Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has been granted two patents involving the integration of its Maps app in CarPlay. Compatible with iPhone 5 and later models, CarPlay provides a simplified way to use your iPhone interface on a car’s touch screen, giving users access to Siri voice controls, as well as Apple Maps, Apple Music, Phone, Messages, and a variety of third party apps.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">New actions by the Australian government agency, Heritage Victoria, may delay or jeopardize Apple’s plans for a store in Federation Square. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple will open its first store in Kyoto, a cultural and technological hub for Japan, Saturday on Shijō Dori. It will be the company’s ninth retail outlet in the country.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Were you saddened when Apple announced in July that it was ending its photo print service? Don’t be. <a href="https://www.motifphotos.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Motif</a>, a new, free macOS extension from the company that’s been printing Apple’s photo books since 2005, fills the void just fine.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Software startup Cloudtenna is working a global file search (GFS) solution that, for the first time, provides native desktop integration into Apple’s Spotlight search feature and Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, at the end of each week day, we’ll offer this wrap-up of news items you should check out.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has added banners to the iTunes Store and its App Stores so folks can donate to Mercy Corps and help who have been affected by the summer-long flooding in Kerala, India. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple looks to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its planned acquisition of British music discovery app Shazam, reports <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shazam-m-a-apple-eu/eu-set-to-clear-apples-bid-for-music-app-shazam-sources-idUSKCN1L71N3?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28Reuters+Technology+News%29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Reuters</em></a>, quoting two unnamed “people familiar with the matter.” A decision is due by Sept. 18.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Addigy, a provider of cloud-based Apple device management software, has announced new security and management enhancements to the company’s Apple Device Management Platform.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">WaterField Designs has introduced the <a href="https://www.sfbags.com/products/tech-folio-gear-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tech Folio Plus</a>, a gear organizer designed to protect an iPad and electronic accessories that IT consultants and specialists in their field carry with them every day. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Jen Folse, an Apple exec who served as lead designer on a number of projects including tvOS, has left the tech giant to take a senior role at live social broadcasting startup Caffeine.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple’s <a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MRQU2ZM/A/leather-sleeve-for-15-inch-macbook-pro-midnight-blue?fnode=7dd73d40c47ca3aa7632108a14091a1be0eeaa5ae466c21a71643f0bd06b4da37e32de7cc3359ee0abc76ca5ae1c8cbf326aa26e3fd628619ca548f73f3dc9f6efb3f61db419a980d6bb27f2edc33c17e9c9f7e073c7d1d02d19226d53a085d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leather Sleeve for 15-inch MacBook Pro</a> is a thing of beauty — as it should be for $199. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple apparently wants you to sleep better. The company has been granted a patent (number 10,052,061) for “adjusting alarms based on sleep onset latency.” In theory, this would allow an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch to adjust their built-in alarm clocks to adapt to your sleep patterns.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, at the end of each week day, we’ll offer this wrap-up of news items you should check out. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple is alerting customers that support for “Back to My Mac” is ending with macOS Mojave. </p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></p>