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Apple is starting to push out its OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite beta to developers today, bringing the build number to 14C68k. The update is now available in the Mac App Store if you're a developer or in the AppleSeed program. Apple did not list the changes that the 10.10.2 beta brings, but the update arrives just days after the release of 10.10.1 earlier this week. Continue reading...

There's a new Kickstarter project that's sure to grab any traveler's attention. ComfortWay Travel Case is is a battery case for the iPhone that also promises to deliver worldwide cellular coverage through virtual SIM technology. The ComfortWay Travel Case aims to support iPhone models from the 5 all the way through the 6 Plus. The goal of the case is to provide simple and affordable data roaming for those who do a lot of traveling, and it accomplishes this task through a virtual SIM coupled with ComfortWay's "cloud billing platform" that provides data roaming at in a $2 per day plan, or pay-as-you-go for 2 cents per MB. As far as how the case works, ComfortWay say…

Electronic Arts' next game in its long running Need for Speed series is coming to the iPhone and iPad. Need for Speed No Limits is a mobile-exclusive racing game that was announced today with a trailer that combined gameplay footage with video featuring noted professional rally racer Ken Block. The game itself is being developed by the team at Firemonkeys, which previously created Real Racing 3 for EA. While the team has yet to offer up any specific details about Need For Speed No Limits, including a release date, the game's executive producer Robert Huebner stated, "We've built No Limits from the ground up to deliver the insanely-fast driving and incredible graphics…

Apple Pay integration has arrived on the latest update for the Disney Store app. With Apple Pay, customers can order merchandise through the Disney Store app and not have to manually enter in their credit or debit card information at checkout. Alongside integration for Apple Pay, the app also adds Disney Mobile Mailbox and push notifications as well as some bug fixes. Here's the full change log: Apple Pay, now accepted at Disney Store. An easy, secure, and private way to pay on your iPhone 6. Disney Mobile Mailbox & Push Notifications Minor bug fixes iOS 8.0 and above required Download now - Free [/url] Continue reading...

Gooooooal! This week welcomed amazing news for fútbol — and technology. But it didn’t stop there. In honor of a high-flying few days, with big news from around the world, we bring you Weekend Reading. Buckle up. Just in time for the 2014 MLS Cup Conference Finals, a glimpse behind the scenes of Seattle Sounders FC preparation, where technology is tracking team members to ensure they’re in top form. Devices worn by players gather information on each athlete’s energy output, endurance, sleep patterns, nutrition and fatigue. SQL Server stores and makes sense of all of that data. “It provides us a holistic view of the data and enables us to draw powerful insights from it,”…

Telltale Games has not only released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming episodic game series Game of Thrones, but it has revealed that the six-part series will feature voice acting by some of the members of the HBO television cast. Telltale states: "While you'll get to control five members of House Forrester in your story, the series will have you interacting with characters you already know and love (or hate) throughout the season, including Tyrion Lannister performed by Peter Dinklage, Cersei Lannister performed by Lena Heady, Margaery Tyrell performed by Natalie Dormer, and Ramsay Snow performed by Iwan Rheon." Telltale stated that other unnamed …

iCloud Keychain lets you store passwords and credit cards for all your different logins rather easily. While you can always disable iCloud keychain altogether, you can also disable password and credit card saving not only individually, but on a per-device basis, and only for Safari. Perhaps you have an iPad that's used by other people in your home. You may want iCloud Keychain access but don't want Safari saving every single password or credit card number entered on that specific device. Luckily, you can pretty easily do just that! How to disable password or credit card storing on a device specific basis Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap on Safar…

It looks like advertising isn't the only way way to fund your favorite sites anymore. Google announced a new program called Contributor today that allows people to contribute money to participating websites via a monthly subscription to get rid of ads. In typical Google fashion, the service will be a slow rollout, requiring an invitation at first. After you receive an invitation, you'll have the option to buy a subscription that runs between $1 and $3 per month that will go to participating websites in lieu of traditional advertising. Google clearly labels this as an experiment, and that is made even more evident by the slow rollout and relatively small number of …

