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iOS 8.4 Now Available for Download; Brings Apple Music, Fix for the Infamous Messages Bug, and More

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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As promised by Apple, iOS 8.4 is now available for download
on iPhone, iPad, and the iPod touch. The update brings an updated Music app
that includes the much-touted Apple Music streaming service as well as a 24/7
free radio service called Beats 1. The updated Music app also includes Apple
Music Connect, a social network of sorts that aims to connect artists with
their fans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The iOS 8.4 update is a 218MB OTA update for iPhone 6
factory unlocked (GSM) users running iOS 8.3, and the exact size will vary depending
upon your iOS device, carrier, and current iOS version. Apart from the revamped
Music app, the update also includes improvements for iBooks and other bug
fixes. These include fix for the infamous bug that caused the iOS device to
reboot when it received a specific series of Unicode characters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As expected, Apple Music and Beats 1 Radio are available in
India as well. After a free 3-month trial, users can continue to enjoy Apple
Music at just Rs. 120 per month, with family plans (for up to six users) at Rs.
190 per month. That's a considerable discount compared to their dollar
equivalents. Beats 1 Radio is of course free for life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The world's biggest company is launching Apple Music as it
sees consumer trends shift to streaming, which allows on-demand unlimited
content online. At the heart of the strategy is Beats 1, which bills itself as
a first global radio station and will be available in more than 100 countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beats 1 will be free even without a subscription to Apple
Music, whose streaming platform costs $9.99 a month (Rs. 120 in India) after a
trial period a key distinction from streaming leader Spotify, which offers a
free tier for on-demand music despite criticism from some artists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apple Music has sought to make a splash through big names on
Beats 1, poaching the influential New Zealand-born DJ Zane Lowe from BBC Radio
1.</span></div>
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Gmail Officially Gets 'Undo Send' Six Years After It Was Introduced

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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While
earlier this month Google rolled out an update for its Gmail for Android app
with certain security options, it now has finally given its 'Undo Send' mail
option a permanent spot in the portal making it an official Gmail feature.
'Undo Send' was in Gmail </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Labs for the past six years since it was introduced in
March 2009.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Until
Monday, the 'Undo Send' mail option sat in the Labs section of Gmail, where the
search giant tests new features for the mailing portal - many of which never
make it to general release, and can also be retired. Users would have to
manually navigate to the 'Settings' option and then on 'Labs' tab to then find
and enable the feature. However, Google now has graduated or promoted the Undo
Send feature out of Labs and shifted it in the 'General' tab under settings.</span></div>
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besides the option to enable or disable the feature can select the duration of
showing the option as soon as a mail has been sent. The duration options
include - 5, 10, 20 and 30 seconds. The firm on its blog post has added that
the feature is disabled by default for those who are not using the Labs
version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Google,
during its I/O 2015 conference last month brought the same 'Undo Send' feature
to its Inbox by Gmail application. Other functions introduced were 'Delete' as
default swiping action, and addition of custom signature on the sent mails. As
the name suggests, Undo Send function gives users a limited time just after a
mail has been sent, to reverse the action. On clicking the feature within a
given time-frame, Google brings the sent mail back to its 'compose' stage.</span></div>

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WhatsApp Voice Calling Now Available for Windows Phone

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updated its Windows Phone app on Tuesday adding the voice calling feature that
was rolled out to all Android, BlackBerry, and iOS users' months ago. With the
addition of voice calling, the WhatsApp Windows Phone app now allows voice
calls over mobile data or Wi-Fi - also called VoIP or voice over Internet
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The WhatsApp
Windows Phone app update (version 2.12.60.0) also brings new features such as sending
audio files (which is currently available on Windows Phone 8.1) apart from the
VoIP-based voice calling feature. The updated WhatsApp app for Windows Phone is
now available to download.</span></div>
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Phone store listing notes that WhatsApp Calling is available on Windows Phone 8
and above. It also adds that users cannot access 911 and other emergency
service numbers through WhatsApp Calling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The voice calling feature is now
available for all major platforms, namely Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, and
Windows Phone. Android was the first platform to receive the WhatsApp
voice-calling feature in March followed by iOS and BlackBerry in April.</span></div>
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Phone was due to receive the WhatsApp voice calling feature with the company
back in April revealing the upcoming addition via a support team email to a
user. The team had suggested that the feature was "still in the
works" for the platform, and that it could not provide an exact time-frame
for the release.</span></div>
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already become the most widely used instant messaging app and back in April
crossed 800 million monthly active users, according to WhatsApp's CEO and
co-founder Jan Koum.</span></div>
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news, WhatsApp for Android is set to receive a new feature that will allow
users to do an app-wide search, which will include all the chats. According to
Android Police, the new feature was introduced in version 2.12.134, which had
been made available via the company's own site. It's worth noting that the
current WhatsApp app for Android available from Google Play is version
2.12.124. The new feature will let users search for specific terms in entire
chat conversation which until now only showed the name of the WhatsApp
contacts.</span></div>

