Amazon is experimenting with a new scheme that will see it pay authors by the number of pages that readers actually see, rather than the number of books authors sell. The Atlantic reports that Amazon has updated its terms of use for … Read More
Apple Music has reversed its payment policy, a day after the singer Taylor Swift said she was refusing to allow the company to stream her album 1989. In an open letter to Apple, Swift said she was withholding the record … Read More
iMacs also made the news when Apple announced that owners of certain 27-inch models qualify for a free replacement hard drive, owing to problems with defective 3-terabyte disks. Affected computers were sold between December 2012 and September 2013. Reports appleinsider
Apple is featuring popular iOS App Store titles making use of the company’s VoiceOver screen reader technology, in celebration of its receipt of the Helen Keller Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind for its efforts in making … Read More
The original iPad mini has quietly disappeared from Apple’s web site, and is no longer available to purchase new from the Apple Store. Introduced in October 2012, the first iPad mini established the industrial design that was subsequently used in the iPad mini … Read More
Although Apple has yet to release official Apple Watch sales numbers beyond being “thrilled” about its launch, research firm Slice Intelligence says the company is raking in big profits from Apple-made band accessories, as can be expected. Reports appleinsider
Wearable fitness tracker firm Fitbit, which competes with the Apple Watch with its own hardware, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, and investors promptly drove the company’s share price up by more than 50 percent in the … Read More
Earlier this week, researchers from several universities published a report exposing a string of security vulnerabilities in iOS and OS X. The vulnerabilities, all labeled as XARA weaknesses, let malicious apps approved on the Mac and iOS App Stores gain access to … Read More
At WWDC 2015 last week, Apple unveiled the next version of Mac OS X, El Capitan. It’s coming this fall, and there will be a public beta beginning sometime in July. It will be free for all users. In the yearly cadence … Read More