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Apple introduces Watch (read: Apple Watch)
Apple Watch introduces Digital Crown to scroll, zoom and navigate.
Flexible Retina Display, laminated in single Saphire Crystal.
“Infrared and visible-light LEDs, along with photosensors, detect your pulse rate.”
Two different sizes.
Apple Watch requires iPhone. It works with iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6, and 6 Plus.
Inductive Charging
Starts at $349
Available Early 2015
Images are courtesy of Apple, Inc.
Apple Pay, available on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Coming in October, 2014.
Contact-less Payment via NFC.
Apple Pay supports American Express, MasterCard and Visa. Sorry, no Discover!
Images are courtesy of Apple, Inc.
Apple introduces 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus.
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus features
iPhone 6
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be available on September 19, 2014 on the following countries:
Images are courtesy of Apple, Inc.
Apple Special Event, September 9, 2014 will be streamed live at Apple.com and Apple TV.
Apple is even posting updates on the Special Event page.
Apple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 build 13F24.
It is likely that OS X 10.9.5 would be released sometimes in mid September, 2014.
Just a few weeks ago, I set up a Synology DS412+ Network Attached Storage with four Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB drives.
Using Synology Hybrid Raid, total storage available is about 11 Terabyte spanned across the four hard drives.
From Amazon.com Press Release (August 25, 2014):
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 25, 2014– Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Twitch Interactive, Inc., the leading live video platform for gamers. In July, more than 55 million unique visitors viewed more than 15 billion minutes of content on Twitch produced by more than 1 million broadcasters, including individual gamers, pro players, publishers, developers, media outlets, conventions and stadium-filling esports organizations.
According to TechCrunch, Amazon acquired Twitch Interactive for $970 Millions in cash.
From Twitch CEO, Emmet Shear’s letter:
Today, I’m pleased to announce we’ve been acquired by Amazon. We chose Amazon because they believe in our community, they share our values and long-term vision, and they want to help us get there faster. We’re keeping most everything the same: our office, our employees, our brand, and most importantly our independence. But with Amazon’s support we’ll have the resources to bring you an even better Twitch.
Congratulations to Twitch on getting acquired.
Now, let’s get to the serious part of this news. Back in May, 2014 there were rumors of Google’s intent to buy Twitch. Remember that it is a rumor of an acquisition. On July 24, 2014, VentureBeat ran a story with headline: “Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed — joins YouTube for new video empire” – link to the Internet Archive version.
“Confirmed”
No other news site reported this, just VentureBeat. One would think that Google would leak this news to Kara Swisher than VentureBeat. I did not buy it at all.
Every time someone cited @VentureBeat, I rolled my eyes. That’s because Venture Beat is less reliable than Supermarket Tabloid.
For the next two weeks, many speculations abound. On August 6, 2014 I tweeted this:
Wonder why no one else is calling bullshit on @VentureBeat 2014-07-24 story about @Google’s $1 Billion purchase of @Twitch?
Confirmed???????
Comes August 25, 2014, it is apparent that VentureBeat is an example of bad journalism.