Great news for Sonos customers: AirPlay 2 has arrived. This makes compatible Sonos speakers the first third-party AirPlay 2 speakers to hit the market, and support is being added retroactively through a free software update. This means you can use S…
Lees meerApple Pay is reportedly coming to Austria within the next few months. Negotiations with Apple are being undertaken on behalf of all Austrian banks by Payment Service Austria (PSA) … more…
Lees meerWith the resounding success and universal praise heaped upon last year’s launch of Affinity Photo for the iPad, it was only a matter of time before its companion app, the popular vector illustration tool, Affinity Designer, was brought to the platfo…
Lees meerThe UK’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, has just imposed its largest fine ever for failing to safeguard user data. It fined Facebook £500k ($662k), the highest amount permitted by law … more…
Lees meerA bug in iOS 11.3 – fixed in iOS 11.4.1 – revealed that Apple censors the Taiwanese flag on iPhones whose region is set to China … more…
Lees meerAn investigation spanning almost two years has concluded that Apple ‘may’ have breached antitrust rules in Japan by forcing carriers to sell iPhones at an apparent discount … more…
Lees meerApple continues to ramp up its original content efforts today with a new show starring Jason Momoa. The show is entitled “See” and is said to be a “world-building drama” set in the future… more…
Lees meerApple has made it clear that augmented reality is a big area of focus as it moves forward, and analysts are beginning to agree. As noted by CNBC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes that AR could turn into an $8 billion revenue stream for Apple… …
Lees meerThe United States Federal Bureau of Investigation charged former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang with stealing trade secrets. Zhang was hired back in December of 2015 by Apple to work on Project Titan, focusing mainly on software and hardware for auto…
Lees meerWhile Apple has rolled out a host of soccer-themed advertisements and launched a new Mac campaign in the midst of the World Cup, it isn’t a sponsor of the event itself. A new report from Quartz, however, explores how the company has become the “winn…
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Lees meerAs Apple hired away Google’s chief of search and AI this past spring, Tim Cook noted that he would be heading up the company’s AI and machine learning strategy. Now, we’re learning more about how some teams are being restructured in a way that could…
Lees meerInstagram has launched a new feature for Stories called the Question Sticker. This interactive new option was designed to make it easier for users to engage with friends and followers on the platform. more…
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Lees meerA new report out today on navigation app trends sheds some light on how far Google Maps could be ahead of Apple Maps and other services. Included are the top reasons why almost 70% of users are sticking with Google Maps. more…
Lees meerIs Apple buying 1Password? BGR thinks they might be, maybe! The source of this rumor is a headline from the site that includes “acquisition talks underway” in a story about Apple employees receiving 1Password memberships as a work perk. I worked in …
Lees meerOne of the most significant design opportunities in recent history was announced with a simple blog post on Apple’s website. “Let me just say it: We want native third-party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands …
Lees meerLast year, Snapchat launched its Lens Studio app, that allows anyone to create custom AR filters, with a later update offering a series of selfie filters. Options include face paint, distortions, a custom baseball cap, and the addition of 2D and 3D …
Lees meerIn the wake of Twitter killing off its already abandoned watchOS app, Chirp has risen and quickly become the best Apple Watch Twitter app in terms of features. The latest version of Chirp continues to expand how you can use Twitter on the watch. mo…
Lees meerDownloading Netflix shows for offline viewing is going to get a little easier. The company has announced that an auto-download feature is available for the Android app from today, and will be added to the iOS app later in the year … more…
Lees meerMozilla is best known these days for its cross-platform Firefox web browser, but its Test Pilot Experiments group wants to shake things up with two new mobile apps. For iOS users, the first Mobile Test Pilot Experiment from Mozilla is a new password…
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