Свежие новости и отзывы о Apple

Apple has now joined a host of merchants in removing the Confederate flag from its platform – in its case, the iTunes App Store. Several app developers are now reporting that their Civil War games – which featured imagery of flag as part of their game’s historical context – have been pulled from the App Store. Apple’s move to ban these games follows similar… Read More... →

Apple has a history of treating games like toys.... →

Popular singer Taylor Swift is officially making her album 1989 available for streaming on Apple Music. The announcement comes days after Swift speared Apple for not paying musicians during the Apple Music free-trial period. Now that Apple has acquiesced to paying artists, Swift is willing to put her latest album on the new streaming service: […]... →

Taylor Swift has confirmed on Twitter that after Apple decided to pay artists for music streamed during their Apple Music three month free trial period, she will indeed be offering 1989 (her latest album release) on the streaming service. After the events of this week, I've decided to put 1989 on Apple Music…and happily so. — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 25… Read More... →

Apple is set to begin broadcasting its Beats 1 24-hour live radio station at 8 AM PT on June 30, according to Apple Music Senior Director and former Beats Music CEO Ian C. Rogers, who posted the following to Twitter today: Please join us at 8am Tuesday morning as we set this ship a sail: Zane Lowe, the D.J. (NYT) http://t.co/ycXatH5pmm — ian c rogers (@iancr) June 25, 2015 The debut… Read More... →

The first HomeKit accessories launched earlier this month, just ahead of Apple’s WWDC event (at which Apple also announced new HomeKit features coming in iOS 9). Now, new additions to Apple’s HomeKit support page tell users how to use Siri, the voice-powered assistant included on iOS devices, to control their HomeKit devices, including thermostats, smart outlets, lights and… Read More... →

Apple has a new patent application (via AppleInsider) that could make it easier to manage shared household tasks like picking up groceries or remembering to grab a bottle of wine on the way home. The patent request describes a way in which one user can grant access to their location data to another, sort of like how they currently can in Find My Friends, but with additional features that can… Read More... →

Beats 1 is a key part of Apple Music, the service launching next week on June 30. The 24-hour live global music station has a trio of star DJs at the helm, including Zane Lowe, BBC alum who is helming Beats 1’s launch. Lowe took to Twitter to reveal that Eminem would be his first guest on the show, representing a pretty substantial ‘get’ for the station’s inaugural… Read More... →

Президент и главный исполнительный директор Yahoo Марисса Майер (Marissa Mayer) на ежегодном собрании акционеров компании в среду объявила о партнерстве с Oracle, направленном на вовлечение большего числа пользователей в поисковую систему Yahoo. Начиная с текущего месяца, пользователям при установке или обновлении программного обеспечения Java Oracle будет предложено сделать Yahoo поисковой системой по умолчанию и стартовой страницей браузера. Сделка может привлечь миллионы пользователей в Yahoo именно в т... →

GUEST: Just three major vertical silos -- owned by Google, Microsoft, and Apple -- own the majority of the business, collectively managing well over a billion accounts.... →

OPINION: Apple could easily put some rougher sections of grippable metal on the phone. The looks of the device would barely suffer, and drops would go down significantly.... →

ANALYSIS: If the platform isn't special, then the content will have to be.... →

Spotify wants to own big data about bands. Today it acquired analytics firm Seed Scientific to forge a new Advanced Analytics unit tasked with understanding and improving how artists, listeners, and brands interact with its streaming music service. Seed Scientific formerly served clients including Audi, Unilever, the United Nations, and importantly, Apple’s Beats Music. But with the… Read More... →

Казалось бы, все знают, что из себя представляет стартап-Мекка мира – Cан-Франциско. Но как она выглядит в цифрах и фактах? Юлия Кожевникова из Tranio.com проводит короткую экскурсию по городу и его окрестностям.    «Город состоит из молодых и амбициозных людей, которые легко попадают под влияние друг друга. Кажется, что все работают над чем-то новым. Концентрация энергии и общественное воздействие — часть магии Кремниевой долины»,— пишет Forbes о Сан-Франциско. Сан-Франциско — это цель №1 для предпринимате... →

A study of the quality of policymaking in 40 cities around the world, considering how supportive city governments are to entrepreneurs and tech startups, has ranked New York at the top of its ‘innovation friendly’ index, followed by London, Helsinki, Barcelona and Amsterdam. So Big Apple aside, the report suggests city policymakers across Europe are getting their grove on when it… Read More... →

Spotify today announced that it has acquired Seed Scientific, a consulting confirm that specializes in data science and analytics. The acquisition is helping Spotify start a new advanced analytics team “that combines cutting-edge math, science, design, and engineering to craft insights, models, and tools with data,” according to a statement. Terms of the deal weren’t […]... →

Apple is finally throwing its money around to help Apple Music win. Singer Pharrell today announced that his new single “Freedom” will be available exclusively on Apple Music the day of its launch, June 30th. Pharrell tweeted and Facebook posted a teaser still image and 15-second preview of the song, something Apple Music’s Connect feature is will likely allow users to do… Read More... →

El Capitan is already something I associate almost by default with Mac OS X, but it was a real mountain before that – millions of years before Apple previewed OS X 10.11, in fact, though it only got its name in 1851. Anyways, it’s the real mountain, not the Apple operating system, that Google now lets you virtually climb in Google Maps with its first ever vertical Street View… Read More... →

Groupon’s deal-finding iOS application was updated today to include support for Apple Watch. Like many Watch apps, Groupon takes advantage of its ability to tap into a user’s location by way of their connected iPhone, then uses this awareness to alert you to deals available near you. Unlike with Groupon’s mobile application, whose home screen features deals in your general… Read More... →

The upcoming Apple Watch software update gives third-party developers access to the hardware’s accelerometer data, and that’s the feature one company is using to add Wii-like motion controls to their Apple TV gaming title. Rolocule Games is already testing a working version of an update for Bowling Central, one of its games designed with AirPlay streaming from an iPad or iPhone to… Read More... →