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Ford decides to end sales in Japanese and Indonesian markets

Ford is planning to end sales of it’s cars in Japan and Indonesia by the end of this year, including the Focus, Fiesta and Mustang and some of the company’s SUV models. Ford has been selling cars in Japan for years, since 1974 in fact but last year only sold 5000 cars which didn’t amount to much compared to the new car market in that area of the world the […]

Barclays will support Apple Pay in the UK by April

Back in July last year when Apple Pay made it over to the UK initially most of the major UK banks and credit unions signed up for the service apart from Barclays, as of writing a total of 15 banks or credit card companies in the UK now support Apple Pay, including Lloyds Bank, M&S Bank, TSB and Halifax. In July, Barclays initially stated that they wont be accepting Apple […]

Warning: People are sharing a link which will crash your iPhone

There’s a link being shared over the internet which is primarily designed to crash the Safari browser on your iPhone, once you visit the site which is crashsafari.com it’ll force the device into a reboot, TechRadar have tested the website and have confirmed that it does indeed crash your iPhone, iPad or computer running Safari. The website works buy loading a never ending stream of characters, which in turn makes it so that the […]

Amazon Echo now tells you movie times and NFL scores

While the Amazon Echo isn’t even available in the UK yet (come on Amazon!) the device does keep receiving updates to make tit much more useful for users, with the latest software update the Amazon Echo can now tell what time certain movies are showing around you and what cinemas its in, the command needed is: “Alexa, what comedy films are on near me?” or “Alexa, when is Spectre showing? As well […]

What is Lower Power Mode in iOS 9 and how do I use it?

So back in September, you updated to iOS 9 and you noticed a new option in settings called ‘Low Power Mode’ or your phone ran down to 20% and said “Activate Low Power Mode,” but what does this feature do to your phone and should you use it? In this post we’ll run down what it does and also how to activate it. iOS 9 So in iOS 9 Apple […]

Back in 2014, Google paid Apple $1 billion to be the default search on iPhone

Just today the news has broke that back in 2014 Google actually paid Apple $1 billion to simply be the default search engine on the iPhone, as well as the iPad. This deal was obviously kept very secret until now but the news came from court transcripts which were aquried by Bloomberg. The question is, if Google hadn’t of paid Apple that money what would be the default search engine on […]

WhatsApp is dropping charges to be completely free

Good news, WhatsApp has backtracked on its decision to charge for the use of the service, now earlier today the company has announced that to make the app more accessible to people and for people not to lose their messages and to do that it needs to be a totally free service, in the past it has been free for one year then $0.99/69p a year there after. The co-founder […]

Xbox One will have background music this summer

Some news on when we will be getting an update for the Xbox One to enable background music has emerged from Phil Spencer, the Xbox head when a fan asked hum when we will expect to see the feature added to the console, but unfortunately it wont be until the summer, so until then Groove Music or YouTube will have to be snapped to the side for the time being.

BT’s acquisition of EE for £12.5 billion has been approved

It doesn’t seem that long ago since BT announced that it was planning to buy EE, but here we are 11 months down the line and the acquisition has been approved, the wait was with the regulators who had to make sure that the two companies together won’t have an unfair advantage over any of the competition. But earlier today the acquisition of EE for £12.5 billion has been approved. The regulators looked into […]

Samsung may be investing $7 billion to supply new OLED displays for iPhones

The next iPhone might have a OLED display as Samsung Display might have a deal with Apple to supply OLED displays for the iPhones in 2018, so multiple reports say. Samsung is reportedly investing around $7.47 to manufacture new OLED displays. The display division of Samsung is said to be ramping up production of OLED displays by 30,000 to 45,000 panels per month for the rest of this year. Despite the […]