Apple’s much-rumored speaker is en route. Apple today announced its speaker, the HomePod a wireless speaker powered by Apple’s A8 chip with Siri integration that’s just under 7 inches tall. Phil Schiller, the company’s VP of Worldwide Marketing, offered the following comment: “HomePod packs powerful speaker technology, Siri intelligence and wireless access to the entire […]
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A cool app just made all of its premium services available for free. On Monday, Instapaper, the handy app for saving and storing web pages for later reading, announced that its Instapaper Premium features will be available to all Instapaper users, free of charge. The new features will include the following: An ad-free Instapaper website […]
It’s not the biggest iOS update in the world, but it might prove helpful. On Thursday, Apple released iOS 8.4.1. The update, a 55 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Resolves issues that could prevent turning on iCloud Music Library. – Resolves an issue that hides added music because Apple Music was […]
Amazon just announced the latest service in its Prime family, Prime Music, which together with Prime Instant Video and Prime Shipping will cost $99 a year. Earlier this year, Amazon increased the the price of a Prime subscription from $79 to $99, but at the time there was no indication that there would be any new features to […]
When in doubt, offer some additional competition. Per AppleInsider, Google on Wednesday introduced its long-anticipated Spotify competitor: Google Play Music All Access, a “uniquely Google approach” to subscription music service. Google engineering director Chris Yerga announced the new music service during the keynote for the search giant’s annual Google I/O developer conference. As was previously […]