Entries by Nicole Batac (11946)

Thursday
Jul032014

WIND Mobile opens new retail stores in Brantford

WIND Mobile is widening its reach across the country with further expansion of services in southwestern Ontario. The carrier has opened two new WIND retail stores in Brantford. WIND currently has 1,412 sites on air across the country and is 100% HSPA+ enabled, which offers Canadians speeds of up to 21Mbps. If you are interested in visiting the new WIND stores, there is one close to Laurier’s Brantford campus and another standalone kiosk at Lynden Park Mall.

Wednesday
Jul022014

Nokia tipped to improve cameras for Android line

Nokia is known for developing smartphones with great cameras. It would seem they want to port that capability to their Android line with a new job listing from the company. The Finnish brand is looking for someone capable of designing camera drivers and has experience developing for Android. But they might not stop there as they are looking for someone capable of designing and implementing camera drivers for different platforms.

Source: Ubergizmo

Wednesday
Jul022014

Learn languages on your Android Wear smartwatch with Duolingo

It looks like more and more functionality is being introduced into Android Wear-based devices. Language learning app Duolingo has just updated its app to add Android Wear support. This means you can keep learning right from your list. The screenshots up on Google Play shows the simple user interface of the app and the possibility of having more voice support. You can download the latest version of Duolingo here.

Source: Android Central

Wednesday
Jul022014

Google Hangouts will reportedly integrate Voice

Rumours are swirling that Google plans to ax its Google Voice service to make it part of Google Hangouts. There is supposedly an option on Android Hangouts app to let users migrate Google Voice to Hangouts. This means you can send and receive voice mail and texts from Hangouts instead of Voice.

According to CNet, a product manager for Google+’s team that handles Hangouts already hinted about this possible integration over a year ago. Nikhyl Singhal said their team was working on adding outbound and inbound call support for Hangouts. However, Google is not confirming the rumours at the moment.