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A few months ago, Google announced that it was planning to launch its Android Auto smartphone interface for vehicles as a stand alone Android mobile app. Through this approach, the tech giant was basically promising that Android Auto would be made available to every car. Well, Google has made good on its promise, releasing a major update to the Android Auto app. Through this latest update, users can now experience all the advantages of Android Auto even if their vehicle is not necessarily compatible with the platform.
Scribd is a service that offers people access to e-books, audio books, and documents for a monthly subscription fee of $8.99. Now, the company is adding unlimited access too to an additional list of magazines. There are eight new publications in all, including popular titles such as Time, People, Fortune, Money, New York, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Subscribers will be pleased to know that content from these magazines have been optimized for browsing on mobile devices. What’s more, Scribd is also looking to add more new magazines in the next few weeks.
When Apple officially rolled out its iOS 7 mobile operating system about three years ago, it also launched the Made for iPhone hearing aid program, which aimed to make mobile devices more accessible to users with hearing impairments. This is done in various ways, including making full use of Bluetooth technology (to stream audio) and a special protocol technology from Apple in order to better connect hearing aids to iPhones and iPads.
Ride sharing service provider Uber has decided to go back to square one and completely rebuild its official mobile app. This time around, however, the company is paying more attention to offering speed and efficiency to its users. This was revealed much by Travis Kalanick, the chief executive officer of Uber, who recently said this week that the latest update is not just a redesign, but more like an overhaul.
Giphy, the search engine for animated images, aka GIFs, has managed to raise an additional $72 million in funding, effectively raising its value to $600 million. According to a report published by the Wall Street Journal, the GIF making site was able to attract new investments from parties such as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners, China Media Capital, and other current backers.
The biggest smartphone vendor in the world is still at a loss as to how and why its Galaxy Note 7 suffered overheating and exploding issues -- Samsung admitted as much during a shareholder meeting held recently this week. And because it can not ascertain the cause of its phablet’s problems, for sure, it may not be able to offer a solution soon.
Vine, the mobile app that allowed users to share six second long looping videos, has announced by way of a blog post that it will no longer continue. Acquired by social media giant Twitter about four years ago, Vine went on to become a very popular application. Due to its popularity, any six second video is now automatically called a Vine. Other apps even copied the format, with Snapchat and Instagram also incorporating microvideos in their respective platforms.
NBA League Pass allows consumers to live stream every NBA game for as long as they pay the $199.99 subscription (for every team; one team costs $119.99). Through NBA League Pass, basketball fans basically get to watch games on most connected devices, such as a smartphone, a tablet device, or a smart TV. But as good as NBA League Pass, it does not really distinguish between those who watch games on TV or those who watch games via mobile.
Music-centric social media platform SoundShare has a new iMessage app that will allow mobile users to share whole songs to friends by way of text message. SoundShare’s service is not the first of its kind, of course, with a number of similar features already existing ever since the debut of the iMessage App Store. For instance, Apple Music has its own iMessage app, and music streaming service provider Pandora also deployed a similar service earlier this month.
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