You bought the new Apple TV â€” which apps should you download?

Apple this week started selling its new streaming video box, another piece of hardware that connects to your TV set with the sometimes-undelivered promise of making cable unnecessary. But as anyone who's been paying attention to Apple TV announcements knows, this is not about hardware; it's about apps.

Executives at the Cupertino tech giant have said that tvOS, the new operating system for Apple TV,Â is "95 percent" of the same core framework as iOS, so that apps being built for the different platforms will stay in sync across different devices as they're updated. This basically means Apple is attempting to make it easier for developers to make all kinds of stuff for Apple TV, just like they do for iPhone. It's an interesting direction...

Comments

RushCard says it will compensate card holders for losses during weeks-long outage

RushCard, the pre-paid debit card company owned by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, said yesterday that it wouldÂ compensate the tens of thousands of customers whose cards were inaccessible during a two-week-long outage. The issue first began on October 12th when the company tried to switch to a payment system with MasterCard and ran into a technical malfunction. RushCard executives say theÂ issue was resolved last week ,Â but some users may still be unable to withdraw cash or use their card to pay bills. The company previously said it would waive fees, like maintenance and transaction fees and ATM charges, for four months starting in November, but this new compensation effort goes one step further. Simmons said he has beenÂ compensating... Continue reading…

Ariana Grande and the Galaxy Note 5 just dropped a new music video

Ariana Grande has a new music video for a single called "Focus." This is its story. SCENE: Samsung marketing team crisis management meeting after Drake performed the most viral song of the year whilst holding an iPhone in each hand. Man 1: Okay I'm tired of negativity, let's have some solutions. Man 2: We just need to do the exact same thing but with a different celebrity, right? Man 1: Yes, but who is famous other than Drake... Adele? Man 2: Flip phone . Man 1: Justin Bieber? Man 2: He's withÂ Drake now. Man 1: Ariana Grande? Man 2: Yes, that is a person. Man 1: What if she used the stylus and she wrote a sexy note on the Note 5... with the stylus? Man 2: It's called an "S Pen," butÂ yes, perfect. What if, and bear... Continue reading…

Call this number to hear Justin Bieber's remix of 'Hotline Bling'

Earlier today, Justin BieberÂ shared an Instagram photo of himself surrounded by the logo for Drake's " Hotline Bling ," captioned with the cheeky question, "Should I?" The second half of that question was almost undoubtedly "release my remix of this hugely popular Drake song," and the answer to it was a resounding YES. So now you can hear the song, but you have to make a phone call first. Continue reading…

this is a landing page

Search This Blog