As I walked through Times Square on my way to the office one day last week, something odd caught my eye that made me do a double take. A sizable line had formed outside of the AT&T store as it prepared to open. I have seen people line up outside of that store before, of course, but typically only when a fresh batch of recently launched iPhones is waiting on the other side of the doors.
This time, however, people weren't lining up to buy a new iPhone. They were lining up for the just-released LG G3.
And truth be told, this is a phone worth lining up for.
Later today, Apple will announce its quarterly earnings for Q3 2014. For the past couple of years, the April-to-June quarter has been the slowest quarter of the year for the company. Before that, Apple used to refresh its iPad lineup in the spring. Now, it seems like nothing is happening during the Q3 quarter. But gross margin is on the rise and should make this quarter more impressive than… Read More 
現時街上只有兩款來自 Tesla Motors 的電動車，包括 Roadster 和 Model S，不過 Roadster 這款元祖雙門跑車其實早已停產了。換言之，Tesla 的生產線上就只剩下 Model S，但據 Bloomberg... 
劉作虎在發表會時曾承諾，會為一加手機 推出多種材質的背蓋。如今在這台手機開賣數月後，其中之一終於要正式亮相了。今天早些時候一加官方正式宣佈，使用竹製背蓋的限量版 One... 
具備 180 度翻轉自拍螢幕與復古外觀的 Samsung 可換鏡式無反相機 NX3000，已經打著「文青機」的名號即日起正式在台灣開賣，搭 16-50mm f/3.5 - 5.6 ED OIS 電動變焦鏡的套裝售價為 NT$15,990（約... Apple patent filing reveals ideas for a smartwatch labeled 'iTime' originally published by Gigaom, © copyright 2014.
Humin is a new iPhone application that can aggregate certain data from all sorts of sources to make your life easier, The Wall Street Journal reports. Specifically, Humin is able to pull contacts from various interactions, keep them in order on all devices and offer context-aware features. Humin founder Ankur Jain described the service as a "social OS," with the app's main purpose being making contacts management a much easier day-to-day chore.
來自日本 Blogger 新之介的作品，走上大阪梅田著名的藍天大廈「空中庭園」，拍攝大阪風景的 Timelapse 作品，還加上偽移縮微縮模型效果，不妨看看呢︰
使用的器材包括 Canon 7D、Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 及軟件為 Adobe After Effects CS4。除此之外，他還拍了其他作品，包括著名奈良 300 歲「又兵衛櫻」的賞櫻人潮，也是使用了微縮效果，頗有趣︰
大家去日本旅行的時候，也有拍攝 Timelapse / 微縮作品嗎？
In a recent update to the App Store Distribution page, Apple has revealed that iOS 7 adoption has reached 90% across all iOS devices as of July 13th. It took less than 24 hours for adoption to hit 29% and then 60% after a single week of availability. Of the 10% that haven't updated yet, 9% are still on iOS 6 while the remainder are all on even earlier versions of the mobile operating system.
Earlier today, Apple released iTunes 12 to developers with a new design to fit in with OS X Yosemite. We've taken a look at the new player and below is a gallery of what end-users can expect to see come fall:
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Apple on Monday released iOS 8 beta 4, just as our sources said would be the case. The new build is Apple's fourth developer preview release of its new iOS 8 software, which will be let loose to the general public sometime in the coming months, likely just before the next-generation iPhone 6 launches. In the meantime, developers can use Apple's iOS 8 betas to update their apps and build new ones that take advantage of all the new APIs Apple has provided. For the rest of us, iOS 8 gives us a look at all the great new things to come.
Unfortunately, not all of those things are actually great.
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被人戲稱為「白米」的白色版紅米手機 1S 已確定要於 7 月 22 號在香港開賣了。跟很多手機公司一樣，這款紅米手機 1S 是換色不換價錢，所以價格依然是 HK$999。小米公司指出這次白色紅米 1S... 
