Thursday
Apr032014

Nokia MixRadio reaches 30 millionth track milestone

Nokia's MixRadio streaming service just added the 30 millionth track, to its international catalogue. The track, ‘Ma Tegi Hena’ is by Lebanese artist Nancy Ajram and is from the forthcoming album Nancy8. The thirty million tracks available on Nokia MixRadio, puts it ahead of all other radio based streaming services.

 

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Thursday
Apr032014

TIFF Kids digiPlaySpace Interactive Playground exhibit preview

By Sonya Davidson

digiPlaySpace has recently opened its doors to the third annual technology play ground for kids and families. Located at the TIFF Bell LightBox building in Toronto, this award-winning interactive hands-on exhibition offers kids of all ages the opportunity to explore and create with some of the world’s leading developers and international artists. Installations are designed with the child user in mind and often unveiled for the first time in Canada.

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Thursday
Apr032014

Apple's WWDC 2014 kicks off on June 2, devs can apply for tickets starting today

Apple will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2 through June 6 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Interested Mac and iOS developers can apply for tickets via the WWDC website (developer.apple.com/wwdc) now through Monday, April 7 at 10:00 a.m. PDT, and tickets will be issued to attendees through random selection.

At this year’s five-day conference, developers from around the world will learn about the future of iOS and OS X, giving them the latest tools and technologies to continue creating the most innovative apps for the millions of iOS and Mac customers worldwide. WWDC will feature more than 100 technical sessions, over 1,000 Apple engineers, hands-on labs to help developers integrate new technologies and fine tune their apps, as well as the Apple Design Awards which showcase the best apps from the past year.

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Thursday
Apr032014

Apple inventing technology for touchscreens to measure hard or soft touches

Apple is looking to make responsiveness and accuracy on their touch devices even more precise. A new patent for technology that will be able to tell the amount of pressure applied on its capacitive touchscreens and whether the display is receiving a hard or soft press. This new force sensing application will likely extend the range of interaction we have with iPads and iPhones beyond the tap, swipe, pinch and hold gestures we have today.

Source: AppleInsider