San Francisco is a new font you'll be seeing a lot more of in the coming months, thanks to its debut on the Apple Watch. Now the font is available for download and installation on your Yosemite-based Mac, thanks to a new project available on Wells Riley's GitHub page. These San Francisco fonts have a special name table with names identical to those of the system fonts. Because the font folder /Library/Fonts takes precedence over the fonts which are in /System/Library/Fonts, these specially crafted fonts are used for the user interface instead of the real system fonts. The original system fonts are not deleted or modified in any way. This only works on Yosemite-…

Square has expanded the reach of its Register software for the iPhone and iPad worldwide. It announced today that the app is now available "even in countries without integrated Square processing." It can now also accept payments from 130 different currencies. Previous to today, Square Register was only available in the US, Canada, and Japan, so this international push is a pretty big deal for the online payment company. Square states, "Already, local sellers from Four Letter Word Coffee in Istanbul to WE Hostel in Sao Paulo are using Square Register software." However, the Square Register app is only available in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese languages. …

Behind the scenes of those intense workouts by the Seattle Sounders FC players, technology is tracking team members to make sure they’re playing at their best. A variety of devices worn by the players gather information on each athlete’s energy output, endurance, sleep patterns, nutrition and fatigue levels. All that tracking generates more than 350 columns of data, which led the team to create its own SQL Server database to house all those datasets. “SQL Server is the place where all the data from different devices meshes together. It provides us a holistic view of the data and enables us to draw powerful insights from it,” says Ravi Ramineni, a performance analyst…

Traveling with the kids? If so, you'll need the best iPad apps and best iPhone apps possible to help keep them entertained while on planes, trains, and automobiles. Whether it's kid-friendly videos to watch as the miles stream by, or an education game that lets them play — and learn — about the world around them, the App Store has some great choices for the young. Here are our must-haves! Netflix Netflix has one of the largest selections of videos period, and that includes kids content. You can even enter a kids friendly mode in the Netflix app and your kids won't see adult shows or content they shouldn't. You can easily search through hundreds of kid friendly…

Notebook maker Moleskine has partnered with Adobe to put your sketches in Creative Cloud with a new notebook and app. Much like their Evernote journal, Moleskine's new Creative Cloud product is designed especially to bridge the gap between analogue and digital work. Each page of the notebook has a marker in each corner. A user would draw or sketch on a page as they normally would, then open Moleskine's new app, and tap the big Capture button. The app recognizes the markers, which aid in preprocessing by detecting page orientation, perspective, and any alignment issues. The image is then sent to the Creative Cloud, where you can open it in apps like Photoshop and Ligh…

The movie Reel Steel might have been fairly forgettable, but the two mobile games based on it have enjoyed a fair little following. The team leads from the mobile Reel Steel and Total Recall titles have left Reliance Entertainment in order to form their own studio, Play Motion. And Play Motion's first game sticks with what they know: robots punching other robots. Ironkill has just launched on Android and iOS as a free to play title. Players can collect and upgrade a wide assortment of stylized robots, and then journey across a post-apocalyptic map to battle it out against other robot trainers. With solid graphics and simple controls, Ironkill promises plenty of fun rob…

If you've ever listened to music on shuffle, you've probably hit the point where you'd like to hear more from that album, but then continue on with the shuffling. That's an issue that the newly-released Stringer aims to alleviate, allowing you to easily move around a shuffled list of your entire iTunes library (including iTunes Match music) and make adjustments as you see fit. The concept is rather straightforward, but also quite different than most other iPhone apps. Stringer places your shuffled music into one continuous vertical line. A string, if you will. Each song is presented as a large view of it's album art. If, as you're listening, you decide that you want …

Foxconn, the manufacturer of Apple's devices, including the iPhone and iPad, is about to invest $2.6 billion in a facility in Taiwan dedicated to producing displays for a single client. While the client isn't explicitly named, few companies other than Apple could generate the demand that would require a dedicated display production facility. The plant is expected to begin producing displays by the end of next year, according to Bloomberg: Equipment installation will commence next month with mass production of panels to start by the end of 2015 after an urgent request for exclusive capacity, Sophia Cheng, a public relations representative for Foxconn's display unit I…

