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TAG Heuer will start selling a smartwatch worth $1,400 towards the end of this year. The company expects to launch the smartwatch in October or November this year, with a battery life that will last for nearly 40 hours. In an interview ,  Jean-Claude Biver   from LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE — the parent company of TAG Heuer — said that the Apple Watch can potentially attract many young consumers in wearing watches for the first time. He hopes that Apple sells millions of them, so that when people want something different, they will purchase a smartwatch from TAG Heuer. “I hope they sell millions and millions and millions of them,” Biver said, speaking ahead of the official opening of a Hublot boutique in Dubai Mall. “The more they sell the more a few people will want something different and come to TAG Heuer.” TAG Heuer had announced last month that it has entered into a partnership with Google and Intel to create its first smartwatch....

Some new screenshots of  Windows 10  seem to have leaked online, and the images have some new stories to tell if they are real. We get to see a revamped UI from the last time we saw what Windows 10 could be like, to new 3D Live Tiles . The images come in from a Chinese source, giving us a look at some of the unannounced changes Windows 10 could purportedly pack when it’s finally released somewhere this summer. One change that will instantly strike into every Windows user’s mind, is the return of the Aero Glass feature, or well, something close to it. Aero Glass was a transparent and blurry glass effect that was introduced with Windows Vista, and carried on to Windows 7. Windows 8 however dropped it altogether, but Microsoft is looking to bring a part of it back to Windows 10. Here you see the transparent effect on the Start Menu, but the effect does not extend to application windows as was with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Interestingly, when the Start Menu is t...

If you have been putting off pulling the trigger on a brand new Samsung   Galaxy S6   then now is the time to wait no more, after the company announced that it would be giving every owner of its new flagship phone a suite of free digital goods and access to certain online services. The package, according to Samsung itself, is worth in excess of $500. Those picking up the more expensive Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge will also be able to take advantage of the offer, which is good news for everyone who opted to go for the more curvy option. The range of products and services that Samsung is giving away is extensive, with things ranging from premium access to online note-taking service Evernote to free eBooks. There is inevitably some cruft in there, but if you look hard enough you will also find some gems such as an extra 100GB of Microsoft OneDrive storage. The full list reads: Audible – Three months of Audible membership Dragons of Atlantis: Heirs of the Dragon –...

Best Buy  announced  today that it will begin supporting Apple Pay within its mobile app, effective immediately, and within its stores later this year. This is a major partnership for Apple, as it’s the first one with a member of MCX—the Walmart led consortium of retailers that are backing payment app ‘CurrentC.’ A Best Buy spokeswoman  told  Recode that “we remain invested in MCX,” but she would not comment on when CurrentC will be available to the public and if the electronics retailer would accept it at launch. “We are actively monitoring their pilots,” she said. “It’s too early to declare whether we will take it at launch.” MCX first gained notoriety last fall when two of its members, CVS and Rite Aid, turned off Apple Pay support after briefly accepting the iPhone-based payment system. The group has been backing the development of an app called CurrentC, a more complex mobile paym...

Instagram for iOS has been updated to version 6.11.0, and with it even more functionality for spicing up your images. And hashtags. The latest update is being rolled out now, and bumps the version up to 6.11.0. With it, the photo-centric social network has added a trio of new filters: Juno, Reyes and Lark. With Juno, users will be able to brighten up their images while also increasing the contrast. Reyes will add yellow tones to images to get a more “vintage” look, and, finally, Lark will add purple tones while also brighten up the images. These three additions come months after five photo filters were added. What’s more, Instagram has added support for emojis in hashtags. Which means there’s a whole new way to tag photos. Here’s the full breakdown of the update: Introducing 3 new photo filters! Lark, Reyes and Juno have been added automatically so you can start using them right away. Emoji hashtags. Use your favorite emojis to create, share and search for hash...

As previously scheduled, Apple took to the Internet to announce its second quarter 2015 earnings. As expected, the results show yet another dominant stretch for the Cupertino-based company. On January 27, 2015, Apple officially announced the results for its first quarter of 2015, showing yet another series of months of unprecedented growth. Now, exactly three months to the day, Apple has unveiled its earnings for the second quarter of 2015. As expected, Apple saw yet another incredibly strong three month period, thanks in large part to the iPhone. “ Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 second quarter ended March 28, 2015. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $58 billion and quarterly net profit of $13.6 billion, or $2.33 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $45.6 billion and net profit of $10.2 billion, or $1.66 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.8 percent compared to 39.3 percent in the year...

