Apple may have largely ignored its set-top during its first couple of years in the market, but like many companies vying for a share of the living room streaming market, the introduction of Google's Chromecast seemed to spring the Cupertino outfit into some kind of action. Although we're still waiting on some new hardware - the third-gen Apple TV is now comfortably over two years old -- we've seen a bunch of services and channels added to the little black box over the past few months, and joining the now-expansive list of options available, Fox NOW and CNBC have just been added.
Keeping in line with a number of rumors that surfaced over the weekend, Apple has today announced a relatively important refresh to its MacBook Pro range of computers. The update to the MacBook Pro with Retina display line of machines had been widely anticipated, and although the amendments don't come as a great surprise, they do mean that those looking to purchase one of Apple's portable Mac computers will ultimately benefit from a more powerful experience along with a reduced financial outlay.
With Google having recently showcased Android Wear, a smartwatch specific flavor of its famed mobile operating system, it is widely presumed that Apple will follow suit and build its own competitor. Even though, earlier on this year, it was reckoned that Apple may drop the so-called iWatch alongside the iPhone 6, it has long since been suspected that the wearable would in fact be delayed until the holiday season, but in an interesting twist, it appears that the also-delayed 5.5-inch iPhone 6 may be joining it.
If you're going to build a piece of software that will surely annoy one of the world's largest tech company, then you may as well choose one that is at the top of its game. In this case, the company is Apple and the software in question is TorrenTV, a cross-platform streaming app that allows users to stream torrents directly to Apple's "hobby" project, the Apple TV.
When Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 8.1 just a couple of months ago, many users rejoiced at the broad range of features that had been introduced. Everything that we expected of the announcement turned out to be true, but even though we really ought to be focusing our attentions on core features like, for example, the new notifications infrastructure, the Cortana voice assistant has commanded a large portion of attention. Just like when Apple introduced Siri, we don't seem to be able to get enough of these personable, digital voice recognition features, and in a new ad to promote Windows Phone 8.1, the software giant has pitted the Lumia 635 and Cortana up against the iPhone 5s and Siri.
When Apple recently announced its latest financial results, there was little to get too excited about. Big sales are a given these days for Apple, but with new products not expected for another month or two, the analysts that like to make so much noise just haven't had too much to feed on, making this particular call even more boring than usual.
If mobile security is something that you’re usually concerned about, then you must have seen the recent news about certain vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS mobile operating system that can potentially leave user data of very personal nature vulnerable to forensic snooping for people looking in the right places. Although the Cupertino tech giant had responded to these allegations earlier, they have today released a new statement that gives a detailed breakdown of the under question diagnostic services and affirms Apple’s position as being user privacy conscious and not putting it at risk for any third parties.
The iPhone 6 leaks have been arriving thick and fast these past few weeks, with the manufacturing process now apparently in full swing. Today, we're getting a look at what is claimed to be the upcoming Apple handset's logic board, which offers details on the Wi-Fi hardware as well as clues on the NFC implementation.
As time chugs along and we get ever nearer to the expected September announcement and, hopefully, release of at least one new iPhone, the leaks are still gathering quite the pace. With Apple believed to be working on not just one new iPhone, but two, all the leaks so far have been based on the smaller 4.7-inch device on Apple's roadmap. Its 5.5-inch brother has been surprisingly absent in the leak stakes, which has led many to the conclusion that it will launch some time after the smaller variant.
We're as eager to get our hands on a watch made by Apple as anyone else, but it seems that some are just a little too eager for their own good after a new Jimmy Kimmel Live spot took to the streets in order to see if it could fool people into thinking they were being shown the as-yet unannounced iWatch.
















