US technology giant Apple has signed a deal to bring its iPhone to China Mobile - the world's largest carrier.
Reported by BBC News 4 days ago.
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VIDEO: Apple signs deal with China Mobile
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Leaked memo from Apple CEO boasts 'big plans' for 2014: Rumors point to iWatch, iPad Pro, Apple TV and redesigned iPhone on the horizon
Tim Cook didn't go into specifics about what Apple has in store for the New Year, saying only that 'we think customers are going to love' the new products.
Reported by MailOnline 4 days ago.
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Deal offers Apple big bite of Chinese market
Technology giant Apple has reached a deal to bring the iPhone to China Mobile, the world's biggest phone carrier with around 750 million customers.
Reported by Express and Star 4 days ago.
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Pricing key to China Mobile’s Apple deal
Details remain elusive on potential iPhone subsidies and pricing, which will reveal which of the two technology groups secured a better bargain
Reported by FT.com 4 days ago.
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Apple Finally Signs The China Mobile Deal
THe financial markets have been waiting for this for some years: for Apple to sign up with China Mobile to take the iPhone. The importance of it is that China Mobile is the last major airtime provider around the world that doesn't currently carry Apple's products...
Reported by Anorak 4 days ago.
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Apple's long-awaited iPhone deal with China Mobile confirmed
The deal could add billions of dollars to Apple's revenue.
Reported by Digital Spy 4 days ago.
Reported by Digital Spy 4 days ago.
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6-inch iPhone could arrive as early as May, iPad Pro to follow in October
Reported by TechRadar 4 days ago.
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Incase iPhone 5 Leather Pouch
Expanding its repertoire, accessories maker Incase presents the iPhone 5 Leather Pouch. Handcrafted with a premium full grain leather exterior and a protective soft suede…
via Emag.co.uk Reported by Musicrooms.net 13 hours ago.
via Emag.co.uk Reported by Musicrooms.net 13 hours ago.
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Dev Hynes on Solange, Blood Orange and life in New York
A devastating fire ended a brilliant year for artist and producer Dev Hynes, who has defined the sound of pop in 2013. He talks about panic attacks, women in music and why he'd rather not sing his own songs
Thirteen days after we meet, Dev Hynes breaks his self-imposed Twitter hiatus to post this: "Last night, the unthinkable happened. My entire apt burnt down while I was out. I've lost everything I own, including scores, hard drives …"
And then: "… clothes, sentimental items. Everything from my life is gone."
Finally, and for this sentimental journalist, most devastatingly: "My dog died in the fire. I will love you forever Cupid. I miss you."
In response to the fire, his girlfriend's mother set up a "Help Dev!" Go Fund Me site. In a testament to the affection he inspires, it raised $24,302 (£14,850) before it was closed at Hynes's request, with him pledging to give the money to three charities. Robin Urbani had begun the fundraiser with a goal of $5,000.
It was an awful end to what had been a wonderful year. Hynes, a profoundly unworldly figure, all but defined the sound of pop in 2013. This was the year he produced work for Mutya Keisha Siobhan and scored Gia Coppola's movie Palo Alto, out early next year. He also released the slinky and endlessly playable Cupid Deluxe, his second solo record as Blood Orange. And these high points came after a 2012 in which he finally launched Sky Ferreira's pop stardom with Everything is Embarrassing and Solange's with Losing You.
He had suggested meeting in the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan. I don't tell him this, but I walked past him here a few days ago. He was wandering around solo, gazing about in wonderment, making notes. It made me think of Arthur Russell, the downtown genius, endlessly riding the Staten Island ferry with his Walkman headphones on. Hynes may not possess the same legend, but, like Russell was, he too is a cultishly loved, unfailingly sincere and indisputably talented oddball.
I can understand why people would cough up for him. He's sweetly vague and as guileless as a teenager. He says "weird" and "cool" a lot – things are often both – and his uncertain sentences tend to peter out into self-conscious giggles. Today, he's wearing a trademark black poloneck, accessorised with a scarf that is carefully draped over the satchel hanging from his shoulder. He pinches it up by an inch to reveal the tiny black nose of his absurdly adorable eight-week-old puppy, Cupid. She had become the star of both his Instagram account and that of his girlfriend, musician Samantha Urbani. A few weeks later, I'll think back to this and be surprised by how upset I am. A weeks-old puppy dying in a blaze seems almost Victorian in its pathos.
