Latest Update to BBM Lets You Search, Edit, Retract Messages and More

BlackBerry just released a new update that brings some bug fixes, performance enhancements and some much wanted features to the messaging application. You can now search through your chats, contacts, groups & channels, delete messages in your chat on your device, send broadcast messages to categories of contacts, request a contact’s location, and you can retract pictures or messages in a single-person, multi-person and group chat.

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Walmart Launches Their Own Mobile Payment Service: Walmart Pay

It seems like everyone wants to launch their own mobile payments service and Walmart is the latest to announce theirs. The company has yet to even start accepting Android Pay, or even Apple Pay for that matter, and today’s announcement might be why. The feature is now embedded within the Walmart mobile application and it uses a QR code to process instead of NFC.

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Verizon Talks About a New “Sponsored” Data Feature Coming in 2016

In a recent interview with Verizon Executive VP Marni Walden, we are told that Verizon is working on a way for partners to “sponsor” all or a portion of the data used by a customer. This is reminiscent of toll-free calling for telephones, so Verizon feels it should fit in very nicely with mobile data usage as well.

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YouTube Announces New Trending Tab on the Web and in Apps

Along with the announcement and release of the yearly YouTube Rewind videos, the company also announced and launched a brand new feature for the service. It’s simply called the Trending tab and it shows you what videos and creators that a lot of people are watching, sharing, and talking about that day.

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Cortana to Come Preloaded On Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 on OnePlus One

At the official announcement post for Cortana’s availability on iOS and Android, Microsoft also announced that future versions of Cyanogen OS will feature deep integration of Cortana. Along with this, it is now announced that Cortana will come along as part of the Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 OTA update for users of the OnePlus One in the USA, in December.

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Facebook’s Security Checkup Avalilable on Android

A while ago Facebook implemented a Security Checkup to keep its users safer. This feature was unavailable for Android until now. Melissa Luu-Van from Facebook has announced that the Security Checkup tool will now makes it way to the most popular mobile OS. It’s a way to give millions of users a chance to protect their accounts. More in the announcements.

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New Samsung Galaxy A8 Packs up an Exynos 7 Octa

One of the most successful Samsung lineup is the “A” series. A new incarnation of Samsung Galaxy A8 for Japan will sport a powerful Exynos 5433. This SoC was is in use in the Galaxy Note 4 which is still a quite decent device. An interesting decision made by Samsung nevertheless.

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