Evernote Announces Price Hikes and Two-Device Limit for Free Users

Wednesday June 29, 2016 3:58 am PDT by
Cross-platform note-taking service Evernote has announced new limits for its Basic account holders on the same day the company hiked the prices on its paid subscription plans. Users of Evernote's free Basic plan will soon be limited to using the service on no more than two devices, such as a computer and a phone, two computers, or a phone and a tablet. Meanwhile, Plus and Premium...

Apple Expands Shot on iPhone Campaign With Photos Focusing on Colors

Tuesday June 28, 2016 2:46 pm PDT by
Apple is expanding its "Shot on iPhone" advertising campaign with a new series of images focusing on color, reports TechCrunch. The images focus on "the bright, vibrant colors you'll find in the world around you," with Apple putting up new billboards and other imagery featuring the new photographs. The "Colors" campaign will focus on sharing photographs taken by people local to the area where...

Amazon Debuts Book-Skimming 'Page Flip' Feature for Kindle Devices and Apps

Tuesday June 28, 2016 8:19 am PDT by
Amazon has announced that a new feature called "Page Flip" will be rolling out to its iOS and Android apps, Fire tablets, and Kindle e-readers as a free, over-the-air update beginning today. The feature gives users a digital approximation of skimming through a book, making "it easy to explore books while always saving your place." When activated, Page Flip pins the current page to the bottom ...

Facebook Promises That Location Data is 'Only One of the Factors' in Friend Suggestions [Updated]

Tuesday June 28, 2016 5:58 am PDT by
Facebook has never specified the exact methods it uses to present friend suggestions within its "People You May Know" tab, but a new report by Fusion suggests that a shared GPS data point could be a bigger factor in curating friendship than Facebook wants users to know. A nameless source told the site that he suspected the social network of digging into his location information to curate...

Google Maps Satellite View Gains High Definition Landsat 8 Imagery

Tuesday June 28, 2016 4:21 am PDT by
Google announced yesterday that it has begun rolling out new high-definition satellite imagery of Earth to its Google Earth and Google Maps apps. The company said it was introducing a new cloud-free mosaic of the Earth's surface made up of high-resolution images taken by Landsat 8, a satellite deployed by the USGS and NASA in 2013. Google Earth image of New York City before update New ...

Korea FTC Investigating Apple Over Unfair Mobile Carrier Contracts

Tuesday June 28, 2016 3:28 am PDT by
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating "some matters" relating to Apple's business practices in the country, according to a Reuters report this morning. The comment was made Tuesday by the FTC chairman Jeong Jae-chan during a parliamentary hearing, but he declined to elaborate when asked to do so by a South Korean lawmaker. Last week, the Korea Times cited sources...

Facebook App Takes on Movie-Making Feature in iOS 10 With 'Slideshows'

Tuesday June 28, 2016 2:29 am PDT by
Facebook is shifting the movie-making Slideshow feature from its Moments app to its flagship iOS app in an attempt to counter Apple's Photos update in iOS 10. For those unfamiliar with Apple's big addition to its Photos app coming in iOS 10, a new feature called Memories uses facial- and object-recognition to automatically cluster photos based on people, scenes, dates, and locations, and...

Apple Pay Expands to More Parking and Hotel Apps

Monday June 27, 2016 5:01 pm PDT by
Apple Pay has expanded to an additional trio of parking services and one hotel booking service over the past week. Parking Panda, an app that allows you to find and reserve parking in advance, was updated last week to allow customers to use Apple Pay. Parking Panda is offering customers a 10 percent discount off purchases made with Apple Pay between now and September 1. The discount is...

Facebook for iOS Now Features Human-Curated Events List in 10 Cities

Monday June 27, 2016 11:55 am PDT by
Facebook today announced plans to add human curation to its Facebook Events feature on iOS devices, with designated curators set to highlight notable events in a select number of cities. Facebook Events, for those unfamiliar, is the Facebook feature that allows users to create dedicated Facebook event pages for parties, festivals, and more, and sign up to attend those events. Event pages are a ...

