Tag: buy

  • Apple Watch Won’t Sell In Stores Until June

    Apple Watch Won’t Sell In Stores Until June

    Apple has dropped a clanger recently about their highly celebrated Apple Watch – your online pre-order gives you a much better chance of actually getting your hands on one than turning up on stores on release day. It’s just not going to happen apparently. Apple quietly announced the other day that the release date for […]

  • British Gas Buys Hive Owner AlertMe

    British Gas Buys Hive Owner AlertMe

    Home automation systems are a great new way to make it a lot easier to get your central heating and hot water boiling in order. Systems such as Hive and Google’s Nest are both prominent products in the field, and now it seems that the British Gas partner Hive is to be fully acquired by […]

  • Google I/O 2015 Dated For March 28-29th

    Google I/O 2015 Dated For March 28-29th

    Google has released info on their yearly Google I/O conference, a glitzy event held in in San Francisco’s Moscone Center West where Google’s upcoming gadgets get shown off to the public that anyone has the chance to attend, although tickets are a bit pricey. Last year’s Google I/O conference saw some big things arriving from Android and […]

  • BT To Purchase EE For £12.5 Billion

    BT To Purchase EE For £12.5 Billion

    Upheaval in the UK mobile service provider world has been rife recently, with big names purchasing smaller networks such as O2’s recent purchase by Three owner Hutchinson Whampoa , as well as phone shops on the high street going out of business, such as Phones4U late last year. Now, in a bid to take on the […]

  • BT Reportedly In Talks To Buy Back O2

    BT Reportedly In Talks To Buy Back O2

    According to sources quoted by El Confidential, UK telecoms giant BT is apparently in very preliminary talks to buy back a former property of their company – O2, one of the UK’s largest mobile networks. BT is also reportedly readying themselves to enter the mobile network game, as the company up until now has mostly […]

  • Lenovo May Be After Blackberry… Again

    Lenovo May Be After Blackberry… Again

    Blackberry is rumored to be in the process of selling itself to another company, again, in the second time in the last year. Both times the rumors had it that Lenovo, a manufacturer of tablets and printers from China, had its heart set on the troubled Canadian tech company. Last time Lenovo tried to make […]

  • iOS 8.1 Out Today – What’s New?

    iOS 8.1 Out Today – What’s New?

    Apple’s event last week caused a stir, especially with the announcement of a fixed version of iOS 8.1 arriving today. The new OS has dropped on US handsets and is now serving new features to the incredible amount of iPhone 6’s that have sold since September. But what’s new in this update of the long […]

  • August’s iPhone 6 Smartlock On Sale Now

    August’s iPhone 6 Smartlock On Sale Now

    Apple’s iPhone 6 demo saw a quick snippet of a smartphone controlled door unlocking system which allowed the user to get quick access to their hotel room via swiping their iPhone up near the door. This was part of a sequence where the user automated their entire journey from home to hotel using the NFC […]

  • Amazon Pays 4.5 Million For .buy Domain

    Amazon Pays 4.5 Million For .buy Domain

    Ever since domain names were allowed to end with pretty much anything in order to free up some space for the myriad of new websites coming out, big companies have been throwing down massive amounts of money in order to control popular or interesting domain name identifiers. Recently .buy, .tech and .VIP all went under […]

  • Microsoft May Buy Mojang for $2.5b

    Microsoft May Buy Mojang for $2.5b

    After nearly a week of rumors surrounding the purchase of Minecraft developer Mojang AB, a move which apparently goes against what Mojang has previously said about keeping their independence, rumors are now flying around that tomorrow on Monday the deal between the two companies will finally be signed, with Mojang reportedly taking away close to […]

  • Warner Bros May Buy Xbox TV Studio

    Warner Bros May Buy Xbox TV Studio

    Microsoft scrapped their television programming department back in July, which was going to be a service which delivered content to the Xbox Live mostly on the Xbox One. The department, known as Xbox Entertainment Studios, was to focus on bringing original programs to Xbox Live. The Hollywood Reporter has now claimed that the studio is […]

  • Apple allegedly in talks to acquire Spotsetter to improve its Maps app

    Apple allegedly in talks to acquire Spotsetter to improve its Maps app

    We all know that Apple’s maps are not exactly anything to write home about, and I’m sure Apple is more than aware too. However, things might be on the mend for the Cupertino firm and their current map offering, as rumours circulating the web is that the multibillion pound company are in the process, or, […]