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 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, […]
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 […]
Apple and Samsung have a famous history, only just recently has Apple won a court case against Samsung in which Apple were paid $548 million in settlement for the case which is now around five years old, Apple has accused Samsung of a variety of things one being the pinch-to-zoom on the iPhone but two years ago the US Patent Office deemed it as nonpatentable. Apple is now asking for […]
The Beatles have always had an awkward relationship with the digital age, back in 2010 it took Steve Jobs ages to negotiate to get any of their music to be sold on iTunes and that was the only place it could be purchased digitally. Now (most) of The Beatles collection is arable to be streamed oni all the major services including Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify and Microsoft Groove, starting yesterday […]
The GoPro channel is the company’s stratergy to show off the capabilites of it’s cameras and the vidoes it can do. The Xbox One has had the channel for over half a year now and also the new 4th generation Apple TV has it now and now the PlayStation 3 and 4 has it now which will allow users to play and stream GoPro footage and buy products from the […]
Apple pay has now been out for over a year now, in the US at least and here in the UK since July and Apple doesnt seem to standing still, the payment service is now coming to China ealry next year – following Apple breaking the news this week. “Apple Pay has revolutionized the way millions of people pay every day with their iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad,” said Eddy […]
The new Apple TV is great, I can confirm that but one thing that is missing is the addition of the UK’s biggest on demand service, BBC iPlayer. When Apple’s new set-top box was announced back in September alongside the iPhone 6s and iPad Pro, the BBC said that they had “no plans” to release an app for the Apple TV, but after some developers managed to whip up and […]
The new Apple TV has only been on sale for just over a month now and already, tvOS has over 2,600 native applications which can be downloaded, apps such as games, shopping apps, weather, panoramic views and ways to watch TV. Also surprisingly as this device is intended to be plugged into a TV to watch Netflix, Now TV and YouTube and in the US Hulu, HBO Now and ESPN […]
Google seem to be making strides in making its own hardware recently, the Chromebook Pixel was the first device made by the company and the Pixel C continues in the line and is the first tablet to be developed by the company and its now on sale through the Google website. Google seem to be aiming the Pixel C at the iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro as it is […]
