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The sportswear giant - Nike is reportedly lays off its hardware division, responsible for wearable devices such as the FuelBand. For those not aware, the FuelBand was a popular fitness device worn around your wrist that tracked your daily activities with Nike’s mobile and desktop software.

According to CNET who broke the news, about 55 of the 70 people hardware team were laid off. Along with the FuelBand, the hardware division was also responsible for products such as the Nike+ SportWatch.

The FuelBand was launched back in 2012 and received a minor update last year. It was to receive another update this year before the entire project was canned. According to Nike, “As a fast-paced, global business we continually align resources with business priorities. As our Digital Sport priorities evolve, we expect to make changes within the team, and there will be a small number of layoffs.” However, according to a post on the social network Secret, someone said “The douchebag execs at Nike are going to lay off a bunch of the eng team who developed the FuelBand, and other Nike+ stuff. Mostly because the execs committed gross negligence, wasted tons of money, and didn’t know what they were doing.”

There may be a chance that Nike cancelling the FuelBand is in preparation of the upcoming Apple wearable device. For those not aware, Tim Cook is also a member of the Nike board. The FuelBand was an iOS-exclusive device as well and would have thus competed directly against whatever Apple would be announcing. Lastly, Nike has said that it will concentrate on making software for fitness devices, so you can bet it would work with the Apple device.

Of course, this is all speculation at this point but for now, the FuelBand is dead.

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Microsoft finally announced the Office suite of apps for the iPad (Rumors have been circulating for years that Microsoft was working on a version of Office for the iPad), including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. But along with the new announcement, Microsoft also made a quiet change to its existing Android app.

Just like its iPhone counterparts ( for iPhone version, these apps are free to download, and you can view documents/give presentations without a paid subscription) but, you'll need to sign in with a OneDrive or SharePoint account to retrieve your documents, or else have your stuff stored on the iPad itself. However, if you ever want to edit a doc or create something from scratch, you'll need an Office 365 subscription (you can even use Microsoft's cheaper Office 365 Personal plan when it launches later this spring). If you like, you can also sign up for a 30-day trial at Office.com.

Once that expires, though, you'll need to pony up, at which point Office for iPad will count toward a new five-tablet limit -- not your five PC/Mac limit. As you may have gathered by now, this is all par for the course for Microsoft, though it's worth pointing out that Apple offers its iWork suite for free on iOS devices purchased on or after September 1st, 2013. And it's a fairly feature-rich suite, too.

As a reminder, Microsoft has dropped the paid subscription requirement on iPhone, which means you can access the app fully without having to spend a dime. Also, there isn’t really a version optimized for Android tablets yet. Still, it’s a free app so you can’t complain much about it.

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Apple is finally ready to roll out its latest firmware update to the public. iOS 7.1 is now available as a free download, and as expected, it adds a (coulpe) few new features to the juice.

The new update should be heading your direction if you own an iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S or iPad 2 and above ( iPad 4,  iPad 3, iPad Air), either iPad mini or a fifth-generation iPod touch. Among the usual smattering of tweaks to the iOS UI and bug fixes, but one of the most notable feature improvement is the inclusion of CarPlay support and fixes for the random reboot problem many iOS 7 users have been experiencing.

The biggest change to iOS with the new update is support for Apple's CarPlay feature (Previously known as "iOS in the Car,"), which brings iOS integration to your in-dash stereo and provides you with the ability to interact with Siri, access your music library and third-party audio apps, navigate routes using Maps, answer calls and send texts hands-free.

Here after the break the novelty:

 

• CarPlay

• iOS experience designed for the car

• Simply connect your iPhone to a CarPlay enabled vehicle

• Supports Phone, Music, Maps, Messages, and 3rd-party audio apps

• Control with Siri and the car's touchscreen, knobs, and buttons

• Siri

• Manually control when Siri listens by holding down the home button while you speak and releasing it when you're done as an alternative to letting Siri automatically notice when you stop talking

• New, more natural sounding male and female voices for Mandarin Chinese, UK English, Australian English, and Japanese

• iTunes Radio

• Search field above Featured Stations to easily create stations based on your favorite artist or song

• Buy albums with the tap of a button from Now Playing

• Subscribe to iTunes Match on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to enjoy iTunes Radio ad-free

• Calendar

• Option to display events in month view

• Country specific holidays automatically added for many countries

• Accessibility

• Bold font option now includes the keyboard, calculator, and many icon glyphs

• Reduce Motion option now includes Weather, Messages, and multitasking UI animations

• New options to display button shapes, darken app colors, and reduce white point

• New Camera setting to automatically enable HDR for iPhone 5s

• iCloud Keychain support in additional countries

• FaceTime call notifications are automatically cleared when you answer a call on another device

• Fixes a bug that could occasionally cause a home screen crash

• Improves Touch ID fingerprint recognition

• Improved performance for iPhone 4

• Fixes display of Mail unread badge for numbers greater than 10,000

• Continued user interface refinements

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Apple has released iOS 7.1 beta 5 to developers. If you're a registered iOS developer, you can download it from the Developer Center or over the air on an iOS device with a previous beta installed. To install over the air, go to Settings > General > Software Update, and hit Install.

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Today must be a great day for all of you stuck on jailbreaking your devices without been sure how long does it takes before Apple find a way to broke it again, fear no more according to latest very good news, famous hacker iH8sn0w has just come out with a tweet on its Twitter account.

Here is the tweet in question: So looks like all my A5 (X) devices are fully untethered and jailbroken for life now.

The famous hacker announced that has discovered an iBoot loophole allowing jailbreak for life for devices with chips A5 and A5X.

This exploit can not be corrected by a simple update from Apple, an iBoot exploit involving a hardware fault. This would therefore require a physical update to the iDevice.

Affected devices are iPhone 4S, iPod touch 5G and iPads, 2, 3 and Mini.

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