Tag "3"

Tidal unleashes its family-friendly subscription

Jay Zed’s favourite music streamer, Tidal, today unleashes its new family plan pricing to its global market, offering discounts for new accounts tied to a ‘parent’ account. The new setup allows for up to four new accounts to be attached to a single main bill-payer, with each benefiting from a 50% discount to whichever tier they’re signed up to. For the base ‘Premium’ level that means an extra £5 /

Tidal unleashes its family-friendly subscription

Jay Zed’s favourite music streamer, Tidal, today unleashes its new family plan pricing to its global market, offering discounts for new accounts tied to a ‘parent’ account. The new setup allows for up to four new accounts to be attached to a single main bill-payer, with each benefiting from a 50% discount to whichever tier they’re signed up to. For the base ‘Premium’ level that means an extra £5 /

Review: Updated: Google Nexus 5

Introduction When the Nexus 5 launched in October 2013 it was lauded as “the best that Google has to offer”, but almost two years on is that still the case or has the search giant’s darling handset fallen behind the times? The Nexus 5 has always been updated with the very latest software and it now boasts Android 5.0 Lollipop. I’ve updated this review to reflect this change and everything

Review: Updated: Google Nexus 5

Introduction When the Nexus 5 launched in October 2013 it was lauded as “the best that Google has to offer”, but almost two years on is that still the case or has the search giant’s darling handset fallen behind the times? The Nexus 5 has always been updated with the very latest software and it now boasts Android 5.0 Lollipop. I’ve updated this review to reflect this change and everything

Facebook's new icon brings it up to speed with the modern world

Facebook design manager, Caitlin Winner, just quietly made Facebook icons more relevant to 50% of the world’s population by updating key Facebook icons. Not only does the female silhouette look less like Darth Vader, she’s now been brought forward to take centre stage on group notifications. The female icon was also slightly pushed into the background in the friends notifications icon, but now both the man and woman are of

Facebook's new icon brings it up to speed with the modern world

Facebook design manager, Caitlin Winner, just quietly made Facebook icons more relevant to 50% of the world’s population by updating key Facebook icons. Not only does the female silhouette look less like Darth Vader, she’s now been brought forward to take centre stage on group notifications. The female icon was also slightly pushed into the background in the friends notifications icon, but now both the man and woman are of

Microsoft's Nokia gamble didn't pay off, 7,800 jobs cut

Microsoft has announced that it is cutting 7,800 jobs and writing off $7.6 billion (around £4.95 billion, or AU$10.2 billion) related to its acquisition of Nokia. Rumors were already flying earlier today that a raft of job cuts were coming and that the phone business is where the brunt of the positions will be lost. “We are moving from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy

Microsoft's Nokia gamble didn't pay off, 7,800 jobs cut

Microsoft has announced that it is cutting 7,800 jobs and writing off $7.6 billion (around £4.95 billion, or AU$10.2 billion) related to its acquisition of Nokia. Rumors were already flying earlier today that a raft of job cuts were coming and that the phone business is where the brunt of the positions will be lost. “We are moving from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy

Apple persuades U.S. judge to void $533 million iTunes award

A federal judge has thrown out a $532.9 million award against Apple Inc and ordered a new trial on damages, in a case where a jury found that the iPhone maker’s iTunes software infringed three patents owned by a Texas company. In a decision on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap in Tyler, Texas, said jurors who on Feb. 24 awarded the damages to Smartflash LLC because of Apple’s willful

Apple plans record initial production of new iPhones: WSJ

(Reuters) – Apple Inc is asking suppliers to manufacture up to 90 million units of two new iPhone models with 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays by Dec. 31, the Wall Street journal reported. The phones are also expected to feature Force Touch technology which can distinguish between a light tap and deep press, people familiar with the matter told the Journal. (http://on.wsj.com/1eFV9iZ) The screen sizes are the same as in the