China has long had a ban on gaming consoles in the country, but last year it was lifted for companies registered within Shanghai. Now, the Ministry of Culture has now allowed companies to sell consoles. China now uses a large amount of smartphones led recently by Apple as the country has become a large market for iPhone – for some people a smartphone is their only device for TV, gaming, […]
The Apple Watch, so far has only been on sale through Apple themselves or in Selfridges in London but in the beginning of August the new smartwatch from Apple will go on sale in Best Buy – bringing the device to initially 100 stores. Best Buy will be offering the Apple Watch in 100 of its stores to start with, but later on it will expand into 300 stores in […]
Nike and Apple have had some issues and to compensate this, every owner of the Nike+ FuelBand will be getting a $25 Nike gift card, thanks to Nike and Apple. Recently, the two companies have had a lawsuit regarding the FuelBand’s ability to track steps.. The plaintiffs agreed that Nike and Apple made incorrect claims about the FuelBand and the device’s ability accurately track steps, calories and NikeFuel points. Following this, […]
The smart home concept is booming with Apple launching a new system for linking all of the devices together into HomeKit and Google with their own system, one of the most popular devices is the smart thermostat. Countless companies have created devices such as Honeywell Nest, Tado and more as well as Hive, by British Gas. Back in 2013, Hive launched its first smart thermostat and after 200,000 installs Hive […]
The UK mobile payment systems are now on the rise, with contactless cards and now Apple Pay, the UK does have a lot of options for payments. It isn’t just Apple Pay though, for a while now PayPal has long had a way to pay within stores by scanning a barcode at the cashier at shops such as Pets at Home, wagamama (which now takes Apple Pay), GBK and Prezzo. Shell […]
Cortana in Windows 10 will be arriving in more countries when the new operating system drops next Wednesday along with a few more countries to be compatible – including Australia, Canada and India – all of which are English only, also Japan is included. Later in the year the assistant will be available in Brazil, Mexico and Canadians who speak French. Like Siri, Cortana has to be taught local jokes, […]
The Apple Watch will soon be coming to more countries at the end of this month as the company has announced that the smartwatch will be on sale in New Zealand, Russia and Turkey on July 31 after 7:01am local time. In New Zealand the Apple Watch will start at the following prices; New Zealand Apple Watch Sport – NZ $599 to NZ $699 Apple Watch – NZ $949 to NZ […]
Last month, Instagram introduced a new feature to the app which introduced some new search capabilities and now the new search options have been expanded to the web version of Instagram, starting this week. In the search box you can now search for hashtags, people and places. Although for some reason, trending people and places aren’t yet included in the search on the web. Also non-geotagged photos can’t be search […]
The latest iPod touch has been teared down by iFixit – the new device was released last week and comes in brand new colours of pink, blue and gold as well as space grey, silver and product red. The last model was released in 2012 and had the A5 chip from the iPhone 4s. The design of the device is relatively the same, but it loses the loop. The camera has also […]
As rumoured last week some readers of MacRumors found images of potential new iPod models with the launch of iTunes 12 – and now they have been launched. Last week we reported that a image of new colours for the iPod lineup was spotted in iTunes 12 when setting up a new iPod or restoring a device – it was speculated that the devices would be updated on the 14th July as on […]
