Is Apple to buy Beats?

Beats

Apple is reported to be in talks to buy Beats Electronics, maker of premium headphones, earphones and Bluetooth speakers and, since January, the on demand music streaming service – Beats Music. Founded by hip hop star Dr Dre and music producer Jimmy Iovine, Beats Electronics became most well known for its distinctive headphones (some say … Read more

Health Monitoring Earpod Hoax

apple hoax

Unconfirmed reports suggest that Apple was to incorporate health monitoring in its next version of Earpods, with data collected stored in iPhones and potentially accessed for scrutiny by medical personnel have been confirmed as untrue. A post on Secret, the anonymous app for iPhones, has turned out to be a hoax! The post said that … Read more

Apple has accepted faulty button mechanisms

iPhone 5 Sleep Wake Button

In a rare large scale repair/replacement process, Apple has accepted that some iPhone 5 models have faulty sleep/wake button mechanisms and have offered to replace the “small percentage” of those affected. The faulty sleep/wake buttons have only been discovered in certain iPhone 5 models and these models are among those manufactured during March 2013, the … Read more

iOS 7.1.1

iOS 7.1.1

Apple has issued an update to its recently released operating software iOS 7.1. The latest update 7.1.1, also known as build 11D201, contains security updates, improvements and bug fixes but there are already reports of users experiencing problems after updating their devices. The iOS 7.1.1 software update was released to fix the “fade” problem in … Read more