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United Airlines in coming weeks will begin offering free inflight streaming TV and movies to passengers who use their own laptops and Apple devices, a move toward providing video entertainment on personal devices rather than overhead and seatback screens. Starting in April, the Chicago-based carrier will begin outfitting planes with the ability to stream video content, with initial rollout supporting only laptops and Apple mobile devices, such as iPads and iPhones, with an upcoming United Airlines application. Compatibility with Android devices will be offered later in the year, a United spokeswoman said. “We have so many more customers who have mobile devices, and when they fly they’re looking for content to keep them entertained,” United spokeswoman Karen May said. “Overall on our mainline fleet, we plan to have Wi-Fi as…

Apple is reportedly working on a new app called Healthbook for its iOS mobile devices that would help users track and monitor various parts of their health. 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman, who first reported the app in January, provided more details on Healthbook on Monday citing unnamed sources who are working on the app. Here are the main things readers need to know about Healthbook: It looks like Apple’s Passbook app In terms of design, Healthbook is expected to look a lot like Passbook, one of Apple’s existing apps that is used to store passes from numerous iOS apps. 9to5Mac included mock-ups of the app in its report, which are based on screen shots of the app that were provided to Gurman. It will track data pertaining to various things The…

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Twice a week, a crew armed with thumb drives loaded up with the Windows 7 operating system enters administrative offices at UC Irvine and gets to work upgrading some 1,500 computers from the decade-old Windows XP program. With an April 8 deadline and 300 machines to go, they’re not going to make it. XP, first released by Microsoft Corp. in 2001, is approaching a retirement date of sorts. After April 8, Microsoft says it will stop providing technical assistance for XP and will no longer issue the security updates that protect the astounding number of PCs still running XP from yet-to-beseen hack attacks. Windows XP and its applications will continue working without Microsoft’s support. The risk is that they could fall prey to “zero day” threats - that is, hackers…

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In a little more than a decade, Google has upended the advertising world, giving Madison Avenue detailed insight about who is clicking on ads and how often. You think Google knows what you want? Try Amazon. The data the retail giant collects on its 237 million active customer accounts - and its careful mining to target markets - puts Google to shame. Amazon.com doesn’t just know what folks have searched for; it knows what they bought. And using that data, as well as ginning up other ways to get marketers to spend their money, has turned Amazon into one of the Web’s ad juggernauts, the seventh-largest seller of digital ads worldwide, according to eMarketer, which tracks online advertising. It’s already generating more ad revenue than Twitter, Pandora and Linkedln, and…

WHY APPLE’S NEW STANDARD COULD BE JUST THE START iPhones don’t tend to be strangers to the car. After all, who amongst us hasn’t fumbled about with our smartphone at the wheel, checking our messages or having a quick surf online to find the nearest supermarket? You might have even played the occasional game on your device in the car park. Whatever you do, we hope you generally do it when the car is still. Mind you, all of that could soon become academic, with the introduction by Apple of an iOS technology enabling your smartphone to work in a much more sophisticated and seamless way with your car. It’s not something that’s only just been announced - we’ve known about CarPlay, or as it was previously known, iOS in…

SOME REALISTIC...SOME ABSOLUTELY NOT There are many ways in which Samsung can be regarded as a serious rival to Apple, but if there’s any respect in which it still lags behind, it is surely the sheer enthusiasm of its fans in creating all manner of concepts imagining just what the company’s next major device might look like. That’s not something that reflects badly on Samsung, exactly - it’s just that when it comes to creating sleek, snazzy videos showing designs of future smartphones that may be by turns realistic and outright fanciful, Apple fanboys have no rivals. Let’s be honest... with the boys and girls at Cupertino themselves being notorious for keeping any juicy development information firmly under lock and key until they’re ready to foist the results on the…

Veronica Mars Just when we all thought that the titular character, played by Kristen Bell, was finally done with amateur sleuthing after the UPN/CW television series, here comes the continuing film adaptation, with the series’ creator Rob Thomas co-writing, producing and directing. This neo-noir mystery comedydrama sees Veronica thrown back into her former life as she is about to graduate law school, with her ex-boyfriend Logan being accused of murder. FIVE FACTS: 1. The television series and film are set in the fictional town of Neptune, California 2. The film was financed through a not just successful, but record-breaking fundraising campaign on Kickstarter, with the $2 million goal being reached in less than ten hours. 3. Kristen Bell has described her character as having “always stuck up for the underdog.…

