Daily Archives: November 13, 2015

Top 10 Android app updates this week: Maps, SwiftKey Keyboard

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Welcome back to our weekly Top 10 Android App Updates column, where we take a look at the most frequently upgraded apps for the week. We’ve found that one of the best ways to discover useful apps is to find the ones that are actually being updated by the developers rather than selecting the apps with the most installs. As in the past, we’re going to filter out minor updates for the super-popular apps that have over 10 million installs, but we’ll make exceptions for apps that have had significant updates. We hope you enjoy this weekly feature and that you discover some apps that end up being useful.

Digitally Imported Radio – Version 3.0.0

Digitally Imported Radio

What’s new in this version:

  • Now with Google Cast support for Chromecast & Cast Audio devices.
  • We’ve revamped our user experience with an all-new player to give you the best listening experience possible. Listeners in the USA will now be able to search for and listen to shows on demand, and can scrub through the tracks as desired.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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SwiftKey Keyboard – Version 6.0.0

SwiftKey Keyboard

What’s new in this version:

  • Double-Word Prediction: your next two words predicted at once
  • Redesigned & faster emoji panel
  • Complete settings menu overhaul
  • New Carbon Light theme inspired by Material Design
  • 5 new languages: Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu, Xhosa & Breton
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Amazon Photos – Version 5.0.0

Amazon Photos

What’s new in this version:

  • Create albums with your photos and videos.
  • Edit and rename albums, change an album’s cover photo, and easily add or remove photos.
  • Share albums with friends and family.
  • Convert any of your folders into albums with the tap of a button.
  • Explore photos from your past with This Day.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Maps – Version 9.17.1

Maps

What’s new in this version:

  • Search for gas stations, restaurants and many more places along your route while driving
  • See up-to-date gas prices when searching for gas stations
  • Share what you think of local spots and help others make better decisions about places to go
  • Bug Fixes
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Periscope – Version 1.3.0

Periscope

What’s new in this version:

  • SKIP AHEAD IN REPLAYS: When watching a replay, press and hold to instantly jump into any part of the replay. Preview thumbnails help guide you as you seek forwards and backwards. For finer control, follow the on screen instructions.
  • MAPS 2.0: See more broadcasts than ever on the map, including replays. Zoom closer to a city or area, and start exploring!
  • ZOOMING: Pinch to zoom while broadcasting! Finally!
  • “Trending” users highlights an evolving list of recently popular broadcasters.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Z Launcher – Version 1.3.1

Z Launcher Beta

What’s new in this version:

  • Synonyms! (English-only) An experimental feature that shows similar installed apps for your scribbled searches (for example, search “music” and you’ll see Spotify and Pandora if they are installed)
  • Contacts with WhatsApp now appear in scribble results and launch into the WhatsApp conversation. The more you do this, the more Z Launcher learns to promote these too!
  • Performance improvements
  • Bug fixes
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Skyscanner – Version 4.2.0

Skyscanner

What’s new in this version:

  • New button for switching directions.
  • We improved the visibility of the famous barchart, find it in the calendar.
  • Price Alert currency bug should be fixed now. Sorry for the mess
  • Improved under the hood architecture, so we can react to your feedback faster
  • Other bug fixes and performance improvements
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Google Play Books – Version 3.6.9

Google Play Books

What’s new in this version:

  • The comics section of Google Play Books has also received a redesign, which includes organizing many of the major comic book series by volumes, issues and other editions.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Android Wear – Version 1.4.0

Android Wear

What’s new in this version:

  • Interactive watch faces that respond to your touch
  • Together watch face to keep you connected to a friend
  • Weather app to see the forecast for the next 4 days
  • Translate app that lets you tilt your wrist to share a translation
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Walgreens – Version 5.3.0

Walgreens

What’s new in this version:

  • Live Doctor Consultation is now available in select states. Skip the waiting room and see a doctor right away in a live video call! This feature requires access to your phone & microphone, so you’ll notice there is a new permission request for that access.
  • Now you can snooze your Pill Reminders if you want to be reminded a little later.
  • Photo cards are now available in a 4×8 size.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Tearing Down The Wall: How Stanford Is Helping To Counter The Anti-Hispanic Business Narrative

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It’s a typically weather-perfect Wednesday at the Stanford Business School campus, but the CEMEX auditorium is filling with lots on unfamiliar faces. The occasion:  the release of a long-awaited research report by the Stanford Latinos Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI). The headline: US Latinos are creating businesses faster than any other ethnic group (roughly 12% of all new starts). Said Doug Rivers, the lead researcher for the study:

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Samsung is reportedly close to becoming OLED display supplier for future iPhones

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A new rumor out of South Korea says that Samsung and Apple are in advanced talks about the former supplying the latter with OLED display panels for future iPhones. A deal hasn’t been concluded yet, but apparently that’s very close to happening.