"I'm becoming," he says, tucking the scarf back over her, "a master of disguise." We look at work by Isaac Julien and Mike Kelley and then make our way to the cafe, where he is greeted enthusiastically by two different waiters. "I come here a lot," he says.
Like, once a week?
"No, like three times a week. I just like it in this building, physically."
Hynes has synesthesia, a neurological condition in which sounds register as colours and vice versa. The top of the Empire State Building, for example (which he frequents almost as much as MoMA), registers for him as a G major ninth. He calls "the odd weird chaos and hum" from its 86th floor "soothing".
"Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack and then it dies down."
Jesus! "It sounds awful, I'm aware," he says, with a laugh.
This self-described Essex lad has been in New York since 2007, and it seems an odd choice for the sensorily overwhelmed. "I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York," he counters, "but I feel it more as a father figure or something – this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here." He's certainly prodigious in his output – he recently discovered a hard drive with 200 forgotten songs on it – and perhaps that's why he seems to never hesitate about giving a song away. "I'm like the last person I think of. I just don't think I'm the kind of person that people want to see singing these songs."
Who do they want to see?
"Someone who's a pop star." And that's an identity he's discounted for himself, "but I'm totally fine with that, because it's not really what I want to be."
But he could if he wanted to. On Cupid Deluxe's No Right Thing, in particular, his voice is full of emotion, feminine. But he feels as though producing comes to him more naturally. "It forces you to have confidence in what you create. Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net – 'I'm able to execute this, it's fine.'"
Nonetheless, he seems to have been almost starstruck by the Sugababes, or Mutya Keisha Siobhan, as we're now meant to call them. "Oh, man. That was a moment – I bought One Touch and Overload when they came out so it was just very strange to be in a room with those three girls. They just bang out harmonies like it's nothing. I was in shock. It's almost underappreciated."
Which leads us on to a larger conversation about women in pop, and a certain woman in pop in particular. Hynes has just suffered a Twitter falling-out with Solange after she implied he'd failed to credit her for her work. "I've definitely been shut down to talk about things but I will say that it was never my intention to make things public like that. I do feel like I've not said anything negative, ever, about her. I don't hate anyone. I have no bad feelings for her. So, I dunno."
Female pop stars often suffer from the assumption that they're just pawns – that it's the guy writing the music and the woman merely performing it. This, he says, has been on his mind a lot, "and it is obviously a tricky subject. Even with the Sugababes – I'm sure people think I wrote the song but they wrote all the lyrics and vocal melodies themselves. I guess I just didn't even think about these things, that I needed to be broadcasting strict statements out there. So I've just"– he makes a whooshing noise and a chopping gesture – "cut myself out. I really drastically kind of deleted myself from the world."
In other words, he threw away his iPhone.
"I don't think there's anyone out there who particularly cares that I haven't posted on Instagram," he adds. Which, taking into account his 30,379 followers, seems a little disingenuous.
"I'm not looking for attention or whatever," he says. "But I've realised that things like that have started gravitating towards me, in a very, very minute way. I felt I kind of had to detach myself."
His year has also included writing songs for Britney, none of which made it on to her album. He was, he says, "actually so stoked about them – something I don't say often. But they'd always come back with why they didn't like it and it wouldn't make any sense. I'd almost prefer them to say: 'We're scared we're not going to make any money so we're just going to use Will.i.am.' It's funny – the people in charge of a lot of these artists … I don't want to say they're not real people, but it's not a fan sensibility. I feel like that's what makes the best music, when people are a fan of the person they're working with."
And he counts himself as a solid Britney fan, "maybe just a bit more than most 27-year-olds – she's such a huge part of our growing up. And I'm just not sure whether Will.i.am or whoever really care about her." I try not to get distracted by an internet vision of a fresh new spat: "Dev Hynes says Will.i.am doesn't care about Britney."
Hynes is, as one friend shrewdly put it, "demographically famous" now – if you're under 35 or so and have any interest in pop, you'll know who he is. But I suggest that this year he's crossed over into a higher tier of celebrity.
