Year: 2021

Apple’s App Store Connect announces Upcoming Holiday Hours

Dan Uff December 21, 2021 0

Apple's App Store connect, a web site where developers submit iOS and Mac Apps to the App Store, has announced their Holiday hours notifying developers when they can submit their apps to try and be approved and included during the Christmas Season.

The notice reads:

Holiday schedule:
This year, we’re pleased to continue accepting submissions throughout the holidays. Due to anticipated high volume, plan to send time-sensitive submissions early. Please note that reviews may take longer to complete from December 23 to 27.

This will mark the first time that developers are able to submit updates or new apps to the App Store during the Christmas Season.

What’s this Apple Music Voice Plan? Read here.

Dan Uff December 21, 2021 0

According to Apple, the Apple Music Voice Plan is:

A new subscription designed exclusively for Siri, giving you access to any song, playlist, or station using just your voice — on all your Apple devices. Start listening simply by saying, “Hey Siri, start Apple Music Voice.”

The service offers the following features:

90 million songs

More than 30,000 expert-curated playlists

Request any song, album, playlist or station simply by asking Siri

Free trial with no commitment

Stream ad-free music

Original shows, concerts, and exclusives

Live and on-demand radio stations hosted by artists

Available on Apple devices

Works with Type to Siri

Available on other supported devices

Spatial audio with Dolby Atmos

Full catalog in lossless audio

Lyrics view

Download 100,000 songs to your library

Access your entire library from any device and listen online or off

See what your friends are listening to

Unlimited access for up to six people

Personal music library for each family member

Personalized music recommendations for each family member

Apple Music Voice costs $14.99/Month. Apple's offering a free trial period for a limited time.

For more information. click here.

QVC’s Distribution Center Fire in North Carolina last Sunday – Finds Body in Rubble

CompuScoop Staff December 20, 2021 0

A 21-year-old man was found dead at the QVC distribution center in North Carolina on Sunday, a day after a five-alarm fire burned through the facility.

Fire Search and Recovery members had located a body "on the outbound side of the loading dock" at the QVC building in Rocky Mount, the Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

They said the deceased had been identified as 21-year-old Kevon Ricks, with QVC identifying the man as a contractor at the site.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Mr. Ricks as well as all team members affected by this tragedy,” the statement from the sheriff's office said.

It comes after fire crews were called to the QVC center, a major employer in the area, at around 2a.m. on Saturday for a fire that was eventually declared a five-alarm blaze, the sheriff's office said in an earlier statement.

"As members of local law enforcement and fire departments began to arrive it was determined that there was a fire inside one of the main warehouses," the statement said.

Workers were still on the job at the facility when the fire broke out and the sheriff’s office had said one person had been unaccounted for.

Via: NBC News

FaceBook (aka Meta) is the worse company of the year according to survey

CompuScoop Staff December 20, 2021 0

Every December, Yahoo Finance selects a Company of the Year, based on its market performance and its achievements that particular year. In 2021, Microsoft (MSFT) took home the crown, smashing through the $2 trillion market capitalization mark and seeing a 53% surge in its stock price as of Dec. 16, year-to-date.

However, the spirit of Festivus has taught us we can learn just as much from the bad as the good by airing our grievances. That’s why Yahoo Finance also selects a Worst Company of the Year, polling our audience as to which company upset them the most.

Our survey’s 1,541 respondents were mad about a lot this year, from the Robinhood (HOOD) trading freezes last winter to electric truck startup Nikola still not having its act together. But one company irked them the most — Facebook (FB). The survey’s results shed more light on why the company decided to rebrand this year to a new name: Meta Platforms.

The open-ended survey was posted on Yahoo Finance on Dec. 4 and Dec. 5, and dozens of names were submitted. Facebook received 8% of the write-in vote.

Facebook has had its share of controversies this year. It’s been under the antitrust microscope and faced a flurry of allegations from a whistleblowerclaiming Facebook ignored safety issues for the sake of growth. Congress is constantly demanding answers from the company on both fronts. At the same time, some critics, including conservatives, say Facebook over-policed the platform’s speech and stifled their voices. Other critics, including those on the left side of the aisle, claim Facebook allows the spread of misinformation.

What is especially interesting about the Company Formerly Known as Facebook is just how many and varied the reasons people dislike it. It received 50% more votes than the second-place finisher, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, not for one singular offense but for a litany of grievances from groups of people that may have little else to agree about.

Via: Yahoo! Finance