The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is moving its email application and collaboration services to the Microsoft Office 365 solution that is hosted in a Government Community Cloud, it was announced Thursday. The move involves approximately 125,000 seats, writes Greg Myers, vice president of Microsoft Federal, in a blog post. The move will help employees collaborate across each department more efficiently and effectively, Myers says. “As an example, when public health outbreaks and emergencies occur, many disparate operating divisions of HHS are involved in the response efforts. While these operating divisions have different missions and responsi…

Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines are equipping their pilots with Surface Pro 3 to make flight operations even more efficient, it was announced Wednesday. Lufthansa has purchased more than 5,000 Surface Pro 3 devices for pilots. Device rollout to pilots worldwide will be in February and March 2015 to pilots in all regions where Lufthansa flies. Austrian Airlines has already begun rolling out Surface Pro 3 to their pilots for use as Electronic Flight Bags, replacing heavy paper-based flight kits containing navigational charts and aircraft reference materials. With 650 devices already deployed, Austrian Airlines expects to issue up to nearly 1,000 Surface Pro 3 devices …

Vainglory made a big splash during Apple's summer event announcing iOS 8 and the new Metal API. It certainly served as a great demonstration of the graphics capability of the new framework for games developers, and now that we've had some time to play around with it, we can tell if it's ultimately good news for the players too. Vainglory is, at its core, a MOBA. That stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, for the uninitiated. Basically, two teams of three players attack down a lane in an effort to take out the opposing side's headquarters. You'll need to chew through waves of small enemies, tough defensive towers, and aggressive enemy players to do so. Along the…

Apple is partnering with Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project on a new program for its iAds division that will offer a way for companies to purchase space on Apple's mobile app advertising network through a more automated process, rather than dealing directly with Apple's sales team. Rubicon says: The selection brings Apple's array of mobile apps to Rubicon Project's industry-leading direct order automation platform, forming an open marketplace for the buying and selling of iAd inventory. This automated marketplace makes it easy for advertisers to buy audiences across Apple's mobile app inventory via Rubicon Project's global exchange. Source: Rubicon Project …

A future release of iOS might just come with an extra app bundled inside: Beats Music. When Apple bought Beats back in May, many wondered what the end game was. And while the headphone business is presently far more lucrative for Beats than their streaming music service, finding it pre-installed on millions of iPhones might just change the calculus. Apple's previous effort at streaming music — iTunes Radio — has so far not really lived up to expectations. Bundling Beats Music with iOS would at the very least elevate Apple's streaming music platform to the status of a default icon in the launcher (something iTunes Radio never had). At the same time, Beats Music suffer…

Apple is now displaying a "Get" button for all free apps in its iOS App Store, replacing the "Free" button. Apple made this change quietly so there's no official word on exactly why it has decided to make this cosmetic alteration in the App Store. The "freemium" business model for apps has been a controversial subject for Apple in the past. In 2013, Apple settled a class action lawsuit that had the company offering compensation for in-app purchases by minors without the permission of their parents. Early in 2014, Apple entered into another agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission over the same issue. Apple still has a "Free" apps category in the App Store an…

Motorola has launched a handy little Bluetooth accessory that pairs up with your Android or iOS device so you can find your keys or your phone with minimal hassle. Hit the button the Keylink and your phone will ring, or tap the button in the app for the Keylink to ring. If you happen to be running on a device with Lollipop, you can make the Keylink a security token, so you can't unlock the phone unless your keys are nearby. Battery should last about a year, and is a standard coin cell that you can pick up just about anywhere. The Motorola Keylink is available right now through Motorola for $24.99, and should be popping up in T-Mobile stores shortly. Though not …

Add some color to your charging block! These thin, lightweight lightning cables reach 3.3ft in length and are great for using with USB wall chargers, car chargers or just to hook up to your PC or laptop. They even feature a soft-touch coating around the entire cable that makes it easy to keep them tangle free and easy to handle. Get yours today for just $13.95. Continue reading...

If you're looking for the best iPhone apps to help you snag the best Black Friday deals of 2014, you've come to the right place! Sure, you can shop iMore right from the comfort of Safari, but if you're looking for all the great deals from all the big retailers for all the special people in your life, you'll want some apps for that! The Christmas List The first thing many of us need to do before heading out to shop is figure out what we're buying for people. The Christmas List is a great option and comes complete with Touch ID support so prying eyes can't access your shopping lists. Just create budgets for each person, add items you'd like to buy, and check the…