Mobile and contactless payments are already fairly prevalent in certain areas of retail, but there remains a lingering feeling that Apple's NFC endeavors with the iPhone 6 will give the industry the push that it quite clearly needs. With said handset due for announcement tomorrow, Both Apple and Disney appear making preparations for its arrival, and while Apple is adding more fire-power to its in-store iBeacons system, Disney has been seen upgrading its NFC-ready payment systems.
Apple's iPhone 6 event is now just one day away, and while we have a relatively good idea of what's in store, plenty of details still elude us. It has been mentioned on numerous occasions that there may be some considerable differences between the 5.5-inch model and the 4.7-inch variants of the forthcoming handset, and while many of these discrepancies are said to relate to the hardware, a new report indicates that the software experience may also differ dependent on which model you decide to pick up.
Tuesday's Apple event is fast approaching, and while the world speculates on the extent of what Tim Cook and team will introduce, one thing we know for sure is that we will definitely welcome the next-generation iPhone into our lives. Leaked information pertaining to the "iPhone 6" has been coming thick and fast over the last few months, with the challenge being having the ability to filter through all of the speculation to be pull out the genuine details. As we get ever closer to the reveal, a new video has emerged online that bills itself as the first real visual review of Apple's 4.7-inch smartphone.
For all our dedicated readers, this post marks the culmination of our day when they get a chance to get a number of otherwise paid iPhone and iPad apps for free. Our findings on a daily basis range from utilities to tools to games and purely entertainment apps. Today, we have 6 such titles that you can download for free for a limited time.
The iPhone 6 mightn't even be official yet, but already, its major components can be purchased in China. Given that Foxconn, Apple's main manufacturing partner, is based in mainland China, this isn't particularly surprising, and having already seen a leak of a working iPhone 6 earlier today, it's clear that the leakers have beaten Apple to the draw this time around.
The iPhone 6 is just three days from its big announcement in Cupertino, and having gathered swathes of evidence from multiple sources over the past few months, we now finally have a glimpse at the finished article. Whether the new leaked snaps of the apparently working device are legitimate or not is anybody's guess, but given the number of leaks we've seen already, it's fair to say that the new snaps offer a fairly accurate representation of what's in store. Check them out after the fold!
It's the weekend once more, and after a busy week, we've some welcome respite in the form of five apps gone free over at the App Store. The value of today's haul is just a few cents shy of $22, so check out the details below if you want to make some very tidy savings!
TestFlight has just made an appearance on the App Store for the very first time, and with the beta-testing app looking ready to roll ahead of the imminent launch of iOS 8, iPhone and iPad developers will soon reap the benefits of this renowned infrastructure for testing out unfinished applications.
The security of Apple's iCloud servers has had some considerable focus of late after a host of celebrities had their accounts raided and personal, intimate photos of them distributed online. After initially appearing to have been hacked, iCloud suffered quite the bloody nose over the incident.
We're now less than five days from the grand unveiling of Apple's major new releases, including the company's inaugural smartwatch. Although we've a pile of info regarding the also-impending iPhone 6, the mere fact that the iWatch hasn't apparently gone into production as yet means that details have been incredibly scarce. Still, with announcement day now imminent, tidbits of info appear to be slipping through the next, and while Ming-Chi Kuo revealed earlier today that the device may include 8GB of storage and 512MB RAM, another reliable source has dropped some information pertaining to the device's other major features.















