IT&Software
Here’s how WhatsApp will make money
Companies will be able to respond free to questions or comments sent to them on WhatsApp, as long as the responses are fired off within 24 hours. The feature is to roll out for iOS and Android versions of the app. Facebook's announcement reported more than 90 large businesses have had access to the WhatsApp Business API for months now, including Uber, Singapore Airlines and the Indonesian e-... [Full Article...]
Portal 2 co-writer returns to Valve
The site notes that Pinkerton left the company previous year alongside a pair of other Valve writers, Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek, for undisclosed reasons. If you don't count VR game The Lab it's been over a decade since they made one themselves, and that was Dota 2. And yet recently there has been a spark of hope, when Valve revealed they were intending to release new games in the future. [Full Article...]
Samsung Electronics profit growth slows despite stellar chip sales
Adding to its troubles, its vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong, scion of the founding family, was jailed a year ago for his part in the corruption scandal that brought down former president Park Geun-hye. Samsung has also added other features such as Super AMOLED Infinity display with 18.5:9 aspect ratio, Android 8.0 Oreo and a beefy 3500mAh battery. [Full Article...]
Samsung takes aim at the mid-range with the Galaxy Tab A 10.5
It is powered by the Snapdragon 835 and supplemented by 4GB of RAM. If you are interested in note taking or drawing, then you will love the S Pen that comes with the Tab S4. IF you're unfamiliar with Dolby Atmos , it is a surround sound renderer. As you'd expect from a regular laptop, you can have multiple things running in the background (up to a max of 20), with easily re-sizable windows ... [Full Article...]
Apple Pay to lead contactless payments surge among mobile wallets
We believe that growth over the next 5 years will continue to be dominated by offers from the major OEM players. 2018 is the first year that the market will break past $1 trillion, one year earlier than Juniper Research anticipated. The big picture: For many, contactless payments - whether by payment card or mobile wallet - have replaced cash as their preferred payment method due to convenience... [Full Article...]
YouTube adding swipe gestures for skipping videos in Android app
Now, YouTube has rejigged its desktop player to reduce the annoyance, as well as adapting to other odd aspect ratios, and your computer's screen/browser size. Now you can upload those vertically shot videos without any concern for a lesser viewing experience. Standard 16:9 videos now also occupy more screen space than before, which YouTube said enhances video size without impacting quality. [Full Article...]
Instagram and Facebook are implementing a time limit setting
There's a dashboard with some usage stats, breaking down how much time you've spent in the apps over the last week. This will limit your Facebook or Instagram notifications for a period of time when you need to focus. On Instagram, the "Your Activity" link will function in the same manner. When asked about why they would release features which appear to facilitate people to use their services ... [Full Article...]
Honor 10 GT gets new Lily of the Valley color variant
The phone comes powered by the HiSilicon Kirin 970 chipset, which we earlier saw on smartphones such as the Honor 10 , Honor View 10, Huawei P20 and P20 Pro . The phone's display sports curved corners, while all the physical keys can be found on the Honor Note 10's right-hand side. With the provided dock, the user can connect the Honor Note 10 with the USB Type-C port to play games o... [Full Article...]