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.
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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.
Microsoft bought the video game development studio Mojang, responsible for Minecraft, for $2.5 billion on Monday, September 15. Three of its founders, Carl Manneh, Jakob Porsér, and Markus “Notch” Persson, are leaving the company following the sale.
Apple revolutionized the tech world once again on Tuesday by announcing two new iPhones and a watch, their first new product line in four years since the iPad.
Amazon’s $970 million acquisition of Twitch last week sent the industry into a furor of surprise and speculation regarding why the purchase was made.