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If you’ve upgraded your iPhone or iPad to iOS 8, the new software update for Mac computers will seem familiar. The Yosemite update to Apple's OS X system, available as a free download starting Thursday adds several features to bring the Mac in line with last month's iOS 8 update for mobile devices. There's also new functionality to make Macs act more like iPhones. Yosemite still has plenty of touches that make a Mac a Mac. But it continues a trend of breaking down barriers between the various devices as people depend more on smartphones and tablets for their everyday computing. SEAMLESS Let's say you're writing a lengthy email on your iPad and would prefer the Mac's keyboard. You can just click an icon on the lower left corner of…

APPLE PAY AND OS X YOSEMITE ALSO GIVEN SIGNIFICANT COVERAGE This fall has been a pretty exciting time to be an Apple fan, hasn't it? The new duo of iPhones - the 6 and the 6 Plus - would have been reason enough to get hyped up, but we've also had iOS 8 make its debut recently, and Apple Pay looks set to make paying for goods with your iDevice as easy as you like. That was before Apple CEO Tim Cook wheeled out that old favorite Steve Jobs saying, "One more thing..." for the Apple Watch - a product that most definitely wasn't just "one more thing", instead promising to popularize the technology wearables market in much the same way as the original iPhone and iPad shook up their…

IOS #01 - Facebook Messenger By Facebook, Inc. Category: Social Networking Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Spider-Man Unlimited By Gameloft Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Yik Yak By Yik Yak, LLC Category: Social Networking Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Amazing Thief By Ketchapp Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 –…

Begin Again Oscar-winning director John Carney’s latest effort is a truly heartwarming story of lost souls meeting and making beautiful music together. The washed-up founder of a New York record label, Dan (Mark Ruffalo) pins his hopes of a career revival on the sheepish singer-songwriter who he meets at an openmic night, Gretta (Keira Knightley). FIVE FACTS: 1. The movie had a $9 million budget. 2. Filming took place in various locations around New York City. 3. The premiere was at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. 4. It grossed $60,403,308 internationally. 5. The film was originally called Can a Song Save Your Life? Wish I Was Here Many of us have previously felt trapped between the respective roles of parent, spouse and child, but in this touching and funny…

If I've seen you taking photos with a tablet computer, I've probably made fun of you (though maybe not to your face, depending on how big you are). I'm old school: I much prefer looking through the viewfinder of my fullbodied, single-lens reflex camera, even though it has a large LCD screen. But as I tested out Apple's new iPad Air 2,1 see why people like to shoot pictures with a tablet. Images look great on the large screen, and there's less guesswork about whether or not small details, such as lettering on a sign, will be in focus. And what you see - and get - with the iPad Air 2 is a better camera. The rear one now matches the iPhone's 8 megapixels, up from 5 megapixels, and…

Walt Disney Animation Studios has officially shoved off on "Moana," offering a first look at the CGanimated adventure set in the South Pacific and slotting a late-2016 release date for the film. Details of "Moana" are largely being kept under wraps, but one of the notable takeaways from the announcement Monday is that the movie will focus on — and indeed, be named after — a female protagonist. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker ("The Little Mermaid," "The Princess and the Frog"), "Moana" is to tell the story of a spirited teenage girl and "born navigator" who sets sail in search of a fabled island in the ancient world of Oceania. Along the way, she teams up with a demigod named Maui and encounters mythical creatures and places. "Moana"…

TALK THAT MOVIE COULD BE THE NEXT TWILIGHT The unexpected explosion of Fifty Shades of Grey in 2011 changed our sexual landscape and catapulted the novel and its author, E. L James, into the public eye. As might be expected, it did not hide from the glare. Quickly becoming a part of the cultural makeup, the novel bewildered critics even while it delighted its readers, and quickly became the fastest selling paperback novel of all time. You probably talked about it, even if you didn't read it, so it's hardly surprising that such unprecedented sales and media interest would lead to a Hollywood adaptation - in fact, we'd be stunned if that wasn't the case. Fans waiting with appropriately baited breath now have only a few months left before they…

IBM will pay $1.5 billion to Globalfoundries in order to shed its costly chip division. IBM Director of Research John E. Kelly III said in an interview Monday that handing over control of the semiconductor operations will allow it to grow faster, while IBM continues to invest in and expand its chip research. IBM will make payments to the chipmaker over three years, but it took a $4.7 billion charge for the third quarter when it reported earnings Monday. The company fell short of Wall Street profit expectations and revenue slid 4 percent, sending shares down 7 percent at the open of trading. IBM's performance dragged down shares across the semiconductor industry. Privately held Globalfoundries will get IBM's global commercial semiconductor technology business, including intellectual property and technologies related to…

