Daily Archives: May 25, 2016

PayPal app 6.0 will not be coming to Windows Phone, Blackberry, or Fire Phone

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PayPal has announced its app will no longer work unless it’s installed on Android devices with 4.0.3 or later as well as Apple devices with iOS 9.1 or later. The new 6.0 version of the PayPal app is not going to be supported on Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS, or the Amazon Fire Phone.

PayPal’s new release will come with a new look and feel, PayPal balance, and transaction history. While PayPal continues to look into investing in new ways to make money and new ways to add convenience to the PayPal experience, it regrets that it had to make the decision of discontinuing the app for customers…

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Oceans, War Zones Set To Steal Asia’s Biggest Tech Show

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Asia’s biggest annual tech show normally brings together boards, cards and widgets that make up our PCs. But that lineup is too earthly for the latest IT trend virtual reality. So the Computex Taipei event that opens May 31 will feature PCs that work with virtual reality head and hand gear to turn your bedroom into the ocean floor or a war zone. Expect to see more than 30 brands of game-ready hardware, a lot from Big Taiwanese names such as HTC and Acer. Some will allow trials of hardware that can help rocket you into space or put you face to face with thugs charging across the desert.

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Google pressured to release list ranking how fast OEMs release software updates

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If you don’t know what “fragmentation” is, it’s probably the biggest problem that Google has with Android when it comes to software updates. Because there are so many different manufacturers that produce Android phones, there is no reasonable way for Google to keep track of all the phones that are produced and whether or not they are updated.

This is where Apple has Google beat. Because Apple has control of both software and hardware of its mobile products running iOS, it is able to release updates for all its products at the same time. The only place Google somewhat has control over the…

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