June, 2016

• 9 June

  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, …

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• 9 June

  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 …

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• 9 June

  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 …

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• 9 June

  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 …

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• 9 June

  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 …

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• 9 June

  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 …

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• 9 June

  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. …

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• 9 June

  ​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 …

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• 9 June

  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 …

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• 9 June

  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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