Category Archives: Tech News

Amazon Prime Music has arrived

Tech News

Amazon has quielty unveiled its music streaming service, Prime Music, that will be free to all existing Amazon Prime subscribers with no ads.The service works via playlists.

Prime customers will be able to choose from over 1 million songs. As usual there is also a 30-day fee trial for non-Prime members.

You can download unlimited music offline, with no restriction for offline playback. Offline music will be stored to Amazon’s Cloud Player and accessible via its apps.

So does Amazon’s Prime membership become more valuable with shipping, movies and now music?

With iOS 8 is there any reason to jail break?

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IOS 8 was revealed nearly 2 weeks ago in beta by Apple at WWDC.

The new version plugs so many gaps that android users enjoyed like being able to change the system keyboard and share data with other apps. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Apple introduced 4,000 new APIs.

So now is the jail break scene dead on arrival when iOS 8 is released to the public? Surely now it will only exist for pirating?

What do you think?

Samsung Galaxy K Zoom – review part 8 – stutter time

Android, Reviews, Tech News,

All had been going well with the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom apart from some day 1 teething problems.

Well I had the pleasure the other day of taking the train from Exeter to London Paddington and then commuting across the sauna of the London Underground. In fact the train to London was too hot as well.

Anyway, I decided to listen to a few podcasts, and then play a few songs. My music is stored on the memory card. I was using the default Samsung music player. After about 20 minutes the track started stuttering. I was surprised by this behaviour so forwarded to the next track and then the next. Same problem.

The stuttering was only cured by performing a soft reset.

The battery life for the duration of my day trip to London held up really well. How by 11.39 PM and down to 34%.

Battle of the Brands on the London Underground

Android, Apple, Tech News

So as you might have read I was up on business travelling on the London Underground.

Something I don’t miss living now I’m living on rural Dartmoor.

It’s been nearly two years since my last trip and back then iPhones ruled.

So what brands were people using now? Was the tube full of Nokia Lumia 1020’s? Or maybe a Sony or HTC? Let’s be optimistic. Maybe a Huawei. Or long shot a BlackBerry?

I’m afraid not. It was a 3 horse race only. Yes 3. So we can guess Apple and Samsung were fighting it out for top spot. And they really were. I think Apple just won with more Apple devices but only just. Samsung phones were everywhere. So what was the third brand? Amazon. Amazon Kindle readers and Kindle Fire’s.

So with Amazon starting it’s foray into smartphones very soon, just watch this space get invaded by them.

Feedly attacked and the criminals demanded money to stop

Tech News

Feedly published on their blog details of a denial of access attack on their service.

“6:25am PST – We’re making some changes to our infrastructure that will allow us to bring feedly back online. However, these things take some time to put into place and it may still be a few more hours before service is restored. Thank you so much for your patience and for sticking with us. Remember, none of your data was compromised or lost in this attack.

2:04am PST – Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can.

We are working in parallel with other victims of the same group and with law enforcement.

We want to apologize for the inconvenience. Please know that you data is safe and you will be able to re-access your feedly as soon as the attack is neutralized.

We will update this blog post as soon as we have more information.

Thank you.

/Edwin and Seb”

I think people who do this thing are utter b*****ds.

Don’t call Samsung support if you have the Galaxy K Zoom

Android, Reviews, Tech News,

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom really is a niche device.

How niche?

Well twice I’ve phoned Samsung support and on the first call not only did they not know or even have heard of the phone, it wasn’t even listed in their computer so they had to call me back.

And that was even after I gave them the model number as well.

The second call was the same affair.

Now if you ring Samsung and have a S5 there is a dedicated extension!

However, both times Samsung support did call me back once they worked out how to resolve the problem.

Now for those that pre ordered the K Zoom with the offer of the free case which has not arrived nearly two weeks after phone arrived, I should have the answer tomorrow from Samsung as to where these free cases are.

LG G Watch – Only 3 weeks away from release

Tech News, Wearables,

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According to MoDaCo and Twitter account @upleaks the LG G Watch will launch in the UK on the 7th July.

It will run Google’s new wearable operating system, android wear and will be in sale less than Samsung’s Gear.

It will have 36 hours of battery life when in standby. The LG G Watch will have a 400mAh battery to keep it going during the day. This smartwatch will have 4GB of internal storage and pack every sensor you can expect from a wearable – ambient, touch, pedometer, and tilt sensors.

It will be controlled using voice commands too.

Like like the wearable tech is getting set to explode.