Cortana is Windows Phone’s natural language virtual assistant – the counterpart to Apple’s Siri and Google Now. Microsoft have just released an ad demonstrating Cortana on a Nokia Lumia 635 in action against Siri on an iPhone 5S. http://youtu.be/w0pjD4qpIpg Of course, any ad will select the scenario which best showcases its product, but Microsoft’s message is clear: they’re […]
“You are all individuals”, is the message from Apple to its army of loyal customers, with this latest video ad. It’s a celebration of the MacBook Air, and it’s screen-back logo, customised and augmented in dozens of different ways. http://youtu.be/ULL6DqJfdoE Via Business Insider. Related articles Apple Launches New ‘The Notebook People Love’ MacBook Air Ad New MacBook Air Ad […]
They’ve gone “gangbusters” in the US for proximity technology such as Apple’s iBeacon, says Sean O’Sullivan of LocalSocial. In Europe, we’re beginning to see deployments in just the last few weeks. One of those deployments is LocalSocial’s app for Savill’s Real Estate: Savill’s on Show. It’s designed for use in show-houses: users can install and run the […]
There’s quite a few mixes out there that people have created using ringtones. This one is pretty damn good:
It’s 2014. My mobile phone is more powerful by several multiples than the first desktop computer I bought. These days we interact with computers quickly and relatively easily and it’s getting easier and more intuitive all the time. For those of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s we’ve lived through the evolution […]
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook provides the voice to a new video from Apple that comes with the simple title “Better”. The video talks about Apple’s environmental credentials and how they’re working on improving them, but it’s also pretty clear that Apple’s “better” refers to its products as well. Here’s the video: http://youtu.be/EdeVaT-zZt4
You still can’t officially get Google’s Chromecast shipped to Ireland, but maybe we don’t care so much about that now, if the new Roku Streaming Stick lives up to its (very exciting) promise. Announced today, the new Roku® Streaming Stick™ (HDMI® version) is a tiny version of the Roku player that plugs directly into a HDMI port. […]
Announced in October, Apple’s new Mac Pro started shipping just before Christmas. iFixit.com got their hands on one and promptly tore it apart! [youtube]http://youtu.be/h5_-sYIOD6M[/youtube] We’ve blogged about iFixit.com before and their mission to encourage people to repair, not replace. Often, the main obstacle to fixability is design. As a design constraint, it’s often jettisoned in […]
If you’re a Mac user then you might have come across MacHeist in the past. To recap. MacHeist offer bundles of Mac software with huge discounts. What makes them a little more interesting, however, is that they donate a percentage of the sales to charity and according to their latest email they’ve raised over 2 […]
While Apple’s “12 Days of Gifts” app has been nice, though quite mixed, some of the best deals on iPhone apps are available from the developers themselves. Several people have been sharing links to Scanner Pro, which is currently free. What is it? It basically turns your iOS device into a portable scanner. You can […]
