Lenovo folds smartphone unit under Motorola

Motorola's President Rick Osterloh will lead Lenovo's mobile charge under the Motorola brand

Lenovo announced today that it will shift all of its smartphone operations, including design and manufacturing under the Motorola banner. Lenovo acquired Motorola Mobility from Google last year for US $2.1 billion and 3,500 employees were retained. This made Lenovo the third largest smartphone maker at the time.

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Twitter now lets you pin tweets to the top of your profile on mobile

Being able to pin tweets to the top of your profile used to be a Web-exclusive feature. Now, Twitter is bringing the functionality to Android and iOS. You can have your brilliant tweets, no matter how old they are, show up at the top of your profile. All you need to do is open up the specific tweet, click on the menu button, and select “Pin to your profile.” Roll-out is gradual so you’ll have to be a bit patient if it hasn’t made its way to your device yet.

Source: Twitter | Via: The Next Web | Download: Apple App Store (Free) + Google Play Store (Free)

Instagram now supports portrait and landscape orientation

It’s no longer hip to be square on Instagram. The app doesn’t just support the square format anymore. It now supports both portrait and landscape modes. Now when uploading photos and videos, you can tap the format icon to adjust orientation to portrait or landscape instead of the square. When you share these images, they’ll appear to your followers in the full-sized version you want it to. It no longer crops out the edges if you don’t want it to. But to keep your profile looking clean, posts will appear as center-cropped square.

In this update, Instagram is also letting all filters work for both photos and videos. You can even adjust the intensity of the filters for videos, too. The update is available for both iOS and Android versions of the app.

Source: Instagram | Download: Apple App Store (Free) + Google Play Store (Free)

Apple’s September 9 launch will be the first event Windows users can live stream

The upcoming Apple event will be the first time Windows users will be able to officially live stream an Apple presentation. You can see it on the fine print of the launch site. This time though the Windows 10 built-in Microsoft Edge browser has software that supports the same HTTP Live Streaming technology found in Apple software like Safari and QuickTime. Usually, only people using OS X, iOS, or an Apple TV device could do so. Some used workarounds through software like VLC. 

Source: Apple Insider