The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have become Apple’s fastest-selling smartphones to date, but if you expect that momentum to slow down anytime soon, think again. Only 20% of active iPhone users have upgraded to one of the new devices so far, leaving plenty of room for more growth. Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed this stat during the company’s quarterly earnings call on Monday evening when one analyst questioned whether the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus still had room to grow ahead of the launch of next-generation devices this fall. Cook also noted that the new iPhones were bringing a higher rate of switchers over to Apple devices than the company had seen in previous quarters, which suggests that the bigger Retina HD displays are finally attracting users on Android and other platforms. If switchers continue to adopt the iPhone at a steady rate, and a good percentage of existing iPhone users upgrade to the latest devices, there’s still plenty of growth left in the iPhone 6 and...

Merely a week after flipping the switch on video calling in its popular WhatsApp service, Facebook today started  rolling out  video calling to its  Messenger app on iOS  and across other mobile platforms. As you know, Messenger already offers people the ability to make voice calls to friends around the world. By enabling cross-platform video calling across the ubiquitous messaging service, which commands 600 million users, the social networking behemoth is hoping to permit users to engage in face-to-face conversations with their friends and the people they care about, regardless of a platform of their choice. Video calling in Messenger is “fast, reliable and high quality,” noted Facebook. The new feature is available via a dedicated phone icon in the upper right, as show on the screenshot below. “If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the video icon in the top right corn...

It is an incredibly precise timepiece, a new way to communicate, but it is also a smarter way to look at fitness. Timekeeping and communication aside, early scientific and less scientific tests show Apple Watch is actually very accurate at tracking health and fitness data. Early tests conducted by  Consumer Reports  show encouraging results when it comes to tracking fitness features such as step counting and heart rate monitoring. The publication put Apple Watch to the test against its highest-rated heart rate monitor, the  Polar FT60 , and found the results to be accurate without significant differences between both devices. Although the publication didn’t detail the findings of its early tests, it did mention that it will provide more precise results in the near future. Maybe more impressive to me is the unscientific test conducted by iOS software engineer  Hannes Verlinde . A serious runner, Verlinde took his  $399 Garmin Forerunner 610 ...

Designed as a versatile companion to the iPhone, the Apple Watch uses the GPS and Wi-Fi in your iPhone to give you the full experience. That’s why the very first step before you can start using the Watch is pairing it to an iPhone in iOS’s Apple Watch application. But even though the wearable device wasn’t conceived as a standalone product, it can still do a few tricks on its own, without having a paired iPhone in range. Here are seven different things the Apple Watch can do without being tethered to an iPhone. Tell time and use alarms, timers and stopwatch Your Apple Watch doesn’t need an iPhone to let you use the watch face, alarms, timers and the stopwatch. This includes checking the time in cities around the globe using the World Clock app. Tip:  You can set timers up to 24 hours using the Timer app on the Apple Watch. To set a timer for longer than 12 hours, force-press the Watch screen while adjusting the timer, then tap 24. Track...

Activision has finally raised the curtains, officially unveiling the Call of Duty: Black Ops III game. The developers have been teasing us with an early trailer and a Snapchat Easter egg in the past few weeks, and today the official trailer has been released, giving us a good look at what to expect in the upcoming game. The latest in the Call of Duty series – Black Ops III – comes out a year after Advanced Warfare was released, though the last Black Ops title – Black Ops II – was released somewhere in 2012. Black Ops III is slated to be released on the Xbox One, PS4, and PC and Activision is looking to launch this mammoth of a game this November – on the 6th – making it one of those rare Call of Duty titles to have had all the time to carry that ever-lasting impression on eager gamers. Pretty much like Advanced Warfare, Black Ops III is set in the near future, so expect plenty of futuristic high-tech gadgets and weaponry to play with.  Treyarch , the developer that ...

