Contactless mobile payment solution LoopPay today announced that it has been acquired by Samsung. LoopPay’s solution is able to turn existing magnetic stripe readers into contactless payment receivers without requiring sellers to implement new infrastructure. It is expected that Samsung will use LoopPay as the basis of a new Apple…
Microsoft today announced that its iOS versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint are now compatible with Apple‘s iCloud storage solution. The updated apps enable iPhone and iPad owners to open, edit and save documents to iCloud rather than to OneDrive or Dropbox, which was also recently integrated with the mobile…
…to market between 2017 and 2020, but the search giant started the project in 2009. This might mean that Apple has some catch-up to do, but as the Apple Watch has proved, Apple isn’t concerned about being first. Cars are a high-margin luxury product Cars, like almost every other Apple…
Apple has enabled two-factor authentication for both iMessage and FaceTime, providing users with additional security on top of just a password. After a user enables two-factor authentication, they will also require a separate, temporary PIN that will be sent to them via text message whenever they sign into either service….
…whether it’s your laptop, tablet, smartphone, TV – can be voice controlled. One day it will probably be your fridge and microwave. Samsung has a number of TVs on the market that allow advanced rich, voice control in the same way Apple has with Siri or Microsoft has with Cortana….
…the technological advances that have now allowed us to talk to our devices, CyberShack thought it would be appropriate to ask them their thoughts on the matter. Apple’s own artificial intelligence, Siri, wouldn’t discuss the threat the artificial intelligences pose to humanity. “I don’t understand,” said the program when CyberShack…
Over one billion Android smartphones were shipped worldwide in 2014 according to research conducted by Strategy Analytics. This number grew from 780 million in 2013, and gave Android devices a global market share of 81.2%. For comparison, Apple maintained 15% of the global smartphone market with iOS devices, down 0.5%…
…needs space to unpack and install updates. As such, users updating their iPhones and iPads through iTunes did not encounter similar problems. Apple has also been testing iOS 8.2, a larger release designed to enable compatibility with the Apple Watch. This update is expected to arrive alongside Apple‘s wearable….
Apple CEO Tim Cook today announced that the Apple Watch will begin shipping April, almost eight months after the wearable was first unveiled. While the April timeframe refers to the US launch, Apple has traditionally taken products to the Australian market around the same time (if not day and date)…
The Apple Watch battery will provide between 2.5 and 3.5 hours of active usage according to a report published by Apple rumour publication 9to5Mac. This number will depend on how processor-intensive an application running on the Apple Watch is, and result in a combined battery life of 19 hours, taking…
…The RNB6 will also ship with a dashcam. Most impressively, the RNB6 is compatible with both iOS and Android smartphones, and is able to boot into Apple‘s CarPlay or Google’s Android Auto depending on the device. A press of a button allows the user to toggle between CarPlay or Android…
The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent for a “Protective mechanism for an electronic device” designed to safeguard iPhones from accidental drops. The patent application describes a system where an iPhone can recognise when it has been dropped, calculate an estimated point of impact and then…