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What are people buying with their iPhones? Big Macs and organic food

2014-12-22 16:23:56| Grocery - Topix.net

Apple Inc. users have a love affair with organic food, but they don't mind stretching for a Big Mac sometimes, either. The top three retail locations for Apple Pay users during the first six weeks after the mobile payment service's debut were Whole Foods Market Inc. share of the mobile payments space shot to 1.7% from its launch on Oct. 20 through the end of November, putting it on the same playing field as Google Inc.'s veteran Wallet, according to industry intelligence company ITG.

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'Continuity Activation Tool' for Adding Handoff to Older Macs Now Supports Bluetooth 4.0 Dongles

2014-12-17 21:14:10| Wireless - Topix.net

A new update to the community-built "Continuity Activation Tool" for OS X Yosemite brings Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongle support, allowing users of some older model Macs to enable Handoff and other Bluetooth-related Continuity features on their machines without upgrading internal hardware. The tool does, however, come with some caveats users should be aware of before attempting to activate these features.

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Yosemite's 'Handoff' will work only on Macs less than 2-3 years old

2014-06-23 07:13:55| Wireless - Topix.net

Apple's "Handoff" -- one of the key new features of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite -- will work only on newer Macs that support Bluetooth 4.0 and the Bluetooth LE technology, according to an Apple engineering manager.

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