For the first time, Apple will allow adverts to be blocked by the iPhone and iPad versions of Safari, in a move is likely please users, but will concern both advertisers and publishers alike. Ad blockers have been available on desktop browsers for years, but analysts say Apple’s backing has the potential to make ad … [Read more…]
Apple is reportedly set to rival Netflix and Amazon with its own TV shows made exclusively for its upcoming Apple TV.
App makers need to recognise a new way of thinking and working on mobile and tablets: “Does it make my life easier?” Alister Esam, CEO, BoardPacks, looks at the usability challenges facing a new generation of users.
Apple device open and click rates have stagnated across Europe while Android has seen consistent year-on-year growth, according to new data.
As spending limit on Apple Pay increases from £20 to £30 new data shows sharp rise in contactless payments.
Spending by British consumers on their contactless cards has increased more than five-fold in the last 12 months, according to MasterCard’s UK spending data.
Google has launched ‘OnHub WiFi router’, pitched as an alternative to frustrating home routers that lose connection easily.
Despite the numbers of players offering ‘freemium services’ ad revenues are being forecast to exceed over $1billion worldwide by 2017. Juniper Research has conducted a recent study that predicts Ad’s on music streaming services will be approximately $780million in 2015 and that this will rise to $1billion by 2017. The increase follows an increasing movement … [Read more…]
Google (now Alphabet) last month unveiled Eddystone, a software platform for Bluetooth beacons that demonstrates a serious push into the Internet of Things. Beacons are small devices that use Bluetooth technology to send notifications and other actions to a passing smartphone or other Bluetooth enabled device. It had looked as though beacons were at risk … [Read more…]
Apple has signed up 11 million new users to its streaming music service since it launched at the end of June. “We’re thrilled with the numbers so far,” Eddy Cue, who runs Apple Music alongside other Apple internet services, told USA Today. Apple Music went live on June 30, cost £9.99 per month in the … [Read more…]