Month: June 2014
Apple WWDC 2014: What to expect – Healthbook, iWatch, iOS 8, connected home
Apple's annual developers' conference (or WWDC if you're in the business) kicks off this evening (Monday the 2nd of June), and it's a week long event notorious for revealing exciting, unexpected and, let's face it, sometimes pretty lacklustre details about the tech giant's plans for the next 12 months. If Apple's recent statements to the…
Forget about IOUs with new app Payfriendz
Do you ever find yourself out with friends, and neither of you have cash? Well, this new app Payfriendz makes that situation a lot less awkward, allowing you to make transfers to friends through your smartphone there and then, meaning no more IOUs. To register for a Payfriendz account, all you need is a smartphone…
Has China blocked Google ahead of Tiananmen anniversary?
Google's services are currently being blocked in China ahead of Wednesday's 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, according to a censorship watchdog called GreatFire.org. Reuters reports that many in China have noticed the government has been disrupting Google's main search engine, Gmail and other services linked to the tech giant since last week.…
Dyson created Google's Glass 10 years before Google!
It looks like things could've been very different if Dyson hadn't decided to shelve a working smartglasses prototype more than 10 years before Google's Glass was created. And here we were thinking that the company just created vacuum cleaners. The Dyson Halo was originally developed in 2001, and was a pair of augmented reality goggles…
Samsung to launch first Tizen smartphone – UK launch in Autumn?
Samsung is launching the first smartphone powered by Tizen, the open-source operating system they developed with Intel as an alternative to Android. The Samsung Z phone will be unveiled this week at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco and it will go on sale in Russia later this year. No word yet on cost,…
Want to be a celebrity? First, let me take a phonie!
We've had selfies, we've had belfies, and we've even had shelfies, but now there's a new craze on the web in the form of phonies. Social media photographer Dan Rubin coined the term to describe when a member of the public holds up their phone with a picture of a celebrity's face to make it…
It's not just humans, demand for animal wearables set to soar too
There's more wearable technology news every day, from gaming headsets to health trackers to (fingers crossed) the iWatch. But you might not have realised how huge the animal wearables market is. As it turns out, it's worth $0.91 billion worldwide, and a new report by IDTechEx, Wearable Technology for Animals 2015-2025, predicts that it will…
Gangnam Style is the first YouTube video to pass 2 billion views
Chances are infectious K-pop single Gangnam Style will be etched onto all of our eardrums for the rest of eternity (we're still including it for you above anyway), but that doesn't mean it isn't still clocking up its YouTube views at a phenomenal rate. Today the tune by South Korean entertainer Psy became the first…
