In the grandest rollout of free public Wi-Fi to date, New Yorkers will gain access to the Internet from anywhere in the city with the installation of up to 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the five boroughs to form the LinkNYC network.
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After months of delay, YouTube has finally entered the music subscription arena with a new service called YouTube Music Key. Music Key will allow subscribers to do what they’ve already been doing on YouTube, namely listening to music, with some added bonuses.
Stevens student Marques Brownlee, perhaps better known as “MKBHD” on YouTube, has had a hugely successful multi-year run with videos he shoots and produces himself from his apartment in Hoboken, culminating to a subscriber base today of nearly 2 million viewers.
With the advent of music streaming services such as Spotify and Google Play Music All Access, companies saw fit to forgo high-bitrate audio files in favor of lossy 256- and 320-kbps MP3s to conserve users’ mobile bandwidth and allow for less buffering time.
Attention shoppers: a bevy of major retailers, including Walmart, Target, CVS, and Rite Aid have disabled payments via Apple Pay. By proxy, this also removes the customers’ ability to pay with Google Wallet or Softcard.
Google announced its new suite of Nexus devices last week, including the Nexus 6 smartphone and Nexus 9 tablet. The Nexus 6 iterates on last year’s Nexus 5 with a faster 2.7GHz Snapdragon 805 processor, 3 GB of RAM, 3220 mAh, 13 MP camera, water-resistance, dual front-facing speakers, and most notably, a massive 5.96-inch screen.
Last Friday, millions of Snapchat users were dismayed to find 200,000 of their sent pictures leaked on the Internet. The leak came from a third-party plugin that uses Snapchat’s unofficial API, Snapsaved.com,
On Monday, the company formerly known as Hewlett-Packard announced to investors that they will be splitting the company into two separate entities with different goals.
Microsoft announced its new iteration of its desktop and tablet operating system this Tuesday, titled Windows 10: “Windows 10 will deliver the right experience on the right device at the right time,” said Microsoft’s Terry Myerson.
If there’s any one component of the modern smartphone that hasn’t yet caught up with the “smart” designation of the rest of the experience, it’s certainly the phone itself.