Official 'Tetris' App Now Free in Apple Store App Promotion

The official Apple Store app for iOS offers free books, apps and other content that users can download to their iOS device, and the company has recently updated its promotion to make Tetris [Direct Link] from Electronic Arts available for free. 

The current Tetris offer is advertised as "A throwback for you. On us." Typically priced at $0.99 in the iOS App Store, the app is free when users redeem the promotion from within the Apple Store app. 
The program is designed to entice shoppers to use the Apple Storeapp and is different from the traditional App Store "App of the...

Kickstarter hacked, with data stolen for an unknown number of customers

Hackers breached Kickstarter's defenses and stole the information of an unspecified number of customers, the company disclosed today. 

The company learned of the breach on Wednesday from law enforcement officials, and quickly resolved the breach, Kickstarter said today...

Συστάσεις από Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος (ΤτΕ) και Ευρωπαϊκή Αρχή Τραπεζών (EBA) για το Bitcoin

Πληροφορίες  για τη χρήση εικονικών νομισμάτων ολοκλήρωσε η  Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος και  η Ευρωπαϊκή Αρχή  Τραπεζών – EBA. Όπως αναφέρει η ΤτΕ  τα εικονικά νομίσματα, όπως είναι για παράδειγμα το Bitcoin, εξακολουθούν να βρίσκονται στο προσκήνιο της δημοσιότητας. 

Θεωρεί ότι πρέπει οι καταναλωτές να είναι ενήμεροι για τους κινδύνους που σχετίζονται με τη χρήση τους, συμπεριλαμβανομένου και αυτού της απώλειας χρημάτων...

Ο τουρισμός συγκράτησε την ύφεση

Ηπιότερη ήταν το τέταρτο τρίμηνο του 2013 η συρρίκνωση της κυπριακής οικονομίας λόγω της θετικής πορεία τους τουρισμού, σύμφωνα με στοιχεία που ανακοίνωσε σήμερα η Στατιστική Υπηρεσία. 

Σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία, η οικονομία συρρικνώθηκε το τέταρτο τρίμηνο του έτους κατά 5,3% σε ετήσια βάση,..

Rakuten Acquires Viber for $900 million

Rakuten Inc (4755:Tokyo), one of the world’s largest Internet services companies, announced today its acquisition of pioneering messaging and VoIP company, Viber. Rakuten will acquire Viber for a total consideration of $900 million. 

The acquisition represents another bold step for Rakuten into the digital content space, following its acquisitions of Kobo, Wuaki.tv, and Viki.

As people continue to shift from traditional content and communications platforms to mobile applications, Viber, one of the most popular mobile communications...

Major Silk Road 2.0 hack costs bitcoin users millions of dollars

Users who had flocked to the reincarnation of the ‘dark web’ Silk Road marketplace were handed bad news on Thursday when site administrators announced that they had been hacked by users who made off with millions of bitcoin.

The original Silk Road, which was by all accounts a marketplace where users could solicit any number of criminal services anonymously, was first launched in 2011. 

Founded and operated by a user known only as Dread Pirate Roberts, the site helped popularize the bitcoin crypto-currency and reportedly had trade revenue of $1.2 million USD every month. The site was shut down by...

Νέο χαμηλό για κυπριακά ομόλογα

Στο χαμηλότερο επίπεδο από τον Ιούνιο του 2011 υποχωρούν οι αποδόσεις των κυπριακών ομολόγων, μετά τη θετική τρίτη αξιολόγηση του κυπριακού προγράμματος. 

Σύμφωνα με τα τελευταία διαθέσιμα στοιχεία, η...

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Comcast will reportedly buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion

The cable industry could be getting significantly smaller. According to CNBC reporter David Faber's sources, Comcast will announce that it is buying Time Warner Cable tomorrow morning. 

In a statement to The Verge, Time Warner Cable said it was not confirming any media reports at this time.

The Wall Street Journal is also...

Bitcoin is under attack

Bitcoin is under attack by cybercriminals, bringing down some of the world's largest Bitcoin exchanges in the process.

