Square and (RED) team up for special edition card reader to fight AIDS
Mobile payments company Square is teaming up with Bono’s Product RED organization for a special edition credit card reader that benefits charity. Square has become one of the leaders in processing...
View Article9to5Toys Lunch Break: PNY 128GB USB3 flash drive $50, Kingston SSDs, JBL...
Be sure to follow 9to5Toys to keep up with the best gear and deals on the web: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and subscribe to the new Safari push notifications feature. Today’s can’t miss deals:...
View ArticleApple seeds new OS X Server 3.1 build to developers
Following the release of the latest OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 build to developers earlier this week, Apple has released a new seed (build 13S4101b) of OS X Server 3.1 to developers today. Apple seeded the...
View ArticleFacebook acquires WhatsApp messaging service for $16 billion (Update:...
An SEC filing today confirmed that Facebook intends to purchase the WhatsApp messaging service for $16 billion. WhatsApp is available on a host of platforms, including iOS and Android, and acts as an...
View ArticleTesla CEO Elon Musk confirms talks with Apple, battery ‘gigafactory’...
A few notes about this which all seem to point to my initial knee jerk reaction: Apple was invited to participate in Tesla’s US battery Gigafactory, which it will announce next week… In a Bloomberg...
View ArticleHow app store scammers can make $10,000 a day from a $10 game template
TechCrunch has a fascinating insight into the world of App Store scammers, using the example of a game created from a $10 template that ended up making $10,000 a day. The piece alleges that the...
View Article21 billionaires can’t be wrong? AAPL is their favorite stock …
If you’ve ever wondered what billionaires know that you don’t, their preferred stock is no longer one of those things. Fortune pulled together a chart of the top ten holdings of 21 billionaire...
View ArticleThe spaceship is on the way: aerial photo shows demolition work on Apple’s...
Apple’s new ‘spaceship’ headquarters has been a long time in the coming, with Steve Jobs presenting the plans to the Cupertino city council back in 2011, but work has finally begun. KCBS...
View ArticleFleksy opens free, public SDK for its alternative iOS keyboard
Found in a number of well-crafted apps including Launch Center Pro and Wordbox, the iOS-friendly alternative keyboard Fleksy today announced the release of a public SDK allowing developers to easily...
View ArticleAnalyst delivers the ultimate insult to Apple, calls it ‘the next Microsoft’
Apple just might find itself shopping around for a new finance partner for its retail stores after Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes likened the company’s future potential to that of Microsoft. Downgrading...
View ArticleApple’s two-step verification for Apple IDs arrives in Canada, France,...
Back in May of last year, a long list of readers in countries around the world reported having access to Apple’s two-step verification security feature for their Apple ID. Shortly after the news...
View ArticleGoogle testing app that lets you automatically join WiFi hotspots, plans to...
Engadget reports that Google has been testing a new iOS and Android app at its Mountain View campus recently that would allow users to automatically join public WiFi hotspots without going through the...
View ArticleWaze app gets Calendar integration for navigating to upcoming events
Waze, the navigation app maker that Google picked up last year, announced today that its updating its mobile apps with calendar integration. With the updated app, iOS and Android users will now see...
View Article9to5Toys Last Call: $100 iTunes gift card for $75, Western Digital 6TB NAS...
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View ArticleCamera+ iPhone app adds 16×9 widescreen shooting mode, improved filters &...
The popular Camera+ iPhone app from developers tap tap tap was updated today with a number of new features and improvements. On top of a “a bunch of refinements to The Lab” and photo editing, the app...
View ArticleAdobe releases Adobe Flash security update in second emergency fix this month
Less than three weeks ago, Adobe released a critical security update for its Flash Player plug-in fixing an exploit that allowed machines to be accessed remotely by attackers. Yet another security...
View ArticleApple plans to expand Maiden, NC datacenter with new facility and offices
Apple is planning to build an additional “tactical datacenter” at its facility in Maiden, North Carolina, according to a report by the Hickory Daily Record. The new building will be smaller than the...
View ArticleCommemorative Steve Jobs postage stamp to be released in 2015
The Washington Post has uncovered a document (embedded below, via Engadget) that reveals the U.S. Postal Service plans to release a collectible postage stamp featuring Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in...
View ArticleMac users four times more likely to run latest OS than Windows users
Some sums done by ComputerWorld show that Mac users are four times more likely to upgrade to the latest available version of the operating system than Windows users. Microsoft has convinced just 11.6...
View ArticleAmazon’s long-rumored Apple TV competitor to launch next month?
Image: digitaltrends.com Amazon’s TV box, which the company is believed to have been working on for around a year, is to be launched next month, according to unnamed content distribution sources cited...
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