Slingbox M1 and SlingTV available today from Best Buy, Future Shop and London Drugs

Sling Media, Inc., introduces two new retail products for the Canadian market: Slingbox M1 and SlingTV. Replacing the award-winning Slingbox 350 and 500 models, these products deliver a no compromise TV Anywhere experience giving customers the ability to watch all of their programming on the most popular mobile devices, in up to HD quality, anywhere in the world.

In addition SlingTV delivers the power of a Slingbox combined with new “Smarter TV” features designed to enhance the TV viewing experience in the living room. Hit jump for more details and pricing on the new Sling devices.

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New Android Wear update for Moto 360 reportedly improves battery life

Owners of the Moto 360 wearable will be happy to know that a new system update for Android Wear (Build #KGW42R update, bringing Android Wear to version 1.0.1.1448224), supposedly improves overall battery life for the Moto 360. Streamlining processes for the light sensor and bluetooth connectivity, the update aims to fix one of the more dissapointing aspects of what still remains to be the most interesting wearable device under Android Wear. Have you updated yet? Any improvements overall?

Source: Androidpit

HP shooting for the low end of the notebook market with new $199 notebooks

We're at an interesting place right now with Windows 8.1-based systems. Many users and potential buyers seem to be waiting out until the next revision (Windows 9, Codenamed 'Treshold') becomes available. Many of the recent hybrids, convertibles and ultrabooks have failed to gain much traction. Trying a different tact, it seems manufacturers like HP are going the Chromebook route. That is, offering cheap hardware to help push the OS. Revealed today is the colourful consumer focused US $199 HP Stream notebook that's geared to compete with similarly affordable Chromebooks. Interesting features include fanless design, 8-hour battery life and an HD screen.

Featuring modest Intel Celeron processors, an 11.5-inch non-touch display and 32GB of SSD memory. Each of these new-age netbooks will get access to a year subscription of Office 365, 1 Terabyte of OneDrive storage plus a $25 Microsoft Store gift certificate. The Stream notebooks accompany low-cost Stream tablets that offer Windows 8.1 functionalty starting at $150. No Canadian availability or pricing has been released but these will likely find their way to our shores for the holiday season.

Various iCloud services currently down

It seems that various iCloud-dependent services from Apple are currently down or not working. After getting complaints from users on Twitter, we checked Apple's System Status page and sure enough, various iCloud related services are currently unavailable. We'll keep monitoring the situation and update status as soon as we know more.

Update on Monday, September 29, 2014 at 10:05PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Everything seems to be back to normal now at 10:15 PM