"Oh, blimey," he says. Negotiating the, well, weirdness of being a public figure is obviously occupying his thoughts. "I've become very overly conscious of my existence. I've been wildly reflective the last couple of months. More than I ever have been. This really close family person is really sick and it's kind of been a weird earthquake or something. I tried to write about it on my Tumblr."
On 14 November he posted about getting the train uptown to a Lou Reed memorial, after which: "I cry for 30 minutes straight." The post ends: "I think about time, time time time. What a crazy thing time is. Our biggest asset, our worst enemy. I don't want to waste any more time. It's time for me to leave. I see Philip Glass arrive, with a tear in his eye. Time is the strangest thing I've ever known. WTF."
"I guess," he says, with another sad-happy laugh, "I just think too much. I think way too much."
We say goodbye and he goes in for an awkward, puppy-squishing hug. He's off to see the Yayoi Kusama show at David Zwirner gallery. It will be his fourth visit.
And then, two weeks later, his life has burned down.
• Cupid Deluxe is out now on Domino Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.
Thirteen days after we meet, Dev Hynes breaks his self-imposed Twitter hiatus to post this: "Last night, the unthinkable happened. My entire apt burnt down while I was out. I've lost everything I own, including scores, hard drives …"
And then: "… clothes, sentimental items. Everything from my life is gone."
Finally, and for this sentimental journalist, most devastatingly: "My dog died in the fire. I will love you forever Cupid. I miss you."
In response to the fire, his girlfriend's mother set up a "Help Dev!" Go Fund Me site. In a testament to the affection he inspires, it raised $24,302 (£14,850) before it was closed at Hynes's request, with him pledging to give the money to three charities. Robin Urbani had begun the fundraiser with a goal of $5,000.
It was an awful end to what had been a wonderful year. Hynes, a profoundly unworldly figure, all but defined the sound of pop in 2013. This was the year he produced work for Mutya Keisha Siobhan and scored Gia Coppola's movie Palo Alto, out early next year. He also released the slinky and endlessly playable Cupid Deluxe, his second solo record as Blood Orange. And these high points came after a 2012 in which he finally launched Sky Ferreira's pop stardom with Everything is Embarrassing and Solange's with Losing You.
He had suggested meeting in the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan. I don't tell him this, but I walked past him here a few days ago. He was wandering around solo, gazing about in wonderment, making notes. It made me think of Arthur Russell, the downtown genius, endlessly riding the Staten Island ferry with his Walkman headphones on. Hynes may not possess the same legend, but, like Russell was, he too is a cultishly loved, unfailingly sincere and indisputably talented oddball.
I can understand why people would cough up for him. He's sweetly vague and as guileless as a teenager. He says "weird" and "cool" a lot – things are often both – and his uncertain sentences tend to peter out into self-conscious giggles. Today, he's wearing a trademark black poloneck, accessorised with a scarf that is carefully draped over the satchel hanging from his shoulder. He pinches it up by an inch to reveal the tiny black nose of his absurdly adorable eight-week-old puppy, Cupid. She had become the star of both his Instagram account and that of his girlfriend, musician Samantha Urbani. A few weeks later, I'll think back to this and be surprised by how upset I am. A weeks-old puppy dying in a blaze seems almost Victorian in its pathos.
"I'm becoming," he says, tucking the scarf back over her, "a master of disguise." We look at work by Isaac Julien and Mike Kelley and then make our way to the cafe, where he is greeted enthusiastically by two different waiters. "I come here a lot," he says.
Like, once a week?
"No, like three times a week. I just like it in this building, physically."
Hynes has synesthesia, a neurological condition in which sounds register as colours and vice versa. The top of the Empire State Building, for example (which he frequents almost as much as MoMA), registers for him as a G major ninth. He calls "the odd weird chaos and hum" from its 86th floor "soothing".
"Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack and then it dies down."
Jesus! "It sounds awful, I'm aware," he says, with a laugh.
