Today is a big day for Apple. Earlier this afternoon it released iOS 8.1 to the masses, complete with its new Apple Pay mobile payment solution, and now it’s announced the results for its fourth quarter fiscal 2014. [adsenseyu1] Apple says that in Q4 FY14, which ended on September 27, it sold 39.27 million iPhones,… Read More: Apple reports sales of 39.27 million iPhones, 12.32 million iPads… »
A newly discovered computer bug has security experts scrambling. It’s called “heartbleed” and it affects what’s called openSSL. [adsenseyu1] Without getting into the jargon, the security flaw has to do with that little padlock you see on websites and the HTTPS in the address bar. That’s supposed to mean a website is secure. But now… Read More: Change your passwords! Heartbleed Bug Exposes Millions Of Usernames, Passwords »
Rakuten, Japanese Media Holding, buys Viber Media Inc, which has developed Viber messenger app. The sum of this transaction isn’t a secret. Rakuten purchases internet calling app-maker for $900 million. [adsenseyu1] Rakuten hasn’t announced what they are going to do with the acquisition. However, the head of the company (Hiroshi Mikitani) mentions that Viber has… Read More: Rakuten buys Viber »
Nokia Inc. announces the release of Treasure Tag. The device is fixed to some valuable things – for example, keys, wallets or bags. If one of these things is left anywhere, Treasure Tag pushes a notification to your smartphone. Treasure Tag is a miniature accessory, which boasts its perfect form and fashionable look. The device… Read More: Nokia Teaches us not to Leave Valuables »
Apple isn’t leaving the car infotainment system industry to other players like BlackBerry’s QNX or Microsoft’s Windows Embedded. It has just announced its new CarPlay integration with the iPhone. The integration was first announced last year during the iOS 7 unveiling back in June 2013. [adsenseyu1] Only Lightning connector-enabled iPhones (iPhone 5s, 5c, 5) are… Read More: Apple announces CarPlay, an iOS experience on four wheels »
This week Facebook announced that they are finishing the removal of the “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” setting from all accounts. For most people this setting was removed last year, but if you had that setting turned on when Facebook tried to remove it (originally) they let you keep it. According to… Read More: Facebook Takes Away Another Privacy Feature While Zuckerberg Spends $30… »
JENS MEYER / AP An illuminated Google logo at the Hanover industrial fair, July 7, 2009. Google’s stock hit $1,000 per share on the Nasdaq on Friday. Google shares jumped to an all-time high above $1,000 on Friday after the search engine giant reported a surge in mobile and video advertising that helped drive quarterly… Read More: Google stock surges, tops $1,000 per share »
Samsung has been caught cheating on benchmark tests once again and this time with the Galaxy Note 3. Previously it was the Samsung Galaxy S4 that was caught in the middle of this controversy. [adsenseyu1] ArsTechnica has done a detailed post on how Samsung Galaxy Note 3′s US version with the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon quad-core processor… Read More: After S4, Samsung caught cheating on benchmark tests with Note… »
Running up to the launch weekend of the iPhone 5s and 5c, analysts were conservatively predicting sales of somewhere between 5-8 million units. Turns, out, Apple beat even the most optimistic guess from industry watchers. Despite clear shortages of the 5s, Apple managed to sell 9 million iPhones between Friday and Sunday. That is –… Read More: iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record »
Scientists Have Found a Huge Underground Water Reserve in Kenya This is incredible. Scientists have found an underground water reserve in Kenya so large that it could meet the entire country’s water needs for the next 70 years. Using satellite, radar and geological technology, scientists found an aquifer—an underground layer of water-bearing material—that contains 200… Read More: Discovery of Huge Underground Water Aquifer at Lotikipi Basin in… »