Entries by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla (6710)

Wednesday
Jun172015

Amazon releases new high-res Paperwhite eReader

Amazon just updated its popular Paperwhite eReader with the highest resolution display with 300 pixels per inch and a new font while retaining the pricing of $139.00

“We love inventing for readers,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. “The new Kindle Paperwhite obsesses over the details that matter most to readers—we’ve added our highest-resolution display so the words are crisp and clear on the page, a new font that is crafted exclusively for reading Kindle books, and a new typesetting engine that makes pages beautiful. Together, these details help you read faster and with less eyestrain, so you can lose yourself in the author’s world.”app news

Kindle Paperwhite is available for pre order now and will begin shipping internationally on June 30.

Wednesday
Jun172015

SourceCode: Stephen Elop out of Microsoft as devices take a back seat


By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Stephen Elop, the man largely responsible for making Nokia a suitable acquisition for Microsoft as part of its devices initiative, has left the building. A memo to Microsoft employees by CEO Satya Nadella announced the compression of various divisions within Microsoft, most notably the Windows and Devices Group (WDG) which merges Windows OS and mobile devices. Elop previously headed Devices but has now 'reitired' from Microsoft as Terry Myerson takes stewardship of the compounded division.

 “Stephen and I have agreed that now is the right time for him to retire from Microsoft,” Nadella explained in his memo. “I regret the loss of leadership that this represents, and look forward to seeing where his next destination will be.”

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Wednesday
Jun172015

The Apple Beat: An Overview of Apple Music 


By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

What a lot of people tend to overlook is that because of iTunes, Apple is actually the number one music retailer in the world. The service celebrated selling 25 billion songs back in 2013, and it took over a decade to build that business which now is expanding to Apple Music.

Apple’s big announcement at this year’s World Wide Developer’s Conference was its new music service aptly titled Apple Music. 

The company that invented iTunes as well as revolutionized buying songs and albums digitally and which really started the iPod revolution a decade ago, had to react to the sudden shift of users buying music to using streaming services like Pandora (not in Canada), Spotify, RDIO, Google Play Music and various others. Here's what you need to know about Apple Music.

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Wednesday
Jun172015

Gameplay video from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for the PS4 is intense beyond belief

One of the more anticipated titles coming exclusively to the PS4 is Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is visually stunning and action packed  features a bigger environment, copious amounts of destruction, new combat moves as well as new locales. It is coming in 2016.