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Pebble smartwatch now supports Android Wear notifications

Dec16
by on December 16, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Mobile, Product Updates

Pebble Update
Pebble owners that also happen to own an Android phone should do a little dance about now. The smartwatch now supports Android Wear. Updated today, the beta version of the Pebble app for Android supports Android Wear notifications and you can interact with those notifications just like on one of those fancy new Android smartwatches. The beta is open to everyone willing to sign up to the beta testing group. The update brings all the expected Android Wear features to the watch. For example, as shown in the video below, you can reply to a Google Hangouts message with emoji. So there…

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Xiaomi is resuming sales in India following a new court order in Ericsson dispute

Dec16
by on December 16, 2014 at 8:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

After being forced to stop its sales operations in India due patent disputes with Ericsson, Xiaomi has now resumed selling its phones in the country. Xiaomi Vice President Hugo Barra made the announcement through his Facebook page. A new ruling by the Delhi High Court allows Xiaomi to resume sales under unspecified terms. Barra notes the Redmi 1S begins sales again next week, and the company’s Redmi Note will also start selling soon, with a 4G model now in tow. ➤ Hugo Barra [Facebook]

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Facebook now automatically makes your photos better

Dec16
by on December 16, 2014 at 8:38 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Robots are better at basically everything, right? Facebook seems to think so and has a new feature released today that automatically enhances the photos you upload to the social network. Most people need help with their photos, so Facebook’s new tool automatically improves a photo’s brightness and attempts to make it look clearer without any input from you. Facebook is so sure that you’ll prefer its enhancements that you’ll need to tap the wand every time you start to post a photo to stop the network from “improving” your images if you don’t like them. It doesn’t look like there’s…

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TNW’s Apps of the Year: Spaceteam, an addictive party game for iOS and Android

Dec16
by on December 16, 2014 at 8:17 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, gifts2014, Insider

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In our Apps of the Year series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for gifts to give this holiday season. This time, it’s apps. There aren’t enough mobile games out there that encourage you to play with friends in real life, but Spaceteam stands out as the perfect mobile game for the holiday season. Spaceteam is a co-operative party game in which you and your friends try to keep a spaceship from combusting by shouting gobbledygook commands at each another. The game is for up to four players who connect over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and each player is shown a set of controls from a…

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Google Authenticator for iOS gets Material Design update

Dec16
by on December 16, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Google’s two-factor authentication app for iOS got a big update today that brings Material Design to the app for the first time, along with iPhone 6 and 6 Plus support. The app update features an overhauled design, bringing it in line with Google’s other Material Design style apps on iOS. It also now shows which website generated a verification code (a feature that was sorely missing before) and fully supports Apple’s new iPhones. Users can also provide anonymous feedback to Google via a link in the app. Authenticator now separates the two-factor code into two groups of three numbers for…

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