Samsung has announced a new mobile payment service called Samsung Pay. It will work on both Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones.Samsung Pay allows consumers to transition to secure mobile payments at nearly all merchant locations.Consumers can now utilize their mobile devices to pay at existing point-of-sale terminals.
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VLC media player 2.2.0 (codename WeatherWax) is now available for download. It is a multi-release. What’s new in this release?
VLC automatically detects rotated videos and rotates them using hardware acceleration.
Supported for MP4/MOV, MKV and raw H264.
Resume playback where you left off.
improved support for UltraHD video codecs like VP9 and H265, including encoding.
New hardware acceleration mechanism, GPU 0-copy decoding, faster and implementations for Linux, Android, and Raspberry Pi.
In-app Extensions downloader for the desktop.
Subtitles downloading extension.
Compatibility with a very large number of unusual codecs.
Vastly improved compatibility for problematic files in Ogg, MP4, and WMV.
Support for Digital Cinema Package to play native movie theater formats.
Experimental support of Interactive Menus of BluRays: BD-J.
updated the interface for Yosemite compatibility.
Google Material Design support on On Android.
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Mozilla firefox 36 stable is now available for download.What’s new in this firefox 36?
Pinned tiles on the new tab page can be synced.
Support for the full HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 enables a faster, more scalable, and more responsive web.
Locale added: Uzbek (uz).
-remote option removed.
No longer accept insecure RC4 ciphers whenever possible.
Phasing out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys.
Shut down hangs will now show the crash reporter before exiting the program.
New Add-on Compatibility.
Microsoft has announced a new OneDrive API that will help developers integrate their applications with the cloud-based storage service across all major platforms, including Windows, the web, iOS, and Android.
New OneDrive API features:
Ability to retrieve new changes to files and folders to efficiently keep a large set of files in sync with minimal calls.
Resumable uploads of files up to 10 GB via file-fragment uploading for working with rich content, like HD videos.
Customizable file thumbnail images for delivering a more integrated experience across your app and OneDrive.
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Microsoft started sending out emails to Outlook.com users saying that in Outlook the chat integration of Facebook and Google accounts will be discontinued in the coming weeks.
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Microsoft has announced that the standalone version of Free OneNote 2013 on Windows 7, Windows 8 or windows 8.1 will get the same feature set as users of Office 2013 installation or Office 365 subscription.
New features:
Password protected sections.
Page history.
Audio and video recording.
Audio search.
Embedded files.
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Microsoft has released Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones. What's new in the first Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones: Full-size Background Image for Start. More Quick Actions in Action Center (up to three rows). Interactive Notifications. Enhanced speech-to-text capability.…
Notepad++ 6.7 is now available for download. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. What’s new in this version?
Add Smart Indent feature for php/javascript/c/c++/java/c#/Objective-C.
Enhance Auto-insert feature for {} [] (): typing and skipping }, ] and ).
Add new feature of MRU: While current file is closed the previous activated file will be activated.
Allow users to disable Easter eggs by adding noEasterEggs.xml in Notepad++ installed directory.
Make “Text Direction RTL” command and “Text Direction LTR” command work without reloading file.
Add C# and enhance php parser in Function List.
Make document map matches the current text direction (RTL/LTR).
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Starting today, google adds new ten languages to Google Translate: Chichewa, Malagasy, Sesotho, Malayalam, Myanmar, Sinhala, Sundanese,Kazakh, Tajik, and Uzbek. Current number of languages supported by Google Translate is 90. These languages are available now on
translate.google.com and will roll out soon to our mobile apps and to the built-in translation functionality in Chrome.
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WordPress 4.1 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in wordpress 4.1 release?
New default theme, Twenty Fifteen.
A new distraction-free writing mode for the editor and enabled by default for beta.
Ability to automatically install new language packs right from the General Settings screen.
New inline formatting toolbar for images embedded into posts.
Improvements to meta, date, comment, and taxonomy queries, including complex (nested, multiple relation) queries; and querying comment types.
A single term shared across multiple taxonomies is now split into two when updated.
A new and better way for themes to handle title tags.
Improvements to the Customizer API, including contextual panels and sections, and JavaScript templates for controls.
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