iOS 7.1 Beta 4 Tidbits: New Slide to Unlock/Power Off Animation, Dialer Updates
Earlier today, Apple released the fourth beta of iOS 7.1 to developers, which included both bug fixes and a few new changes to the operating system. While iOS 7.1 beta 3 introduced several visual changes, iOS 7.1 beta 4 focused more heavily on behind-the-scenes improvements. There were, however, a few Slide to Unlock/Power Off: Most…
CIRP: Strong start for iPad Air
FORTUNE — When it announces its quarterly earnings next Monday, Apple (AAPL) will tell us how many iPads it sold in the holiday quarter. But it won’t say how many it sold of each model. For that we turn to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, which surveyed 500 Apple customers who The…
LG’s Curved Display G Flex Smartphone Will Go Up For AT&T Pre-Order On …
The LG G Flex, the Korean company’s latest attempt to battle back Samsung, is going to be available for pre-order at AT&T starting this Friday, January 24. Sprint pulled the trigger last week, announcing that the phone would be available for pre-order on January 31, but AT&T has obviously…
Cydia Tweak: Turn Your PS3 DualShock Controller Into An iOS Gamepad
One of the most useful jailbreak tweaks to have reached the Cydia Store in recent months is Controllers for All. Because once downloaded and installed, this $1.99 package adds iOS gamepad compatibility to Sony’s PS3 DualShock 3 controller, allowing iDevice users to enjoy a more immersive gaming experience on their Though Apple…
Your robot helper is on the way now it can learn from its friends
January is a time when many of us seek to better ourselves. We want to learn a new skill or improve an existing one. A network designed especially for robots, RoboEarth, is being tested in the Netherlands to help them with their attempts at self-improvement. Soon our mechanical friends will…
Mock Twitter UKIP weather service goes down a storm after councillor says gay …
UkipWeather has already got almost 9,000 followers since it started tweeting ridiculous weather predictions following David Silvester’s rant More biblical storms could be set to befall the country as consequences of our moral actions, according to a Ukip weather Twitter account. The UkipWeather service has been making tongue in cheek weather…
Even BlackBerry Thinks Windows Phone Is Too Small
News is out today that BlackBerry has no intention of bringing a BlackBerry Messaging (BBM) application to Windows Phone. Comments published in TrustedReviews from the company indicate that it deems Windows Phone too small to warrant the investment. TechCrunch confirmed the statements. According to TrustedReviews, BlackBerry’s David Proulx called the…
SanDisk Connect WiFi Flash Drive: Wireless Storage For Your Smartphone Or …
The Sandisk Connect is available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions starting at $49.99 While battery life is usually my main bugbear with smartphones as I spoke about here, another factor that can be an issue, especially with cheaper phones is storage space. Housing a large music collection or numerous films…
Facebook ‘relationships guy’ courts Hollywood, media in new push
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Beyonce fans got a big surprise at midnight on December 13, when the pop star announced her new album from out of the blue. Just as surprising was her decision to announce the album by posting a 15-second video on Instagram, the Facebook-owned online photo-and-video sharing service….
Up Close With Play-i’s Bo, The Lovable Xylophone-Playing Robot
When we last met Play-i’s charming robots Bo and Yana they were busy pounding out tunes on a little colorful Xylophone and raising $1.4 million in crowdfunding cash. Now, however, they’re very nearly ready to ship and are doing some really impressive things that will help kids learn programming while You…
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