Dennis Sellers

<p>The Davka Corp. has announced Alef Bet Schoolhouse for the Mac. It’s an app that introduces Hebrew letter basics to children ages three and up. </p>

<p>iShoes, anyone? Okay, I don’t think Apple is entering the shoe business, but the company has been granted a patent (number 9,578,927) for a <strong>“shoe wear-out sensor, body-bar sensing system, unit less activity accessment, and associated methods.”</strong></p>

<p>According to the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-next-iphone-will-have-a-curved-screen-1488260583" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wall Street Journal</a>, the upcoming “iPhone 8” will have a curved OLED display and will ditch the Lightning port for a USB-C port.</p>

<p>More folks companies are realizing the health, comfort and productivity of "standing desks." For these reasons, Fellowes Brands has introduced the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fellowes.com/us/en/Products/Pages/product-listing.aspx?cat=OFFICE-WELL-BEING&subcat=SIT_STAND_SOLUTIONS&tercat=SIT_STANDS" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lotus Sit-Stand Workstation</a>. It works well with, say, an iMac, but was cumbersome when I used it with my combination of 15-inch MacBook Pro and a 27-inch LG Ultrafine 5K.</p>

<p>You can view, add, or edit user names and passwords Safari saved for websites. To set these options, open Safari, choose Safari > Preferences, then click Passwords.</p>

<p>Banco Santander, a retail and commercial bank headquartered in Spain, and IBM have announced a collaboration to design and develop a suite of IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps to “support the banking group's digital transformation and give employees the tools to create deeper engagements with their customers.”</p>

<p>The AWT News Update is on hiatus while my compadre, Steve, takes a trip. In its place, I’ll offer a text-only (no podcast) summary of breaking stories with a tip o’ my hat to my former website, <em>Apple Daily Report</em>.</p>

<p>AKVIS Points 3.0 is compatible with macOS 10.7 and higher.The product is available as a standalone application and as a plugin filter for Adobe Photoshop, Corel PaintShop Pro, and other image editors.</p>

<p>Apple has released new developer betas of iOS 10.3, macOS Sierra 10.12.4, and watchOS 3.2. Developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center or the Software Update mechanism in the App Store.</p>

<p>Rhoda Alexander, director of Tablets and PCs, at the IHS Markit research group tells <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2017/02/26/apple-readies-new-2017-ipad-pro-low-cost-ipad-but-release-date-not-certain/#59b666ef939f" rel="noopener noreferrer">Forbes contributor Brooke Crothers</a> that we should expect to see a new iPad Pro design with a 10.5-inch display soon. This echoes a <a target="_blank" href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2016/8/15/the-latest-ipad-pro-rumors-and-my-take-on-them?rq=Ming-Chi%20Kuo" rel="noopener noreferrer">prediction</a> made last August by KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.</p>

<p>SAP SE plans to deliver the SAP Cloud Platform SDK [software developer kit] for iOS on March 30, giving developers the tools for building enterprise apps for the iPhone and iPad. </p>

<p>Apple came in ninth on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/2017-superbrands-announced/27/02/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Top 20 Business Superbrands for 2017 list</a>, a survey of marketing experts and thousands of British business professionals. British Airways claimed the top spot. </p>

<p>Western Digital Corporation has increased the capacity of its line of iOS mobile flash drives with the introduction of its <a target="_blank" href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandisk.com%2Fhome%2Fmobile-device-storage%2Fixpand&esheet=51516194&newsitemid=20170226005105&lan=en-US&anchor=256GB**+SanDisk%C2%AE+iXpandTM+Flash+Drive&index=1&md5=e7b66f5def0fb6c369b7ec76788e74bf" rel="noopener noreferrer">256GB SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/connect-wireless-stick&esheet=51516194&newsitemid=20170226005105&lan=en-US&anchor=256GB+SanDisk+ConnectTM+Wireless+Stick&index=2&md5=ade098478ddee748219b5bf3482e99f8" rel="noopener noreferrer">256GB SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick</a>.<strong> </strong>The former is a mobile storage device designed to help people quickly and easily free up space on their iPhone and iPad.</p>

<p>Following six straight quarters of year-over-year decline, the Australian mobile phone market returned to growth as it shipped 2.93 million mobile phones in quarter four of 2016, as compared to 2.84 million the same time the previous year representing a 3.2% year-over-year growth.</p>

<p>Andrew Murphy, co-founder of the Loup Ventures a venture capital firm called Loup Ventures, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/17/02/9094136/and-the-oscar-goes-to-apple?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+benzinga%2Fbest-of-benzinga+%28The+Best+of+Benzinga%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner" rel="noopener noreferrer">predicts that Apple will win an Oscar</a> within five years for its original content. That amount of time happens to be the period it should take the company to scale its original content. </p>