If you hadn’t heard, Google’s search app for iOS has been updated with Google Now capabilities. However, it was later reported that this service was causing battery life issues, which Google has decided to speak up about. In a response to an article by Lifehacker, Google had this to say: Reports that Google Now drains battery life are incorrect. We…
An Apple patent published today shows the potential for “non-rectangular batteries for portable devices”. In the patent Apple highlights how it could use batteries that don’t conform to the rectangle-shape convention, making them more suited to powering more innovative devices, such as wearable tech. There are two specific patents. The first shows…
AT&T’s Digital Life home automation and security system, which was tested last year, is being rolled out in 15 markets today. The rollout hits Atlanta, Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colorado, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Riverside, California, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis and certain areas of the New York and New…
Audio accessory experts Jawbone has released a brand new firmware update for its portable Bluetooth speaker BIG JAMBOX. Version 2.0 brings an extra two hours of battery life when used with iOS 6.1. The update, which was released through Jawbone’s MyTALK system, also brings a whole host of improvements, including PS Vita compatibility. 2.0 also…
Those of you that have updated to iOS 6.1.3 may want to be watching your battery life. According to the reports, it isn’t just quicker battery decreases, it’s fast battery decreases. What’s the differences? Well, instead of only not lasting as long, you could see your phone drop 1% every minute or so. There are so many users having this problem that a…
Arthur Levinson, also known as Chairman of Apple’s board and former Genentech CEO, spoke at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business yesterday. Fortune was there to listen in on the talk, and got some interesting tidbits out of it. One of the subject brought up was of course the former CEO, Steve Jobs’ death in 2011. When asked what it was like to work…
As I’m sure you all heard about, there was a slight problem for Maps occurring in Australia. Slight problem of course being an understatement as the Australian authorities called it a “life threatening” situation. The problem has since been corrected, says The Guardian. Previously, Maps would direct users to a place labeled “Mildura” when the real…
UK consumer information and watchdog site Which? has completed a survey of the worlds leading tablets in a bid to find out how each one manages its battery life, ideally with the view of informing consumers as to which tablet will give them the best battery life. As you may well have guessed from the title, it was a good day for Apple. In conducting the…
As we push further and further into the future of technological innovation, our devices get better, faster, slimmer, more efficient and more powerful. When it comes to tech innovation – particularly in mobile device – there is one inescapable correlation that is almost impossible to avoid. It’s the fact that as we make our devices more powerful and more…
Today, Bloomberg Businessweek has published a story entitled “Mapping a Path Out of Steve Job’s Shadow”, which contains Apple employees discussing life after Job’s death, and his role in the new Maps app. Here is an extract explaining how things at Apple have changed: “There’s also more office politics and some concern that Jobs’s departure and the…
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