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By Juli Clover, MacRumors The iPhone 14‘s Emergency SOS via Satellite feature played an important role in the rescue of a family in Maui that became trapped by the wildfires spreading across the region. Twitter user Michael Miraflor said that five people related to his brother’s girlfriend were caught in a vehicle in Maui after the

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Cisco is adding another company’s staff and technology to its Mobility Services Platform, paying a reported $150 million to acquire Norway-based Working Group 2. Why make the deal – and what’s the mobility platform all about? Masum Mir  explains in this excerpt from a blog posted by Cisco: IoT has come

By Tim Hardwick, MacRumors Popular note-taking app and PDF editor GoodNotes has received its first major update in four years, introducing new AI-powered handwriting recognition features, a marketplace for digital stationery, new pen gestures, and more. The sixth version builds on Goodnotes 5’s iPad handwriting recognition by adding AI-powered Spellcheck, which draws heavily on the neural engine in

CARY – Prolific “X” (Twitter) poster Eric Sweeney, the CEO of Cary-based Epic Games, and his company have so far stayed quiet about its latest legal setback in suing Apple over antitrust claims. Sweeney’s only response as of early Wednesday evening was to “retweet” a post from Bloomberg News about the case. Here’s what’s happening

HIGH POINT – Lumos Fiber, the Triad-based operator of fiber optic networks which is steadily expanding its footprint across North Carolina. has secured $1.1 billion in new funding for more growth as well as to refinance existing debt. The company secured the investment from EQT, a firm with international reach and with some $130 billion

By Juli Clover, MacRumors Netflix on Tuesday released a Netflix Game Controller app, which is designed to allow users to play Netflix games on their TV sets. The App Store description says the Game Controller app will pair with a TV for playing Netflix games using an iPhone. As of right now, Netflix games are limited to the ‌iPhone‌

RALEIGH – The latest weapon in the war on robocalls is an automated system capable of analyzing the content of these unsolicited bulk calls to shed light on both the scope of the problem and the type of scams being perpetuated by robocalls. The tool, called SnorCall, is designed to help regulators, phone carriers and

MORRISVILLE – Ryan McCurdy, a 23 year veteran executive at Intel, is the new senior vice president for North America at Lenovo. Vlad Rozanovich, the former executive in that role, was named to an executive position at Lenovo’s infrastructure business in June. McCury joins Lenovo on Sept. 1. He will report to Matt Zielinski, executive

By Eric Slivka, MacRumors Apple’s annual iPhone event is expected to take place on either Tuesday, September 12, or Wednesday, September 13, this year, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter. With Apple’s usual timing, pre-orders for the new iPhones would go live a few days later on Friday, September 15, and a

Editor’s note: Tom Snyder, executive director of rapidly growing Raleigh-based RIoT and a thought leader in the emerging Internet of Things, recently joined WRAL TechWire’s list of top drawer contributors. “Datafication Nation” premiers today. His columns will be part of WRAL TechWire’s Startup Monday package. +++ RALEIGH – Last week, I  came across a fascinating post by local journalist,