Smartwatches have suddenly become the next big thing, with almost every other major tech company rumored to be getting into the same line of product sometime soon. That’s not all - even startups like Agent and Pebble have made quite some splash in the otherwise calm market that was dominated solely by Sony’s SmartWatch until recently. Now, it seems that while Apple’s iWatch might still remain a distant dream, Microsoft’s fans would actually be seeing something worthwhile in the form of a translucent, aluminum encased smartwatch, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Much fuss has been made of Apple's supposed move from Samsung to TSMC chips for its future iOS devices, with a deal having recently been struck just recently seemingly confirming this to be the case from 2014. With this in mind, you would expect the Apple A9 chips, which wouldn't theoretically make their way to market until 2015, to be produced by TSMC, right? Wrong. Reports are now suggesting that Apple's attempt to move away from Samsung as a primary manufacturing partner is failing miserably, with the South Korean company's expert knowledge of the field once again giving it the green light on the A9.
As part of Microsoft's continued endeavor to boost sales of its Surface RT, the Redmond company has slashed the price of the tablet across markets in Europe following a similar move across North America just a short while ago. The deal sees the cost of the ARM-powered slate reduced by up to a third, with prices ranging from £279 in UK, or €329 in Germany.
Home automation has long been one of the things people point to when trying to explain what they think the future will look like. We'd have to put Google Glass in the same bracket - Glass is something that at the moment seems ahead of its time, but we can totally see it being the norm in another ten or twenty years, even if it doesn't take off all that quickly in the next two or three.
Some interesting news cropped up just recently about a new game release for iOS, and a rather unusual anti-piracy system. In fact, as far as any system goes, it was actually rather effective, if only for a short while.
Being a blogger, especially for the tech industry, time to time I come across utilities and tools that are so basic and simple in their working, yet package such convenience that one cannot help but question how we’d survived until now without such a thing. For people who play around a lot with Android and love to modify their devices, having multiple sets of different APKs on their computer is nothing too surprising or even worrisome. What’s annoying, however, is to have several APK files lying around in a folder that you cannot recognize, nor can you even tell what they are unless you install them.
The patented Slide to Unlock feature is one of the most recognizable features of Apple's iOS ecosystem, but once you've slid and unlocked a couple of times, it's fair to say the text reminder becomes rather redundant. Needless to say, it would be nice if we could put some different information in that box, and while we wait in hope for Apple to bring such an implementation, one tweakster has already come through with a jailbreak option by the name of Sliderz.
Instagram is easily among the most popular networks for sharing photos, but with the video clip social spot Vine having grown quite rapidly in the past few months, Facebook has just brought a similar feature to its recently-acquired Instagram app. Although many users have jumped at the chance of sharing clips and thus, taken advantage of the new feature, it is not without its limitations. For example, there is no support for sharing short clips already filmed and saved to the media library, but as is often the case with minor quibbles, there's a jailbreak tweak now available to remedy the issue. It is called InstaChooser, and you can catch the details after the break.
The red hot news in the world of smartphones right now is what Apple is doing to redesign its iPhone and iPad software, with iOS 7 proving to be quite the change from the norm. Placed in charge of iOS less than a year ago, Jonny Ive has overseen the biggest change in an operating system we've seen since we first got our eyes on Windows 8.
It's not every day that a company like eBay launches a new app, mainly because it's already got apps on all the major platforms and apart from the odd redesign here and there, there's no need for any additional apps. Or is there?
