Articles about Apple’s mobile hardware (phones, tablets, pads, etc)
New Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced that Microsoft Office apps are now available for iPads. Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint are available for free in the App Store. In order to create and edit documents, however, customers will need subscribe to Office 365. Eligible subscriptions […]
What Was Your First Tweet? Twitter celebrated the eighth anniversary of the first Twitter message this week by providing a tool to look up your first tweet. If you are on Twitter, you can look up your first tweet (or anyone else’s) with this
Samsung Rolls Out Milk Music Samsung is now offering a free radio-streaming service in the U.S. The service, Milk Music, combines content from Slacker Radio with exclusive music deals from artists. Milk Music joins the somewhat crowded music streaming field along with Pandora, Spotify
Amazon Knows What You Want Even Before You Do The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon has received a patent for “anticipatory shipping.” Products could start making their way to your door before you even order them. Amazon could use your searches, previous orders and, yes,
Online Shopping Surge Makes for Unhappy Christmases A larger than anticipated surge of shoppers ordering their gifts the weekend before Christmas, coupled with a shortened shopping season and a nasty storm in the Midwest, caused some packages to not make it under the tree for
In the past, Apple has offered its 12 Days of Gifts free downloads in its iTunes Stores in Canada, some of Europe and Asia as well as a few other countries. The US iTunes Store was left out in the cold. This year, the free
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Apple released an updated version to its mobile operating system, iOS 7.0.4. Included in the update are bug fixes, security patches as well as some improvements. The latest update fixes a FaceTime issue for some that caused video calls to fail. An update has
According to a multitude of press reports, an iPad Air exploded this week in a Vodafone store in Canberra Australia, sending a stream of sparks flying from the device’s charging port and filling the store with smoke. Emergency services were called, the store evacuated, and
iPad Air Explodes in public – Thankfully no-one hurt Read More »
In iOS 7, how to close your apps has changed. Prior to iOS 7, you tapped the Home button twice to display a row of icons at the bottom of your screen for all of the apps that were running in the background. Then you would
Siri is the intelligent personal assistant that allows some Apple iPad and iPhone users to speak natural language voice commands in order to operate their device and its apps. It was originally introduced in 2011 as part of the iOS 5 and iPhone 4s launches.
Siri Voice Revealed – Mr. Siri, Please Don’t Come Forward Read More »
For the last few versions of iOS, searching for something on your device was very easy — go the Home Screen and swipe left to right. If you try that in iOS 7, you will find that nothing happens. While I get the whole
Some iOS 7 users are having problems sending text messages. Apple is working on a fix but until it is available, you may want to try this: Step 1: Turn off iMessage (Settings > Messages). Step 2: Reset networking settings (Settings > General > Reset).
iOS 7 Messaging Problem – A Quick Fix until the Real Fix Arrives Read More »
Shortly after updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 7, I noticed bars at the top and bottom of my screen when it was locked. I was wondering what they were for. It turns out that they are there if you have enabled Notification
BlackBerry Delays BBM for iOS and Android BlackBerry did not release its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for iOS and Android as expected on September 21st. An unreleased version of BBM for Android was leaked on several file-sharing sites. This was an older version of
