Apple goes all out in support for (RED) on World AIDS Day

Apple is throwing its full support behind the (RED) initiative for today's World Aids Day commemoration. Most Apple Retail Stores will see the iconic Apple logo done up in red while the company has promised that a portion of every sale at Apple’s retail and online stores to the Global Fund to fight AIDS. This is significant because today is also Cyber Monday one of the biggest sales days of the year with various items sold discounted online. Hit jump for the full scale of Apple's involvement

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Unreleased Sony Pictures movies were stolen and made available on torrent sites after hack

Various still unreleased Sony Picture movies have started to propagate torrent sites as a result of a recent hack into Sony Studios' system.

The movies include Annie, Fury, Mr. Turner and Still Alice are reportedly of high quality and possibly to be used as screeners for upcoming award shows or for advance reviews. Many of these films haven't even hit theatres yet and a leak of this magnitude could potentially affect box office sales in what has already been a lukewarm year for feature films. Nobody has come forward to claim responsibility for the theft but the same hackers that took down Sony's computers last week are being cited as the culprit of this massive leak.

Source: Engadget

Rumoured specs of the HTC One (M9) surface

With the big tech shows (Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress) coming up in the next few months, we’re expecting the rumour mill to go a bit crazy. This time around a report from China claims they have the specifications for the next HTC flagship. The HTC One (M9) will reportedly have a 5.5-inch, 2,560 x 1,440 resolution display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor, 3 GB of RAM, 16-megapixel rear camera with OIS (possibly a hint that they’re saying goodbye to Ultrapixel camera), and a 3,500 mAh battery. Audio might be supplied by Bose since Beats is now owned by Apple. Of course there is no confirmation about this device at this time. We might have to wait until MWC 2015 which is happening between March 2 and 5 in Barcelona.

Source: Ubergizmo

Leak of cancelled Lumia 1020 successor shows up on Chinese site

Microsoft was rumoured to have been working on a successor of the Lumia 1020. Dubbed McLaren, it was supposed to have a giant camera and 3D touch gestures. The project was reportedly scrapped but a listing for a prototype appeared on Chinese auction site Taobao shows that the device (or at least something similar to it) was almost completed.

Its internal name is RM-1052 and as you can see from the photo it has a 1020-like camera hump, similar style, and made mostly out of aluminum. There is a plastic part at the bottom most likely intended to improve wireless reception. Software shot shows it even has a better 1080p display. Too bad we probably won’t see this device out of the Microsoft stable any time soon.

Via: The Verge | Source: Engadget