The Apple Beat: Apple to fill out product size gap in today’s announcement

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

An Apple Special Event in March is a little unusual but given the fact that the company omitted an October launch even (traditionally reserved for iPad and Mac refreshes) to host a packed September event to usher in a new AppleTV, iPhone 6S, iPad Pro and some new Apple Watch variants.

September's Special Event feels like a long time ago, and Apple must feel it needs to get back on the news cycle with products and not controversies. While CEO Tim Cook and the entire company have been on heavy news rotation by being caught in the centre of the FBI iPhone discussion (a topic that’s landed Tim Cook on the cover of Time to discuss privacy instead of revolutionary new products and technologies), the time is ripe for Apple to make some noise on the product end.

Aiming for a more exclusive venue at their HQ in Cupertino inside the Town Hall auditorium that sits 350 guests, Apple will live stream the event so that everyone can peep into the proceedings virtually.

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The Best Gadgets from Mobile World Congress

The International CES gets all the attention most of the time but the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona each year is where the big smartphone manufacturers go to show off their latest product.

The powerful gadgets pack a punch, allowing users to accomplish everything from high definition VR gaming to simplistic relaxed stuff like enjoying mobile bingo games on sites like bingo-apps.co.uk or lounging on social media.

This piece looks beyond the silly technologies that will never get to the streets to show you the top 4 gadgets from the congress this year.

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SXSW releases 10.33GB of free music

In the grand tradition of South by Southwest (SXSW), the music festival is making available yet again tons and tons of music from participating artists available for free MP3 download. Making it easy for you to download, the files are available for download in two torrent files totaling up to 10.33GB of music. Yes, MP3s might be bit old school in this music streaming age but if you still like to get your hands on these tunes. You can get them here.

Source: Gizmodo

Old Kindles to lose connection to the ‘net if not updated by Tuesday

If you’ve been neglecting the old Kindle you still have, now might be the time to bust it out for a bit and update it. Amazon has issued a warning that if the older Kindle e-readers aren’t updated by Tuesday, March 22^nd, these older devices will not be able to connect to the Kindle Store or sync with the cloud, which of course means you won’t be able to download new books. The update is needed for the original Kindle Paperwhite (2012) and every Kindle before that. To sync your old Kindles, just make sure to power it up and then look for the Sync and Check for Items in the menu. But if you miss the March 22^nd deadline, you can still manually download the update file from Amazon’s site and transfer it via USB. You can get more details about that here.

Source: The Verge