PayPal users can now send money to friends and family using just their voice, after the payment service announced it was to integrate into Apple’s Siri. Siri is the voice-based virtual assistant embedded into the iPhone, and can be used to set reminders, answer questions and help with tasks. From Thursday, PayPal said users running…
“It’s important that brands monitor how their name is being used,” he said. Apple removed hundreds of fake apps on Thursday night after The New York Times inquired about the specific app vendors that created many of them. Other apps were removed after a New York Post article last week drew attention to some of…
After defying industry trends in recent years, Apple is feeling the slowdown in global purchases of laptop and desktop computers. Apple shipped 4 to 8 per cent fewer Mac computers during the second quarter of 2016, compared with a year earlier, according to new estimates from two research firms — even while some of its…
No more is there a “v” or dot point, the latest Bluetooth is simply Bluetooth 5, and it will help with beacons, IoT, location, speed, range and more. The organisers behind the Bluetooth SIG scooped themselves by announcing in advance that the successor to the Bluetooth v4.x version would arrive on 16 June as Bluetooth…
Samsung’s mobile payment solution, Samsung Pay, has launched in Australia with American Express and Citibank. If you’re a Amex or Citibank customer, or want to become one, you can now use those institutions’ cards with compatible Samsung smartphones and its new mobile payments system. That system is called Samsung Pay, and is clearly being billed…
Social media platform Instagram has introduced further changes which strengthen its position as a marketing platform for businesses, by introducing business profiles, insights and promotion tools. The over 200,000 advertisers now on Instagram will have the new ability to generate: Business profiles Business profiles allow businesses to quickly signal to people on Instagram that it…
Once again, Microsoft has been caught out putting the security of its users at risk, by employing what has been described as a “nasty trick” to force an upgrade to Windows 10. A BBC report said that the company had now changed the functionality of the pop-up that was used to encourage users to upgrade…
A peppy crowd poured into the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on September 9. They had turned up at the venue, which usually hosts rock concerts, to watch a show by Apple, a firm with a cult following of its own. Executives took the stage to unveil updates to the Apple Watch, iPhone and…
Apple’s new iPad – though not expected to sell like crazy – could lift the entire market for large, touchscreen tablets, boosting the fortunes of Microsoft, Dell and several other hardware makers. Going on sale in November, the iPad Pro comes with features and accessories designed to make it more suitable as a work machine than…
Security vendor Bitdefender has warned of an upswing in the incidence of Android ransomware in Australia. Bitdefender says there has been a sudden spike in the incidence of Android ransomware in Australia, and suggests this shows “an increased interest among cybercriminals in targeting Australia to generate revenue.” The above graph shows the incidence of ransomware…
