Nintendo is nearing its 130th birthday, and the company is once again in the midst of major changes as it embraces mobile platforms and online services. But Nintendo of America's president Reggie Fils-Aime says that should come as no surprise: "We reinvent ourselves every 5 or 10 years. We have to. It's in our DNA."
Daily Archives: October 3, 2018
The Wi-Fi Alliance, the working group that has long offered such euphonious, IEEE-defined names for Wi-Fi protocols such as 802.11ab and 802.11n, has finally decided enough was enough with the numbers and letters and such. Their decision? The next Wi-Fi version will be Wi-Fi 6 — and sucks to your ass-mar if you don’t like […]
The new version of Wi-Fi is called Wi-Fi 6 because ...
Nearly a year after German fintech startup N26 announced that it would launch its service in the U.K., the company is launching in the U.K. N26 is already quite popular in the Eurozone, with more than 1.5 million customers. In this new market, it will face tough competition from existing players, such as Revolut, Monzo, […]
N26 is launching its bank in the UK
If you didn't get a message from the president on your phone Wednesday, don't freak out.
Why Didn’t I Get an Emergency Presidential Alert Text?
Kobo's latest e-reader is a complete about-face from its anonymous, cheap, and highly practical Clara HD; the Forma is big, expensive, and features a bold — not to say original — design. It's clearly meant to take on the Kindle Oasis and e-reader fans for whom price is no object.
Kobo’s Forma e-reader takes on Kindle Oasis with an asymmetric ...
Helping friends meet up offline has been a massive missed opportunity for Facebook . Whether because the brand is too creepy or the politely opt-in 2015 rollout of its location sharing feature wasn’t creepy enough, Facebook Nearby Friends never quite took off. Only 103 of my 1120 friends in San Francisco have it turned on. […]
Facebook tests Snap Map-style redesign of Nearby Friends
An updated version of the Twitter mobile app will allow users to gain more control over their data usage – similar to how the Twitter Lite app designed for emerging markets works. Now, instead of having to download a separate app in order to limit data consumption or manually adjust various settings, users will be […]
Twitter launches a ‘Data Saver’ mode that makes its main ...
If you really don't want to receive today's emergency test text message, there's one pretty simple workaround.
How to ‘Turn Off’ the Presidential Emergency Text Alert Test
On the heels of Tinder’s launch of a Bumble-like feature in India, which allows women to initiative the conversations, Bumble is today formally announcing its plans for an expansion into India. The company says it has been building up a local team in the region over the past nine months and defining its strategy. The […]
Bumble to launch in India before year-end
Google today is launching a major visual redesign of its Assistant experience on phones. While the original vision of the Assistant focused mostly on voice, half of all interactions with the Assistant actually include touch. So with this redesign, Google acknowledges that and brings more and larger visuals to the Assistant experience. If you’ve used […]