Dreezy's Debut Album to Launch Exclusively on Apple Music

Monday June 27, 2016 8:58 am PDT by
Interscope Records has announced that rising Chicago rapper and songwriter Dreezy's debut full-length album "No Hard Feelings" will be available exclusively on Apple Music in the United States on July 15 before becoming widely available one week later. "No Hard Feelings" will feature 19 tracks, including singles "Body" ft. Jeremih, which has nearly 13.8 million Apple Music streams, "We Gon Ride...

Twitter Announces New 'Stickers' Feature With Visual Search Options

Monday June 27, 2016 8:43 am PDT by
Following in the footsteps of a few changes and additions to its social networking features, Twitter today announced that a new photo-enhancing suite of stickers will be coming to iOS and Android users "over the next few weeks." The update will let users place Twitter's custom "rotating sets of stickers" onto any photo -- along with the hundreds of emojis offered on iOS and Android -- to...

Jay Blahnik Discusses Apple's Delve Into Mindfulness With 'Breathe'

Monday June 27, 2016 8:24 am PDT by
One of Apple's newest apps revealed at WWDC this month was a meditation-enabling Apple Watch app called Breathe that will encourage users to take a break every day to focus on the rhythm of their breathing patterns. In a recent interview with BuzzFeed, Apple’s director of fitness for health technologies, Jay Blahnik, discussed the benefits of "mindfulness" apps like Breathe, and the research...

Apple Celebrates Pride Festival With Rainbow Apple Watch Bands for Staff

Monday June 27, 2016 3:04 am PDT by
Apple helped celebrate equality at the LGBT Pride festival in San Francisco yesterday and thanked employees who registered to take part in the event by gifting them a limited edition rainbow Apple Watch band. Participating staff received the bands with a card from the company explaining the idea behind the Apple Watch accessory. Reddit user 'Sakusuhon' shared the above image of the band and...

Some Users Experiencing Issues With App Store and iTunes Store

Friday June 24, 2016 2:57 pm PDT by
Some iOS and Mac users are currently unable to access the App Store, Mac App Store, and iTunes Store, according to reports from MacRumors readers and Twitter users. When attempting to load the App Store on some devices, the Featured and Top Charts section are blank, and some users are reporting receiving "Cannot Connect to iTunes" messages when attempting to use the iTunes Store. App Store...

Twitter Begins iOS Rollout of Location-Based Tweet Aggregating Feature

Friday June 24, 2016 8:16 am PDT by
Twitter has confirmed to TechCrunch that all of its first party iOS app users will today begin to see a new location-based feature that aggregates tweets tagged to a specific geographic location. Called "Twitter Location Feeds," the update lets users scroll through tweets and profiles surrounding locations like the headquarters of a business, sporting event, music festival, or an entire city....

Uber Update Spotlights 'Upfront Fares' While Burying Surge Pricing Notifications

Friday June 24, 2016 7:01 am PDT by
Ride hailing app Uber has begun testing a version of its app in six United States cities, with a new UI that makes periods of surge pricing more subtle to discover for users. Surge pricing is a term dedicated to windows when riders greatly exceed drivers, resulting in heightened fare prices due to the increased demand. When this would happen prior to Uber's new test, anyone signing into the...

Netflix Offline Viewing Now Expected to Launch 'By the End of the Year'

Friday June 24, 2016 5:58 am PDT by
After Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that the company is keeping an "open mind" in regards to offering offline viewing to its customers, a new report from LightReading this week hints that the feature could be coming to the streaming platform "by the end of the year" (via Gizmodo). The information comes from industry insider Dan Taitz -- COO of Penthera, a company that works on mobile video --...

Adele's Album '25' Now Available on Apple Music, Spotify, and More

Friday June 24, 2016 4:54 am PDT by
Grammy award-winning singer Adele's latest album, 25, became available on Apple Music and competing streaming services at midnight last night, seven months after its initial release. According to Billboard, the full album can also be found on Spotify, Amazon Prime and Tidal, following months in which only the singles "Hello", "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)", and "When We Were Young" could...