Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan beta 4 now out for developers

Apple made the Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitann beta 4 available to developers today. Featuring experience and performance gains, El Capitan is an incremental update to Yosemite, which was a major overhaul of various OS X features, user interface elements and functionality. Other features include Split View, improved Mission Control and a more intuitive Spotlight search among others. El Capitan lands this Fall as a free upgrade to existing Mac users.

Apple releases iOS 9 beta 4 and watchOS 2 beta 4 to developers

Apple today released iOS 9 beta 4 and watchOS 2 beta 4 to developers. The new watchOS introduces new features and watchfaces, a nightstand mode plus added functionality. iOS 9 beta introduces a variety of new apps including News, a new and improved Notes app and multitasking features and picture-in-picture capabilites on iPad Air 2 devices. Apple's beta releases seem to be on track to the iOS 9 launch this Fall. 

Samsung rolls out their thinnest tablets with the Galaxy Tab S2 line

Samsung's still pursuing the tablet market and has revealed its thinnest line of devices with the Galaxy Tab S2 line of 8 inch and 9.7 inch tablets. Featuring an octo-core processor, made up of four 1.9GHz cores plus four 1.3GHz cores, 3GB RAM and 32 or 64GB of internal memory.

Available in white or black and coming in August, the tablets are super thin at a wispy 5.6mm thick. Also on board is an 8-megapixel rear camera and 2.1-megapixel front camera and the 2048 x 1536 pixel super AMOLED display. 4G-LTE and WiFi only variants are expected and pricing hasn't yet been finalized for Canada.

Source: Samsung

PayPal begins trading on NASDAQ as split with eBay becomes official

PayPal has parted ways with parent company eBay and is now trading on NASDAQ (Nasdaq : PYPL). The online payments pioneer, which is now expanding to micro-payments, peer-to-peer payments as well as mobile solutions and is out to expand.

In 2014, PayPal processed $235 billion in total payment volume and generated more than $8 billion in revenues. Also last year, PayPal processed $46 billion in mobile payment volume.  The company serves more than 169 million active customer accounts in 203 markets around the world.

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