Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World
As technology shifts from personal computers to smartphones and tablets, Apple Inc. is expanding its reach into a lucrative customer base: companies. The popularity of the iPhone and iPad among employees is prompting corporate tech managers to rewrite policies and change traditional buying patterns. The iPhone has replaced the BlackBerry as the mobile phone of choice, as the iPad assumes tasks once reserved for PCs. Apple won…...
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 has an ‘ultra power saving’ mode to maximize battery life
Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 doesn’t skimp on battery power, with an expected 10 hours of web browsing and 12 hours of video playback on a single charge. When you’re on hour 11 of watching cat videos with no charger in site, the handsets new “ultra power-saving mode” will keep your handset purring along by making the screen black-and-white and turning off all the non-essential services on your phone. Even...
Apple Expands Worldwide Access to Educational Content
CUPERTINO, California—January 21, 2014—Apple® today announced iBooks® Textbooks and iTunes U® Course Manager are expanding into new markets across Asia, Latin America, Europe and elsewhere around the world. iBooks Textbooks bring Multi-Touch™ textbooks with dynamic, current and interactive content to teachers and students in 51 countries now including Brazil, Italy and Japan; and iTunes U Course Manager, available in 70 countries now...
Microsoft: Android Nokia not our call to make
Microsoft today sidestepped commenting on the Nokia’s decision to launch a new low-cost smartphone powered by an offshoot of Google’s Android. More here: Microsoft: Android Nokia not our call to makeread more
Moviefone’s phone service shutting down after 25 years
When your service is more fondly remembered as a Seinfeld plot than as something people use, it’s probably time to drop the mic. After a quarter-century, Moviefone’s movie-times hotline is winding down, as users abandon the phone in favor of sites like Fandango. The AOL-owned company isn’t fading quietly into the night, however, as Moviefone’s mobile app and website will still live on in their current form...