A report last week revealed iPhone 6 battery details, suggesting that Apple's 2014 iPhone models may offer similar or even better battery performance as last year's iPhones, as they will have slightly bigger batteries. The 4.7-inch iPhone 6 was expected to have a battery capacity of 1,800 mAh to 1,900 mAh, while the phablet version of the handset was said to have a 2,500 mAh battery. Now, French publication Nowhereelse has obtained an image of the purported 4.7-inch iPhone 6's battery, which may confirm that the battery has a capacity in line with previous reports.
We'd heard back in 2012 that Apple CEO Tim Cook spent 80-90 percent of his time on an iPad, but the WSJ reports today that Cook thinks that's the way it should be for all of us – and he believes the partnership with IBM can help make that vision a reality.
"There's no reason why everyone shouldn't be like that. Imagine enterprise apps being as simple as the consumer apps that we've all gotten used to. That's the way it should be" …
The plan is to collaborate on developing workplace apps that provide a friendly front-end (provided by Apple) to big-data analytics (provided by IBM).
Apple and IBM said the ambition is to reimagine how people work by connecting securely the insights gleaned from big data analytics with an easy-to-use app on smartphones and tablets that consumers are familiar with.
IBM Chief Executive Virginia Rometty said Apple engineers are able "to take the complex and render it simple."
The two companies intend to create more than 100 apps together, with the first of them available in the fall. As an example of the value of packaging sophisticated analytics data into an easy-to-understand front-end, Rometty said that one of the first apps launched would be aimed at airlines.
One of the first apps under the new initiative helps airline pilots determine the appropriate amount of fuel to carry on a flight. This requires not only crunching data but presenting it in an easy-to-understand way on the pilot's tablet computer.
We've already seen a flurry of airlines, including American, United, BBA and Jet Blue using iPads on the flight-deck, making this app a logical next step.
Cook said he could see a day when "everyone in every enterprise" has an iPad. The vision may be exaggerated, and I'm sure app developers would have some views on the practicalities of doing 80 percent of their work on iPads, but it does tend to underline my view that Apple has big expectations of the partnership.
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The iPhone 6 will reportedly feature a new Sony Exmor camera sensor, G for Games reports after picking up a post on a Chinese forum from a source that has "a great track record when it comes to Sony-related rumors." According to the poster, the iPhone 6 camera will have an Exmor IMX220 sensor with 13-megapixel resolution, 1/2.3" and 1080p video recording support (3,840 x 1,080 resolution sampling).
The walls may be starting to close in on Samsung bit by bit. Not too long after the company announced that profits declined by 24% during the past quarter comes a research report from Counterpoint which found that the eight-month-old iPhone 5s sold... 
Anyone testing iPhone Handoff calling on OS X Yosemite, Apple's latest Mac operating system, have probably noticed one major detail missing: a dialer. Student developers Eytan Schulman and Harrison Weinerman have created a very useful utility called Continuity Keypad that solves that problem.
Essentially what the app does is bridge a gap created by Handoff and FaceTime when making calls on your Mac using your iPhone. It creates a dialer similar to the one found on your iPhone allowing you to easily call numbers using your iPhone from your Mac, and it uses transparency to fit in with the new look of OS X.
The current implementation of Handoff between iPhone and Mac allows you to answer incoming calls from anyone, call out numbers saved in your contacts, or type out a number in a text field and call from the sub menu, but Continuity Keypad makes the experience of initiating a call to someone not in your contacts a much more intuitive experience.
The utility does have a few limitations at this point like pound (#) and star (*) functionality during calls, but these buttons do work when initiating a call. The utility does make calling a second number during a call on Mac much easier, though, and anyone testing iPhone Handoff calling on OS X Yosemite should find it useful.
In addition to the work above, the video below shows the potential for a dialer using the Today view in Notification Center, which will support widgets with OS X 10.10.
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By this point, most of us are fully addicted to our smartphones. And when we find ourselves without Wifi or data service, our most direct connection to everything becomes almost useless. That's where GoTenna comes in. The device is launching into pre-order today, and lets users create their own closed network on which they can communicate. Read More 
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