This self-described Essex lad has been in New York since 2007, and it seems an odd choice for the sensorily overwhelmed. "I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York," he counters, "but I feel it more as a father figure or something – this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here." He's certainly prodigious in his output – he recently discovered a hard drive with 200 forgotten songs on it – and perhaps that's why he seems to never hesitate about giving a song away. "I'm like the last person I think of. I just don't think I'm the kind of person that people want to see singing these songs."
Who do they want to see?
"Someone who's a pop star." And that's an identity he's discounted for himself, "but I'm totally fine with that, because it's not really what I want to be."
But he could if he wanted to. On Cupid Deluxe's No Right Thing, in particular, his voice is full of emotion, feminine. But he feels as though producing comes to him more naturally. "It forces you to have confidence in what you create. Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net – 'I'm able to execute this, it's fine.'"
Nonetheless, he seems to have been almost starstruck by the Sugababes, or Mutya Keisha Siobhan, as we're now meant to call them. "Oh, man. That was a moment – I bought One Touch and Overload when they came out so it was just very strange to be in a room with those three girls. They just bang out harmonies like it's nothing. I was in shock. It's almost underappreciated."
Which leads us on to a larger conversation about women in pop, and a certain woman in pop in particular. Hynes has just suffered a Twitter falling-out with Solange after she implied he'd failed to credit her for her work. "I've definitely been shut down to talk about things but I will say that it was never my intention to make things public like that. I do feel like I've not said anything negative, ever, about her. I don't hate anyone. I have no bad feelings for her. So, I dunno."
Female pop stars often suffer from the assumption that they're just pawns – that it's the guy writing the music and the woman merely performing it. This, he says, has been on his mind a lot, "and it is obviously a tricky subject. Even with the Sugababes – I'm sure people think I wrote the song but they wrote all the lyrics and vocal melodies themselves. I guess I just didn't even think about these things, that I needed to be broadcasting strict statements out there. So I've just"– he makes a whooshing noise and a chopping gesture – "cut myself out. I really drastically kind of deleted myself from the world."
In other words, he threw away his iPhone.
"I don't think there's anyone out there who particularly cares that I haven't posted on Instagram," he adds. Which, taking into account his 30,379 followers, seems a little disingenuous.
"I'm not looking for attention or whatever," he says. "But I've realised that things like that have started gravitating towards me, in a very, very minute way. I felt I kind of had to detach myself."
His year has also included writing songs for Britney, none of which made it on to her album. He was, he says, "actually so stoked about them – something I don't say often. But they'd always come back with why they didn't like it and it wouldn't make any sense. I'd almost prefer them to say: 'We're scared we're not going to make any money so we're just going to use Will.i.am.' It's funny – the people in charge of a lot of these artists … I don't want to say they're not real people, but it's not a fan sensibility. I feel like that's what makes the best music, when people are a fan of the person they're working with."
And he counts himself as a solid Britney fan, "maybe just a bit more than most 27-year-olds – she's such a huge part of our growing up. And I'm just not sure whether Will.i.am or whoever really care about her." I try not to get distracted by an internet vision of a fresh new spat: "Dev Hynes says Will.i.am doesn't care about Britney."
Hynes is, as one friend shrewdly put it, "demographically famous" now – if you're under 35 or so and have any interest in pop, you'll know who he is. But I suggest that this year he's crossed over into a higher tier of celebrity.
"Oh, blimey," he says. Negotiating the, well, weirdness of being a public figure is obviously occupying his thoughts. "I've become very overly conscious of my existence. I've been wildly reflective the last couple of months. More than I ever have been. This really close family person is really sick and it's kind of been a weird earthquake or something. I tried to write about it on my Tumblr."
On 14 November he posted about getting the train uptown to a Lou Reed memorial, after which: "I cry for 30 minutes straight." The post ends: "I think about time, time time time. What a crazy thing time is. Our biggest asset, our worst enemy. I don't want to waste any more time. It's time for me to leave. I see Philip Glass arrive, with a tear in his eye. Time is the strangest thing I've ever known. WTF."
"I guess," he says, with another sad-happy laugh, "I just think too much. I think way too much."
We say goodbye and he goes in for an awkward, puppy-squishing hug. He's off to see the Yayoi Kusama show at David Zwirner gallery. It will be his fourth visit.
And then, two weeks later, his life has burned down.
