Apple adds Sky News and HBO GO to Apple TV

by Kenny Hemphill on June 19, 2013

Apple has announced that its Apple TV set-top box will have access to live news programmes for the the first time since its launch in 2007.

Those programmes will come from Sky News which was added to the platform, along with WatchESPN, HBO GO, Crunchyroll and Quello. HBO GO carries on-demand programmes from US cable network HBO and the Apple TV channel requires a subscription to a US cable TV provider. Crunchyroll is a Japanese network, and Quello broadcasts concerts and music programming.

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Apple asserts commitment to customer privacy

by Kenny Hemphill on 17 June 2013 in News

Apple has published details of requests for customer data made by police and security services and re-asserted that it hadn’t heard of Prism before it was disclosed by The Guardian and The Washington Post. In a post on its website, the company said ‘We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our [...]

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Office Mobile for iPhone launched

by Kenny Hemphill on 14 June 2013 in News

Following months of speculation, Microsoft has released a version of Office for iOS, but there’s no iPad version, it needs an Office 365 subscription, and it isn’t yet available in the UK. Microsoft said in its announcement: ‘the iPhone app enables great Office content viewing and on-the-go content editing capabilities.’ Those viewing and editing capabilities [...]

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Reuters: Apple to launch bigger, cheaper and multi-coloured iPhones

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 June 2013 in News

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Apple will launch bigger iPhones, probably next year, and will also release iPhones in colours other than black and white, according to a report from Reuters. Citing multiple un-named sources, Reuters also said that Apple was considering launching a low-cost iPhone for $99. The larger iPhones are [...]

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2013 MacBook Airs have a performance boost secret

by Kenny Hemphill on 11 June 2013 in News
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When Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller gave us a preview of the upcoming Mac Pro at WWDC yesterday, he made a point of explaining that its solid state storage has a PCI Express interface. Most other computers which use flash storage, including Apple’s current Mac range, have Sata interfaces. While [...]

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Apple kicks-off WWDC with packed keynote including new Macs

by Kenny Hemphill on 10 June 2013 in News
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Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference started today with a bang, when Tim Cook and his executive team took to the stage to launch new Macs, a new iTunes Radio service, and to preview new versions of OS X and iOS 7. The MacBook Air range was over-hauled and Apple even previewed the upcoming Mac Pro. [...]

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