Author: Alex Lowe

Google Cast is coming to more speakers this year

Google Cast is very much becoming a standard within its own right, setting game to take on the long established AirPlay from Apple. The technology was originally unveiled back in CES 2015 where Google released their technology plans for Google Cast, not only letting you beam video and photos to a Chromecast which is native Android but also having a native system for playing music to wireless speakers in the […]

Acer launches first monitors with USB-C, work with 12-inch MacBook

This week at CES, Acer unveiled new models of monitors which are incredibly thin but also work with the new 12-inch MacBook which famously only has one port, USB-C. Tthe new H7 series monitors have the new USB standard built in, meaning that any adaptors aren’t needed, but don’t fear these screens do have the usual array of connections with two HDMI 2.0 ports for use with other sources. Acer have […]

What is Touch ID?

So with the recently announced iPhone 6s there have been a significant amount of Android users switching to the iPhone and although Touch ID has been out for over two years, making it’s debut with the iPhone 5s back in September 2013 a lot of the company’s products have since adopted the technology, most of the iPad models now have it as well as the iPhone models following the iPhone […]

Politwoops will start archiving politicians tweets again

If you use Twitter on a daily basis then you’ll likely know that various politicians who use the social network make mistakes with tweets or post something controversial, and then promptly delete them. For a long time those tweets were archived by a website called Politwoops, but earlier this year Twitter removed access to the website which was collecting and archiving tweets from politicians in around thirty countries, the argument which Twitter […]

Domino’s Pizza app comes to Apple Watch

It’s now possible to order pizza from Domino’s in so many different ways, back at the end of 2014 the company unveiled a version of the app for the Xbox One, making ordering once again even easier, also not long ago the company released a dedicated button inside a small pizza box. Now, Domino’s has released a dedicated app of the Apple Watch, complete with the “Easy Order” feature, allowing […]

Twitter for Mac finally updated, new dark theme, messages and more

Back in October we found out that Twitter was working on a brand new version of the app for the Mac, something which has been a few years in waiting. The update is free and is a complete overhaul with a brand new design which beings it inline with the iPhone version as well as a dark theme, which matches the dark theme on OS X. “Twitter for Mac is […]

Samsung Pay now available on more phones, online retailers to accept in 2016

Samsung is eying up Apple’s large mind share as the company is now rolling out plans to offer online payment transactions with Samsung Pay and roll out to more of the company’s devices next year including the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Ko from Reuters made some points and reported on what the company has planned for Samsung Pay next year, he predicts that the service will be made available to some of the […]

Intel acquires chip maker Altera for $16.7 billion

In the company’s biggest acquisition to date, worth $16.7 billion – Intel has just finished with the details on the purchase of Altera, who also makes chips, the idea being that this will help Intel make faster processors doubling the speed that we currently have which will help with data crushing in factual recognition and self driving cars. The Wall Street Journal explained why this makes a huge difference, the […]

Verizon will give out $650 if you switch carriers

Verizon is offering customers from competing carriers such as AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile up to $650 to switch to it’s network. Naturally it’s not as simple as it seems, Verizon requires that you must stay with them for at least six months and you must trade in your old (working) phone. This promotion is similar to how other carriers have done it, buy a new device on a payment plan, […]

Apple trademarks Beats 2, 3, 4 and 5 names for potential upcoming extra stations

One major bug bear with Apple’s Beats 1 that people have had is that the station manages to play a very erratic array of music, Beats 1 is a brilliant achievement, but listening to it is sometimes a but strange, a lot of the time you could be listening to something you like, then hip hop comes on then country music then something completely different. To be fair there is so much […]