Apple is now offering refurbished Apple TV 4s in its online store for a reduced price. Â Refurbished models offer the same exact features as the original, but were returned for one reason or another.
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Barclays has confirmed that it will be offering Apple Pay to its customers starting in March.
This is based on a two-week-old email dated January 12, suggesting the large British bank will support the iPhone-based mobile payments service by no later than March 28.
Barclays is the only financial institution among the "Big Four" banks in the U.K. that has yet to adopt Apple Pay.
We are thrilled to announce that we have changed our name.  We are now COMPUSCOOP.
Due to copyright issues with Apple, Inc. we've changed the name to allow us to expand our reach into such informational areas such as Apple's News App and others.
Don't worry, we are still commitmented to bringing you Apple related news, rumors, and more.
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It seems that Microsoft's Surface Tablets had a bit of a meltdown during a NFL payoff games on Sunday.
"They're having some trouble with their Microsoft Surface tablets," announced CBS reporter Evan Washburn. "That last defensive possession the Patriots' coaches did not have access to those tablets to show pictures to their players. NFL officials have been working at it. Some of those tablets are back in use but not all of them. A lot of frustration that they didn't have them on that last possession."
On Twitter, reporter Sean Jensen posted the above image, stating "Second time this season I've personally heard the @Microsoft tablet getting crushed during an #NFL game."
The National Football League playoff game between the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots determined the winner of the American Football Conference to be sent to the Super Bowl.
Microsoft had been relentlessly advertising Surface tablets during the game, and ensured that the device was visible by packaging them in bright blue covers emblazoned with Microsoft Surface branding.
Despite having paid the NFL at least $400 million back in 2013 for exclusive branding rights to the mobile computers used on the sidelines to enable teams to review plays, game commentators have continued to refer to the devices as "iPads."
Microsoft's increasingly strident efforts clarify that its product is not just a generic "iPad" backfired when the Surface-based system failed for the Patriots, frustrating the team and creating a problem that became central to the game's story.
Microsoft was quick to blame network issues, although only the Patriot's side experienced issues with them during the game. The Patriots ultimately lost to the Broncos by a narrow margin of 18-20.
The problem was later found to be the NFL's end, NOT the Surface Tables themselves.
