As soon as Apple pushes a new beta release of iOS out to developers, there's always someone waiting to poke around to see what they can see. One such developer is Hamza Sood.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Want to record 360-degree videos using your iPhone 6 but don't want to spin around like a moron? Then fear not, because Cycloramic has your back.
With Apple seeding new builds of iOS 8.1 to developers for testing it was only a matter of time before a clever developer managed to poke around long enough to find some more information about about the big change we're expecting to come as part of the release.
Since day one, Facebook has required users to use their real names when signing up to the site and while that has partly been behind much of its success, the social network has long come in for plenty of criticism due to its refusal to accept sign-ups where users wish to remain anonymous.
Apple's decision to allow third-party keyboards into iOS with its latest release took many by surprise, mainly because after all these years it was generally accepted that Apple simply didn't want to give third parties access to everything its users typed, but that also meant that users of iPhones and iPads were going to miss out on some of the excellent keyboards and keyboard features that have been available to users of other platform devices for years.
Samsung is having something of a bad time right now. Having already announced three consecutive quarterly drop in profits, the South Korean firm has announced that it expects a decline in profit of almost 60% for the third quarter of 2014 after having already warned that the second half of the year would 'remain a challenge.'
If you're lamenting the loss of Launcher on iOS 8 following Apple's rather disappointing decision to pull it from the App Store, then Quick-Tap widget could be right up your street.
T-Mobile's outspoken CEO John Legere found himself on-stage at the GeekWire 2014 summit and once an interviewer made the mistake of asking whether his iPhone 6 Plus was bent, things got interesting. Waving his phone around in the air and with what can only be described as indignation in his heart, Legere set about putting the world to rights on the subject of Bendgate, calling the entire controversy nothing short of "bulls***."
Nothing captures the imagination more than a good leak of a prototype Apple device, except perhaps that device finding its way into the public domain. It has happened a handful of times in the past, most notably when an iPhone 4 turned up in a bar before it was announced. One thing you don't do when you get your hands on something like that is to try and sell it in a public forum, because that inevitably attracts the wrong kind of attention.
Smartphones are all the rage right now, and whether they're running Android Wear, Pebble's bespoke operating system or whatever it is that Apple has running on its Apple Watch, all are running a modern operating system that's designed to do the job. Whether it manages it or not is very much a matter of opinion.
