Dennis Sellers

<p>As noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.macrumors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacRumors</a>, Apple updated its <a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/">leadership page</a> this weekend to reflect a tweak to Angela Ahrendts' title, which has been simplified to "Senior Vice President, Retail" as "Online Stores" has been dropped. </p>

<p>A jury in Tyler, Texas <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-01/virnetx-wins-302-4-million-trial-against-apple-in-texas">ruled Friday</a> that Apple infringed on two of VirnetX's patents related to its FaceTime calling feature, ordering Apple to pay $302.4 million.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.medable.com/">Medable</a>, an application and analytics platform for health care, has announced Axon, a solution that enables health professionals to directly build clinical study applications without a developer in a matter of hours. It works with Apple’s ResearchKit.</p>

<p>Feral Interactive has announced that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/games/dawnofwar2/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II</a> is now available on the Feral Store, Steam, and the Mac App Store.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.xdorialife.com/">X-Doria</a> has unveiled its new line of Revel and Rumble cases for the iPhone 7. The former is a slim snap-on, pocketable case built with co-molded protection. </p>

<p>28bit Technologies has rolled out 1000 OpenType Fonts 4.0 on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.macappware.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacAppware website</a> and the <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1000-opentype-fonts-commercial/id664501556" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mac App Store</a>. This font collection includes 240 unique font family styles, with a total of 1,000 fonts in all. </p>

<p>Pixel Film Studios has released <a target="_blank" href="http://store.pixelfilmstudios.com/product/proclone/" rel="noopener noreferrer">ProClone</a> for Apple’s Final Cut Pro X. It’s a $29.95 repeating media tool plug-in that allows users to add layers of duplicated footage on top of an original source.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">ChargeTech has launched its PLUG battery pack, which sports 48,000m Ah battery capacity and 250 watts of power.</p>

<p>After announcing the launch of Maps Development Center on May 19, Apple has short-listed 30 engineering students from the city for a 6-month project work before they could be considered for placements some time in April next year, according to the<em> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/apple-offers-project-internships-to-students-for-possible-jobs-at-maps-development-center-116093000818_1.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Business Standard</a></em>.</p>

<p>Apple and Ireland are preparing appeals to argue that European Union (EU) competition investigators unfairly kept them in the dark during a probe that ended in a record 13 billion-euro ($14.6 billion) tax bill, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-30/apple-irish-said-to-claim-eu-kept-them-in-dark-during-tax-probe?bcomanews=true" rel="noopener noreferrer">reports Bloomberg</a>, quoting unnamed “people with knowledge of their case.”</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>Shipments of smartphones in the Taiwan market totaled 663,000 units in August, an increase of 44,000 units or 7% from the previous month, according to data compiled by local retail channels — as noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160930PD208.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">DigiTimes</a>.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160930PD211.html"><em>Digitimes</em></a> reports that Taiwan is one of the next countries in line to get Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payment service, possibly by the end of the year. The country’s CTBC Bank, Cathay United Commercial Bank, E.SUN Commercial Bank and Taishin International Bank are expected to support the service.</p>

<p>Cord-cutters, take note: the CW network has released <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-cw/id491730359?mt=8" rel="noopener noreferrer">a free app</a> that allows all fourth-generation Apple TV owners to watch new episodes of shows on the network for free with no cable authentication or login required. It accompanies the free app for the iPhone and iPad.</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.zerodium.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zerodium</a>, a broker of security exploits, is offering $1.5 million for attacks that work against fully patched iPhones and iPads, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/1-5-million-bounty-for-iphone-exploits-is-sure-to-bolster-supply-of-0days/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ars Technica</a>. That's triple the size of its previous offer.</p>