Unknown attackers are exploiting a Bitcoin design flaw to record fake transactions, muddying up the Bitcoin...

iPad Air Battery Life Bests Other Tablets

Apple’s iPad Air outperforms competing tablets by a significant margin when it comes to battery life, according to a new test conducted by Which? Test Lab, a consumer test organization in the United Kingdom.

In a battery usage test that covered both Internet and video use, the iPad Air bested both the iPad 2 and the Retina iPad Mini, as well as tablets from competing companies like Amazon, Google, and Samsung...

2014 Ferrari California T leaked? (pics)

An allegedly official image of the 2014 Ferrari California T has surfaced the web, ahead of an unveiling scheduled for later today...

Why Apple is investing in sapphire glass for the iPhone 6, and why Corning should be nervous

It is now fairly clear that Apple is investing heavily in the production and machining of sapphire glass for its future products. 

Sapphire glass isn’t a new material, but it’s only in recent years, due to improved manufacturing methods, that we’ve started to see it used commercially. 

The iPhone 5′s camera was protected by a small piece of sapphire glass, and the iPhone 5S’s new home...

Alleged iPhone 6 Prototype Depicted in New Images

A set of images depicting what could be a prototype of the next-generation iPhone were first shared with MacRumors by an anonymous Twitter user earlier today. 

Australian writer Sonny Dickson, who also shared some of the same images, told MacRumors that they were initially shared by someone in China who claimed the images show the "iPhone 6".


It is entirely unclear whether the...

Twitter tests massive profile redesign that focuses on photos

In its continued quest to make its product more accessible to the masses, Twitter has begun testing a comprehensive visual redesign of its profile pages. 

The new profile pages, as reported by Mashable, feature a big profile picture on the left flanked by a huge, 1500-pixel-wide cover photo with follower counts and tweet counts layered atop it. The tweet stream has been turned into a mosaic-view of tweets...

iOS 8 'Healthbook' App Depicted in New Mockups

Several concept images for the rumored "Healthbook" app that may be included with iOS 8 were today published on the MacRumors forums by member CarlosGQ. According to9to5Mac, the site that shared the original Healthbook rumors, the app mockup "vaguely" resembles the actual app that Apple is working on and thus hints at what such an app might look like. 

According to sources, the mockups are "vaguely" the right idea. Of course, Apple is likely testing multiple different user-interfaces for this software, and since we are several months out from an official introduction, things can and likely will change (even drastically)…

LaCie Fuel Offers 1 TB Wireless Storage with Hotspot Sharing for iOS Devices and Macs

At CES last month, LaCie announced its "Fuel" wireless hard drive for iOS and Mac devices, allowing users to easily expand storage for their devices. 

With the Fuel now available for purchase, LaCie has given MacRumors some hands-on time with the Fuel, showing that the device does indeed live up to its billing for those willing to carry around an extra device as needed. 

Similar to the Wireless Plus from...

Toyota: Ανάκληση 1,9 εκ. Prius

Σε ανάκληση περισσότερων από τα μισά οχήματα Prius που έχουν πωληθεί ποτέ, προχωρά η μεγαλύτερη αυτοκινητοβιομηχανία στον κόσμο Toyota Motor Corp. 

Όπως αναφέρει το πρακτορείο Bloomberg, η ανάκληση γίνεται για να διορθωθεί βλάβη στο λογισμικό του οχήματος που μπορεί να το επιβραδύνει ή να το κάνει να σταματήσει...

Noah's ark was round – so the ancient tablet tells us

Irving Finkel is the curator from central casting. Battered clothes, bushy white beard, little circular glasses, boundless enthusiasm. From a distance he looks about 100, but as he sprints across the British Museum's Great Court to offer the warmest of handshakes.

In reality, he is 62 going on 12, since a lifetime spent examining the clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia has left him seemingly unaffected by the cares of the workaday world...

Το επίσημο Κοινό Ανακοινωθέν (σε αγγλικά και ελληνικά)

Tο επίσημο Κοινό Ανακοινωθέν στα αγγλικά και στα ελληνικά με επίσημη μετάφραση...