Apple's iTunes U application for the iPad and iPhone has received quite the feature bump, with version 2.0 now available to download. The big 2.0 update was announced last week.
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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.
Smartphones were undoubtedly the biggest technology of the last 7 years, and as time rolls on it's starting to become apparent that wearables are going to play a big part in the future of mobile technology. One thing that was expected to explode inside the last ten years is Virtual Reality, but alas, it's fallen by the wayside.
Turns out that making smartphones is hard, and although the folks at Foxconn are actually rather good at doing just that, there's always room for extra improvement. Whether that improvement comes in any form, Foxconn is apparently set to augment its existing workforce with 10,000 new additions.
If you've been on an airplane in the last ten years, then the chances are you're already well aware of some of the rather overzealous restrictions that are being enforced upon air travellers. Mothers forced to prove that baby milk is indeed just that by drinking it is a story we've all heard before, but now it seems that the US Transportation Security Administration isn't content with just making sure liquids are as they appear, anymore.
The Samsung Gear Fit fitness tracker and smartwatch is probably the least bulky smartwatch around, but it's also more of a fitness tracker than the kind of smartwatch that we're all so excited about getting. That doesn't mean that it's not awesome though, and if you've been on the fence about picking one up and happen to live in the United States, then now might be a great time to take the plunge.
The Nokia Lumia 830 may have only made its first appearance in a spy shot that popped up a few days ago, but it's already making headlines once again after new renders were leaked which appear to show the unannounced smartphone with some rather new branding.
If you want a break from all of the iPhone concept videos then how about an iWatch concept? We may be almost certain that a new iPhone will arrive around September time, but the existence of an iWatch is still just a rumor - albeit one that just won't die. A rumor it may be, but it's a rumor that sees plenty of information cropping up seemingly on a daily basis, and at this point we have to be fairly confident that we'll see a smartwatch with an Apple logo on it some time later this year.
Now that Google has well and truly shown its hand in the smartwatch arena, all eyes are firmly on Apple and the supposed iWatch announcement that's been penciled in for October time. With all the focus on those two companies, Microsoft has flown somewhat under the radar, but new reports suggest that het software giant may have its very own smartwatch on the way with a similar October release timeframe.
If there's one thing about Sony's PlayStation 4 that is undoubtedly better than its predecessor, it's the DualShock 4 controller. The third-generation DualShock came in quite a lot of criticism, and rightly so, and the folks in Japan clearly paid attention to that criticism because, thankfully, the DualShock 4 is a much better proposition, which means you might want to use it with your PlayStation 3, too.
Google's new Android Wear, TV and Auto ventures were front and center during Google I/O, and as the dust settles on all the biggest announcements to come out of the developer event, we're now starting to find out the more interesting details about what Google will be working on this year.

