Google has made three new ads available online with just days if not hours left to go before it is expected to launch new Nexus devices. With a new Nexus 9 tablet and Nexus 6 smartphone peeping over the horizon, the three new ads have appeared just at the right time, with Google getting ready for another charm offensive while trying to peddle its new wares.
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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.
In what may be the thin edge of the wedge, a Reddit thread has popped up in which it is claimed readers will find hundreds of Dropbox credentials, leaving a huge number of the online storage firm's users potentially wide open to having their accounts compromised.
Next Thursday's Apple event is widely believed to be the place that will announce two new iPads and, if we're really lucky, a new Retina iMac. Hardware aside though, it looks increasingly likely that the following weekend will be when Apple Pay goes live.
It wouldn't be too harsh to say that iOS 8 hasn't been Apple's finest hour. Whether it be the botched launch of Health or the fact that Apple managed to push an update out that stopped a large number of iPhones from talking to the cellular network, someone inside the firm that could once do no wrong is probably sweating a little more than usual.
Microsoft's Surface Pro is generally regarded as the best Surface yet, which makes plenty of sense if you have enough faith in Microsoft for even the software giant to not take the product backwards. Unfortunately though, even with the improvements that have gone into the Surface Pro 3, some users are still finding that it doesn't quite live up to their expectations on a few different levels, with the stylus being one of the issues they're complaining about.
Modern smartphones are great and all, but even with the trend of ever increasing screen sizes making it possible for manufactures to squeeze larger batteries into them, today's flagship handsets just don't last long enough between charges. There are exceptions to the rule, granted, but as a whole it's likely you're going to be charging that new phone of yours by the end of the day, especially if you know you won't be able to charge it the next.
Apple is set to hold another big event on October 16th, with new iPads and possibly new Macs on the agenda. It's something announced at the company's last press outing that is currently making the headlines though, with Apple Pay and its impending go-live on everyone's minds.
When Apple announced that custom keyboards were coming to the iPhone and iPad with iOS 8, everyone's attentions immediately turned to keyboards like Swype and Swiftkey. It's easy to see why, too. Being able to swipe instead of type is the exact kind of thing Apple no doubt had in mind when it decided to allow third-party apps to be installed on its precious hardware. It did not, we suspect, expect to see they keyboard we just came across.
Remotely closing Safari tabs in iOS 8 and Yosemite can be more useful than you think, and it's dead easy to do, too.
Microsoft has been the subject of all kinds of ire since the release of its Xbox One thanks to a slew of missing or simply ill-equipped features when compared to its big competition, Sony's PlayStation 4. Since its arrival late last year though, the Xbox One has received a number of monthly updates that have seen most of the issues raised addressed, but that doesn't mean that the Xbox team is ready to call it a day.
