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BlackBerry Move to Embrace Android May Bring Unexpected Reward

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BlackBerry Ltd's move to embrace Android may be aimed at lifting revenue from its software and device management segment, but analysts say it may inadvertently give its device arm a fillip and a new lease on life.

"From the standpoint of marketing, this is a great way for BlackBerry to get visibility. It really doesn't hurt them much, and the upside is high," said Rob Enderle, who runs technology consulting firm Enderle Group.
Enderle and other financial and tech analysts agree that the move by BlackBerry does present its own set of challenges as the company would have to support two platforms and potentially put some resources into marketing an Android device, but with little to lose most agree it comes with little downside.

"If Android has one significant weakness it is security and that's just the thing that BlackBerry can fix, so it could play out pretty well and I am actually quite surprised that they did not try this sooner," said Enderle, adding that BlackBerry has to deliver a compelling device in order for the gambit to work.

Reuters reported on Thursday that BlackBerry was considering a move trial Android on its upcoming slider device, as part of a bid to convince potential corporate and government clients that its device management system, BES12, is truly able of manage and secure not just BlackBerry devices, but also devices powered by Google's Android, Apple's iOS and

Microsoft's Windows operating system.
"In order for BES12 to succeed it has to be viewed by all as platform agnostic, and what better way to demonstrate that other than by doing it yourself," said Ramon Llamas, an analyst with technology research firm IDC.

BlackBerry, which once dominated the smartphone market, has seen its market share drop to under 1 percent, as the iPhone and a slew of Android devices from Samsung have captured market share. John Chen, a turnaround expert brought in to fix its slide, is now pivoting BlackBerry to focus more on its well-regarded software and device management business.

Although the hardware business is becoming less relevant to BlackBerry as it works through its turnaround, the company still needs revenues from hardware as it ramps up new revenue streams.

"It certainly makes sense for BlackBerry's hardware business to experiment with Android," said Morningstar analyst Brian Colello. "BlackBerry doesn't have much to lose. There's little downside and they just need one hit phone to justify the handset business." 
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BlackBerry Ltd's move to embrace Android may be aimed at lifting revenue from its software and device management segment, but analysts say it may inadvertently give its device arm a fillip and a new lease on life. "From the standpoint of marketing, this is a great way for BlackBerry to get visibili…

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Oppo Neo 5 With 4.5-Inch Display, LTE Support Listed on Company Site

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smartphone on its website, has finally launched the handset officially
alongside the Neo 5 (2015), which is slightly less powerful on paper than the
Neo 5s. Notably, Oppo introduced the original Neo 5 last year in August. The
company is yet to reveal the pricing and the availability of the smartphones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As mentioned before, the Oppo Neo 5s features 4G LTE
connectivity, supported by both SIM card slots. The dual-SIM smartphone
supports one Micro-SIM and another Nano-SIM. It runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat-based
Color OS 2.0.1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Oppo Neo 5s features a 4.5-inch (480x854 pixels)
FWVGA IPS TFT display and sports gloved and wet touch input functionality. It
is powered by a 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916)
processor that's coupled with an Adreno 306 GPU and 1GB of RAM. The Oppo Neo 5s
bears 8GB of built-in storage that can be expanded via microSD card (up to
128GB). It sports an 8-megapixel rear camera with f/2.2 aperture and LED flash,
and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.8 aperture. The handset camera
also includes scene detection, Panaroma, geo-tagging, double exposure, smile
shot, and HDR options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Connectivity options on the Oppo Neo 5s, apart from
LTE, include 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Micro-USB, A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, OTG,
3.5mm audio jack, and FM radio. It is backed by a 2000mAh non-removable battery
and is listed in Black and White colours. It features ambient light sensor,
g-sensor, and magnetometer, measures 131.9x65.5x8mm and weighs 135 grams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As for the Oppo Neo 5 (2015), the smartphone's
specifications are better than last year's original but is slightly less
powerful than the Neo 5s. The handset is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek
MT6582 processor clubbed with Mali-400MP2 GPU. The inbuilt storage can be expanded
only up to 32GB. In addition, the dual-SIM dual-standby supporting handset
misses out on 4G LTE connectivity. The rest of the specifications stay the same
as Neo 5s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Feature-wise both the smartphones include easy
screenshot capturing with three finger swipe, screen-off gestures, Beautify 3.0
image editing mode, double exposure for overlapping two images, Pure Image 2.0+
image creation engine, and double layer metallic structure. Neo 5s however
comes with an additional feature of capturing images using the volume up and
down buttons while the screen is off.</span></div>
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It's Hard to See WWDC Through My Apple TV Tears

