Свежие новости и отзывы о Apple

Happy Friday, everyone. We’re glad that you are with us today before we take off and drink beer celebrate America. Our own Sarah Buhr took over the hosting slot this week, while Matthew Lynley and myself helped out. We dug into the release of Apple Music, Uber’s decision to absorb a large chunk of Microsoft’s Bing Maps team, and how Shyp, a startup, is helping shape the… Read More... →

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This week in tech, we got introduced to Apple Music, learned that Microsoft and AOL will enter a partnership, and much more. These are the stories to catch you up on this week’s news. Read More... →

We had a chance to sit down with the founders of Zeta Interactive — John Sculley and David Steinberg — last week to talk a bit about their online marketing service. But Sculley isn’t just known for that company, or the ones that came just before it where he worked with Steinberg. He also had a stint running Apple, coming from running Pepsi in the middle of its… Read More... →

Last week we had a chance to sit down with the founders of Zeta Interactive, an online marketing service — which isn’t the first company that brought CEO David Steinberg and former Apple CEO John Sculley together. Zeta Interactive focuses on using data-mining and analytics to basically track where a customer came from. The example the pair used was tracking a car test drive from… Read More... →

Apple wants the world to know what its employees were up to at the Gay Pride parade in San Francisco this past Sunday. So it produced and posted a snappy video of the event: Apple has long been a supporter of LGBT causes, but has gradually amped up its voice in recent years. The company’s […]... →

The patent describes a system whereby one device user can send a payment to another user's device securely and at no cost.... →

All the buzz this week may be about the launch of Apple Music, but another popular streaming music application, SoundCloud, has also now rolled out a notable update to its mobile application. The update – which delivers new features including related tracks, shuffle, direct playlist editing, and more – is aimed at both improving music discovery and the overall user experience.… Read More... →

Производитель смартфонов Xiaomi, который также известен как «китайский Apple», не выполняет свой план по продажам, сообщает Financial Times. Основные сложности у компании возникли из-за конкурентов-подражателей и самой Apple.... →

After mounting a campaign earlier this year to burnish the legend of Steve Jobs, Apple insiders will likely be tearing out what’s left of their hair when a new biopic is released in October. The first official trailer released yesterday for Steve Jobs depicts the legend in full jerk mode. Humiliating employees, alienating co-founder Steve Wozniak, and denying paternity of […]... →

Apple updated its executive bios to reflect changes in its design team that were announced earlier this year. But the updates came with an unexpected twist. The bio of Jony Ive now includes his new title, Chief Design Officer. It also added bios for Alan Dye, the new Vice President of User Interface Design, and Richard […]... →

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Just five years after it first launched Ping, Apple is closer to providing a social network worth interacting with, but it’s still not hitting the mark. This week the company launched Apple Music, it’s Spotify competitor. Apple Music features a host of different services including a series of genre based music streams, recommendations, a live broadcast channel, and a social media feed […]... →

Not two years after the last Steve Jobs biopic, there is already a new one hitting theaters this October. Sony Pictures has just released the trailer for Steve Jobs, based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of the Apple guru. The film, written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Charlie Wilson’s War), features Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs and Seth Rogen as […]... →

One of the surprisingly better features found in Apple’s new streaming music service, Apple Music, which launched yesterday to much fanfare, is its human-DJ’d Beats1 radio station which broadcasts to 100 countries worldwide via the Music app on iOS devices and via iTunes on the desktop. But while the service will be made available to Android users this fall by way of a native… Read More... →

Глобальный оператор сотовой связи GigSky объявил о расширении свой зоны покрытия для пользователей iPad с Apple SIM — теперь он доступен в более чем 90 странах. В частности, услугами оператора могут воспользоваться российские пользователи в заграничных поездках.... →

Apple Music launched yesterday alongside its new Beats 1 radio station, which could be a minor masterstroke from the Cupertino company.... →

Pinterest запустил пины с возможностью покупки для пользователей iOS-устройств в США. Нововведение позволяет покупать товары прямо в приложении. В настоящее время в сервисе доступно около 30 млн таких пинов от ряда ритейлеров. В их число вошли Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, а также интернет-магазины Demandware и Shopify. Пины с возможностью покупки появляются в ленте, на досках, в результатах поиска и включают цену товара и кнопку «Купить» («Buy it»). Пользователи получили возможность искать товары по... →

It’s still early days for Apple Music, the newly launched streaming service, as the world chews over its user interface, initial service issues, that Beats 1 radio station and other unexpected factors. But two areas where the U.S. company has hit the right notes are international availability and pricing. Read More... →