National Learn to Code Day takes place on September 26

Ladies Learning Code -- a national not-for-profit offering beginner-friendly tech education -- is proud to announce the third year of the Canada-wide initiative designed to promote technology education: National Learn to Code Day. On September 26, 2015, 1,200+ adult learners will attend simultaneous in-person workshops in 22 cities across the country plus thousands more will have the ability to participate online from anywhere in the world via live stream.

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Apple's 'Switch to iOS from Android' app is now available on Google Play

Apple's first Android App is on the Google Play Store. The Switch to iOS from Android app is now available to Android users contemplating a new iPhone. The app, like various switch from iOS to Android applications shipped by Android OEM's makes it easier to move photos, messages and more from your Android device to an new iPad or iPhone.

Transfers are done quickly and securely via a WiFi connection where a password needs to be inputted in both devices. If you're leaving Android behind to go to iOS, check out the app here.

iOS 9 OTA software update hits some early snags

Today is iOS 9 update day but many users who fired up their Software Update function on their iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches were faced with an inability to update their devices due to a 'Software Update Failed error - Error Occurred downloading iOS 9' error. This seems to be an issue with OTA (Over the Air) updates.

I tried numerous times to enable the Software Update on my iPhone 6 Plus but couldn't resolve the issue until I plugged in my device to my MacBook which seemed to be working, albeit slowly as it is backing everything up. Pressing software update on my iPhone 5c doesn't even bring up the option. Stay tuned for developments.

Update on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 1:59PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

iOS 9 seems to be working as a Software Update download. The file takes around 25 minutes to download via WiFi.

Apple's watchOS 2 update delayed indefinitely due to critical bug

Apple has announced that it is delaying the release of the Apple Watch watchOS 2 operating system due to a critical flaw. watchOS 2, which brings new features including the ability to run native apps, was slated for a September 19 release, Apple hasn't given a definite date for when the operating system would be available.

Beta testers running the recent watchOS 2 build say that while sluggish, they haven't experienced anything dramatically worrisome with the OS. Apple's statement regarding the delay.

We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bit longer to fix than we expected. We will not release watchOS 2 today but will shortly.