Friday, August 29, 2014 at 9:55AM 
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
At long last, Apple’s September 9 event has been confirmed as the company sent out invitations earlier to select media outlets.
All of a sudden, Apple and their expected products to be announced, are trending everywhere and this is only going to get more frenzied as we near the launch event.
Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 10:04PM 
Amazon's Fire phone was launched two months ago and was made available in the market around a month ago but only in the US and on AT&T. The Fire phone was coming into a very crowded market and while it had some notable differentiators such as access to Amazon's ecosystem and a 3D-interface by way of dynamic perspective feature and the Firefly feature which allows the phone to take a picture of an item and quickly find it for sale on Amazon were niche features. Data shows that only 35,000 units of the Fire phone have been sold or at least that's what ComScore's estimated. While Bezos and Co. maintain that they're in the smartphone business for the long haul, the lack of excitement an adoptionof the already limited Fire phone doesn't bode well for Amazon in the long or short term.
Source: The Guardian
Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 9:13PM 
Looking for an easier way to share messages and the like on your iPhone. The team behind Launch Center Pro is bringing Contact Center, an app designed to simplify the sharing process. It lets you setup shortcuts to do tasks such as sending a predefined message to someone, opening FaceTime, sharing a GIF, and the like. It can also setup triggers like copy the clipboard into a new email message for someone or send a recent photo to a loved one.
Source: Lifehacker | Download: iTunes App Store (Free)
Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 8:43PM Microsoft is rolling out its next update for the Xbox One in the coming days and GIF-lovers should be happy. The September update will feature a new GIF-capable media player app (unfortunately no MKV support just yet) and a revamped party app. Xbox On Kinect voice command will also be available in Canadian French. The patch will also include the ability to do multiple simultaneous deletes from Game DVR as well as bandwidth usage monitor. The last feature will be particularly useful for those with data caps.
Source: Major Nelson
