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Apple quietly extends iTunes Store movie rental viewing times from 24 to 48 hours

Coinciding with the launch of the new Apple TV 4K and iPhone 8 devices, Apple on Friday updated its website with new information regarding movie rentals, saying viewers now have up to 48 hours to complete their rented titles after first pressing play. Prior to the change, iTunes Store customers had only a 24-hour period […]

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Rumor: Twitter looking to prevent web links, images, from eating into 140-character limit

This might come in handy. Twitter might be moving towards changes that allow you to tweet web links and images without it counting against the user’s 140-character limit. In the past, Twitter reportedly toyed with this idea, but only made changes to direct message lengths. The current rumor is that the company is set to […]

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Apple bumps iTunes Match practical limit up to 100,000 songs

This is kind of neat. A number of users have reported that Apple has raised the song upload/matching limit for iTunes Match and Apple Music libraries over 25,000, as promised in June by SVP for Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue. It’s presently unknown what the new practical limit is, and official iTunes Match documentation […]

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Apple Pay transaction limit jumps to 30 pounds in UK

The amount of stuff you can buy with Apple Pay in the UK without entering a PIN or signature has grown to 30 pounds, wherein it had previously been 20 pounds. That’s kind of like getting an expanded allowance. The UK Cards Association, a national credit card payments industry group, raised the upper limit for […]

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Apple raises maximum iOS app size from 2GB to 4GB

Your iOS apps are about to get a lot larger. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Apple on Thursday announced that it is increasing the maximum app size from 2GB to 4GB, letting developers release apps that are up to 4GB in size. The extended limits will likely be useful for high-quality game titles that […]