Microsoft has continued the development of its iOS and Android Xbox Music apps with yet another new version being pushed out to both the App Store and Google Play Store for respective device owners. The app and underlying service, which will shortly undergo a full rebrand to become Groove, is following in the footsteps of the Windows desktop version that benefitted from the addition of the same new features back in March.
Apple's beta process for its big software release is well documented at this point, with numerous beta releases coming and going while aspects are tweaked and features are added, or in some cases taken away. One thing is sure though - Apple tends to improve the situation with each release, at least as far as stability and performance goes.
iOS 9 and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan public beta are now available to download. The pre-release software is available for free immediately to anyone with compatible iOS and Mac hardware.
Facebook's continued investment of resources and the procuring of the best engineering talent across the globe has meant that it's been able to not only position itself at the forefront of social networking, but also branch out in other areas via the acquisition of startups and other companies. As part of that continued development into its core business, it has invested effort into improving one of the most important key areas of the site - the constantly evolving News Feed.
Here are all the changes that are new in iOS 9 beta 3 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. There are a bunch of notable features and here’s a complete list of all of them in one place.
iOS 9 beta 3 download for compatible iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices has been released. The third beta comes with support for Apple Music, the Cupertino company's first ever venture into the music streaming arena.
The launch of Apple Music may have come embedded with a number of initial teething issues, but it seems to be a key component in convincing users to quickly adopt the latest version of iOS 8. According to data by Mixpanel, the advanced analytics platform for mobile and Web which analyzes more than 48 billion actions every month, iOS 8.4, the latest version of iOS 8 which is just a week old, accounts for approximately 40% of all iOS usage already. It seems likely that the desire to use and interact with Apple Music is the primary reason for such a fast adoption rate.
In this day and age it seems many of us live our lives on Facebook, not only using it as our digital rolodex but also keeping a running tally of who our friends are and what they are up to. That's all well and good, but while Facebook tells you when someone wants to be your friend it is much more coy when someone goes the other way, and wants to unfriend you.
While the world awaits iOS 9 and having just released iOS 8.4, Apple has today ceased signing iOS 8.3, meaning those with iPhones, iPads and iPod touches who want to revert to the second-to-newest version of iOS are now unable to.
Apple's Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services is seemingly at it again, dropping internal company knowledge tidbits via Twitter. Eddy Cue, who last week replied to a number of tweets confirming that Apple Music could potentially be introduced in a new developer beta of iOS 9 has again used his verified Twitter account to answer iOS related queries from the public. This time around Cue has confirmed that Apple is working internally in an attempt to reintroduce the recently removed Home Sharing for music feature back into iOS 9.
















