Now playing: Watch this: Lenovo teases flex phone of the future 1:03 Forget curved phones! Lenovo’s new concept smartphone uses a flexible screen and segmented body to deftly convert from watchband to handset and back again. We finally got our wrists under this bendable marvel, which was trapped beneath glass for most of the day …
Read More »Motorola Moto Z and Moto Z Force vs. Samsung Galaxy S7, LG G5 and iPhone 6S
During a launch event in San Francisco, Lenovo and Motorola unveiled two new Moto phones — the Moto Z and the Moto Z Force. Each handset features a 5.5-inch display, Android 6.0 Marshmallow and a rear backing that you can swap out for other accessories. However, the Z Force has a bigger battery, and its camera has a higher megapixel …
Read More »Singapore’s civil servants are set to lose internet privileges
By this time next year, Singapore’s civil servants will have lost access to the internet. The change, which was announced yesterday, is designed to prevent any leaks from work emails and shared government documents, as well as to safeguard the country’s serves from malware, The Straits Times reported. The ban, which will affect all 100,000 or so computers used by …
Read More »Pebble app looks to tell you when you’re at your happiest
A new app for Pebble’s Time smartwatches aims to tell you when you’re happy, sad or in between, and how you may be able to improve your mood. Launched on Thursday, the Happiness app is part of Pebble’s goal to gauge more than just your health and fitness by also getting a sense of your emotional well-being. The Happiness app …
Read More »How, where and when to get the Moto Z, Moto Z Force
Now playing: Watch this: The Moto Z and Z Force use magnets to snap on cool mods 1:27 Lenovo on Thursday announced two new Motorola smartphones, the Moto Z and Moto Z Force. The two devices breakaway from the Moto X design we’ve seen for the last few years, and add hot-swappable modules, Moto Mods. When using Moto Mods, you …
Read More »Apple making big changes to its App Store
Now playing: Watch this: Apple App Store to embrace ads, app subscriptions 1:41 Uncharacteristically, Apple is talking ahead of its developer’s conference. It turns out there will be some major changes at the App Store under Phil Schiller. All apps will be allowed to offer subscriptions soon. Apple will also introduce ads in search results, but will make sure they …
Read More »Twitter will now alert London Tube passengers when trains are delayed
Twitter has partnered with London’s transport authority to live tweet delay updates to Tube passengers. Automatic alerts about severe delays on key Underground and rail routes will begin immediately, Transport for London announced on Thursday. Passengers who follow any combination of four specific TfL Twitter accounts — London Overground, TfL Rail, Central Line and District Line — can choose to …
Read More »Show don’t tell: Facebook launches video replies for comments
The advice most of us live by when it comes to surviving on the internet is, “Don’t read the comments.” But you can forget reading the comments, with news that Facebook will now let you upload videos in comment threads. When you click the camera icon next to a comment field, instead of just seeing an option for images, you’ll …
Read More »Spotify won’t be sold, CEO says
Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek says he has no intentions of selling the streaming service. The Sweden-based music-streaming service has the biggest paid-subscriber base in the world. It also has yet to turn a profit, making it a possible target for a takeover. But even if a tech titan wanted to purchase the service, Ek says it’s not for …
Read More »Moto Z and the crazy
Dressing up your phone with bolt-on accessories may be the new black. Lenovo on Thursday unveiled its Moto Z and Moto Z Force phones, which both boast the ability to accept modular add-ons, letting you magnetically attach things like a souped-up speaker from JBL or a miniature projector. Lenovo is just the latest company to offer modular attachments, underscoring a …
Read More »Singapore sixth country to get Samsung Pay, launches June 16
Samsung phone owners in Singapore will be able to make mobile payments through Samsung Pay from June 16. The service will be limited to those owning the Galaxy Note 5, S6 Edge+ and the newer S7 and S7 Edge devices. The launch comes a month after rival Apple made its Apple Pay service available in the island state, though the …
Read More »Motorola Moto Mod accessories alter your phone in wild ways
Now playing: Watch this: Moto Mods transform your Moto in crazy ways 1:18 From Google’s highly anticipated Project Ara to the quirky LG G5 and its switchable bottom bezel, modular phones are coming closer to a reality. Now Lenovo and Motorola are throwing their hats into the ring with their newest pair of phones, the Moto Z and Z Force. …
Read More »Nvidia Shield adding full Plex Media Server support
Good news for Nvidia Shield owners: Not only is it a superb way to run Plex’s client app for Android TV, but it will soon be able to act as a Full Plex Media Server, including support for hardware-accelerated video transcoding (in H.264, MPEG2 and HEVC formats) with multiple simultaneous streams. Shield owners will be able to connect a hard …
Read More »Phab 2 Pro Tango phone and modular Moto Z: Everything Lenovo announced at its annual Tech World Conference
Now playing: Watch this: The Lenovo Phab2 Pro makes your current reality a bit… 1:06 Lenovo held its annual Tech World conference today in San Francisco with a live broadcast featuring Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing, who took the stage to share his vision for the future and of course, to launch a handful of new cross-connected products including the …
Read More »Moto Z beats iPhone 7 in the race to kill the headphone jack
Earlier this year, as rumors mounted that Apple might remove the headphone jack on the upcoming iPhone 7, I wrote about how the possible change provoked strong negative responses on Twitter. We still don’t know whether the iPhone’s headphone jack will stay or go (the latest rumor is that the next iPhone won’t look all that different from the current …
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