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 …

Apple’s new iPad Mini 4 outscored supersized sibling the iPad Pro in screen quality, according to new testing from DisplayMate. In its latest lab tests, DisplayMate analyzed the screens of the new iPad Mini 4 and the iPad Pro as well as last year’s iPad Air 2. All three received high marks for their displays, but this year’s models outscored …

Ask Google a question on your mobile device, and you may receive a better answer than you got in the past. The Google search app for iOS and Android can respond to questions typed or spoken. Easy questions like “What is the capital of Brazil?” aren’t generally a problem. Interpreting a long, complex question is a different story. The software …

Adobe Systems on Tuesday released a new version of its Lightroom software for editing and cataloging photos, reversing a change that triggered angry protests from hundreds of customers a month ago. The new version — Lightroom 6.3 to those who bought a perpetual license and Lightroom CC 2015.3 for those who pay monthly through Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription — restores …

With the recent launch of YouTube Music, we now have four different YouTube apps. YouTube’s become so big — full of cat videos, music, let’s-plays, vlogs, comedy and much more — that it’s hard to find the specific videos you want. YouTube decided to spin off individual apps dedicated to its popular genres of video, music, gaming and kids, while …

You heard right. Pandora wants to play just the song you ask it to spin. The online radio giant on Monday said it will buy most of smaller rival Rdio for $75 million in cash. As a result, Pandora plans to roll out new services next year that include on-demand listening. The deal underscores the pressure Pandora, the Internet’s biggest …

The future is uncertain for Microsoft’s plan to introduce a tool for bringing apps originally written for Android to its own Windows 10. The tool, nicknamed Project Astoria, was designed to encourage programmers who wrote apps for devices powered by Google’s mobile software to bring those apps to Microsoft’s new operating system. Windows is still the foundation software for most …

For the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year isn’t even a word. It’s an emoji. Specifically, the teary-eyed, bald and jaundiced guy on the right there. Interesting for a dictionary publisher to make a move that risks removing all meaning from the word-of-the-year exercise. Officially, the first pictograph to be bestowed with the honor is actually …

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 …

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 …