Samsung has announced its Samsung Pay mobile payment service is now available in Mexico. According to Samsung, its touch-and-go payment tool is accessible in 20 markets around the world, including the U.S. Samsung Pay makes use of both NFC and MST to connect to retail payment terminals. This gives it an advantage over services that […]
ZTE has pushed a maintenance release to its aging Axon 7 flagship handset device in order to patch up the phone’s security. Primarily, the update applies Google’s security fixes through the December 2017 patch. The security maintenance release also adds Hiya v6.3.3 for improved call blocking and protection, and installs a wide range of other […]
Google said it is rolling out new controls for managing advertisements that appear in apps and on mobile web sites. The change will allow people to use the ad preferences settings to put the kibosh on reminder ads that often show up after user’s search for specific products. Google says the tool is first reaching the […]
Photos that appear on Twitter should begin to look better over the coming weeks. The company says it has changed the algorithms it uses to automatically crop images and the results are much improved. Before this week, the company used a face-detection method to determine which portion of the image to show in users’ feeds. Twitter eventually […]
Google today updated the Android Wear SDK for developers and revealed several new features that are headed to its smartwatch platform later this year. Primarily, Android Wear will add a notification indicator to all watch faces. The indicator will appear as a small dot at the bottom of the watch face. The dot indicator will […]
Apple today made iOS 11.3 Beta One available to public beta testers. iOS 11.3 adds a host of significant new features to iPhones and iPads, including control over the battery, new animoji, business chat, health records, Apple Music videos, and improved augmented reality. Apple released iOS 11.2.5 to the general public earlier this week. Apple […]
One month after the Moto X4 Android One got its Android 8.0 update, the standard version of the Moto X4 is receiving its own Oreo treat. Motorola has confirmed that the Moto X4 is now getting Android 8.0 Oreo. Over on the Lenovo (the Owner of Motorola) forums, a Motorola support rep wrote about the […]
Apple ships a beta previewed iOS 11.3 to devs, a system update that will give iPhone owners with a significant number of new tools and features. First up, iOS 11.3 provides iPhone users with more control over their handset’s battery performance. As promised, people will be able to asses the health of their iPhone’s battery, for […]
Apple has made iOS 11.2.5 available to iPhones and iPads. The update primarily adds support for Apple’s forthcoming HomePod speaker. It also makes it possible for iPhone and iPad owners to ask Siri to read the day’s news. The news feature is initially only available in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. iOS 11.2.5 also fixes […]
Google has provided an update on the progress it has made with the Chrome browser over the last year and offered a peek at some features that will arrive later this year. To start, Chrome now supports play/pause, rewind, and fast forward controls for audio and video. The browser handles picture-in-picture playback on Android, and improved […]