You can now download the latest version 5.4.12 of Google Play Store APK which brings with it a bunch of changes and bug fixes that users have been facing for quite a while. This release also adds more Material Design, Details Page, Wearable sensors/activity data, Enterprise apps support, among other things. The download link below has been updated with latest version. Google Play Store APK version 5.4.12 is now available to download. The all new Google Play Store 5 carries more elements of Material Design as has been seen earlier in the Android L Developer Preview releases. Google Play Newsstand was also updated with a complete Material Design overhaul, and a day later, Google+ was updated with additional Material Design elements. So what does the new Play Store 5 make its play on? Read on after the jump to find out! Straight away, you will notice that the app icon for the new Play Store carrier the new, flatter look, keeping itself in line with Material Design’s new aesthetics....

Apple Watch is here! After months of anticipation, people around the world have started receiving their Apple Watch today. It’s now play time, or maybe more accurately, it’s learning time. Time to learn the ins and outs of this new device to get the most out of it. In the next few days, iDB will be publishing guides on various aspects of Apple Watch, but in the meantime, we wanted to give you the heads up on some basic functions of Apple Watch, so that you know what to do with it right off the box. In this post, we’ll share 25 tips to get you started with Apple Watch! Buttons Power on/off : you can power the device on and off by pressing and holding the side button. Going Home : press the Digital Crown once to go to the Home screen. App switching : you can switch back and forth between the last two used apps/views on your Apple Watch by quickly pressing the Digital Crown twice. Siri : press and hold the Digital Crown to bring up Siri. Al...

If you’ve just bought an Apple Watch, and wondering how to take a screenshot then it is very simple. The principle behind taking a screenshot on the Apple Watch is the same as the iPhone, the only difference is that, in case of the Apple Watch, the  Side button acts like the Power button, and the Digital crown (the press) works like the Home button. So you need to do the following to take a screenshot: Press and hold the Side  button. Now without releasing the Side button, press the Digital Crown . Note, you can also do it the other way around, but you could end up invoking Siri. You can also do it by pressing the buttons simultaneously but I’ve found it to be more error prone. If you get it right, the screen will flash and it will take the screenshot. Unlike the iPhone however, the screenshots are not accessible directly on the Apple Watch. They’re synced to the camera roll on the iPhone, so...

The infamous Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is back today with a new smartphone. Called the Mi 4i, the design, as expected, looks every bit like Apple’s iPhone 5c from the outside. In essence, the design of the Mi 4i is a simple one, but there’s no denying the fact that Xiaomi has opted to copy Apple once again – like most of its previous smartphones before this one – featuring a candy-colored polycarbonate back down to the matching volume buttons. At this point we believe that Xiaomi has completely given up when it comes to original design, and has merely opted to live out of Apple’s bread and butter. Where the outside of the device is every bit like an iPhone 5c, the insides are – thankfully – much different, and this is the only place where the Mi 4i can be told apart from Apple’s famed colorful handset. At the heart of the Mi 4i is a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor, coupled with ample 2GB of RAM. The display is big enough at 5-inches and sports...

What’s better than having a weekend to relax and spend time with your beloved iPhone or iPad – or, perhaps, your shiny new Apple Watch. Well, we can think of one better, and that is having paid apps that have become free for a limited time that you can download to your iOS device and have better fun with it. Today, we bring to you 6 great apps that will cost you bucks otherwise, but have gone free for a limited time. Go through the list and get downloading! Here’s The List... Real Piano ($2.99 – FREE / iPhone and iPad) As the name suggests, this great little app creates a full grand piano out of your iPhone or iPad, complete with not just authentic grand piano sounds (sampled from a real one), but also other instruments like guitar, bass, harp, marimba and music box. Get downloading now while the offer lasts. Data Usage ($0.99 – FREE / iPhone & iPad) This neat app allows you keep track of the data usage on your iPhone and iPad in real time, f...

Battery life is a very precious commodity on the   Apple Watch , so it is quite important to keep tabs on it, so that you can charge it before it runs out of battery. Unlike the iPhone or iPad, the Apple Watch doesn’t have a status bar where it displays the battery indicator by default. There are couple of ways you can check how much battery is remaining. Battery Glance On the Apple Watch, swipe up on the watch face to access Glances. Swipe from left to right or right to left to the Battery glance. It gives you information about how much battery is remaining, and an option to use Power Reserve mode to stretch available power. Add Battery Indicator to Watch face The other option is to add the battery indicator to your current watch face. You can add the battery indicator to Watch faces such as Modular, Color, Utility, Simple, Chronograph, and Mickey Mouse. To add the battery indicator to the Watch face, firmly press the display on the...