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Apple is hiring: London team to expand Apple Pay into Europe
Apple Inc. is gearing up to take Apple Pay global. Apple has advertised a job aimed at forming a new Apple Pay team in London in order to help expand the service across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa (EMEIA). The advert, first spotted by iClarified, and promptly removed by Apple, stated that Apple ...
Tile launches Android app to track objects, has less features than iPhone app
Tile Inc. announced in the fall that it had raised $13 million in funding through a combination of a seed and Series A funding. Part of that money was allocated to hiring more Android engineers. Known as one of crowdfunding’s biggest hits, Tile has now released an Android version of the app. For those not ...
New BlackBerry Classic: a blast from the past or a breath of fresh air?
Smartphone users want and prefer touchscreens. Or do they? BlackBerry Ltd. seems to think they don’t. Its latest smartphone, the BlackBerry Classic, sports a physical QWERTY keyboard. The new phone has a 3.5-inch 720-by-720 resolution display on top with a physical keyboard at the bottom. Those paying attention will recall that the BlackBerry Q10 also ...
Apple beats decade-old iTunes antitrust lawsuit
An eight-person jury has unanimously decided that Apple Inc. did not violate antitrust laws when they prevented users from playing music bought from third-party vendors on their iPods. After a nearly two-week trial, it took the jury just three hours to reach a verdict and end the decade-long lawsuit. The plaintiffs unsuccessfully argued that Apple’s ...
FLUX 3D printer hits $1.3M on Kickstarter, could be the only 3D printer you’ll ever need
The team behind the FLUX 3D printer, FLUX Technology LLC, has a new take on 3D printing with their all-in-one device. Their modular design, with interchangeable heads, combines printing, scanning and laser engraving in one device. They are funding their effort through Kickstarter and have raised more than $1.3 million dollars to date, with four ...
Sony leak exposes ‘secret’ goings-on at Snapchat
On November 24th Sony Pictures Entertainment’s servers were hacked. Among the many leaks to appear online since then is the content of Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton’s inbox. Lynton is also a Snapchat investor and board member and several emails between him and other Snapchat investors and board members have been leaked, exposing a host of ...
Gartner: Apple to have record Q4 off the back of surging iPhone sales in Q3
According to Gartner Inc.’s quarterly handset tracker, sales of Apple Inc.’s iPhones increased 26 percent in the third quarter of 2014, with nearly 38.2 million iPhones sold. Gartner expects Apple to have record fourth-quarter sales, with demand for its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus outstripping supply. Meanwhile Samsung Co. Ltd.’s market share slipped in ...
“Perfect keyboard” for iPhone outdoes itself on Kickstarter
The self-proclaimed “perfect keyboard” for the iPhone, Next Keyboard, reached its funding goal a mere two days after launching on Kickstarter. The team behind Next Keyboard, a Toronto based software development company called Tiny Hearts, was looking for $10,000 CAD ($8,577 US at time of writing) to finish the app. According to the Kickstarter page, ...
Latest iPhone 7 rumors: sapphire glass is back, 3D user interface, concept images and more
It’s barely been a month since our last roundup of iPhone 7 rumors, yet so much has happened since that there are a whole slew of new rumors to report on. Apple Inc.’s supplier, Foxconn Technology Group, may be supplying it with sapphire glass for the next generation iPhone; Apple has won a patent for a ...
Google announces Watch Face API for Android Wear plus new watch face designs
Android Wear have announced that the official Watch Face API is available for developers. They are also rolling out a completely new section to the Play Store, as well as various other improvements. The latest release of Android Wear based on Android 5.0 and implementing API 21, will roll out to users over the next ...