TiVo Adds AirPlay Support to Allow Streaming to Apple TV Via iOS Devices
TiVo today is announcing an update to its iOS app that adds AirPlay support to allow users to stream content to the Apple TV. The feature builds on previous support for streaming content to an iOS device from a TiVo box, and the TiVo app now makes it easy to watch content recorded on a TiVo box on any TV in the house with an Apple TV connected.
TiVo Inc., a global leader in next-generation television services, has announced that for the first time TiVo users can access their content on TV via a third party consumer electronics device, giving entertainment junkies an amazing multiscreen experience. TiVo users can now stream their recorded shows to Apple TV via AirPlay. TiVo users have yet another way to watch their favorite shows, on another screen, wherever they are.
The feature works with TiVo’s latest Roamio Pro and Roamio Plus boxes, which provide up to 3,000 hours of recording time and have built in Wi-Fi and MoCA support to enable easy streaming from the set-top box to other devices. Streaming from a basic Roamio or Premiere box requires a separate TiVo Stream auxiliary box to enable mobile streaming.
By turning on AirPlay Mirroring to an Apple TV from Control Center on the user’s iOS device, content from the TiVo box can be streamed to the device and on to any Apple TV-equipped television on the local Wi-Fi network, replacing some of the functionality of the company’s TiVo Mini box.
We’ve had a few days to test out the new feature and have found it relatively easy to use. Following a one-time setup for streaming from the box to the iOS device, users simply need to turn on AirPlay to their desired Apple TV, navigate to My Shows in the TV app to find the show they wish to stream, and select the option to watch the show on their iPhone.
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Barclays Confirms Apple Pay Support in Future, First Direct and HSBC Delayed Until Later This Month
Barclays today announced that it will support Apple Pay for debit and credit cards in the United Kingdom in the future, confirming a MacRumors report that claimed the bank expected “imminent” support of the mobile payments service.
Apple Pay officially launched in the U.K. earlier today and can be used at more than 250,000 locations across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A full list of retail shops and apps that accept Apple Pay can be found on Apple’s website.
We are really excited about the launch of Apple Pay and will bring Barclays debit cards and Barclaycard credit cards to Apple Pay in future.
— Barclays UK (@BarclaysUK) July 14, 2015
Apple has also updated its Apple Pay participating banks list in the U.K. and moved First Direct and HSBC to the “coming soon” section. First Direct has confirmed on Twitter that Apple Pay will be “available later in July,” while HSBC tweeted that it will be “launching Apple Pay by the end of this month.”
@davidashleyrw I’m sorry you feel the need to leave Ashley. We will be launching Apple Pay by the end of this month. ^JH
— HSBC UK Help (@HSBC_UK_Help) July 14, 2015
The full list of banks with plans to support Apple Pay includes Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, First Direct, Halifax, M&S Bank, MBNA, NatWest, Nationwide, Santander, TSB and Ulster Bank.
Samsung could launch the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ on August 12th, to go on sale from August 21st
So, in recent weeks we’ve seen a lot of rumours about the release dates of the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus handsets. We’ve had rumours saying the Note 5 would be released in July (later denied by Samsung’s President J K Shin), then August while I steadfastly believed Samsung would stick to its tradition of announcing it at the IFA in September. It would seem that both handsets will indeed be announced next month on the same day.
According to SamMobile, who have a good record when it comes to this sort of thing, Samsung will announce the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus together on August 12th, which is just under a month away. Both handsets are scheduled to go on sale on August 21st, just under 2-weeks later. Samsung Pay will also launch on the same day, in the US at least.
As rumoured the other day, the Note 5 will not support MicroSD cards. Depending on your feelings towards memory cards, that’s either a good or a bad thing. It will, however, have a massive 4GB of RAM. As for the phone’s design, again, as previously rumoured, it will follow the design cues of the Galaxy S6 with a metal and design exterior. Extremely thin bezels are the order of the day apparently, which will hopefully make it easier to grip. Hopefully.
The S Pen will also undergo a makeover, both appearing and feeling more like a pen. The S Pen will also be the same colour as the Note 5, which will be initially available in silver, black, gold and white.
SamMobile says the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus will be known by the moniker, Galaxy S6 edge+, and will feature the much-rumoured 5.7-inch dual-edged QHD display. Instead of being powered by the Snapdragon 808 though, it will instead use Samsung’s own Exynos 7420 processor, with 3GB of RAM on tap for multitasking. Storage options will apparently be the same as the Galaxy S6.
Now, it’s just a matter of time until Samsung send out invitations to the launch of the Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+. What do you think of about the Note 5 abandoning support for MicroSD cards? Personally, I won’t miss the MicroSD card, but I did appreciate that it was an option to choose if I chose to use it. Finally, are you excited that the Galaxy Note 5 announcement has been brought forward to August 12th?