The digital learning tools flooding schools come with a tantalizing promise: real-time feedback on what children know, combined with fingertip access to a dizzying array of tailored instructional materials, resulting in more customized instruction from teachers and a more personalized learning experience for each student. It’s a technology-enhanced version of the feedback loop that educators call formative assessment. But even in the most tech-sawy public schools, the digital overhaul of this vital classroom practice is just beginning, and skeptics worry that many of the new products being touted by ed-tech companies will serve primarily to enable more efficient use of poor formative-assessment techniques. “I think the potential of technology to improve formative assessment is significant, but I can’t say I’ve really seen it in action yet,” said Margaret Heritage, the…

Google thinks it’s time for an Internetconnected watch that performs many of the same tasks as a smartphone but with fewer distractions and rude interruptions. The Internet’s most influential company is trying to unleash a new era in mobile computing with a version of its Android software tailored for high-tech watches and other devices that can be worn instead of held. The “Android Wear” operating system released Tuesday is an altered version of Google’s popular software that powers more than 1 billion of the world’s smartphones and tablets. The new software will run on an array of so-called smartwatches scheduled to be released later this year. The Android watches will be less conspicuous _ and perhaps less obnoxious _ than Google Glass, the high-tech headwearthat includes a small camera and…

If you’re still hoping that Apple will one day release a TV set, you might not want to hold your breath. Former Wall Street Journal reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane is set to release a book titled “Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs,” this week. In it, she recounts a moment during one of Steve Jobs’ final months where the late Apple chief executive directly told his top executives that the company would not be entering the TV business, according to a Business Insider report. At Jobs’ last Top 100 meeting, which is an annual summit for Apple’s top executives, Jobs told his staff to ask him anything they wanted. “You’ve got Steve Jobs sitting right here. You’re my guys, you can ask me anything you want. I don’t care how…

Apple tweaked its product lineup Tuesday morning, replacing the $399 iPad 2 with its fourth generation iPad and introducing a cheaper 8-gigabyte iPhone 5c model in European markets. The Cupertino tech giant said it will no longer sell the iPad 2 model, which had been available to customers since it was originally released in early 2011. Taking the iPad 2’s place will be the fourth generation iPad, which was first introduced in late 2012 but had been unavailable since Apple introduced the iPad Air late last year. The iPad 4, as it is commonly referred to, offers a faster processor, an improved camera and, most notably, a higher-resolution display than what was available on the iPad 2. Apple said the iPad 4 will be available in 16 GB models and…

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Recess Skrillex Skrillex may be a well-established and acclaimed name in the electronic music world by now, having released seven EPs and scooped six Grammy Awards in the process, but he had never released a fulllength solo album... until now. The lead single “Try It Out”features Alvin Risk, with other guests on the wider LP including Ragga Twins, Kill the Noise, Fatman Scoop and Niki & The Dove. FIVE FACTS: 1. Skrillex is the stage name of Sonny John Moore. 2. Prior to beginning a solo career in 2007, Moore was the lead singer of post-hardcore band From First to Last. 3. Skrillex’s cited influences include Warp, the electronic music label of artists including Squarepusher and AphexTwin. 4. He formerly dated the artist and singer Ellie Goulding. 5. Skrillex’s hair…

Wonder PL, a new video platform for lifestyle content that launched on March 13, is taking direct aim at YouTube and Vimeo while hoping to capitalize on the soaring popularity of online video. Backed by Universal Music Group, Qualcomm Ventures, former Apple executive Pascal Cagni and a personal investment by Vice Media President Andrew Creighton, Wonder features topics from wellness to food to entertainment targeting women. Wonder if differentiating itself from YouTube by targeting professional content makers to use its platform for an annual fee. YouTube is free to anyone who wants to upload a video. “We want to be the Whole Foods of video,” said Sofia Fenichell, Wonder founder and CEO. “YouTube is Wal-Mart.” Wonder is going after brands and content creators such as the National Film Board of…

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Satya Nadella may unveil an iPad version of the company’s Office software suite on March 27, a source familiar with the event told Reuters, and use his first big press appearance to launch the company’s most profitable product in a version compatible with Apple Inc’s popular tablet. Nadella, who replaced longtime CEO Steve Ballmer earlier this year, will address the media and industry executives in San Francisco on March 27. Investors for years have urged Microsoft to adapt Office for mobile devices from Apple and Google Inc, rather than shackling it to Windows as PC sales decline. But the Redmond, Washingtonbased software giant has been reluctant to undermine its other lucrative franchise, its PC operating software. Microsoft gives up some $2.5 billion a year in revenue…