Pocket Informant releases update, app for Apple Watch

Texas based WebIS today announces Pocket Informant 4.70, an update to the award-winning calendar and task application for iOS and Apple Watch. Pocket Informant was built with the simple premise of bringing everything about your day into one location, and making it beautifully simple to use. This update includes an app for the Apple Watch, as well as allows visibility of the next two weeks of scheduled events, plus various types of tasks and more.

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Canadian streaming video app Yeplive aims to improve on the experience offered by competitors

Meerkat and Periscope have been popular video streaming apps but they wiill soon be joined by Canadian made Yeplive which promises a range of features that its competitors still have to offer.

Yeplive has more features that reviewers of both apps have voiced that they want to see,  (see above chart). The biggest featrues are;

• Sharing to all popular social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and G+ (Periscope and Meerkat are chained to Twitter)
• Videos are archived in each user's personal profile - so you can keep your moments
• Yeplive is location centric so you can discover what live events are happening around you, or globally in places you care about 

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Beltone releases HearPlus app for Apple Watch

Beltone will now have an easier, more discrete way to adjust the settings on their hearing aids. The company just updated its iOS HearPlus app to add Apple Watch support. You can adjust settings like programs, volume levels, and noise reduction right from the wearable. Beltone Legend users can adjust settings like background and wind noise as well as speech focus.

Source: Beltone | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Amazon plans to pay self-publishing writers per page read

Amazon is introducing a new payment method for self-publishing writers on Kindle’s Direct Publishing platform. The independent authors will be paid based on the number of pages read instead of the number of times the books have been borrowed. Amazon has a complex method to determine payment for the indie authors. The company has a fund they use that’s set every month. This new plan will give authors a share of that fund based on the pages read.

The Kindle Direct Publishing platform lets authors make key decisions about their books, including setting list prices, managing rights, and editing the book at any time.

Source: Reuters