Apple China Posts New Caligraphy Video to Commemorate Upcoming Hangzhou Store [Mac Blog]
Apple has posted a new video on its official Chinese retail website showing renowned calligrapher Wang Dongling creating a mural for the company’s upcoming West Lake store in Hangzhou. The video shows the artist using precise brush strokes to form characters around an Apple logo on a surface, which is then shown covering the West Lake retail location.
Last week, Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts commented on Apple’s expansion strategy in China, which involves the opening of five new retail stores in the next five weeks to coincide with the festive shopping of the February 19 Chinese New Year holiday. With the addition of five new stores, Apple would be operating a total of 20 locations in China and Hong Kong with an ultimate goal of 40 stores in China over the next several years.
Apple’s new West Lake store in Hangzhou, China opens on Saturday, January 24 at 9 AM local time.
Boost Mobile’s Galaxy Prevail LTE is officially on sale
If you were waiting for Boost Mobile’s no-contract Galaxy Prevail LTE to go on sale, the wait is over. The carrier announced the device earlier this month and you’ll now be able to pick up the LTE-capable Samsung smartphone for $129.99 outright.
The hardware is solid for the price point, as you’ll get a 4.5-inch display, 8 GB of internal storage and 1 GB of RAM. The big selling point is that the device has access to Boost’s LTE network, and you’ll get tons of Samsung extras since it’s running a Touchwiz-ed version of Android 4.4 KitKat.
If you want to snag one of these, hit the link below.
source: Boost Mobile
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UK spies collected journalists’ email as part of a test
Want to know why many people don’t like it when governments call for an end to encrypted communication? Here’s why. A new round of Edward Snowden leaks at The Guardian has revealed that the intelligence agents at Britain’s GCHQ collected email from major news outlets (including the BBC, Le Monde, the New York Times and the Washington Post) in 2008 while testing a system that stripped out data irrelevant to searches. While it’s not clear that the agency singled out the press during the test, there’s no indication that it got rid of the messages, either.
There’s little doubt that GCHQ is wary of the media. Additional leaks show that its surveillance teams see many journalists (especially defense-oriented ones) as a “potential threat” — their desire to learn secrets makes them more dangerous to information security than hackers, according to official rankings. Also, it’s now evident that the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) lets government branches get phone billing records for people who aren’t subject to warrants, including reporters investigating politicians’ shady conduct. GCHQ won’t comment beyond its usual insistence that its activities are “authorised, necessary and proportionate,” but that isn’t entirely reassuring when the agency tends to treat the press as its enemy.
[Image credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci]
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Source: Guardian
Microsoft claims new Lumia 532 is ‘Windows 10 ready’ hinting at new OS name for phones
With just over one day before Microsoft unveils the next chapter in its Windows 10 story, a small tidbit has already leaked from hyper indexing search engines.
Typing ‘Lumia 532′ into Bing or Google yields Microsoft’s own product details page for the recently announced Lumia. However, the mini description, which usually pulls data from the source page, reveals this interesting line: “Windows 10 ready, the Lumia 532 smartphone is capable of running mobile games with its Snapdragon processor. Skype, OneDrive, Office and more.”
Huawei said to be dropping “Ascend” from future phones
The next handset from Huawei will presumably be the successor to the Ascend P7. This time around, however, the naming will be slightly different. The company is apparently dropping the word “Ascend” when naming future phones. This means that the next handset will simply be known as the Huawei P8.
The alleged specifications for the P8 are impressive. The 5.2 display is met with 1920×1080 resolution. A fingerprint scanner has a spot beneath the display on the front panel. Inside, Huawei will use its very own octa-core Kirin 930 processor along with 3GB of RAM. Storage is ample, even without a microSD card slot, at 32GB.
At MWC 2015, we expect the Huawei P8 to be introduced for the first time.
