Apple's Personal Pickup service now available in Canada

Canadians now have the option of buying items from Apple online and picking the item up at their nearest Apple Retail Store. The Personal Pickup option is ideal for saving time and money on shipping and works well for highly anticipated or 'must-have' Apple products or accessories, like an Apple Pencil for your one-week-old iPad Pro.

The service enables customers to choose and play for their items through an app and simply present proof of payment at a chosen or designated store to pick up their item. This speeds up the process considerably and is a great option for anyone who knows what they want or who doesn't relish the prospect of having to visit a crowded store during peak hours. Personal Pickup in Canada comes at the heels of the initial availability of Apple Pay in Canada.

Huawei becomes Ottawa Senators official smartphone provider

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Huawei Canada President Sean Yang hold up Ottawa Senator Jerseys signifying the 2022 Games in Beijing, and the Huawei Sponsorship of the Ottawa Senators in 2015.Chinese tech company Huawei has entered into a partnership with the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club to become their official smartphone supplier. The announcement was made in Beijing where Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is visiting the company’s Research & Development facilities there. The brand and the club will be working together for the next two seasons. This partnership coincides with the recent launch of the Nexus 6P smarphone, which was released this past week in Bell, TELUS, and Rogers stores across Canada.

The sponsorship also entails rinkboard and in-game advertising as well as option for local sales promotions for Huawei’s smartphones. Huawei will also be working with Ottawa Senators’ Technology in Schools program that helps promote Science, Technology, and Math as education options for post-secondary students. This partnership also complements Huawei’s existing Telecom Seeds for the Future initiative with engineering students at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa.

Instagram tightens rein on third-party apps

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After a security issue with third-party app InstaAgent, Instagram looks to be cracking down on its third-party apps and limiting what they can offer Instagram users. The company revised its API policy and isn’t taking any new apps at the moment that want to integrate into its service. Applications will reopen next month but Instagram is limiting functions for third-party apps. These services can still pull from photos you’ve posted yourself but you can’t pull full Instagram feeds once the new restrictions are in place. Existing apps have until June 1^st to comply with the new policies and undergo the new review process.

Source: The Verge

Google still working on Glass, screen-free version might be in the works

The first iteration of Google Glass died down unceremoniously. But Google isn’t giving up on the idea as evidenced by the rebranded Project Aura and the company taking in some of the unlucky laid off Amazon engineers. There hasn’t been that much details about the rebranded Google Glass project but we do know it’s still headed by Ivy Ross and there are three versions of it. One is an Enterprise Edition, another is glass-less version, and last is a “sport” model.

The Enterprise Edition is rumoured to already be used in some industries, while the glass-less version is believed to the version Italian eyewear brand Luxottica is working on. And the sport version is said to rely on bone conduction and focuses more on audio instead of visuals. One of these have been dropped though supposedly but we have no clue which one. Also it seems the goal now is more of an unobtrusive virtual assistant that isn’t as bulky as its predecessor. We just have to wait and see what Google is cooking up with this one.

Source: Android Community