IOS #01 – Five Nights at Freddy’s By Scott Cawthon Category: Games / Price: $2.99 Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – Minecraft – Pocket Edition By Mojang Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Goblin Sword By Eleftherios Christodoulatos Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – Sleep Cycle alarm clock By Northcube AB Category: Health & Fitness / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for…

1989 Taylor Swift Country pop superstar Taylor Swift may have only been born at the very end of the ‘80s, but the final year of that iconic decade has nonetheless proved a font of inspiration for the fifth studio album by the Reading, Pennsylvania native. It has already produced a number one single in the inspirational “Shake It Of”. FIVE FACTS: 1. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989. 2. “Shake It Off” was the second of Swift’s singles to debut at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. 3. Collaborators on the album include Max Martin, Shellback, Diane Warren, Jack Antonoff and Ryan Tedder. 4. With 1989, Swift has claimed she set out to make “blatant pop music”. 5. Influences on the album include Phil Collins,…

Google's music-subscription service will try to anticipate its listeners' mood swings as it amplifies its competition with Pandora, Spotify and other popular services that play tunes over the Internet. Starting Tuesday, the $10-a-month All Access service will make music suggestions based on educated guesses about each subscriber's mood and likely activities at certain points in the day or week. For instance, a subscriber who opens the service on a smartphone on a Monday morning might be offered a playlist suited for commuting, going to the gym or getting motivated for work. Opening the app on Monday evening, though, might generate songs appropriate for eating dinner, studying or unwinding. Six different music mixes created for different emotions and activities - with such labels as "Jumping Out of Bed" or "In The…

Apple's skinnier iPads and flashy big-screen iMac are sleek and stunning. But the tech giant is making a bigger strategic bet with next week's launch of Apple Pay - the mobile pay service aimed at turning your iPhone into your wallet. The service, which goes live Monday and has hundreds of banks on board, is "hugely important" says Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett. It puts Apple in the middle of a wide range of consumer transactions, underscoring Apple's value as a brand and giving people a powerful new reason to buy iPhones, iPads and other gadgets. Apple Pay is designed to work on the company's newest iPhones, which contain a chip that allows payments at a special terminal in retail outlets. It also will be available on the new iPad…

If there ever comes a day I can ditch my wallet and use my phone to pay for everything, I'll look back to my first purchase through Apple Pay: a Big Mac and medium fries for $5.44. That wallet-free day won't be coming for a while, if ever, but Apple's new payments system brings us much closer. There were a few unexpected steps setting up Apple Pay on Monday, and the employee at a local McDonald's looked befuddled as I stood there after waving an iPhone 6 over the wireless reader in front of the cash register. The transaction hadn't gone through, so she was waiting for me to pay. I thought I had, but I had pressed the phone's fingerprint ID sensor too hard, getting me out of the…

The iPhone again proved to be the engine behind Apple's blockbuster financial performance, driving quarterly results well past expectations. Excitement for the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models sparked sales of 39.3 million iPhones in the last quarter- a record for the months of July through September - and made up for more disappointing sales of the company's iPad tablets. "Those are Picasso-like numbers," said FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives, referring to the iPhone, which contributed $23.7 billion in sales, or more than half of the company's $42.1 billion in quarterly revenue. He said the new iPhone models are "what's going to put fuel in Apple's growth engine." Apple said iPhone sales rose 21 percent over the same period a year earlier. By contrast, iPad revenue fell 14…

Verizon Communications Inc. on Tuesday reported higher net income and revenue in its third quarter, helped by strong wireless subscriber growth and demand for its high-speed FiOS Internet services. Verizon, which bought out its wireless division from British cellphone carrier Vodafone Group this year, said it added 1.5 million net retail wireless connections in the quarter - up 44 percent from the same time last year. About 1 million of those were for tablets and devices other than phones. It ended September with 106.2 million wireless connections, including 100.1 million that involved monthly service contracts. Chief Financial Officer Francis Shammo said promotion pricing has helped Verizon push customers into plans that should increase sales of phones using the more efficient 4G LTE network. Continued success in 4G adoption in the…

AMD says it will cut 7 percent of its global workforce in an effort to improve its profitability. The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker has been dealing with weaker revenue and profits for some time and posted third-quarter results Thursday that missed market expectations. The company expects the reductions and related real estate moves will save $85 million in 2015. AMD employed 10,149 people as of the end of its third quarter. It plans to cut the jobs by the end of its fourth quarter. The company will take a $57 million charge, largely for severance, during that final quarter. Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell nearly 5 percent to $2.51 in extended trading following the announcement. As of Thursday's close, the stock is down by nearly one-third in the year…