Software : Google Now puts more cards on the table with movies, news and real-time traffic |
- Google Now puts more cards on the table with movies, news and real-time traffic
- Blip: How Snapchat turned down Facebook's $3bn buyout offer
- Pocket app gets better at organizing, discovering content with latest update
- Blip: Temple Run is going to be a film now
- Vine finally climbs to Windows Phone, beats Instagram to the punch
| Google Now puts more cards on the table with movies, news and real-time traffic Posted:  Google's quest to make its Google Now assistant a one-stop-shop for immediately prevalent information has moved a step closer to completion, with the integration of some brand new Cards. The Android version of Google Now, which is part of the Google Search app now brings access to news Google believes will pique your interest, as well as updates from the blogs they follow. Alongside some new reading material, Google Now for Android now integrates data from the company's recently-purchased Waze traffic app, offering real-time traffic information from other drivers on the road. Beyond those goodies, there's also a 'What to watch' card, which brings personalised entertainment suggestions from television and on demand portals. Repeat reminders and rugbyFor fans of egg chasing, there's some real time rugby score integration, while the app will also let you know when ordered packages are ready to pick up in-store. Finally, users will be able to set repeat reminders. Earlier this month Google boosted the iOS version of the service, bringing it temporarily in line with the Android counterpart with event ticket, train schedule and boarding pass cards among along with reminders and push notifications. The parity didn't last long as today's update puts the Android app in the ascendency once again. It's available to download now via Google Play. |
| Blip: How Snapchat turned down Facebook's $3bn buyout offer Posted:  Snapchat reportedly rejected a buyout offer from Facebook. Here's an exclusive look at how it (may have) gone down: Facebook's five top lawyers smirk as they slide a slip of heavy weighted paper across a varnished walnut boardroom table. Overachieving 23-year-old Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel leans forward, picks the paper up and casually unfolds it. There's a pause and all the carefully temperature-controlled air seems to go out of the room. Spiegel snorts quietly, stands up, buttons his smart-casual sports jacket the way he's seen lawyers do it on TV and strides through the heavy double doors, tossing the paper over his left shoulder as he goes. The paper flutters slowly down to the varnished table top and the number on it slowly comes into focus: $3,000,000,000 neatly printed in black ink, each 0 a smiling ghost. As the slip comes to rest, it bursts into a bright flame - just for a second - and then whoosh. It's gone. The lawyers shift uncomfortably in their pressed Tom Ford suits. Zuckerberg is not going to like this. More blipsAnd now for other technology news stories represented in the style bad teleplays: |
| Pocket app gets better at organizing, discovering content with latest update Posted:  Pocket held a press event in San Francisco today where founder Nathan Weiner focused on unveiling an updated version of the popular bookmarking tool for the mobile platform. Freshly dubbed Pocket 5.0, the app holds two big changes to help streamline custom content for users. First up was Highlights. The tool essentially organizes content it sees as the best and most relevant to you based on the items already in your Pocketed list. Your list includes sites you frequent the most, tags you've created and authors you follow. New color-coded badges mark your Pocketed sites to help differentiate entries - those hundreds of items are now better organized into categories based on impact (Best Of), popularity (Trending) and length (Long Reads and Short Reads). Joining Highlights was a new developer tool called Pocket Preferences. The tool lets third party apps integrate the topics, sites and authors you save most, then allows you to connect them to other apps via your Pocket account. Bookmarking on mobile devices is ostensibly much easier and quicker, plus content is now better curated to your interests. For iOS and Android, plus more?The app update also includes better side bar navigation, making it easier for you to access your List, Highlights, Tags, Favorites and Archive and quickly filter your content, much like the Facebook app. The update hits iPhones and iPads today and will be available on Android devices November 20. The company is also working to move the app to other platforms "soon." |
| Blip: Temple Run is going to be a film now Posted:  A film about a man who steals an archeological artifact from an ancient temple amid high-octane supernatural peril based on the popular app Temple Run is in the works. And they say Hollywood is running out of ideas. More blipsThere's no recycling of old "IP" in TechRadar's blips, no siree. |
| Vine finally climbs to Windows Phone, beats Instagram to the punch Posted:  Because any video longer than six seconds probably isn't worth watching, Twitter's Vine app has finally arrived on Windows Phone 8. Vine climbs to Microsoft's mobile OS ahead of rival Facebook's photo-sharing Instagram app, which is expected to arrive on WP8 soon as well. Windows Phone users have been waiting for Vine and other popular apps to make the jump to their platform, but the going has been slow. With makers of the most popular apps finally taking notice of the platform, that could soon change. Get excitedThe Vine app for Windows Phone is nearly identical to the apps on other platforms, with one small extra that Vine designer Ryan Swigart mentioned in a blog post today. Vine users on Windows Phone can pin the accounts of other users to their home screens, making them easy to access. "We love to see what each person contributes to Vine, and we're excited to welcome Windows Phone users to the community," Swigart wrote. He invited Vine users to tweet their feedback to Vine's official Twitter account. Stepping up the gameVine and Instagram have been available for years on iOS and Android, but Windows Phone's customer base is still extremely small compared to the more popular mobile operating systems. Microsoft is doing everything in its power to change that, including buying up its main device maker, Nokia. Nokia just unveiled a new Windows Phone 8 tablet, the Lumia 2520, and the Finnish company is believed to have plenty of other WP8 devices in the works. These may include products with suspicious codenames like "Goldfinger," "Moneypenny," "Phantom," "Normandy" and "Spinel," according to a tipster's report November 11. Besides Instagram and Vine, we're also expecting Flipboard to arrive on WP8 soon, considering the aggregation app was shown off at Nokia's Lumia 2520 announcement. |
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