Comcast, a cable company notorious for poor customer service, now wants to be your cellular provider, as well. The company today announced its new business, Xfinity Mobile, a wireless service offering unlimited data plans at $65 per line, that can be brought down to $45 per line for customers that …
Read More »Microsoft launches ‘Who’s In,’ a social event planning app for iMessage
Microsoft’s name isn’t exactly synonymous with social networking, though that hasn’t stopped the company from finding angles into this space – generally, with more of a focus on the business side of socializing, as with its LinkedIn and Yammer acquisitions. It’s own efforts in social, meanwhile, have failed, as with …
Read More »Amazon will refund millions of unauthorized in-app purchases made by kids
Amazon will refund millions of unauthorized in-app purchases kids made on mobile devices, having now dropped its appeal of last year’s ruling by a federal judge who sided with the Federal Trade Commission in the agency’s lawsuit against Amazon. The FTC’s original complaint said that Amazon should be liable for millions of …
Read More »AT&T’s Unlimited Plus wireless plan now includes free HBO
ATT’s $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner hasn’t yet completed, but the company is already leveraging Time Warner assets to boost its own services – first with its streaming TV service DirecTV Now, which is currently giving out free HBO, and now today it’s rolling out free HBO to ATT’s “Unlimited …
Read More »Apple Music on Android catches up with iOS
Apple’s subscription streaming service, Apple Music, rolled out a major (ver. 2.0) release to Android users today, introducing a new design that largely brings the app to parity with its iOS counterpart. The update includes a visual makeover, which organizes content into a few main sections – Library, For You, …
Read More »The Samsung Galaxy S8’s display is the best you can buy: DisplayMate
Each year, Samsung releases a new flagship display, and each year, DisplayMate writes an evaluation of it using more charts, figures, and data points than you find in your typical graduate thesis. Once again, the Galaxy S8 has gone under the proverbial knife, and once again it’s emerged triumphant. The …
Read More »Microsoft launches Sprinkles, a silly camera app powered by machine learning
Microsoft is getting into the “fun camera app” game with a new iOS application called Sprinkles, which has now earned a featured spot in the “New apps we love” section of the App Store. The gist with Sprinkles, clearly aimed at a teen audience, is to offer a variety of traditional photo …
Read More »Netflix brings offline viewing to Windows 10 PCs and tablets
Netflix added support for offline viewing on iOS and Android late last year, and today it’s bringing the same feature to Windows 10, with the exception of Windows 10 mobile devices. Arriving now in the updated Windows 10 application, a subset of the Netflix catalog can be downloaded to your PC or …
Read More »Twitter stops counting @ Replies towards its 140 characters on web and mobile
Nearly a year ago, Twitter announced it would begin distancing itself from the requirement that all tweets could only contain 140 characters by no longer counting some things – like media attachments or @ replies towards the character count. However, it didn’t begin testing the change with @ replies until …
Read More »Scheduled is a new app that lets you schedule your text messages
Want to remember to tell a friend happy birthday, good luck or congratulations? Had a follow-up question for a client that just occurred to you at 1 AM? Want to write a heartfelt thank you to be texted at a later date? Unfortunately, neither SMS nor most messaging apps – including …
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