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YouTube Now Uses HTML5 Instead of Flash Video
The Google-owned media giant, YouTube, has just announced that it has begun using HTML5 video as its default for all media playback on the website. This marks a substantial forward step in its progressive move away from Flash. YouTube has stated the new default standard will work in the... Read more
Apple Fixes Google Exposed Security Holes In OS X
Apple has just released the latest update for OS X Yosemite (10.10.2). This update marks the second update for the new operating system since its October 2014 release. It is understood that testing for OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 began back in late November. Apple introduced six beta tests to... Read more
The Apple Watch Is Coming In April
Apple has had a lot of good fortune lately, especially over the Christmas holiday, and it seems their luck is going to hold out through in 2015, as more news about their first wearable, the Apple Watch, has finally been released after months and months of speculation. Tim Cook,... Read more
Apple Gets Patent For Snap-On iPhone Controller
I love playing games on my iPhone; I always have, and I probably always will. While Angry Birds wasn’t all that hard to play with the touchscreen, other, more advanced games were a little harder to master. Games such as Six Guns and Man of Steel were not all that easy to conquer... Read more
Ex-Moto Chief Claims Nexus 6 Was Supposed To Feature Fingerprint Sensor
The Nexus 6 is Motorola’s first partnership with Google, despite being owned by the search giant for two years. Even though the phone reminds us of the Moto X (but larger), it had meagre results in the opening few months on sale. Dennis Woodside, the ex-CEO of Motorola, claims... Read more
iTunes Adds A New Free Section
Are you someone who still uses iTunes as their main platform for digital music? I don’t know how often you frequent the iTunes store anymore with the increase in streaming services such as Spotify and Beats Music, but they’ve now added a completely new “Free on iTunes” section that’s... Read more
Apple Launching 12.9-Inch iPad Pro In 2015
Apple is reportedly working on a 12.9-inch iPad Pro with stylus support, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo new report, citing industry sources. The larger iPad Pro will fit into Apple’s growing range of tablets, currently including the 10-inch iPad Air and smaller 7.9-inch iPad Mini. Apple is... Read more
Xiaomi Announces Redmi 2
Xiaomi announcements might not mean much in the U.S., but in China they are treated like Apple announcements, with millions on Weibo talking about the recently announced Redmi 2. Selling over 60 million smartphone units in 2014, Xiaomi is currently the largest smartphone seller in Mainland China, recently expanding... Read more
Man Straps 94 iPhones To Body To Smuggle Them Into China
Man, this is just a crazy week when it comes to people wanting to illegally get their hands on iPhones. Earlier in the week, Techbeat reported about a group of 3 men who tunneled into an iPhone warehouse in Beijing where they ended up stealing 240 brand new iPhone... Read more
Volkswagen Announce Android, Apple Car Integration At CES 2015
Volkswagen has announced a partnership with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay at CES 2015 earlier this week, in a move to interest both iOS and Android owners wanting to take advantage of software in the car. It has not been detailed how a user changes from CarPlay to Android... Read more
Apple Sued Over iOS 8 Storage Space
I was all kinds of excited to update my iPhone to iOS 8 the day it was finally released over the air. So, when my phone finally told me the update was available for download, I immediately tried to download it but was met with a problem. The problem?... Read more
iDevices Accounted For More Than 50% Of Activations Over Christmas
Apple’s is still the king of the holidays when it comes to tech gadgets, accounting for 51 percent of all mobile and tablet activations on Christmas Day, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. Even with the rather lackluster 2014 for the iPad, Apple has managed another two quarters of... Read more
Dr Dre Sued By Former Business Partner
The founders of Beats Electronics, Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, are being sued by a former business partner who co-designed the high priced audio range, that was recently bought by Apple for $3bn (£1.9bn). Noel Lee’s firm Monster, is understood to have played a key role in creating the original... Read more
Apple 12-inch MacBook Air Coming In Early 2015
Apple’s MacBook Air range currently consists of 11 and 13-inch screen options, but for the past two years customers have been pleading for a 12-inch option to fit in the middle. This year might bring the new 12-inch MacBook Air to market, alongside the anticipated Apple Watch, according to... Read more
Apple Pay & Bitcoin For NYC Parking Meters
The good ol’ people of New York City want to make it simpler for the users of the fair city to make it even easier to pay for their near 10 million annual parking tickets fines. The city is currently accepting peoples pitches for different payment systems that would... Read more
Apple Pay coming to UK in 2015
Apple Pay is starting to turn heads in the contactless payment market, in the U.S. 90 percent of banks are working with Apple on the mobile payment solution, and more retailers are coming to the fold everyday. In order to keep growing, Apple needs to expand its borders, and... Read more
Have A Good Christmas? Apple Sure Did!
Did you buy someone an Apple device this Christmas? Or, did you unwrap a new iDevice? (Even if you didn’t, someone you know probably did). One thing’s for sure – Apple had a great Christmas, if device sales mean anything, anyway. Why? Because they had more devices activated than... Read more
Apple Reverse Airplay Patented
The ability to stream your content from your tablet computer or your Smartphone to your TV is, needless to say, very cool. Whether you accomplish this through a media usb stick or have a dedicated server running specific software, the effect is fundamentally the same. One of the main reasons... Read more