Source: SamMobile
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BBC iPlayer Radio app will soon let you download shows
One of the reasons why podcasts are so popular is because, unlike live radio, you can download episodes and listen to them when you don’t have a connection. The BBC has long understood their popularity, offering both dedicated podcasts and shows cut from its daily broadcasts. Now, however, it’s going one step further and adding radio show downloads to its iPlayer Radio app. The feature should blur the line between the two mediums, making it easier for listeners to catch up with their favourite shows and DJs.
An update will be rolling out this week, introducing a “download” option to programme pages. You’ll be able to keep shows for up to 30 days and also stack multiple downloads for when you’re next on a WiFi connection. It’s being rolled out to coincide with the BBC Proms music festival — the broadcaster says “almost all” of Radio 3’s broadcasts will be available for offline playback over the next eight weeks. It also suggests that, similar to TV programmes in the BBC iPlayer app, not all shows will be available to download.
Via: Recombu
Source: BBC
Firefox now blocks Flash automatically
Flash is the Justin Bieber of browser plugins: it’s everywhere, it does nothing useful and every time you see it you want to smash a window. Yesterday, Facebook’s head of security publicly opined that it was time for the platform to die, and just a day later, Mozilla’s Mark Schmidt has joined in. In a tweet, Schmidt has announced that, as of the latest update, the Firefox browser will block Flash automatically. It looks as if the technology world has decided that if Adobe won’t do the decent thing and kill it, then everyone else will just tool up and beat it to death themselves.
BIG NEWS!! All versions of Flash are blocked by default in Firefox as of now. https://t.co/4SjVoqKPrR #tech #infosec pic.twitter.com/VRws3L0CBW
– Mark Schmidt (@MarkSchmidty) July 14, 2015
It may have been the best way to deliver video in the early days of the internet, but the rise of standards compliant technologies make Flash look obsolete. More importantly, however, Flash is riddled with holes, and it’s often used as a beachhead for hackers to get comfortable inside your computer. Oftentimes, this is met with silence from Adobe, a point that The Register put to the company’s Wiebke Lips. Her response was that there are “extensive efforts” in progress at the company to make the code harder to crack, although they’re not yet ready to be pushed out to users.
To be clear, Flash is only blocked until Adobe releases a version which isn’t being actively exploited by publicly known vulnerabilities.
– Mark Schmidt (@MarkSchmidty) July 14, 2015
2015 is becoming the year that Flash gets killed-off once and for all, with Google tweaking Chrome to “intelligently” block auto-playing adverts. In addition, YouTube, the site that was probably the plugin’s biggest proponent, switched to HTML 5 to deliver video at the start of the year. It’s likely that other notable holdouts will be pressured, either by these latest moves, the most recent security controversies or the Occupy Flash movement. Yup, there’s a whole movement dedicated to eradicating this stuff from the web.
Oh, and should you want or, more likely, need to use Flash, you can reactivate the feature at your liberty by dipping into Firefox’s settings menu.
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Via: The Verge
Source: Mark Schmidt (Twitter)
Reddit’s chief engineer quits after losing faith in site’s direction
Reddit’s VP of Engineering Bethanye Blount has quit after just two months on the job, telling Re/Code that she lost confidence in its new direction. “There are some very aggressive implied promises being made to the community — in comments to mods, quotes from board members — and they’re going have some pretty big challenges in meeting (them),” she said. She didn’t feel she could deliver on those promises, which include new subreddit mod tools and a content policy aimed at reducing harassment. Blount is the third female employee to leave Reddit in less than two weeks following the departure of CEO Ellen Pao and AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor. The site is now in the hands of former CEO and Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman.
.@OhMeadhbh To be clear, there are good people at reddit and I wish them all the best. But I have concerns. There’s a lot of work ahead.
– bethanye (@bethanye) July 14, 2015
Blount also had a few parting shots about Ellen Pao’s firing. She felt that Pao had been set up to take a fall over a “glass cliff,” implying that gender discrimination may have been involved. However, she added, “I wouldn’t say my decision to leave was directly related to my gender,” and didn’t feel that Taylor’s firing was either. Huffman also said that “Bethanye’s departure had nothing to do with gender, and I was looking forward to working with her.” He replaced her in the interim with former team leader George Pang, a move that Blount endorsed. “I have full confidence in (Pang),” she said on Twitter.
Huffman also addressed Blount’s criticism about aggressive promises. “I returned because of my confidence in the company to accomplish (these) goals, and I’ve committed publicly to two things: creating a new content policy, which we are hard at work on, and improving tools for moderation. I don’t foresee any difficulty in accomplishing either of these things in the near future.” Meanwhile, Blount said, “it’s just time for me to take on something new. Start another company, write some code, all my favorite things.”
