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Perhaps not the best PR statement you want to release when your competitor has just released their own streaming service but Neflix will slow down how quick it increases pricing in May
During an investor conference on Monday (April 18), Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the increase would now roll out
Continue reading → Netflix price increases to be gradual, but still happening
Overall most have raved about the iPhone SE, those that don’t complain that it’s going to be last years old tech in a few months time when the iPhone 7 is released. All that negativity aside there is some good news for Apple.
Continue reading → iPhone SE Still Hard to Get : 2 – 3 week shipping times.
While one might have expected new processors all around for Apple’s laptops, the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air are still slogging along with the same processors they had the day before yesterday. That said, there was an update to the Air line.
Amazon has just opened up their video offerings, previously only available to prime members, to everyone. Looks like amazon is taking it’s rivalry with netflix to the next level.
For just $8.99 users can access all the moves, tv shows and amazon exclusives $1 cheaper than Netflix who recently put their prices up.
On top of this Prime membership will also be available in a monthly plan for US customers at $10.99 per month. Prime membership nets you access to early lightning deals before they are available to everyone and free shipping on a vast array of products.
• Amazon Prime
Price: $8.99 a month.
Benefits: Downloads for offline viewing; free use on JetBlue flights.
Exclusive shows: Transparent; Mozart in the Jungle; The Man in the High Castle.
• Netflix
Price: $7.99-$11.99 month.
Benefits: Viewing on multiple screens at same time; global access to some shows.
Exclusive shows: House of Cards; Orange Is the New Black; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
• Hulu
Price: $7.99-$11.99 a month.
Benefits: Many current network TV shows available within days of broadcast.
Exclusive shows: Casual; The Mindy Project; Seinfeld.
Drops – The Rain Alarm is an iOS app to do with one of the United Kingdom’s favourite talking points. the weather. More particularly the rain. Its sole task is to let you know when the rain is about to start, albeit with a bit of warning, in your area. Or anywhere else you’d like to know about. The premise is basic but Drops has a clever trick up it’s sleeve.
It’s almost like the old band getting back together. This week the collective minds of Karl and Matt from the Mac&Forth show join me to go through the Apple stories of the week, the new shiny stuff they’ve bought since the last time we were all together and a new data saving app recommendation. Think little snitch but easier to use.
A new feature for owners of the fourth-gen Apple TV called Live Tune-In has started getting a heavy push on the splash screen today. Live Tune-In,” a feature letting people jump straight into the live TV feeds of select apps.
While a lot of the device’s offerings are games, music and on-demand video, even in the 21st century sometimes people just want to flip channels and see what’s on.
It should be a universal feature but it’s not with only some apps having access to the live tv feature. The feature is triggered by a SIRI command, examples given included “Watch CBS” and “Watch ESPN live”. As seems to be the case with so many of Apple’s offerings, Live Tune-In will not do a thing for Discovery since a user has to be subscribed to a service with a live stream before it becomes searchable.
How you discover when a new and noteworthy show is on is still another thing altogether and personally I’d like some sort of notification service baked into the Apple TV to remind me when Gotham is on, or comes onto netflix rather than relying on a third party app.
If you have ever used Voice Memos to capture song ideas on your iPhone then you will feel right at home with this new free app from Apple. It takes all the things you love about Voice Memos but adds new features designed just for musicians.
Continue reading → Apogee iOS Apps Now Supporting Apple Music Memo
The next big streaming exclusive goes to Apple Music. Drake’s next album Views From the 6 will be released on April 29th exclusively through Apple’s streaming service.
Continue reading → Drake’s Next Album an Apple Music Exclusive.. for a week
It appears that Cellibrite is close to accessing data on the passcode protected iPhone 6 – emphasis on ‘appears’. This comes from the story of Italian architect Leonardo Fabbretti. When his son died recently the man wanted access to the photos the boy had taken on his iPhone. The father actually had access to the device though touch ID, though a passcode is still required once the device is powered down. Fabbretti appealed to Apple for help.
Customer care tried to help but their attempts to retrieve the requested data failed. And if the San Bernardino case between Apple and the FBI taught us anything, it’s that Apple currently has no way made to access data on a passcode protected iOS device.
