From CNET: At the WWDC in San Francisco, Apple senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi announced that the new iOS9 will enable improved battery on compatible devices.
By default, you should see an extra hour of battery life on iPhones running the updated operating system. There's also a...
From InfoWorld: Sony Music Entertainment CEO Doug Morris confirmed Sunday that Apple would launch a streaming music service Monday during its annual developer conference.
Morris used the moniker "Apple Music" when he talked about the service.
"It's happening tomorrow," Morris said of the launch...
From InfoWorld: Google has moved Dart, its rival to JavaScript, to GitHub, with the stated intent of making it easier to work with the Dart community.
Developers can contribute to the language at Dart's GitHub page. "The Dart SDK now has its own repository, joining the numerous Dart tools and...
From PC World: Plex gave its users an important security upgrade last week. The home media streaming platform announced all its users are getting free SSL certificates, enabling them to connect to their media over an encrypted HTTPS connection. The new feature is a partnership with certificate...
From CNET: Netflix announced Saturday that its service will arrive in Portugal, Italy and Spain in October, allowing Internet users from those countries to subscribe and stream a broad selection of TV shows and movies.
At launch, the company says, it will offer localized versions of its original...
A couple of months ago, I went hiking with a bunch of my friends. After we reached the end of the trail at the top, there was a platform that overlooked the lake. As any social media enthusiast would recognize, this was a prime location to get your next Facebook profile picture taken, and not losing out on this opportunity, I asked my friend to climb down the slope adjacent to the platform with my phone to help me out. After a bunch of photos...
From InfoWorld: Google yesterday switched on a feature in the Chrome beta that it said would save notebook battery power by freezing some content rendered using Adobe's Flash Player.
The option, now turned on by default in the beta -- one of three "channels" Chrome maintains -- will be...
From InfoWorld: A strand of human DNA is 2.5 nanometers in diameter, and there are 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch.
Now consider this, Micron this week announced it's producing NAND flash based on transistors only 16-nanometers in size, and each microscopic cell is capable of storing three bits...
From PC World: Acer couldn’t keep the mystery around the launch of its highly-anticipated Acer Predator 8-inch gaming tablet bottled up for too long.
The tablet could launch sometime in September, with a big event planned for Europe, said a representative at the Acer booth on the Computex show...
From CNET: Twelve years ago, with the launch of the iTunes music store, Apple changed how we purchase and listen to music. Now it hopes to shake things up again -- despite playing catchup this time around.
Apple is expected to debut a subscription streaming-music service, making it one of the...
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