the most useful of Apple’s iPhone-integrated financial features
LG’s wireless M-Series TV tech is the future we need
While LG has a solid track record of bringing its innovative tech to market so folks can actually buy it, a lot of what we see at CES is vaporware. This stuff is exciting to see amid the mayhem of the world’s biggest tech show, but then, all too often — poof — it’s gone, never to be seen again. That being the case, I tend to hold my excitement at bay until a product
First regular drone delivery service lifts off in UK
The U.K’s Royal Mail has launched a daily drone delivery service for a group of Scottish islands in the far north of the country, making it the first regular postal service in the country to be powered by a remotely controlled copter.
The new mail delivery operation serves Orkney, a community of around 22,000 people living on 20 of its 70 small islands about 10 miles north of the mainland.
Following lengthy tests of the drone delivery service with Skysports
Illegal robocall operation handed largest-ever fine by FCC
Running a robocall operation can be a costly business, it seems, especially if you find yourself on the end of a fine handed out by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The American regulator has just announced what it says is a record-breaking $300 million fine for “the largest illegal robocall operation the agency has ever investigated.”
Operating since at least 2018, the enterprise involved a “complex scheme designed to facilitate the sale of vehicle service contracts under the false and
Musk to speak to Apple boss about adjusting the Apple tax
Elon Musk has said he’s going to have a word with Apple boss Tim Cook about “adjusting” the 30% fee that Apple takes from in-app purchases made via its App Store.
Musk, CEO of Twitter (now X), said in a tweet on Wednesday that changing the way that it’s charged would maximize the amount that creators on Twitter would receive when followers subscribe to their exclusive content.
Specifically, he said he’d prefer it if Apple took 30% of the subscription
The best apps for a second phone number: our 10 favorites
A second phone number is a useful thing and can be used to separate your personal life from your business life — or even just used as an extra layer of insulation when interacting with strangers, websites, or just dating. You might think getting a second phone number is difficult and would require swapping out SIM cards or getting a new phone or something similar.
But you couldn’t be more wrong! All you need to
Amazon expands its virtual healthcare service across U.S.
Amazon is expanding its Clinic healthcare platform to all 50 U.S. states, plus Washington D.C.
Amazon Clinic launched in November 2022 to help people seek medical help for more than 30 common health conditions such as migraines, sinus infections, and pink eye.
The service doesn’t use its own physicians but instead acts as a way of connecting patients with licensed clinicians for virtual care. Current provider groups include Wheel, SteadyMD, Curai Health, and Hello Alpha.
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