While we do not know for certain that it was the Israeli firm Cellibrite that eventually got the FBI into the iPhone 5C used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, that firm’s name was bandied about a lot. Many are convinced that that Cellibrite did assist the FBI.
Whatever the case, the company got Fabbretti’s attention and they got his son’s iPhone 6, and now Fabbretti says they’ve gotten data off the phone — kind of.
A conversation between Fabbretti and CNN Money has been published
Fabbretti spoke to Cellibrite on Thursday, with promising news provided on Friday. They were able to download the directories with the iPhone’s content, but there is still work to be done in order to access the files, Fabbretti told the report, before claiming the forensic team felt good about its chance success.
Good or bad as that sounds, it’s nothing like official. Cellibrite has declined to comment on Fabbretti situation.
Perception and reality, part two. A piece from Re/code says more than half of those surveyed by the advertising technology company Fluent said they considered the Apple Watch a flop. For fun though they asked people who actually knew what they were talking about and got a very different answer.
Continue reading → Apple Watch is a Flop (Unless You Ask People Who Have One)
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo see rough times ahead for Apple Watch this year. The analyst issued a note saying he expects sales to drop 25% year over year.
Continue reading → KGI Analyst Expects 25% Drop in Apple Watch Sales in 2016
Plainly put Batman Vs Superman sucked. In all ways and levels it’s just a bad film but at least Affleck isn’t to blame more Warner studios where it’s obvious the film was interfered with. Did we expect anything else after Warner’s botched attempt at a console game.
It comes to something when you’re watching DareDevil on Netflix and the fight scenes there kick BvS ass.
Continue reading → EP58 – Sideshow Bob Sums Up Batman vs Superman Nicely.
Apple’s in trouble yet again with something it’s named and this time Split View is under scrutiny. Split view is the 2 pane view bought in iOS 9 and adding a new usefulness to the iPad. The Delhi High Court has ordered the Cupertino company to stop actively using the marketing term SplitView in India over an alleged trademark infringement.
Nestled within India is a company there called Vyooh, who is a Microsoft vendor, and they apparently have the name ‘SplitView’ trademarked.
A report from the Indian Times said,
“The Delhi High Court has directed the US tech giant not to use the name ‘SplitView’ in any of its products or services such as iPad, iPhone or iOS operating system after a little known Delhi-based software company Vyooh moved court, alleging trademark violation.”
From vyooh.com
SplitView enables a true multi-monitor experience with VMware VDI, Citrix (RDP and ICA), Terminal Services, Remote Desktop, HP RGS, Sun Ray ALP as well as other virtualization, remote desktop and thin client technologies. Additionally, SplitView provides several productivity boosting enhancements such as the ability to move windows efficiently between multiple monitors.
Court documents have an unidentified source, likely a principle at Vyooh, saying “This order will send a strong message to multinational software companies to respect the intellectual property rights of Indian software developers.” Or, you know, it could send a strong message about what a PITA it can be to do business on the subcontinent.
You could be forgiven to be just a touch cynical at the timing of this court case given Apple is about to launch a major push into Indian territories but if they own the trademark it isn’t unlike Apple to ignore such things.
Source : http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/
This probably isn’t the message Kanye West was hoping to send, but here it is. Tidal just isn’t big enough to support a major album. Weeks after its release as a Tidal exclusive, West’s latest album The Life of Pablo is expected to top the billboard charts for April 23.
This is not a victory for Tidal though, as the April 23 will include the first results from other streaming music services as well as purchases from both Tidal as well as West’s own website.
There is a way to spin this as good news for all streaming players though. Assuming Kanye’s album makes the top of the charts, it will have done so with almost no sales and almost all streaming.
“It should be the first Billboard chart-topper to get the majority of its album sale equivalents from streaming, not downloads or physical copies — yes, only a fraction of listeners likely had permanent copies. The achievement is somewhat arbitrary (you still can’t buy the album at places like iTunes), but it shows that on-demand listening is so popular that you don’t need downloads to create a hit.”