Minecraft Pocket Edition comes to Windows Phone 8.1 for $6.99

The hugely popular “Minecraft: Pocket Edition” is now available for Windows Phone 8.1 and includes all of Minecraft’s mobile features, including the tense action of Survival mode, the limitless exploration of Creative mode, and multiplayer fun over local Wi-Fi networks. This release includes infinite worlds, with the new biomes, caves, mobs, villages and more that players love.

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First wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps released by Apple and IBM

The momentous teaming up of former rivals IBM and Apple to push enterprise-grade solutions on iOS has yielded the first crop of applications. The apps include Passenger+ (above), which allows airline flight crews to offer personalized, in-flight services to passengers such as rebooking flights, accessing baggage information and providing special offers. Other mobile business apps now available through the collaboration between IBM and Apple are designed for customers in banking, retail, insurance, financial services, telecommunications and government.

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Lenovo recalling 544,000 laptop power cords, fire and burn hazards cited

Lenovo has issued a recall of over half a million laptop power cords. Of these, 500,000 cords are from the U.S. and about 44,000 cords are estimated in  Canada. Model number or identifier is theLS-15 AC power cord, manufactured from February 2011 to December 2011.

These cords have the “LS-15″ molded mark on the AC adapter end, and have the manufacture date code in the format REV: 00 YYMM on an attached label. According to VentureBeat, "IdeaPad brand B-, G-, S-, U-, V-, and Z-series laptop computers and Lenovo brand B-, G-, and V-series laptop computers. A full list is available on this page."

Source: VentureBeat

iOS 8 now installed on 63 % of devices

iOS 8 is now installed on 63 per cent of active iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices that can run the latest, greatest mobile operating system from Apple. While it took a while for iOS 8 to gain traction (mostly because of user apprehension that some bugs existed and needed to be fixed), speed of  adoption of iOS 8 is rising quite quickly.

iOS 8 was released together with the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus in September. Apple has been quick to issue patches and updates (see post below) and has already seeded iOS 8.2 to developers for release in the near future.

Source: Macrumors.com