Dennis Sellers

<p>Apple must pay a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corp, a patent licensing company (some would say, “patent troll”), $22.1 million after a federal jury in Tyler, Texas, found that it had willfully infringed a cellular network-related patent, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/ip-cce-apple-idUSL2N1BR28V" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a>.</p>

<p>The gang at iFixIt, who tears apart tech products so you don’t have to, has completed its teardown of the Apple Watch Series 2. They say that, or the most part, the Series 2 is a typical second revision Apple device: it looks almost exactly the same on the outside, but it’s super refined and a bit easier to work with on the inside. </p>

<p>AirBeamTV has announced Mirror for LG TV 1.0.0 for Mac OS X (10.10 and higher), the latest in a family of screen mirroring apps. It lets you wirelessly mirror the screen of a Mac directly on any LG Smart TV without the need for any additional hardware. </p>

<p>The gang at iFixIt, who tears apart tech products so you don’t have to, has completed its teardown of the <a href="http://createsend.ifixit.com/t/r-l-ydmyko-xlkjygu-j/">iPhone 7 Plus</a>. There’s been a lot of buzz about the waterproofiness of the 7 Plus, so they took a look at what contributes to that stellar IP67 rating. </p>

<p>The new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus go on <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/15/technology/iphone-7-sale/index.html">sale</a> at Apple stores and carrier retail locations in more than 25 countries today, with prices starting at $649. With strong handset pre-orders, Apple shares have so far gained 12% in what could be their best week since October 2011.</p>

<p>Data from <a target="_blank" href="https://intelligence.slice.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slice Intelligence</a> says the first online sales figures (from its database of over four million shoppers) and reports from early shoppers shows the iPhone 7 Plus is more popular than the iPhone 7. </p>

<p>Apple’s iTunes unit in Japan was ordered to pay some 12 billion yen (about $118 million) in tax by local authorities after underreporting income, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-japan-tax-idUSKCN11M09O" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a>. It’s been paid.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://xqsuperschool.org/challenge">XQ: The Super School Project</a> of Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, is placing $10 million bets on 10 high schools over the next five years designed to spark experimentation nationwide, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/14/100-million-jobs-widow-aims-remake-schools-high-tech-age/90353636/" rel="noopener noreferrer">USA TODAY.</a> Powell Jobs will be in Washington on Wednesday evening to unveil the 10 lucky schools funded through her charity, <a href="http://www.emersoncollective.com/">The Emerson Collective</a>.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Do you often forget where your parked your car in the mall parking lot? If you’ve got an iPhone running iOS 10, no problem</p>

<p>Logitech's $59.99 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/k750-keyboard" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 for Mac</a> will tempt you if:</p>

<p>Apple has released a second gold master of macOS Sierra to developers, even though the finished version of the operating system is due next week. </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>Oops. A carrier settings update, associated with iOS 10, is causing some T-Mobile customers to lose their cellular connection in places where they normally have a signal, according to complaints on Apple's support forums. <a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/15/t-mobile-users-complain-about-ios-10-carrier-settings-causing-service-blackouts" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a> says it’s confirmed the glitch.</p>

<p>Box ranks highest among fee-based cloud storage service providers and performs particularly well in the price of service, storage capacity, variety of features offered, speed of downloading/uploading files and security factors, according to the J.D. Power 2016 Cloud Storage Satisfaction Report released today. Apple’s iCloud fares less well.</p>

<p>A year after the launch of the Apple Watch established a new benchmark for the worldwide smartwatch market, new smartwatch shipments are expected to see only modest growth for the rest of 2016 due to late-in-the-year and iterative product releases. According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idc.com&esheet=51420437&newsitemid=20160915005309&lan=en-US&anchor=IDC&index=1&md5=42e961a57961258691ff268a11f51d31">IDC</a>) <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idc.com%2Ftracker%2Fshowproductinfo.jsp%3Fprod_id%3D962&esheet=51420437&newsitemid=20160915005309&lan=en-US&anchor=Worldwide+Quarterly+Wearable+Device+Tracker&index=2&md5=c4eaaf247439d8d0fc8d606ef642bb5f">Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker</a>, total smartwatch shipments will reach 20.1 million units in 2016, an increase of 3.9% from the 19.4 million units shipped in 2015.</p>