Mobile

[ad_1] Brenda Stolyar/Digital Trends Microsoft’s dedicated Xbox smartphone app is a great way for players to stay engaged with their gaming friends while on the go. Like Sony’s PlayStation app, the Xbox app allows users to purchase games, share content, view their achievements, and send updates to their followers on ...

[ad_1] Squad could be the next teen sensation because it makes it easy to do nothing… together. Spending time with friends in the modern age often means just being on your phones next to each other, occasionally showing off something funny you found. Squad lets you do this even while ...

[ad_1] Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends With the deployment of the first 5G networks in the U.S., hype for the next generation of wireless technology is hitting fever pitch. AT&T says 5G “will be a whole new kind of network,” Verizon promises “a spectacular impact on how we live, work and play,” ...

[ad_1] Spotify is making it easier to use its streaming app in the car, when the phone is connected to the vehicle over Bluetooth. The company today confirmed the launch of a new feature called “Car View,” which is a simplified version of the service’s Now Playing screen that includes ...

[ad_1] It’s not just your smartwatch or phone that can be used for mobile payments, now your special Swatch watch can be to, with the continued launch of its Swatchpay (which the company stylizes as SwatchPAY!, complete with exclamation mark) technology. Working with Mastercard, Swatchpay launches today in Switzerland, and ...

[ad_1] Dolby is secretly building a mobile music production app it hopes will seduce SoundCloud rappers and other musicians. Codenamed “234” and formerly tested under the name Dolby Live, the free app measures background noise before you record and then nullifies it. Users can also buy “packs” of audio effects to ...

[ad_1] Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends Twitter switched to an algorithm-based timeline around four years ago, which eliminated its traditional reverse chronological feed. It meant you no longer saw the latest tweets, but ones that were deemed relevant to you by an algorithm. Many have longed for the return of Twitter’s old ...

[ad_1] Tinder has already developed a fairly robust chat platform within its dating app, with support for sharing things like Bitmoji and GIFs, and the ability to “like” messages by tapping a heart icon. Now, the company is testing a new integration — sharing music via Spotify. Tinder confirmed with ...

[ad_1] When Pekka Rantala looks out the window from his office at HMD Global’s headquarters in Espoo, Finland, he sees a big, yellow brick building. It was there, in the early 90’s, that he started his telecom career as an export manager for a small team in the Nokia Mobile ...

[ad_1] While the DoD is in the process of reviewing the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract RFPs (assuming the work continues during the government shutdown), Microsoft continues to build up its federal government security bona fides, regardless. Today the company announced it has achieved the highest level of federal government ...