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Rumor: Apple will share viewer data to lure programming partners to its Web TV service
In an effort to attract content creators to its upcoming Web TV service, Apple is offering to share viewer data with programming partners. The tech giant is willing to share such details as who its viewers are, what they watch and when they watch it, according to the New York Post. Access to Apple’s viewer ...
Rumor: Apple set to launch 25-channel Web TV service in September
Apple is getting ready to announce a “slimmed-down” bundle of TV networks that will see the iPhone maker roll out its own Web TV service to all iOS devices, including iPhones, iPads and Apple TV set-top boxes in September. Anonymous sources familiar with Apple’s plans told The Wall Street Journal that the company is in ...
Pinterest worth almost as much as Snapchat, valued at $11B after $367 funding round
Pinterest Inc. announced on Monday, March 16, that they had raised $367 million and are currently seeking up to an additional $211 million. Just last May the company was valued at $5 billion after raising $200. Less than a year later their latest funding round comes at a valuation of $11 billion, placing Pinterest on a ...
Alibaba shows off facial recognition to secure mobile payments
Alipay users could soon be able to pay for their purchases by scanning their face with their smartphone. E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s CEO Jack Ma showed off the technology in his keynote speech at the CeBIT technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany on Sunday. To demonstrate the technology, Ma bought an old souvenir ...
Secure sticker shock: BlackBerry SecuTablet charges high price for government-ready device
On Saturday, BlackBerry Ltd. announced a new secure tablet offering developed by Secusmart, a Germany-based company it acquired last year, in conjunction with IBM and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Based on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, the SecuTABLET secures corporate and government users’ sensitive work-related data while still allowing access to less-secure consumer applications ...
Alibaba and SAIC Motor to invest $160M in connected car market
SAIC Motor Corp. Ltd., China’s largest car maker by sales, and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will be joining forces and investing 1 billion yuan ($160 million) into a fund to develop an Internet-connected car. The joint venture will be aiming to launch their first car in 2016. SAIC Motor said in a statement, ...
Here’s how Apple Pay works on Apple Watch and how your details stay secure
Apple Pay mobile payments on the Apple Watch is a big selling point; especially for users of the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s whose devices do not natively support Apple Pay due to the lack of NFC chips. The Apple Watch is NFC-enabled and a passcode takes the place of TouchID on devices ...
Apple Watch has 8GB internal storage; limits apply to music and photo storage
Apple Watch users will have 2GB of internal storage to keep their favorite music on the wearable and around 75MB for photos. Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that all three versions –Sport, Watch and Edition– of the upcoming Apple Watch will ship with the same 8GB of internal storage. The limits described above apply to songs ...
Rumor: Apple to add Force Touch and pink color option to iPhone 6s
Apple Inc. plans to include Force Touch technology, first introduced on the Apple Watch and now on the new 12-ich MacBook, in the next iteration of its iPhones. Using sensors to detect how hard a user is pressing on the screen, Force Touch can tell apart light taps from hard presses and use that information ...
Apple Watch battery is replaceable, recharges in 2.5 hours
On Monday, Apple Inc. shared details such as pricing and availably about their eagerly anticipated wearable during the company’s “Spring Forward” event. Apple CEO Time Cook also discussed the Apple Watch’s battery life, saying that it would last up to 18 hours on a single charge. For consumers intending to spend anywhere between $349 and ...