Archive for: September, 2014

Apple Responds to Bent iPhone Videos

Apple today issued a statement concerning reports of bent iPhones. It said bent iPhones are “extremely rare” under normal use, and the company has only received nine such compliants from customers. Videos and images have spread across the internet in recent days depicting iPhones 6 Plus handsets that nave been bent. Apple said the device […]

Flipboard for Windows Phone Leaves Beta

Flipboard recently shed its beta status and launched as a full app in the Windows Phone Store. The app was promised more than a year ago and arrives without the “flipping” gesture that made the app so popular with iOS and Android users. It is a socially-connected newsreader that creates digital magazines on the fly […]

Nintendo to Sponsor Super Smash Bros Tournaments in the US

Nintendo is hosting a Super Smash Bros 3DS tournament at GameStop stores across the United States on October 4, the day after the game launches. Tournaments will be held at 16 stores across the country, including 15 GameStop locations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Washington, Florida, Georgia and Texas, plus […]

Moto X and Moto Maker Available Sept. 26 for Verizon Customers

Verizon Wireless today announced that its variant of the Moto X will be available beginning Friday, September 26. Customers can order preconfigured versions of the device, or use Moto Maker to design their own. Verizon is selling the 16-GB model for $99 with a new contract and the 32-GB version for $150 with a new […]

DirecTV Shareholders Approve AT&T Merger

DirecTV’s shareholders today voted overwhelmingly in favor of merging with AT&T. The vote of confidence from DirecTV’s shareholders is just one of several the deal faces. It is still undergoing review from both the FCC and the Department of Justice. DirecTV says it expects the deal to close during the first half of 2015. AT&T […]

Two Tribes Confirms Rive For the Wii U

During the summer period Two Tribes, the studio best known for its Toki Tori titles that also restructured and started again earlier in the year, announced its new 2D shooter — RIVE. At the time Two Tribes indicated that it was “gunning” for Wii U development, and the studio has now confirmed on Twitter and […]

Apple Explains How to Revert to iOS 8.0

Apple published directions on its support web site that iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners can use to revert their devices to iOS 8 from iOS 8.0.1. The work-around restores cellular connectivity, which had been broken by the yanked iOS 8.0.1 update. It involves downloading the .ipsw file from Apple and using it in conjunction […]

Adobe Releases Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements 13

Adobe released major upgrades to its two consumer-oriented “Elements” programs — the image-editing program Photoshop Elements, and the video-editing program Premiere Elements, now both at version 13. In addition, both programs now feature a new help and instruction portal called Elements Live that offers various tips, tricks and tutorials on using the programs. Both programs […]

Amazon Brings Kindle Unlimited e-book Subscriptions to the UK

Amazon has expanded its all-you-can-eat e-book subscription service to the United Kingdom, just two months after the retailer’s original United States launch. Kindle Unlimited offers book readers over 650,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks to read and listen to, with the UK subscription priced at £7.99 ($13) per month accompanied by a 30-day trial. Despite […]

Harley Quinn Will Get Her Own Scratch and Sniff Comic Book

The Harley Quinn Annual #1 comic book, on sale October 29, will be a “scratch ‘n sniff” comic with scents of leather, suntan lotion, and pizza, plus one unnamed scent of a “mysterious compound.” Those smells will be in the U.S. edition; a second variant edition that will be available in all territories features the […]

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