Entries by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla (6710)

Thursday
Mar262015

Canadian availability of the HTC One M9 announced

The new HTC One M9 flagship smartphone, successor to the similar looking HTC One M8, will be available in Canada at Bell, Best Buy, Future Shop, Koodo, London Drugs, Rogers, SaskTel*, T-Booth, TELUS, The Source, Videotron, WIND Mobile* and Wireless Wave in-store on April 17, 2015 for $199.

Pre-sale of the HTC One M9 will be available starting March 27th at Videotron.

Wednesday
Mar252015

Pebble Time's Kickstarter campaign wrapping up in 3 days

The insanely successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Pebble's new Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel smart watches is ending this Friday, which means this could be the last chance to get on the list for these new wearables months before they hit regular retail channels. Featuring a colour e-paper display, a whole new smartwatch OS, a microphone for responding to notifications, water resistance,  as well as 7-day battery life, Pebble Time is CAD $169 (US $199 after the campaign), the Pebble Time Steel is $250  ($299 after the campaign).

Wednesday
Mar252015

Facebook's F8 Developer Conference kicks off today

Mark Zuckerberg kicked off this year's Facebook F8 Developer conference which is available now as a live stream at f8.facebooklive.com. Focusing on the evolution of Facebook from a single application/service to a family of apps (they now own Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus Rift and have Messenger), the social network needs to navigate the evolving waters of how people prefer to use the service. 

"Going back five years, Facebook was about text and status updates. Now it is all about photos and fast-forward to the future, it will be video and maybe VR (virtual reality) and AR (Augmented Reality)," Zuckerberg stated during his keynote. Video, new user features as well as how Facebook can evolve and monetize its various properties for its developers will be some of the key points of this year's developer's conference. 

Other announcements include expanded features in Messenger Platform to connect directly with businesses instead of calling them up by phone. 

Wednesday
Mar252015

Google's Pony Express feature to allow payments in Gmail

We get bills in our email all the time, wouldn't it be great to be able to securely pay from our mail clients? If your mail client is Google's Gmail or Inbox, this is on its way. Recode has unearthed documents referring to a Pony Express feature within Gmail that will allow users to enter their payment information as as debit or credit card information to pay for bills right within the application. Bills would be organized within their own designated folder. Sounds convenient. The feature is expected to roll out in Q4 2015.

Source: Recode