As such, the Korean company is looking to increase its OLED panel output in order to be able to meet the bigger demand that it shall face if it becomes Apple’s supplier. In fact, Samsung could actually decide to build an entire OLED production facility just to supply Apple, if the deal goes through of course. It’s possible that Apple will finance such a move, at least in part.

The first step in Samsung’s strategy is already occurring, as it is selling one of its LCD manufacturing facilities’ equipment to a Chinese company. The money it will gain from this move will be used only to increase OLED panel production capacity.

And if it builds production lines solely for Apple, Samsung could become the Californian company’s biggest supplier of displays, moving past LG Display, certain unnamed sources are speculating. Samsung is already making OLED panels for the Apple Watch, so a deal for iPhones would be an extension of an existing agreement.

Samsung is going to face competition in the OLED screen space from quite a few Chinese companies that have all planned to build production facilities soon, so it can no longer afford not to aggressively invest in its own lines.

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Un Terabyte en Google Drive gratis por escribir reseñas en Maps

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Nueva actualización de Google Maps Google Maps y Google Drive son sin duda de los servicios de Google más usados. Google Maps es un gigantesco servicio de los mapas de casi todo el mundo, de los cuales más de un 60 % tienen Street View, un complemento que te permite ver en imágenes recientes el lugar que estás buscando.

Google Drive es el servicio de almacenamiento en la nube por defecto de Google. Drive se encarga de subir tus archivos en su servidor para que puedas acceder a ellos desde cualquier parte y desde cualquier dispositivo. Drive por defecto te asigna 15 GB de almacenamiento gratuito.

Hasta ahora, si quieres más almacenamiento disponible, debes pagar ciertas tarifas mensuales: por 1,99 euros tienes 100 GB adicionales, por 9,99 euros hasta 1 TB y como máximo, puedes disfrutar de hasta 30 TB por 299,99 euros al mes. Todas las tarifas las puedes encontrar aquí.

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Escribe reseñas, obten Gigabytes gratuitos

Aunque Google Maps quizá sea el rey de los mapas virtuales, según la gran G, no tiene las suficientes reseñas. Es por eso que a partir de hoy a cambio de puntuar con estrellas y dar una breve descripción de qué te ha parecido el lugar en cuestión, obtendrás almacenamiento gratis.

Pero no todo es tan sencillo como parece. A parte de que este Terabyte solo te durará 2 años, tendrás que realizar hasta 40 reseñas, ya que ganas 5 “puntos” por reseña y cuando llegas a 200 te dan el Terabyte. Posiblemente, cuando “caduque” tu Terabyte tendrás que espabilar para mover todo lo que has subido a la nube a otro lugar, o pagar una de sus tarifas.

Google Drive 1 TB Gratis Maps

Aún así, puedes verle la parte buena; por 40 reseñas ganas un equivalente a 225,52 euros en almacenamiento en la nube.

Para escribir una reseña en Google Maps simplemente tienes que acceder a su web, hacer click en cualquiera de los lugares que hayas estado y pulsar en “Escribir una reseña”.

¿Qué te parece el sistema de Google para generar más reseñas? _¿Vale la pena escribir 40 reseñas por 1 Terabyte en la nube?

¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por Un Terabyte en Google Drive gratis por escribir reseñas en Maps para dejar tu huella.

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Wolder viene con 4G a bajo coste, smartband y un nuevo tope de gama

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Hoy Wolder ha celebrado un evento en Madrid muy especial. En él, la firma española ha querido reafirmar su hueco en el mercado de los smartphones y para hacerlo nada mejor que presentar no uno, sino cuatro nuevos teléfonos. El primero de ellos es rea…

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128GB iPad Pro models ordered now only ship at the end of the month

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It looks like Apple managed to somehow underestimate demand for the most expensive versions of its latest tablet, the iPad Pro. This is especially true in the United States, where ordering an iPad Pro with 128GB of storage (either in Wi-Fi-only or 4G LTE-capable iterations) will see you waiting until the end of the month for it to actually be shipped.

The situation is less dire for the 32GB model, which should arrive at your doorstep in 4-5 days, depending on which shipping method you choose (the slower one is free, while the faster one costs $10).

If you want the $949 Wi-Fi-only 128GB iPad Pro or the $1,079 128GB 4G model you need to wait until either November 30 to December 2 (for free shipping) or November 25 to November 30 (if you pay the $10 to expedite things). That’s a delay of two to three weeks, so it’s no small thing.

Even worse is how long you’ll need to wait if you order an Apple Pencil stylus or the Smart Keyboard accessory. Both of these are currently listed by the Apple store as “available to ship” in 4-5 weeks. That’s pretty bad if you wanted to use the two essential iPad Pro accessories in Apple’s view from the moment you get the tablet.

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