All items tagged with Apple (171)

Apple Buys Music Recognition and Augmented Reality Services Shazam

December 11, 2017 by Joao Martins

Apple Buys Music Recognition and Augmented Reality Services Shazam

As officially confirmed to some online media outlets, following insisting rumors that circulated since December 8, Apple is buying Shazam, the music recognition and audio fingerprinting service that is one of the most popular apps in mobile platforms. Together with rival SoundHound, Shazam has gradually evolved into a sort of "gluing" app, helping users discover, interact with, and share music, videos, as well as printed or augmented reality content.

Apogee and Sennheiser Pitch AMBEO Smart Headset to a Wider Audience

December 6, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Apogee and Sennheiser Pitch AMBEO Smart Headset to a Wider Audience

Apogee and Sennheiser announced that its co-developed Sennheiser AMBEO Smart Headset is now available at Apple.com and Apple Stores in the US, just in time for the holidays. And it's now available in black, for those channels. An interesting note about the announcement is that, since the binaural headset was launched in May 2017, Sennheiser is now promoting it in a slightly different way, highlighting its use more as a hearing enhancer and high-quality listening device.

Beats Launches Studio3 Wireless Advanced Noise-Canceling Headphones

September 5, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Beats Launches Studio3 Wireless Advanced Noise-Canceling Headphones

Following Apple's tradition of trying to kill major show announcements by releasing new products just before or immediately after each event, Beats unveiled the new Beats Studio3 Wireless headphones, introducing a host of new powerful features and capabilities, now with advanced noise-canceling and nearly double the battery life. “Beats Studio3 delivers with a level of sophistication in both technology and audio fidelity beyond anything we’ve ever brought to market,” the company says.

Apogee Eliminates Latency on Logic Pro X when using Ensemble and Element Audio Interfaces

July 28, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Apogee Eliminates Latency on Logic Pro X when using Ensemble and Element Audio Interfaces

In another example of direct collaboration between Californian audio hardware specialists Apogee Digital and Apple, Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt and Element Series audio interfaces now offer Direct Monitoring support in Apple’s Logic Pro X (10.3.2) that easily eliminates recording latency with the simple click of a button. Pressing the new “Direct” button causes the monitoring signal to come directly from the hardware input, bypassing any I/O buffer or plug-in induced latency.

Smart Speakers Capture 30% of Audio Market, VPAs Poised to Create New ‘Wild Frontier’

July 12, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Smart Speakers Capture 30% of Audio Market, VPAs Poised to Create New ‘Wild Frontier’

Market research and consulting company, Futuresource Consulting recently released a new report in the consumer electronics CE space covering the emerging voice personal assistants (VPAs) category and smart speakers. The report highlights that we are the beginning of a wider market transformation, with voice personal assistants (VPAs) at the heart of a new CE land grab.

From Smart Speakers to the Smart Home

July 6, 2017 by Joao Martins

From Smart Speakers to the Smart Home

We are witnessing a pivotal moment for the audio industry with the prominence of far-field voice recognition and connected speakers now top of the mind for consumers. In the aftermath of Apple's recent HomePod speaker announcement, the home audio experience, by itself, was confirmed as the key selling argument, with its potential as an interface for interaction with consumer electronic devices and services, paving the way for the Smart Home.

All Apple WWDC 2017 Audio Announcements

June 8, 2017 by Joao Martins

All Apple WWDC 2017 Audio Announcements

The audio industry was once again shaken to its foundations by Apple's announcements at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017. The product updates and sneak peeks made at this Apple Special Event, on June 5, 2017, were extremely rich in surprising technology revelations, even though its implications might not become clear until a few weeks or months later. After all, the WWDC conference - a developer's conference - is traditionally where Apple builds the foundations for what will be its underlying short-term/long-term strategies, serving mainly to motivate developers and strategic partners.

Apple Updates All Hardware and Software at WWDC17 and Announces HomePod Speaker

June 6, 2017 by Joao Martins

Apple Updates All Hardware and Software at WWDC17 and Announces HomePod Speaker

Apple's opening keynote for its Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 (WWDC17) at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, was a swirl of long expected announcements, wrapped in surprising underlying technology revelations. Among the many announcements was the preview of Apple's new home music speaker with built-in-far-field voice recognition powered by Apple Siri, the HomePod. As expected, the design is a powerful combination of electroacoustic mastery, digital processing and smart connectivity.

Intel Unveils New Intel Core X-Series Processors and Announces Thunderbolt 3 Everywhere

May 30, 2017 by Joao Martins

Intel Unveils New Intel Core X-Series Processors and Announces Thunderbolt 3 Everywhere

During the annual Computex 2017 event, Intel unveiled its new Intel Core X-series processor family with 4 to 18 cores, which now includes the new Intel Core i9 Extreme Edition processor, the first consumer desktop CPU with 18 cores and 36 threads. On what is possibly the most interesting front for computing, outside of pure processing power, Intel announced plans to integrate Thunderbolt 3 into all future Intel CPUs and to release the Thunderbolt protocol specification to the industry.

Microchip Introduces Fully-Certified Wi-Fi SDK with Apple HomeKit Support

May 23, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Microchip Introduces Fully-Certified Wi-Fi SDK with Apple HomeKit Support

Microchip's new Wi-Fi SDK with Apple HomeKit support enables MFi licensees to create fast, low-power designs on the industry’s first hardware cryptography-enabled Wi-Fi-based development kit for HomeKit. The SDK leverages hardware-based calculations to create fast, low-power solutions, providing an optimized customer experience that dramatically reduces execution time for HomeKit commands and provides pairing speeds of less than one tenth of a second.

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