Source: HDBlog.it
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YouTube hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show to rival NBC
On February 1, people around the world will be watching the events taking place in Arizona for Super Bowl XLIX. While plenty will watch for the game played between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, halftime is where the spike in ratings lie. This year’s Super Bowl halftime show will be led by Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz. It is a continuation in the trend of the Super Bowl halftime show being targeted at a younger demographic. Gone are the years of Bruce Springsteen or Prince performing at halftime. Katy Perry will get the youngsters and Lenny Kravitz will nab the stragglers. Online, YouTube has a plan of its own to compete with NBC during the broadcast for millennials.
YouTube will work with Collective Digital Studio to produce a halftime show streamed live on the AdBlitz Channel. Over twenty YouTube content producers totally more than sixty million subscribers will be in attendance. The host of the event, taking place at the YouTube space in Los Angeles, is Harley Morenstein of EpicMealTime. Other attendees include Fredie Wong, Rhett and Link, and Toby Turner.
Source: Official YouTube Blog
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Lookout report: Mobile Malware increased by 75% in U.S.
Mobile hacking and stealing has become one of the most commonly committed crimes, with some of the most common types of mobile threats that have dominated the smartphone sphere being Malwares, Chargewares and Adwares. Folks from Lookout, one of the most downloaded antivirus app for mobile have aggregated a Mobile threat report for 2014 showing the trends of new mobile threat tactics like ransomware.
Key findings from the report includes:
- Mobile malware grew substantially 2014, as the U.S. saw a 75% increase in mobile malware encounter rates compared to 2013.
- “Ransomware” became a top threat in 2014, as more than 4 million U.S. Android users were forced to pay anywhere from $300 to $500 each to unlock their devices.
“Ransomware”, a type of malware that locks users out of their mobile devices in a pay-to-unlock-your-device ploy, grew by leaps and bounds as a threat category in 2014, with ransomware such as ScareMeNot and ScarePakage finishing in the top five most-prevalent mobile threats in countries such as the U.S., U.K., and Germany.
I would advise you to take look at the detailed report just to be aware at what kind threats you may encounter and learn how to deal with them. Also, be sure to download the Lookout app since it is one of the best free threat detection app around for mobile devices that you can get to keep your devices and information safe.
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Itching to buy a Note 4? T-Mobile has it $36 off for the rest of the night
If you’re on T-Mobile (or planning to switch … tonight) and want to pick up a Galaxy Note 4, you can save $36 on the purchase price if you pick one up online before midnight PST tonight (January 19). That comes out to just shy of a five percent savings on the full purchase price, but when you’re talking about a $750 phone every little bit of savings adds up.
You can now download and install the Android 5.0.2 OTA update on your Nexus 7 2013 WiFi, Here’s how
Last week Google released factory images for the Android 5.0.2 update for the Nexus 7 2013 WiFi and the Nexus 10. The OTA update is now available for the Nexus 7, so you can manually update your device yourself.
We have the download link below, but if you aren’t sure of what you’re doing or you just need a refresher, be sure to check out our very extensive guide on how to do it. The Nexus 10 OTA is still not available, but I would expect a link to become available within the next day so stay tuned if you’re rocking a Nexus 10.
Nexus 7 (2013) WiFi (razor) From LRX22C from LRX22G (5.0.2)
Our how to guide on installing Lollipop OTA updates to Nexus devices
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Xperia Z4 and Galaxy S6 supposedly ‘secretly’ demoed at CES 2015
According to a known leaker, Sony and Samsung had some tricks up their sleeves when it came to their unreleased flagship devices at CES 2015 this year. Apparently both companies were holding secret showings of the Galaxy S6 and Xperia Z4 to stakeholders behind closed doors.
As i twit 19 dec,no SONY mobiles showed to public..but in the secret room something's happens…same things of GALAXY S6..TMO,ATT,VER,SPRINT
— Ricciolo (@Ricciolo1) January 6, 2015
I am taking this one with a massive pinch of salt and suggest you do too. Why would two companies bring their unannounced flagship devices to the biggest tech show of the year, full of cameras and media? Unless of course they wanted them to get leaked…
Although saying that, Samsung did hold secret showings of the Galaxy S5 behind closed doors at CES 2014, so who’s to say they didn’t do it again?
Thoughts?
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