Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
A report from earlier this year hinted that Apple was working an iPhone with an iPhone 5c and iPod nano-inspired design that would ditch the slate grey hues and bring some color to Apple’s premium iPhone line. Concept artist Martin Hajek and iCulture went beyond color and imagined an iPhone as an oversized iPod nano.
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Apple updated its iTunes Movie Trailers app bringing support for notifications and reviews from Rotten Tomatoes. Available for the iPhone and iPad, the Movie Trailers app allows you to watch new and exclusive HD movie previews on your iOS device. Apple released the app in 2011 and has gradually made improvements to the title.
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Photo-sharing app Instagram is reportedly testing Facebook Places as a source of location information instead of Foursquare, reports Fast Company.
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Apple is moving around executives, adding a new VP in online retail and losing a member of its Maps group. Both of these changes were first noticed by 9to5Mac and TechCrunch.
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iOS 7.1 was released on Monday, March 10 with a handful of minor changes that improves the performance of Touch ID, blocks several security flaws and adds support for the newly announced CarPlay feature. Similar to other minor iOS revisions, North American adoption of iOS 7.1 was expectedly slow and steady, reports Chitika.
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FaceTime Plus leverages the messaging features of FaceTime and adds a chatroulette option that lets you connect to random people for a quick chat. It’s an interesting concept that expands your FaceTime encounters beyond the people in your address book.
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Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen spoke to Rolling Stone Magazine in a lengthy interview that sheds some light on Nguyen’s background and explains why he pulled the app from the App Store.
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Apple updated iOS 7.1 and rolled into the update some major improvements to the iBeacon platform, claims BEEKn.net. The biggest improvement is the ability of the operating system to detect iBeacons even when an iBeacon-compatible app is shut down or running in the background. This functionality persists even when the device is rebooted, suggesting this background function is now built into the OS and is not dependent on the applications themselves.
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German Microsoft Executive Thorsten Hübschen, who oversees Microsoft Office development in Germany, spoke at the CeBIT computer show this week and revealed that an updated Office for Mac will land sometime this year. This news was first reported by Computerwoche.de and relayed by AppleInsider.
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Samsung unveiled its flagship Galaxy S5 Monday at Mobile World Congress. Similar to the iPhone 5s, the Galaxy S5 features a fingerprint sensor that can be used to unlock the handset and perform other functions on the device. The scanner on the S5 is not a clone of Apple’s Touch ID, as there are a few subtle differences that make it unique. Read on to learn how the two fingerprint sensors compare.
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Apple recently expanded its channel lineup for the Apple TV, adding the WWE network in the US and TV4Play in Sweden. These channels follow the addition of Red Bull TV to the media streaming device last month.
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Apple has added the iBeacon specification to its MFi certification program, allowing manufacturers to seek approval for products that’ll use the iBeacon name, reports Beekn.
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Several concept images portraying iOS 8′s rumored Healthbook app were published today on design website Behance. Spotted by 9to5Mac, the illustrations are based on earlier details leaked about the app and are “vaguely” close to the developing app that’ll sync with the rumored iWatch.
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Nationwide grocery chain Whole Foods Market today announced it is accepting Square payments at select locations. This is the first partnership Square has forged with a national grocer and is its second major partnership following its agreement with Starbucks in 2012.
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Apple is moving around executives in its HR, Apple University and Mac Operations, claims reports in Bloomberg and 9to5Mac. The company will lose one executive to retirement, while shuffling the other two to different positions within the company.
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Popular music streaming service Rdio updated its iOS app with new playlist and review features that expand what you can do with your music while on the go. This is one of several recent updates to version 2.5 of the app, which was released in October of last year.
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