Dennis Sellers

<p>You can access Control Center from any screen on your iPhone and iPad, including while you’re in an app or playing a game. However, the procedure has been tweaked a bit in iOS 11.</p>

<p>On a regular basis, <em>Apple World Today</em> posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are today's picks.</p>

<p>India’s smartphone market shipments grew 23% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2017 to reach just over 40 million units. India has now overtaken the U.S. to become the world’s second largest smartphone market after China, according to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.canalys.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Canalys research group</a>.</p>

<p>Apple has been granted a patent (number 20170309991) for devices with millimeter wave yagi antennas. They should appear in upcoming iPhones, iPads, and perhaps Macs designed for next generation 5G networks. Said said networks should begin arriving in 2020.</p>

<p>U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has delivered on promises to expedite a jury trial to determine damages for Apple in its $400 million smartphone patent war with Samsung, moving up the trial date by two weeks to May 14, 2018, and imposing limits on pretrial motions, reports <a target="_blank" href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/951510/apple-samsung-400m-ip-damages-trial-moved-up-to-may?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Law360</em></a>.</p>

<p>Apple has told the Federal Circuit that a Wisconsin federal court’s $506 million judgment that the company infringed a computer processor patent held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation was “fraught with error” and must be overturned, reports <a target="_blank" href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/978309/apple-urges-fed-circ-to-junk-506m-patent-loss-to-u-wis-?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Law360</em></a>.</p>

<p>Tap Guides has published the <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1300974886" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>iPhone X Pro Guide</em></a>, a $3.99, 476-page ebook available in the Apple iBookstore that serves up lots of info about the just-released iPhone X and iOS. </p>

<p>With macOS High Sierra, you can hare a single iCloud storage plan, and give everyone in the family their own private space to store their backups, documents, and photos. Here’s how:</p>

<p>FaronStudio's PixPlant is a professional texturing tool for macOS and Windows. The app offers an integrated environment for the creation of 3D maps from plain photos.</p>

<p>On a regular basis, <em>Apple World Today</em> posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are today's picks.</p>

<p>According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.strategyanalytics.com/access-services/devices/mobile-phones/emerging-devices/market-data/report-detail/smartphone-artificial-intelligence-technologies-global-forecast-2010-to-2022#.We35dnb_phE" rel="noopener noreferrer">one out of every three smartphones sold worldwide this year</a> will use artificial intelligence (AI) to power virtual assistants. The research group says that Google leads in AI-powered smartphones (45.9%) with Apple’s iPhone a close second (41.1%) — for now.</p>

<p>Checkout.com, an international online payments company, says it will bring Apple Pay to its customers in the UAE. Already offered in Europe for Checkout.com customers, Apple Pay is now available in the UAE (United Arab Emirates), the first country in the Middle East to accept the mobile payment system.</p>

<p>Apple has acquired or at least hired some talent away from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.invisage.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">InVisage</a>, a developer of QuantumFilm camera sensors, according to <a target="_blank" href="http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.ca/2017/10/invisage-acquired-by-apple.html" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Image Sensors World</em></a> (as noted by<em> </em><a target="_blank" href="http://MacRumors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>MacRumors.com</em></a>), citing two unnamed sources. The article claims the deal was finalized in July. </p>

<p>Apple has brought on board BBC and Channel 4 executive Jay Hunt, the company’s first high-profile broadcasting executive hire outside of the U.S., the <em>Financial Times</em> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ft.com/content/cf217f08-b926-11e7-8c12-5661783e5589?mhq5j=e5" rel="noopener noreferrer">reports</a>. She will start at Apple in January 2018 and be part of the team with a $1 billion budget for original content creation, the article adds. </p>

<p>Apple is allowing suppliers to reduce the accuracy — “if only a little” — of Face ID to speed up production of the iPhone X, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/inside-apple-s-struggle-to-get-the-iphone-x-to-market-on-time" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Bloomberg</em></a>, quoting unnamed sources.</p>