Thanks To Bluetooth, Setting Up Your Apple TV Is Now Just An iPhone Tap Away
It just got a lot easier to set up your Apple TV. Apple has detailed a new way to input login and WiFi network information when setting up a third-gen Apple TV with an iOS device. All you have to do is...
View ArticleiBeacons Now Let You Read Free Coffee-Shop Newspapers And Magazines On Your iPad
You know how you walk into a coffee shop or bar, order a refreshing beverage and then grab a newspaper or magazine to read? Now, thanks to Apple’s iBeacons, you can do the exact same thing, only you...
View ArticleiBeacons Go Live In 254 Apple Stores From Friday
Apple will begin using iBeacon technology in 254 of its U.S. stores from Friday. Apple demonstrated the tech this week at its 24-hour Fifth Avenue store in New York City, where the company has...
View ArticleiBeacon Comes To Android, Kind Of
Initial responses to Apple’s iBeacon technology have been decidedly mixed, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. After all, exactly the same was true of the iPod, iPhone and iPad in certain...
View ArticleSmart Driving Assistant ‘Automatic’ Can Now Turn Any Car Into An iBeacon
Automatic, the smart driving assistant I described as making my old car future-proof, has been updated with iBeacon functionality. The immediate benefit is that the connection between the Automatic...
View ArticleDutch Theme Park Becomes Europe’s First To Use iBeacons
If there’s one place you can expect to see cutting edge technology at its finest it’s at a Dutch flower park, right? Dutch-language site iPhoned is reporting that Fluwel’s Tulpenland — a theme park...
View ArticleApple Tightens Control Of iBeacon Trademark By Adding It To ‘Made For iPhone’...
Up to this point, the term “iBeacon” has been used to describe just about any location-aware transmitter that can send data to a device over Bluetooth. But now it’s going to get harder for companies to...
View ArticleMaybe Your Next iPhone Will Be a Water-Repelling, Wallet-Replacing Fitness...
At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the themes were – as we expected – waterproof phones, smart-watches and NFC (again). Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 was a high-profile example of the...
View ArticleiOS 7.1 Includes A Key Improvement For Making iBeacons Smarter
iOS 7.1 includes a host of obvious and subtle improvements, including a key addition that will make iBeacons smarter. Until now, an app had to be running in the background on an iOS device for an...
View ArticleMLB.com At the Ballpark Adds iBeacon Support
Major League Baseball mobile companion app MLB.com At the Ballpark has just received a significant update. While one new feature is the expected iOS 7 redesign, the most exciting update relates to...
View ArticleNew York Museum Uses iBeacons To Create A ‘Digital Minefield’
While most of the iBeacon applications so far have involved making retail and entertainment more pleasant to consume, a new exhibition at a New York museum aims to use Apple’s beacon technology to...
View ArticleiBeacons Will Rock Coachella Music Festival This Weekend
Kicking off this Friday, the Coachella Music Festival will become the latest event to use iBeacons to provide proximity-specific information to attendees. Coachella’s iOS app has been updated with a...
View ArticleNYC bars use iBeacons to gamify the pub crawl experience
In New York on May 20? If you are, own an iPhone, and fancy drumming up some business for local bars, you may want to get involved with the so-called “BeaconCrawl.” An interactive bar crawl event,...
View ArticleVirgin Atlantic to trial iBeacons at the airport
Could iBeacons help improve the air travel experience? Sir Richard Branson thinks they could. Branson’s majority-owned Virgin Atlantic is the latest company to hop aboard the iBeacon bandwagon —...
View ArticleLast-minute WWDC rumors include more on health, home and iBeacon
It’s the eve of the Worldwide Developers Conference kickoff, and tomorrow morning Apple will hold its first media event of 2014. Like always, there’s a ton of speculation on what will and won’t be...
View ArticleiOS 8 makes it harder for retailers to track your location without iBeacons
Starting with iOS 8, Apple is making it impossible for marketers to track you based on your iPhone’s MAC address. When you walk around a store with your iPhone’s WiFi on, you’re are unknowingly...
View ArticleiOS 7.1.2 released with iBeacon improvements, small bug fixes
Today Apple released iOS 7.1.2, a small update that includes several bug fixes, including enhanced “iBeacon connectivity and stability.” The update is available through Software Update on iPhones,...
View ArticleWe marvel at the ‘indestructible’ screen of iPhone 6, this week on The CultCast
This time on The CultCast: thirsty Germans drink the tears of Brazilian children! Ohhh, sorry. Too soon? Also on the docket: the secret Apple eBay store is back at it and selling iPhones at absurdly...
View ArticleFCC filing suggests Apple will enter the iBeacon hardware business
Apple’s iBeacon technology has potentially massive implications across a range of areas — many of them having been demonstrated over the past year. Up until now, however, Apple has handled only the...
View ArticleSoon you’ll be able to stick iBeacons on anything
Estimote makes iBeacons in little polygon shapes with cool colors and custom designs. Designed to communicate over low-energy Bluetooth, Estimote Beacons can be used to alert nearby smartphones of a...
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