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BlackBerry cuts ties with T-Mobile following disagreement earlier this year

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 4:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web

BlackBerry announced today that it won’t be renewing T-Mobile’s license to sell its handsets after their agreement expires on April 25. However, existing BlackBerry customers on T-Mobile won’t see any difference in their service or support, according to BlackBerry. CEO John Chen explained that BlackBerry isn’t seeing eye-to-eye with T-Mobile at this point in time, but didn’t rule out cooperation in the future. Regretfully, at this time, our strategies are not complementary and we must act in the best interest of our BlackBerry customers. We hope to work with T-Mobile again in the future when our business strategies are aligned. The…

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Adobe will reveal details of its upgraded video suite at broadcasters’ conference

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 4:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Every year—just in time for the National Association of Broadcasters annual confab in Las Vegas—Adobe previews a slew of updates to its video editing suite, spearheaded by its flagship movie app, Premiere Pro. In keeping with that tradition, Adobe next week will offer sneak peeks of the new technology it plans to incorporate into its Creative Cloud video apps in advance of launch. Those upgrades and enhancements will ship in the next couple of months alongside additional updates to its Creative Cloud subscription lineup, Adobe said in a press briefing. For its video tools, the company is now focused on…

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WhatsApp hits new record after handling 64 billion messages in one day

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 3:47 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, messaging, messaging app, Product Updates

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As further proof of how WhatsApp remains the world’s most popular messaging app, it revealed today that it has hit a new record after processing 64 billion messages in just 24 hours. That figure consists of 20 billion messages sent and 44 billion messages received. These figures don’t match because they include group messages, which means, for example that sending one message into a group chat of 10 people is 1:10 inbound:outbound. new daily record: 20B messages sent (inbound) and 44B messages received (outbound) by our users = 64B messages handled in just 24 hours. — WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) April 2,…

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Chat app Line passes 400 million registered users, inks record 10 billion messages sent in one day

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 3:21 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, Japan, messaging, messaging app

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Japanese messaging app Line is going strong — it revealed today that it has now passed 400 million registered users. This means it has tacked on 100 million users in about five months, given that its total number of registered users exceeded 300 million in November last year. Line notes that growing user numbers in countries such as North America and Europe have contributed to the “already large” user base in Spain and Southeast Asia among other territories. It also says that the number of new users signing up daily has reached “around 1.7 million per day, indicating rapid growth worldwide.”…

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Samsung rolls out smart home service in Korea and US to let you control appliances with an app

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 2:36 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, Product Updates, smart home

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Samsung took the wraps off its Smart Home service at CES in January this year, and today it is rolling out the service in Korea and the US. More countries will be added throughout the year. Samsung Smart Home ties together smart TVs and home appliances to a smartphone so you can control devices simultaneously via an app. For example, a user can say “good night” to the TV remote control, and other connected devices within the home such as the Smart Bulb and air-conditioners could be set up to automatically switch off.  The app also allows you to check the status…

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