Nokia Lumia 820 takes to the skies with Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines aims to create a more streamlined method for on-board payments and passenger interaction by providing over 19,000 flight attendants with Nokia Lumia 820 devices. The Windows Phone 8-powered smartphone comes with an Avanade point of sale (POS) system that runs on the Microsoft Dynamics for Retail mobile point-of-sale platform and AT&T’s 4G LTE network. It allows flight attendants to handle almost real-time credit card processing for things like on-board purchases as well as seating upgrades. They can even email eReceipts to passengers. 

Aside from already offering a Fly Delta app for Nokia Lumia and other Windows Phone devices, Delta wants to develop the service with the ability to read coupons on customer’s smartphones and give the flight attendants essential customer-specific information through their Lumias to help create a more personalized service for each passenger.

Source: Conversations by Nokia

Pulse pushes new way to find content

Post-LinkedIn acquisition, Pulse has been adding new ways to help you enjoy the news reading experience. The latest update makes it easier for you to add and discover new content with improved search capability. You can search by interest or source title or rely on Pulse recommendations for new content. They even added the ability to preview a source before adding it to your Pulse sections.

You can download Pulse for your mobile devices here.

Google Keep update adds time and location reminders

Working hand-in-hand with Google Now, Google Keep can remind you of your tasks and errands at the right place and time with location and time reminders. You just need to click on the new “Remind me” button at the bottom of any note and select the kind of reminder you want to use. It works much like your alarm clock and can be dealt with right away or you can select to snooze a reminder.

Google’s note-taking app also has a new navigation drawer to help you separate your notes from reminders and even switch Google accounts. Adding an existing photo from your Android device is also possible with this latest update. Google Keep is up for download from the Google Play Store and Chrome Web Store or can be viewed through Google Drive.

Box doubles personal cloud storage space to 10GB

While Box isn’t top of mind when it comes to personal storage, the online file sharing and cloud storage company is giving Box users 10GB worth of free space—twice the 5GB they previously offered. This generous offer makes them the second more spacious cloud storage option behind Google Drive, which provides 15GB free storage for users.

Box has even rolled out a new starter tier suitable for small businesses that delivers 100GB storage for up to 10 users at $5 a month.