.@vrika It’s just time for me to take on something new. Start another company, write some code, all my favorite things.
– bethanye (@bethanye) July 14, 2015
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Source: Re/Code
Motorola may expand the Moto Maker club to include the upcoming Moto G (2015)
One of the great things about the Android operating system is being able to customize the software to our hearts content. There is absolutely no reason the layout on any two phones should appear the same unless it’s by design. Motorola offered even more freedom of choice when it released its Moto Maker customization tool allowing Moto X owners to customize their phones on the outside as well. Now it seems that Motorola is getting ready to expand Moto Maker to cover the upcoming Moto G (2015 edition).
moto-g-maker pic.twitter.com/zV6HUwc0tW
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) July 14, 2015
This is according to that semi-retired serial leaker, @evleaks (Evan Blass), who tweeted the above message. While it isn’t concrete proof that the Moto Maker will cover the Moto G (2015), he does have a solid reputation when it comes to leaks. What do you think? If the leak is confirmed, would being able to customize your phone’s outward appearance draw you to the Moto G (2015)?
Source: @evleaks (Twitter)
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Xiaomi’s Mi4i is now available to purchase through open sales in India
Selling smartphones through flash sales might make sense for the manufacturer, but for the consumer? Not so much. For the consumer, flash sales can represent a huge source of frustration for any number of reasons. The Xiaomi Mi4i was one such phone that was only available through flash sales, but now its available to purchase any time you want to in India.
That’s right, Xiaomi has just announced via Twitter that its Mi4i smartphone is now available to purchase through open sales in India for Rs. 12,999 ($205). You can buy the Xiaomi Mi4i from a variety of retailers including Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, The Mobile Store as well as Mi.com. If the flash sales had prevented you from buying the Xiaomi Mi4i, does its general availability appeal to you now?
Source: Xiaomi (Twitter)
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Google Photos backs up your photos even if you delete the app
If you decided to try out Google Photos when it was launched last month but decided it wasn’t for you, the app will keep uploading your photos to the service unless you disable the backup from the Google Settings menu.
As spotted by Nashville Business Journal writer David Arnott, Google Photos uses Android’s Google Settings menu to determine whether to backup your photos which means if you’ve deleted the app but not disabled the option, you’ll find your pictures are still being uploaded to Google Photos.
Disabling the upload – which many found concerning as Google stores its images using supposedly “unguessable” public URLs – requires you to head over to the centralised Google Settings Menu in Android and turn off the “Google Photo Backup” option, otherwise you’ll find the pictures from your phone are still being uploaded to the web. You’ll need to do this even if you’ve deleted the app and this confusion is just one example of a user experience fail thanks to Google’s own applications.
Arnott says he chose to continue using Flickr – instead of Google Photos – as he was already sharing several Flickr accounts with his family and didn’t want them to have to learn a new method of accessing photos. In response to Arnott’s concerns, Google said that the photo backup was “working as intended” which is technically true but disabling the auto backup is definitely intuitive and its unlikely that users will be aware of the way backups are managed.
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We’ve been able to replicate the issue with images appearing on Google Photos even after deleting the app and disabling Google Drive and Google Plus on our device. Have you found that Google Photos continues to upload your images? What do you think of Google’s policy of continuing to backup your photos even if you clearly don’t want to use the service? Let us know your views in the comments below.
Xiaomi Mi 4i goes on general sale across multiple retailers in India
Xiaomi unveiled its latest Mi 4i smartphone back in April and has been gradually pushing products out to the Indian market with its flash sales tactic. Now, Xiaomi is opening up the handset to general sale across multiple retailers in India.
Previously, Mi 4i flash sales had taken place through the popular e-commerce retailer FlipKart. Flash sales help Xiaomi keep on top of stock levels and production, as well as generating some hype and a feeling of exclusivity around the handset. The smartphone is now available for purchase any time through Amazon India, Snapdeal, The Mobile Store, Airtel, Xiaomi’s own Mi.com, and Flipkart, of course.
As a little recap, the Xiaomi Mi 4i is a mid-range version of the company’s latest flagship smartphone, with a slightly lower price tag to compete in the Indian market. The handset comes with a 5-inch 1080p display, octa-core Snapdragon 615 SoC, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a 13 megapixel rear camera and a 5 megapixel front camera. The Mi4i also sports dual-SIM support, LTE data connectivity, a 3,120mAh battery and Xiaomi’s MIUI 6, which is based on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
The Xiaomi Mi 4i is priced at Rs. 12,999 (approximately $200) across the various retailers and is available in your choice of either dark grey or white colors.
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