Shortly after falling to $497 in pre-market trade this morning, Apple’s stock price has teetered on $500 for the first time since February during regular trading hours. Apple’s stock was on a tear during the summer and into the fall, maxing out over $700 in September just before the launch of the highly anticipated iPhone 5. However, after three quarters of impressive growth, and a huge holiday quarter currently going on, many analysts have downgraded their Apple targets as the stock has subsequently fallen in recent weeks....

Automation in Waterfall Vs Automation in Agile In the realm of the traditional process of software testing life cycle, Automation Testing is normally feasible when the application is stable, steady and the requirement is involving with a real considerable amount of time and in most cases involving a set of very skillful automation expert resources as well as a considerable amount of set-up costs. The basic purpose of Automation Testing is to reduce costs over a long time and to ensure no new defects have been introduced as a result of existing test cases....

Are you looking to install a firmware file on Alcatel 1S.? Then you are just in the right place. In this post, we have brought you the latest stock firmware for the Alcatel 1S. These days installing custom ROMs, rooting the device is a pretty common scenario among smartphone enthusiasts. However, not every day is a sunny day. Usually, while customizing your device you may have performed some wrong steps and ended up with a bricked device or a phone stuck in the endless boot loop....

Android always opens the door to various possibilities such as flashing custom ROM or kernel or APK modding etc. So if you have accidentally bricked your Alcatel U3 3G 4049X then you can easily install the firmware flash file on it. Since Alcatel U3 3G is having a MediaTek processor, you have to use the SP Flash tool in order to flash the Stock ROM image on your Alcatel U3 3G 4049X device....

The agreement adds thousands of fresh and old titles, as well as original programming, from Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, Liongates, and other EPIX partners. The beefed catalog more than doubles Prime Instant Video’s previous content offering, which provides instant, unlimited streaming to paid Prime members on the Android-powered Kindle Fire or other supported devices like the iPad. The full press release is below. Over 25,000 movies and TV episodes in Prime Instant Video available on Kindle Fire, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iPad and hundreds of connected TVs and Blu-Ray players...

AAPL’s share price has held steady in after-hours trading despite low guidance on Q2 revenue. Analysts say that the stock had already dropped in response to reports of reduced iPhone X production targets, and the Q2 guidance was thus in line with expectations … AAPL at one point climbed 3% in after-hours trading, before falling back. At the time of writing, it was wavering around +0.7%. Update: Stock was down 2....

Anand, as per usual, does one of the more in-depth reviews we’ve seen of the Thunderbolt Displays. Some interesting notes: The Thunderbolt Display uses less power than the previous Cinema Display at its dimmest setting (likely just panel efficiency variance) and draws a bit more at max brightness. Pegasus hardware seems to cause serious audio issues which corrupts sound while large file transfers are happening. Expect a fix. There are some nuances with display daisy chaining....

Vivo X21 launched on March 2018. Here we will discuss the release of Android 9.0 Pie update for Vivo X21. Google finally released the 9th iteration of Android OS called Android 9.0 Pie. The update has rolled for Pixel supported devices and few other OEM supported with Android Beta. After putting Android users through four beta updates of Android P, Google has named Android 9.0 as Android Pie. It is expected that in the coming months all the devices that had been signed up for the Android P beta program including the OnePlus 6, Oppo R15 Pro, Vivo X21 and more will receive the Android P update first....

What is RecyclerView in Android? Views ViewGroups Core Components of the RecyclerView Large Lists RecyclerView.Recycler Layout Calls – The Tweet List must be crazy Communication between RecyclerView Components RecyclerView.LayoutManager Gradle List of Items Layout to be used for each item in our list Adding the RecyclerView to main layout Create a ViewHolder Create a RecyclerViewAdapter Create Layout Manager Hook our adapter to items and set it on RecyclerView Views The Android platform uses the View and ViewGroup classes to draw items on the screen....

Keep up with the best gear and deals on the web by signing up for the 9to5Toys Newsletter. Also, be sure to check us out on: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and Safari push notifications. TODAY’S CAN’T MISS DEALS: Last Call Updates: The PadBot T1 follows you around during FaceTime conversations like something straight out of the Jetsons [tweet https://twitter.com/9to5toys/status/766012551457075204 align=’center’] Here’s a 34-inch LG UltraWide IPS Display with two HDMI inputs for $310 shipped (Reg....

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What do you do when you come across a webpage you want to save? You can take a screenshot, but this will retain ads and other things you don’t need. Copying the text works, but then you lose images. There are easy ways to export web pages as PDFs. Tap or click here for instructions for Mac or Windows users. Sharing a PDF is as simple as sending an email or text, but creating one of these files isn’t always easy....

Feral Interactive has announced that A Total War Saga: Troy will be available for Mac from October 8. Given the court battle between Apple and Epic Games over app stores, it’s rather ironic that this Mac game is exclusively available from the Epic one! The latest development there is that a trial is not expected to take place until July of next year, and the judge said that Epic was dishonest in its approach....

Farewell, THQ In perhaps the biggest news of the week, game publisher THQ is no more. It’s been shut down and several of the company assets were sold off. More of its properties are still to be auctioned off. It’s a bit sad to see companies like THQ go, because it was such a big part of the industry at one time. At least several of their development studios and games will live on through other publishers....

It’s no secret that many actors use body doubles and stunt doubles while filming their movies. It’s also no secret that there are many actors who are well known for doing their own scenes and stunts, no matter how steamy or dangerous they are. There are many decisions that actors make that end up as major discussion topics on social media and online forums. This can happen when viewers share their thoughts and opinions about an actor’s decision of whether or not to use a body double....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szaXvTsoeVs] Stage 3D Molehill demo For all of you Adobe Flash and Air fans out there, Adobe has released the next major version of the authoring tool out onto the Internet. New features of Flash include, Stage3D APIs, 64-bit support, G.711 audio compression for telephony, H.264/AVC SW Encoding, Socket Progress Events and HD surround sound. Developers can download the betas here. Full listing of new features in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 below:...

X-Ray pulls up an interactive pop over that displays cast and crew details, via IMDB, of the movie or TV show you’re watching. It allows you to pull up which actors you’re seeing on the screen, other shows an actor has appeared in, and other info from IMDB. It allows you to play some movie and TV show trivia, too. Access X-Ray on Fire TV Pulling up X-Ray on the Fire TV or Fire TV Stick is easy....

Google has recently announced a new version of Android called Oreo. Since then the developers have started tweaking ROMs and features to make it more reliable. The battery saver mode on Android may be quite effective in extending your battery life by restricting wallpaper services, disabling animations, and performing various other tweaks. But, it uses some additional steps which some may appear excessive or unnecessary. Does vibration actually use enough power to justify switching it off, such as?...

A handful of rumors have indicated that this year’s iPhone 13 will use new LTPO display technology to enable ProMotion high-refresh rate. Now, display analyst Ross Young is corroborating this expectation, saying that Apple’s adoption of LTPO will help make it the dominant display technology over the next two years. For those unfamiliar, Ross Young is an analyst for Display Supply Chain Consultants. As such, his reporting is usually based on indications from the supply chain similar to analysts such as Ming-Chi Kuo....