• Cupid Deluxe is out now on Domino Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.
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Nokia pulls Here Maps app for iPhone, blames iOS 7
As an alternative to the troubled launch of Apple Maps, Nokia's Here Maps app was unique as it featured the ability to cache maps for offline viewing
Reported by T3 1 hour ago.
Reported by T3 1 hour ago.
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Top 10 videos of 2013: iPhone, Galaxy S4, HTC One and Xperia Z dominate charts
What you've been watching on V3 this year
Reported by V3.co.uk 28 minutes ago.
Reported by V3.co.uk 28 minutes ago.
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BEASTED: Apple fined $666k in Taiwan for iPhone price meddling
Reported by The Register 1 hour ago.
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Arm rises strongly on Apple contract win
Arm, whose chip designs power the iPhone, added 3.9 per cent to £11.10 on confirmation that Apple had finally agreed to sell handsets to China Mobile
Reported by FT.com 5 days ago.
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Pricing key to China Mobile’s Apple deal
Details remain elusive on potential iPhone subsidies and pricing, which will reveal which of the two technology groups secured a better bargain
Reported by FT.com 5 days ago.
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New 'app' to report potholes
This is Exeter -- BAY cyclists have welcomed a £30,000 Government boost for a new 'app' to report potholes. Graham Brodie, a cyclist from Newton Abbot and spokesman for the DevonCyclists' Touring Club says that cyclists can now act as the eyes of the council. He said: "Most cyclists carry smartphones and this means they can take a picture and upload it straight away. "I think the council will be grateful and I know that they do their best to respond as soon as they can." The Department for Transport (DfT) has pledged the cash to enable the Cyclists' Touring Club to revamp its 'Fill That Hole' website and develop a new app compatible with smartphones running Android software. More than nine million iPhone users can download the website's current app to report potholed roads to their councils. Alan Connett, lib-dem leader at Devon county council said: "It is great that people can report more quickly but I do wonder whether councils like Devon will be able to act on all of the reports." The new app could boost that figure to over 26 million and is expected to be ready in February, at the start of 'pothole season' when the winter damage to roads is at its greatest. Cllr Ray Hill, Torbay council member for highways said: "I welcome anything that makes it easier for people to report potholes though would not want people taking photographs in the middle of the road. "You can report at the Torbay council website and we have also found £30,000 for maintenance." Roads Minister Robert Goodwill said: "The Government is serious about tackling potholes. At best they are an irritation but at worst they can damage vehicles and pose a serious danger to cyclists. That is why we want people to tell councils where to find them so they can fill them in. This app means more people are going to be able to report potholes more easily." CTC originally developed its app for cyclists, who can receive life-changing injuries from accidents caused by potholes, but it is now used by all types of road user, from delivery drivers to motorists concerned about potential damage to their vehicle. The app sends local authorities up-to-the-minute information about potholes which the council may not otherwise know about, allowing them to identify trouble spots needing action fast.
Reported by This is 5 days ago.
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Photoshop of horrors: Quantum Pirate’s review of the year
Netflix, Prism, iPhone and Prince George get the photo parody treatment
Reported by guardian.co.uk 4 days ago.
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Helpingu2save now Stocking Water Damage Repair Kits for iPhone
CHESTERFIELD, England, December 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- If you have ever experienced a water damaged phone, you'll know that it can be extremely difficult to get a replacement - even if you have phone insurance. The good news is that helpingu2save are stocking everything you need to get...
Reported by PR Newswire 4 days ago.
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50 best iPhone and iPad games of 2013
From Clumsy Ninja to Grand Theft Auto, Year Walk to Star Wars, here are the year’s top games for iOS devices. By *Stuart Dredge*
Stuart Dredge Reported by guardian.co.uk 4 days ago.
Stuart Dredge Reported by guardian.co.uk 4 days ago.
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In Depth: Best apps for your new iPad, iPhone, Android tablet and smartphone
Reported by TechRadar 3 days ago.
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iPhone 5S named Best Phone, iPad Air is Best Tablet in 2013 reader poll
Apple dominates the technology section of our end of year poll.
Reported by Digital Spy 3 days ago.
Reported by Digital Spy 3 days ago.
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