Earlier today, Apple released the second beta of iOS 10.3 to registered developers. Just two weeks after launching the first beta. As with every big ‘point’ release of iOS, iOS 10.3 brings some pretty significant new features to the mobile OS. Most notable is the new Apple File System or APFS. APFS is a new file storage system designed for truly strong encryption and is designed purely for SSD and […]
The Chinese government took censorship quite seriously in the early part of last year, with a law which banned most content from foreign publishers. The authorities were even blocking large sites such as Facebook and YouTube. Residents were obviously trying ways to get round these country wide restrictions, one of which are VPNs, now the Chinese authorities have made using VPNs illegal. Obviously some people do require VPNs for work so […]
When a new version of Android is released, it usually take a good few months for it too reach certain phones. But today Samsung is adding support for the latest version of Android, Nougat to the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Samsung of course have added their own twist to Google’s design with smatterings of TouchWiz elements. While Android Nougat was launched back in August, it still seems to take […]
Earlier this week, American wireless carrier AT&T officially announced that it’s original 2G network was shut down on January 1st 2017. In a article from The Verge, they point out that the original iPhone will be unusable now as that relied on the 2G network from AT&T, making the device unusable for cellular communication, also there may be a lot of collectors and a small group of people who do still use […]
As promised, Vine has officially closed the video sharing service down. The original app has been updated and replaced with a black icon and changed name. The app is now reborn as Vine Camera and it allows you to record six second videos, edit them and then share them on Twitter. Vine Camera also allows you to save drafts, make multiple loops and more. Last month, Twitter let users know that […]
The original iPhone, when it was launched back in 2007 wasn’t a massive hit, but with the second and third generation Apple’s new smartphone was selling in big numbers and was a huge hit with critics, once the App Store was added. But back went the iPhone was being developed, it went through so many internal prototypes and variations – like all electronic products do. But what we never saw […]
Ford hasn’t had much to do with electric cars in the last few years, there was an electric version of the Focus a few years ago that was sold only the US and within the cars offered in the UK, no electric cars are offered at all. But in the US Ford is offering six different electric cars, adding up to 69,883 sales in 2016. That all changes, Ford CEO […]
When the first Apple Watch was launched back in 2015, the marketing Apple did was immense. Everywhere you looked for a few months the Apple Watch was everywhere, on magazine covers and also in London, Selfridges had an exclusive area within the store for the Apple Watch alone. Located on the first left in the huge Wonder Room – which is a 19,000 square foot hall dedicated to jewellery and […]
In the late part of last year, Samsung were in quite a bit of trouble with the Galaxy Note 7. Prelude Samsung launched the phone back in August – just in time to beat the Apple to the iPhone 7 announcement, which happened in the first few weeks in September, unfortunately just shortly after the Note 7 being shipped, reports began appearing of the phone catching fire or even exploding whilst charging. Most […]
You may not have heard of WeChat, but the messaging app is one of the most popular social media platforms in China. It’s popularity is huge – with over 768 million daily active users now using it. This information comes in a report from Tencent, a Chinese firm who specialise in media and mobile phone investments. They found that around half of all WeChat users spend around 90 minutes per day […]
