Microsoft shows off new features for Office on iPad

It’s a strange sight having a Microsoft executive present at an Apple event but it has happened. Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office 365 client applications, took the stage at Apple’s big press event in San Francisco to demo some of the new changes in its suite of apps for Apple’s tablet. Some of the new features include being able to draw freehand shapes on Word or PowerPoint and have these translated into shapes such as arrows and circles. This new feature is designed to take advantage of the new Pencil stylus for the iPad Pro. Users can now draw annotations on documents and have those sync across Office apps on iOS and other platforms. It wasn’t mentioned though it you’ll need the Pencil stylus and only the new iPad Pro to use these features.

The Office suite of apps also now takes advantage of the multitasking features available on iOS 9. You can copy and paste content from different Office apps running side by side. An example is you can copy a chart on an Excel file and paste it to the Word document you have running alongside it on an iPad Pro or iPad Air 2. You can see this push for Microsoft products as Apple’s way to attract the enterprise market to consider its products. Apple recently partnered with IBM and Cisco to push their enterprise entry further.

Source: PCWorld

Apple discontinues 128GB storage and gold options for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models

With the new iPhone 6s models out, Apple’s paring down on its slightly older versions. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s for sale will no longer be available in gold as well as with the 128GB configuration; perhaps to encourage people to buy the newer devices. So, right now you can only get the iPhone 6 devices in Space Gray or silver and in 16GB or 64GB versions.

Source: Apple Insider

Apple TV gaming could support third-party controllers

We’d assume you’d like to try gaming on the new Apple TV. But using a remote control is a bit weird for gaming. You do have the option use third-party controllers because you connect them via Bluetooth. However, it might be a bit more complicated since any third-party OEM has to pass Apple’s MFi program. Right now, when you look at Apple’s gaming page for Apple TV, you see Steelseries controllers. Hopefully the options increase as time goes on though.

Source: The Next Web

iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus updated with user-requested features

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

San Francisco - Apple addressed many of the perceived deficiencies of the iPhone 6 line with their updated iPhone 6s models revealed today.

They've made the thin and light iPhone stronger, with a 7000 series Alumium as well as reinforced glass. The camera has been bumped up to 12-megapixels (from the long-standing 8 megapixel sensor). iPhone 6s can shoot 4K video, a feature that other smartphones have had for years but which Apple took its time to develop properly. It can shoot highly-detailed and color-accurate photographs.

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