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swearing in the privacy of my office, and likely will have entered the
acceptance stage of grief. Already, realization is dawning that I was right to
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next week, how can I know that Apple isn't going to introduce a new Apple TV?
Isn't Apple the most secretive consumer tech company ever devised?</span></div>
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were horribly misinformed or making stuff up, but it's not like this is a rumor
spawned from some little bird and vaguely repeated on Twitter. The only good
news is that I haven't seen anyone corroborate </span></div>
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it -- and repeat it a lot, in pretty much all the key WWDC preview
"news" stories.</span></div>
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around the pre-WWDC hype cycle is turning into what is not going to be
announced rather than what is likely to be revealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While Apple enthusiasts have waited years --years --
for a new Apple TV with some new super fast processor and awesome new remote
control system, Apple seems to be doing something really cool: You should be
able to use your existing third-generation Apple TV as a hub to remotely
control the HomeKit home automation products that are hitting retail channels
this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, instead of forcing you to buy new hardware to
get the latest new features, Apple is providing software updates to extend the
useful life of the existing Apple TV into 2015 and beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a long-time Apple tech enthusiast who willingly
pays a premium for Apple devices -- and recommends them to friends, family, and
people who don't even want to listen -- my living room has been ignored for far
too long. Sure, the new HBO Now app helped a little, but come on. It's time for
a new puck... and that WWDC 2015 logo seemed to imply a new Apple TV-shaped
device was on the way, too.</span></div>
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First, there's doubt that Apple can get the TV industry to sign off on new
content deals that would let it create some awesome way of delivering age-old
broadcast and cable television. So, no fancy new streaming-TV service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course, you don't have to have a bunch of network
suits on board to deliver a new Apple TV -- so what's wrong with opening up the
Apple TV ecosystem to developers and letting them create apps made for an Apple
TV? What's wrong with letting a new Apple TV play games directly on it, all
served up through it's own App Store?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing wrong with that as far as I can see --
except that leads directly to the second core issue, which, according to Chen,
is that the hardware isn't "ready for prime time" either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anything Worth Watching Monday Morning?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, rumors widely point toward Apple starting to
use the new San Francisco font that it created for the Apple Watch in the next
version of iOS, likely called "iOS 9." That will be exciting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There will be some interesting tidbits, though,
definitely. You can expect iOS 9 to become even more cohesive -- with multiple
apps and with inter-app communication, as well as with Macs and an updated
version of OS X. Basically, our Apple world will become more seamless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The iPad might get a split-screen view option (which
competitors already have) that could be put to interesting use by Apple-focused
app developers... and shine some sort of light on the long-awaited "iPad
Pro" that likely will hit this fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Maps should see some welcome improvements, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you're yawning right now, you're not a true Apple
fanatic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fortunately, Apple should be opening up the Apple
Watch to developers to let them build apps that run on the Apple Watch proper
rather than just communicate with your iPhone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It also appears that Apple will reveal some sort of
new music-streaming service that could cost US$10 a month -- hard to say how it
will utilize Beats Music or transform it -- though it's expected to provide
on-demand streaming music along with curated streams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We should see how HomeKit devices actually will work
for Apple tech users, and we'll probably learn more about Apple HealthKit and
how Apple tech is helping with health research and personal health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It's rumored we'll get some new rewards program for
Apple Pay users as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The piece that I think is the most important is how
Apple describes today's HomeKit and related products, because how home
automation and IoT get marketed by Apple will help drive this tech segment
forward... unless Apple holds back because it isn't releasing a new Apple TV.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In any event, if you want to watch the WWDC keynote
with Tim Cook and crew yourself, you can do it via Safari on your Mac or iOS
device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As for me, I'll watch this one from my old Apple TV
in my living room -- but I might take it outside on the back deck with a cooler
full of cold beer. Depends on the temperature of the day and whether I still
have a shred of Apple TV hope.</span></div>

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