Lance Whitney

Apple Pay lands in Canada with a tiny step

Canada is now the third country where Apple Pay will work, if you happen to have exactly the right credit card. Apple launched the mobile service just over a year ago in the US and brought it to the UK in July. With an iPhone 6 or higher or an Apple Watch, people can use …

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Waze driving app now supports Apple’s 3D Touch

Waze, the popular crowdsourced navigation app, is getting touchy-feely in its latest update for Apple’s mobile operating system. Waze version 4.0.1, released on Sunday, now taps into Apple’s 3D Touch feature. 3D Touch adds pressure sensitivity to the iPhone screen, so an app reacts differently based on how hard or soft you press its icon. Waze is just the latest …

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Apple Pay expected to launch in Canada on Tuesday

Apple Pay may land in a third country as soon as Tuesday. Customer service representatives from American Express, which is partnering with Apple for the new launch, told blog site iPhone in Canada that the service is scheduled to take off there Tuesday. In October, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Apple Pay would become available to American Express customers in …

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MetroPCS offers streaming music that won’t eat up your data plan

MetroPCS customers will be able to stream all the music they want without biting into their high-speed data. The prepaid brand owned by T-Mobile announced on Monday three features designed to save customers from chewing up their data. One feature offers the ability to stream music without using any high-speed data. The second optimizes streaming video so subscribers can watch …

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Next

If the first generation of the Apple Watch wasn’t quite to your liking, perhaps a second generation next year would do the trick. That next version of the Apple smartwatch is in the development stage, according to a report on a Chinese media site. The report pointed to statements this week at an investor’s meeting in France by Barry Lam, …

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Firefox finally launches for the iPhone and iPad

Firefox is now officially an iOS app. Launched on Apple’s App Store Thursday, Firefox is the latest major mobile browser available to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. Apple’s built-in Safari is the default browser for iOS, the software that powers those Apple devices, and Google’s Chrome has long been available for them. Opera also makes a browser for Apple’s …

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New Android Wear smartwatches can connect to far

Android Wear watches have previously been stuck using either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to connect to a smartphone to do most things. But now Google has added another option: cellular connectivity. Smartwatches are still limited in that they generally need to be synced to a smartphone to make and receive calls and messages and carry out certain other tasks. That poses …

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Google makes it easier to control your personal data and privacy

Worried about the personal information Google is sharing about you online? A new page gives you the ability to better control that information. Rollout out earlier this week, the new “About me” page shows your social media pages, personal details such as your birthday and a link to access your Google privacy settings. You can directly jump into each section …

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LinkedIn promises to pare its email bombardment

LinkedIn users who feel like they get too many emails from the site may catch a break soon. A new email and notifications platform called Air Traffic Controller (ATC) is designed to better determine the frequency and types of emails and other messages that LinkedIn sends you, according to a company blog post on Tuesday from director of engineering growth …

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Third

Apple and Google have both put the kibosh on an app that was hijacking the passwords of Instagram users. Known as “Who Viewed Your Profile – InstaAgent,” the app claimed to help Instagram users find people who were viewing their profiles, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. Instead, the app was grabbing account credentials of Instagram users who logged into it. …

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