Motorola reads your notifications out loud with Touchless Control app

Motorola updated its Touchless Control app for Moto X, Droid Mini, Droid Maxx, and Droid Ultra phones running Android 4.4 KitKat. Users just need to say “What’s up” or “Read notifications” to have their latest notifications read to them without touching the phone. It’s not exactly ideal to doing this in public as it reads your unread text messages and emails out loud but it works if you’re in the car alone.

The Touchless app currently supports Canadian French, U.S. English, U.S. Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Source: Cult of Android

Yahoo! to halt Google and Facebook account login with its services

Time to unearth the password for your (most likely embarrassing) Yahoo! ID. The tech company plans to phase out the ability to log into its services with the use of Google and Facebook accounts. Yahoo! aims to provide the “best personalized experience to everyone” and they believe the third-party logins get in the way. They did not give a timeline when the login buttons will disappear for all online properties of Yahoo! Yes, that includes Tumblr and Flickr.

Source: Engadget

Facebook Messenger lands on Windows Phone san voice messaging and chat heads

Windows Phone users rejoice! Facebook Messenger made its debut on the Microsoft platform earlier than expected. The app comes over a week following Mobile World Congress announcement. It has most of the features of Facebook’s chat app, including group conversations, stickers, and photo sharing. However, it doesn’t have voice messaging and chat heads at the moment. We’d expect those additional features will come at a later date. But if you can live without those now, you can download the app here.

Source: Engadget

Background refresh finally comes to Gmail for iOS

What is considered a common email feature finally arrives to iOS version of Gmail. The email app now supports background refresh. It means the app pre-fetches and syncs email so iOS 7 users can view new email as soon as they launch the app. Users must activate the feature as well as Gmail app notifications though to access it. If you don’t have Gmail on your iPhone yet, you can download it here.